SlippyJ
Rising Star
SWIM’s first attempt. Follow if you want, but KNOW that I have A LOT to learn, yet if you approach this as a responsible attentive adult, it seems rather difficult to mess up.
This was based on Noman’s with the suggested washes from Vovin’s
•1000 ml h2o (Extra water was due to the use of pre-powdered MHRB, via the Tek)
•50g Naoh (Some concern over whether or not more Naoh should have been added as a result of the added water, but am going to keep as is for first attempt)
•50g MHRB
•Shake well (Powder clumped for a bit but did soon dissolve into the solution)
•set for one hour
•(Planned to use 50ml per pull, but read that less would help facilitate freeze separation.)
• 33ml naphtha added - rolled for approximately 1 minute, and allowed to separate - repeated 4 times then siphoned off and added to collection jar. 6 pulls in total.
•Wash: 25ml of Distilled water – added a pinch of sodium carbonate to it. Shook like mad and removed all the water.
•2 X Distilled water(only) washes… same as above
•Placed in freezer with lid on…
(Only concerns at the moment are whether or not I used enough Lye… and… the collection jar was a bit cloudy after the washes, but the sodium carbonate wash did remove most, if not all, the yellowish impurities that I collected while in the early stages of learning to cleanly separate the naphtha from the base)
This product turned out very nice. SWIM’s scale doesn’t do mg so it is not presently discernable what the exact yield was. No great effort to was made to agitate thoroughly, nor was there a lot of effort made to pull ALL the naphtha as this was more of an exploration of the process, a trial run if you will.
Note: The sodium carbonate wash was very eye-opening as it definitely “works.” While this was SWIMS first attempt, it was clear that the wash removed all the varying colors of spice that SWIM has come across from friend of friend extractions… Highly recommended.
Result: Pure white microcrystals with little to no smell of spice – until vaped, and the familiar “old man’s breath/mothball/indole smell was VERY pronounced and lingered in SWIM’s entire being for a good 30 minutes after the experience.
What are the advantages to re-crystallizing? SWIM is well read on the method, but unsure what the practical differences may be in the ingestion????
Second extraction
(considerably more time and love was put into this extraction)
The original quantity of water suggested in noman’s tek was utilized with no sludge or soup problems. Pre-powdered MHRB just has to be stirred in well, but doesn’t seem to require additional water.
• 1500ml h2o (no issue with sludginess, nor any sign that more H2O was needed)
• 100g lye (food grade… online vendor)
• 100g mhrb (Pre-powdered “dye” from a vendor in the suppliers list)
• Set for one hour
• 100ml Naphtha ( 4 agitations X 4 pulls all using warmed naphtha)
• 5th pull left in and occasionally agitated for 24hrs (Awaiting results from last pull)
• Sodium Carbonate wash followed by 2 H2O washes.
• Placed in freezer at -18f for 24hrs (only 10 hours in… LOTS of x-tals… Piles and piles of em)
(Swim made a half-assed attempt to “help” the xtals grow, by rotating from freezer, to fridge, then countertop… Hard to determine the success of this method, but there do appear to be thicker bunches of xtals than the first attempt) Open to more detailed explanations of the pros/cons of bigger crystals and re-crystallization.
All you experienced extractors fell free to offer up improvements and critiques.
Hope this is of help to apprehensive first timers.
This was based on Noman’s with the suggested washes from Vovin’s
•1000 ml h2o (Extra water was due to the use of pre-powdered MHRB, via the Tek)
•50g Naoh (Some concern over whether or not more Naoh should have been added as a result of the added water, but am going to keep as is for first attempt)
•50g MHRB
•Shake well (Powder clumped for a bit but did soon dissolve into the solution)
•set for one hour
•(Planned to use 50ml per pull, but read that less would help facilitate freeze separation.)
• 33ml naphtha added - rolled for approximately 1 minute, and allowed to separate - repeated 4 times then siphoned off and added to collection jar. 6 pulls in total.
•Wash: 25ml of Distilled water – added a pinch of sodium carbonate to it. Shook like mad and removed all the water.
•2 X Distilled water(only) washes… same as above
•Placed in freezer with lid on…
(Only concerns at the moment are whether or not I used enough Lye… and… the collection jar was a bit cloudy after the washes, but the sodium carbonate wash did remove most, if not all, the yellowish impurities that I collected while in the early stages of learning to cleanly separate the naphtha from the base)
This product turned out very nice. SWIM’s scale doesn’t do mg so it is not presently discernable what the exact yield was. No great effort to was made to agitate thoroughly, nor was there a lot of effort made to pull ALL the naphtha as this was more of an exploration of the process, a trial run if you will.
Note: The sodium carbonate wash was very eye-opening as it definitely “works.” While this was SWIMS first attempt, it was clear that the wash removed all the varying colors of spice that SWIM has come across from friend of friend extractions… Highly recommended.
Result: Pure white microcrystals with little to no smell of spice – until vaped, and the familiar “old man’s breath/mothball/indole smell was VERY pronounced and lingered in SWIM’s entire being for a good 30 minutes after the experience.
What are the advantages to re-crystallizing? SWIM is well read on the method, but unsure what the practical differences may be in the ingestion????
Second extraction
(considerably more time and love was put into this extraction)
The original quantity of water suggested in noman’s tek was utilized with no sludge or soup problems. Pre-powdered MHRB just has to be stirred in well, but doesn’t seem to require additional water.
• 1500ml h2o (no issue with sludginess, nor any sign that more H2O was needed)
• 100g lye (food grade… online vendor)
• 100g mhrb (Pre-powdered “dye” from a vendor in the suppliers list)
• Set for one hour
• 100ml Naphtha ( 4 agitations X 4 pulls all using warmed naphtha)
• 5th pull left in and occasionally agitated for 24hrs (Awaiting results from last pull)
• Sodium Carbonate wash followed by 2 H2O washes.
• Placed in freezer at -18f for 24hrs (only 10 hours in… LOTS of x-tals… Piles and piles of em)
(Swim made a half-assed attempt to “help” the xtals grow, by rotating from freezer, to fridge, then countertop… Hard to determine the success of this method, but there do appear to be thicker bunches of xtals than the first attempt) Open to more detailed explanations of the pros/cons of bigger crystals and re-crystallization.
All you experienced extractors fell free to offer up improvements and critiques.
Hope this is of help to apprehensive first timers.