Hi guys,
Just finished a SR extraction with whole seeds. Just wanted to give my feed back.
I ended up with 2.7g of clean extract from 50g of seeds. (5.4% yeild)
My process.
4 x 30min boil of seeds at pH 4.
Collected tea, discarded seeds.
Based tea to pH 12.
Allow to precip in fridge 8hrs.
Carefully decanted 90% of base water, poured remainder with extract via filters.
* This filtering was difficult. Did in 4 batches, replacing filter each time.
Washed extract off filters in acid water - pH 4
Poured acid water with dissolved extract via filter again. Discard filter.
* This filter was a lot easier - one batch slowly.
I then perform these steps again, base/filter/acid/filter.
Then one final base - allowed to precip in fridge overnight.
Then I washed the base 4 times with water to lower pH to 8.
(Decant 90% base water, add fresh water, settle (30min), repeat.
Last step - decanted 90% of water - then pour the rest with extract via filter.
Scraped the wet extract from filter onto ceramic dish.
Allow extract to dry over night then scrape with razor and chop up to fine powder.
I started the process Friday night and Monday morning i was scraping up my ready to consume harmala/harmine extract.
Final product was a light beige powder with a consistency similar to talc, taste test was not bitter - no flavor at all really.