Yr welcome, I enjoyed this tek a lot.

Makes sense to estimate dosage based on a 'raw' rue tea. Didn't think of that!

I have done this process a few times in the past, exploring the VDS revelations and methods all the way to doing a THH zinc reduction.

The big difference here for me (apart from microwave and freezing) was basing the pulls without first reducing and settle/decanting the pulls plus running some filter steps on the pulls (which took forever). This tek led to the fastest and cleanest "first full alkaloids" batch I have ever seen before doing the manske. Usually they were much much darker in color too, so that was nice.

Since reading around nexus about using 'full spectrum' rue I am keen to try that as opposed to the purer harmine/harmaline separations to see if there is a perceptible difference in both oral/sublingual and vape/changa. I wasn't too sure if the tan color was still too dark for safe oral and maybe needed to get whiter. I did water wash till pH dropped around 9.4 (my water 8.76) so I figured it was quite close to good. Passed your 'slippery finger' test.

I dried the alks in dehydrator low overnight and a bit of weight disappeared - leaving the yield closer to just over 8% (17,688g from 200g). There's still a bit to process after a final boil of the combined "spent" seeds for an hour in a pot, but I don't expect too much - its settling now and liquids were significantly yellower than the dark red/tan ones above - indicating saturation I guess - but it will probably push the yield over 18g.