So I wanted to document my first dealings with MHRB bark extraction. I read all of the teks on the wiki and didn’t wanna stick to one buying a million different solvents etc. I kinda just wanted to see how it would work if I threw it all together and these are my results as well as my technique I’d like to hear your thoughts. Critiques and i do have a couple of general questions.
So I started with 100 GMHRB powdered and mixed it into a glass media bottle with 600ml of spring water , in a separate media bottle I mixed 200 mil of spring water and slowly in three parts added 30 g of lie and 10 g of sea salt, I starred the bark around with the glass, stirring rod and let it sit while I prepped the lye mixture, the lie salt water was put in a bowl of cold saline water with ice to keep the temperature down” read it in a comment”
I then mix the lye salt mixture into the bottle and then immediately turned black upon mixing, I closed the jar and flipped it over a couple of times and shook it periodically over the next four or five hours and let’s sit for another 20 totaling 24 hours soaking in the basify soup solution.
At around 65 Fahrenheit, I did my first pull 100 ML of napatha was added and i then shook the bottle for a couple of minutes and let settle for 20 minutes then went in with a turkey baster and pulled out that initial bit but it seemed i lost a good oz of napatha , second i tried 100ml again and the same seemed to happen i got yellowish liquid with some loss of naptha. I added 10g more lye and 5g sea salt to this mix before letting it sit overnight .
After letting air dry a white crystalline product was available Yielding.457 mg and the second .183g
Pics 1-6
The next day I returned 24 hours later to do my remaining pulls really it’s a test to see how much I actually need to use to pull out the alkaloids but after the .183 pull i wasn’t expecting much more but was hoping i would get a better yield .
So this time the soup was as it was originally black soup mix with no separation. I put it on a hot plate and set it on low and let the entire contents of the bottle and the bottle itself heat up. It was about halfway covered with water so I was stirring by swirling it around with the lid closed that proceeded for about 2 1/2 hours until I was ready to pull
When I got the bottle in front of a light, I saw already a clear separation at least 60-70 ML of yellow (darker then first two pulls) Naptha so I decanted that into a Pyrex crystallization dish and proceeded with another two pulls using the reclaimed np from the original batch plus another 250ml or so.
This is where it went a little sideways, that nap that I was trapped after 48 hours had a very little crystallization and the water seemed to have microscopic bits mixed in with it, even after letting it settle this product is yellow, where the first two or white I’m letting them dry now I included pictures of the entire process and result.(PICS 17-"trapped NP "3rd"]18-LAST PULL #5
pic 19 is 4th pull uploaded wrong
The second batch is yellow, opposed to the first that was white. I know there’s much debate on purity and why this happens now I’ll become another person obsessing over it lol
PICS IN ORDER AS I EXTRACTED
plus a pic of my diy changa from the last bit of spice i had that was orange and clumpy amazing stuff. will put easy tek for spice to changa in 1 day for the peeps
I have questions, but they’re not really import at this point if there’s any engagement on the post, I’ll definitely add them
Sorry if there’s any misspelling or grammar issues I’m using talk to text. We all know how that could go.
Cheers everybody
So I started with 100 GMHRB powdered and mixed it into a glass media bottle with 600ml of spring water , in a separate media bottle I mixed 200 mil of spring water and slowly in three parts added 30 g of lie and 10 g of sea salt, I starred the bark around with the glass, stirring rod and let it sit while I prepped the lye mixture, the lie salt water was put in a bowl of cold saline water with ice to keep the temperature down” read it in a comment”
I then mix the lye salt mixture into the bottle and then immediately turned black upon mixing, I closed the jar and flipped it over a couple of times and shook it periodically over the next four or five hours and let’s sit for another 20 totaling 24 hours soaking in the basify soup solution.
At around 65 Fahrenheit, I did my first pull 100 ML of napatha was added and i then shook the bottle for a couple of minutes and let settle for 20 minutes then went in with a turkey baster and pulled out that initial bit but it seemed i lost a good oz of napatha , second i tried 100ml again and the same seemed to happen i got yellowish liquid with some loss of naptha. I added 10g more lye and 5g sea salt to this mix before letting it sit overnight .
After letting air dry a white crystalline product was available Yielding.457 mg and the second .183g
Pics 1-6
The next day I returned 24 hours later to do my remaining pulls really it’s a test to see how much I actually need to use to pull out the alkaloids but after the .183 pull i wasn’t expecting much more but was hoping i would get a better yield .
So this time the soup was as it was originally black soup mix with no separation. I put it on a hot plate and set it on low and let the entire contents of the bottle and the bottle itself heat up. It was about halfway covered with water so I was stirring by swirling it around with the lid closed that proceeded for about 2 1/2 hours until I was ready to pull
When I got the bottle in front of a light, I saw already a clear separation at least 60-70 ML of yellow (darker then first two pulls) Naptha so I decanted that into a Pyrex crystallization dish and proceeded with another two pulls using the reclaimed np from the original batch plus another 250ml or so.
This is where it went a little sideways, that nap that I was trapped after 48 hours had a very little crystallization and the water seemed to have microscopic bits mixed in with it, even after letting it settle this product is yellow, where the first two or white I’m letting them dry now I included pictures of the entire process and result.(PICS 17-"trapped NP "3rd"]18-LAST PULL #5
pic 19 is 4th pull uploaded wrong
The second batch is yellow, opposed to the first that was white. I know there’s much debate on purity and why this happens now I’ll become another person obsessing over it lol
PICS IN ORDER AS I EXTRACTED
plus a pic of my diy changa from the last bit of spice i had that was orange and clumpy amazing stuff. will put easy tek for spice to changa in 1 day for the peeps
I have questions, but they’re not really import at this point if there’s any engagement on the post, I’ll definitely add them
Sorry if there’s any misspelling or grammar issues I’m using talk to text. We all know how that could go.
Cheers everybody
