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I made the mistake of letting my cactus tea mold. I now need to extract. Looking for pointers on how much base is necessary. About 2000g of fresh cactus has been reduced to 100ml with zero veg matter.
I know I've seen teks that extract from the tea. I'm not finding them now though. If it's best to just basify to a certain ph, what can I test ph with? Is there any standard? Ie, for every 100ml of tea use 'x' amount of lye/lime. I don't have the nice separators and all that jazz.
Basically I'm thinking just add lye + water to basify to ph of 11-13. Then add limonene or xylene, enough to retrieve. Pull, salt, evap. Repeat at adding NP solvent.
If it's too complicated I'll end up drinking the tea, as I've boiled and filtered and it smells decent enough to me. Any advice is appreciated.
I know I've seen teks that extract from the tea. I'm not finding them now though. If it's best to just basify to a certain ph, what can I test ph with? Is there any standard? Ie, for every 100ml of tea use 'x' amount of lye/lime. I don't have the nice separators and all that jazz.
Basically I'm thinking just add lye + water to basify to ph of 11-13. Then add limonene or xylene, enough to retrieve. Pull, salt, evap. Repeat at adding NP solvent.
If it's too complicated I'll end up drinking the tea, as I've boiled and filtered and it smells decent enough to me. Any advice is appreciated.