First Extraction: STB

[Saiga]

Tonight I tried my first STB using Noman's tek. Took 100g of shredded inner root bark and blended it up, while figuring out that Inhaling the dust flying everywhere is absolutely horrid. Took 1500mL of distilled H2O and put it into glass jar, added NaOH enough to where it was a cloudy liquid. then added the blended up root bark, which ended up turning a very very dark color, "BASICally Black"? Haha. Anyways, I shook it up and let it chill for 2 hours. Theni proceeded to use 100mL of naphtha per pull, gently rolling it end by end. Then siphoned off the naptha after agitating 3-4 times, and decanted to get rid of any excess basic mimosa solution. Then repeated 3 times, poured into glass pan and stuck it into the freezer.

Any suggestions or tips I could have done to make this extraction better?

Note: I noticed the naphtha was very cloudy when i stuck it into the freezer

 

[The Day Tripper]

Looks pretty foolproof to me, one thing i see is that you may want to reduce the volume of your naptha pre-freeze. It will not get cloudy usually until much has evaporated, thats usually the indicator (cloudiness in evap before freeze) i use to know that the naptha is saturated at room temp. Then, when you pop it in the freezer, it snows life a mofo.

Also, STB's are notorious to take time to react and free up the alkaloids from the bark to the aquaeous layer, where magically they are drawn up to the np phase. So, you may want to keep pulling for a few days, or optionally do one longer pull after letting it sit for a few days, either with or without the NP, rolling often.

 

[Saiga]

Looks pretty foolproof to me, one thing i see is that you may want to reduce the volume of your naptha pre-freeze. It will not get cloudy usually until much has evaporated, thats usually the indicator (cloudiness in evap before freeze) i use to know that the naptha is saturated at room temp. Then, when you pop it in the freezer, it snows life a mofo.

Also, STB's are notorious to take time to react and free up the alkaloids from the bark to the aquaeous layer, where magically they are drawn up to the np phase. So, you may want to keep pulling for a few days, or optionally do one longer pull after letting it sit for a few days, either with or without the NP, rolling often.

Useful information, Thanks alot!