As research for my script continues, I came across a curious penguin, who being very, very old, once attempted to extract spice prior from 250g of MHRB priorp to it being made illegal in his home country. In his recounting, I recognized the tek he used as being very similar to what we now call Noman's tek (perhaps I was dealing with a psychic penguin?), with the exception that he started with pre-powdered bark, prior to basification he added 5 g of vitamin C and let it sit for ~4 hours stirring occasionally, and he placed all his naptha pulls into a single quart jar, rather than multiple ones.
He tells me that when he placed his quart jar in the freezer (with 4 pulls of 250 ml each, two which were let sit for 2 hours each with periodic mixing, 1 that was let to sit for 5 hours with periodic mixing, and 1 that was let sit overnight (~10 hours)), after waiting roughly ~16 hours with the jar in the freezer, he was dissapointed to see very little spice at the bottom of the jar (maybe ~100-200 mg, judging by pictures he's seen of succesful yield amounts). He thought it would be a good idea to evap, but lacked room as he has a very tiny apartment. Luckily, however, it was 100 F outside (!?, a very curious penguin indeed, living in such a hot place). So, he placed the quart jar (there was apparently no room for anything bigger) in his planter outside the window without its cap on, but with a metal gauze screen (which had large enough holes to let air flow through freely) to prevent debris from getting in.
The most bizarre thing he told me though, is that after ~5 hours in direct sunlight, little naptha had evaporated off (maybe ~50 ml by his judgement). However, the solution had turned DISTINCTLY cloudy (like pea soup). However, after sitting inside during the night at room temperature, the cloudiness had MOSTLY dissipated. Why was this? The solution couldn't have been very saturated, as so little spice came out in freezing. I haven't heard of what his final yield was yet, but am still curious what he SHOULD have done at this point. Should he have attempted to evaporate the naptha further? Had he already destroyed his DMT by exposure to direct sunlight? There was a tiny bit of basic solution (a few drops about the size a grain of rice) that got dropped into the quart jar when pulling the last bit of naptha (it's hard to operate a baster with wings, I suppose), could this have been the cause of the cloudiness?
He tells me that when he placed his quart jar in the freezer (with 4 pulls of 250 ml each, two which were let sit for 2 hours each with periodic mixing, 1 that was let to sit for 5 hours with periodic mixing, and 1 that was let sit overnight (~10 hours)), after waiting roughly ~16 hours with the jar in the freezer, he was dissapointed to see very little spice at the bottom of the jar (maybe ~100-200 mg, judging by pictures he's seen of succesful yield amounts). He thought it would be a good idea to evap, but lacked room as he has a very tiny apartment. Luckily, however, it was 100 F outside (!?, a very curious penguin indeed, living in such a hot place). So, he placed the quart jar (there was apparently no room for anything bigger) in his planter outside the window without its cap on, but with a metal gauze screen (which had large enough holes to let air flow through freely) to prevent debris from getting in.
The most bizarre thing he told me though, is that after ~5 hours in direct sunlight, little naptha had evaporated off (maybe ~50 ml by his judgement). However, the solution had turned DISTINCTLY cloudy (like pea soup). However, after sitting inside during the night at room temperature, the cloudiness had MOSTLY dissipated. Why was this? The solution couldn't have been very saturated, as so little spice came out in freezing. I haven't heard of what his final yield was yet, but am still curious what he SHOULD have done at this point. Should he have attempted to evaporate the naptha further? Had he already destroyed his DMT by exposure to direct sunlight? There was a tiny bit of basic solution (a few drops about the size a grain of rice) that got dropped into the quart jar when pulling the last bit of naptha (it's hard to operate a baster with wings, I suppose), could this have been the cause of the cloudiness?
