Freeze precipitation vs straight evaporation

[Deleriant]

SWIM has just done an extraction, and isolated the spice by freeze precip, followed by pouring the naphtha through a coffee filter (there were loose crystals). Most of the spice was left in the jar, and SWIM wanted to take pics of it...while SWIM's camera was charging, a lot of the spice melted back into the naphtha. SWIM figured it couldn't do much harm, so they decided to leave it over night to evaporate. Now SWIM is left with a viscous white paste in the bottom of the jar.

Just wondering if there would be any adverse effects (aside from excessive dmt-oxide) from letting the solution evaporate like this. Also, SWIM was thinking about just letting the entire amount of solvent evaporate next time, so that they were left with chunkier rocks, rather than powdery crystals. Would this be a bad idea?

 

[Tribal]

My vote would be to continue freeze precipitating as there is potential for a cleaner product. Whenever you evaporate any impurities in the solvent will remain in the spice. Plus you can reuse your solvent. As for getting bigger crystals, it's just an aesthetic thing. The effect of spice is still the same regardless of whether or not it's pretty.

 

[Deleriant]

SWIM would rather have larger chunks simply because they are easier to work with than powder

SWIM also plan on recrytallising in order to get the cleanest product possible. SWIM is more concerned with losing usable material.

 

[endlessness]

you can alternate between fridge/roomtemp and fridge/freezer, every couple of hours for many days, and this will make you grow large crystals with freeze precipitation, instead of powdery small ones.

 

[Deleriant]

Ok, nice. While that doesn't work for SWIM's situation, it will definitely be noted. Thanks for the tip

SWIM is mainly interested in this sludgy crap, cos it seems as though it would be an easy way to do it, if it works.