Help with my extraction

[ZarathustraMadman]

One my first pull, I simply poured out the naptha and let the white crystals dry, then scraped. This time I let the second pull of naptha sit in the freezer all weekend, and then poured out every drop of naptha, leaving a lot of crystals (this time brownish) on the bottom of the jar. But this time, to my horror, the crystals shrunk and turned into goo - from beauty to goo. I tried to put them under the vent while the heater was running, but to my dismay, this seemed to make it worse. This is obviously my first time. Help!


Thanks!

-Zarathustra

 

[endlessness]

Please check the FAQ before asking questions, its not the first time you could have gotten your answer by reading it

FAQ - DMT Frequently Asked Questions and Troubleshooting Guide - DMT-Nexus Wiki

wiki.dmt-nexus.me

 

[ZarathustraMadman]

You're right endless, sorry.

 

[ZarathustraMadman]

When I pulled out my second batch from the freezer, my crystals melted and shrank into brown goo. So I added a little naptha back into the jar as the FAQ's says, and 12 hours later, there are a little bit of re-crystalization, but for the most part, it is not goo, but looks like a clay with a few crystals on top of it. I will leave it there over night and follow the rest of the FAQ instructions, but man I am worried because when I first pulled it out, the whole bottom of the jar was chock full of crystals!...Is this semi-crystal/semi-clay smokable?, or should I just re-do it all?, or can I, or should I?

Thanks!

 

[۩]

You can keep it as is and smoke it, it's just plant fats.

Or you can dissolve the product in warm naptha and let the fats crash out. When the goo is at the bottom, you pour off the naptha leaving it behind and either evap and freeze for a purer product.

 

[ZarathustraMadman]

Thanks. If it works the same that is fine for me, I am more concerned with if it works than its appearance since it is just for personal use...

 

[Yerba]

Many would say that the satisfaction of pure, fluffy crystals is worth the small effort of a proper re-x.

Either way, cheers.

 

[endlessness]

Maybe this is of help too:

IMPORTANT: spice color purity fallacy AKA is your dmt ok to smoke ? - DMT Discussion - Welcome to the DMT-Nexus

good luck!

 

[ZarathustraMadman]

Thanks endless, I will give them a try anyway. The most potent DMT I ever smoked was the first kind I ever got, and it was super brown and crumbly. I saw the entity of Being and Flow face to face, I thought I had died, he was drawing me in closer and closer, wanting me to go with him, but I told him that I was too concerned with my body back on Earth. I couldn't tell if I was breathing or not, now I know this is just common, our bodies are perfectly fine, and so just don't worry about it. He looked like a Buddha figure with no face, he told me to "Be one with Being, lose the ego, and do nothing cancerous..." before he let me go.

I have decided to just dry and scrape this crystal/sludge batch, put it aside, worry about that particular batch later, and put the next one making...

 

[ZarathustraMadman]

My naptha has been sitting and swooshing around in the mix around a week now. On this last pull, before putting it in the freezer, the naptha is now really brown, like I needed a flashlight put up to the jar to see where it was at. It also looks very brown in the jar that is going into the freezer. Will this be a problem from now on? Is this good (high levels of DMT in the naptha)? Can I add more clean naptha? Sorry if I am asking any questions that I may find elsewhere, I am in a bit of a pinch and am doing this all while doing a million other things, but I already have the mixture together so I suppose I need to go on with it...

thanks!

 

[Smerrel]

if I were you id re-a/b the naphtha to get rid of the dark stuff. What tek are you following?

 

[ZarathustraMadman]

I am using this method, Dankville's:

http://www.dankville.org/2012/01/how-to-make-dmt-easy.html

 

[ZarathustraMadman]

I suppose I could use clean out-the-container naptha to redissolve the mess and start over?

 

[ZarathustraMadman]

I wonder if I could just remove the old naptha and replace it with fresh stuff?....

 

[ZarathustraMadman]

I have been pulling the naptha out of the mix and putting it into my half-pint (well, empty Great-Value olive jar), and placing it into the freezer directly without letting the naptha evaporate until 1/4th as it says here from the FAQ's:

"Evap till theres only a quarter of the naphtha left and repeat freeze precip."


but I am using this method:

http://www.dankville.org/2012/01/how-to-make-dmt-easy.html

Will it help me to let the naptha evaporate first before freeze-precipitating using this method?

Thanks!

 

[endlessness]

It says there 150ml pull per 100g bark. As the FAQ says, if 100ml is good for 200g bark, then pre-evaporating to at least half will probably make more dmt crash out of your solvent.. It certainly wont hurt, though you'll lose a bit of naphtha pre-evaporating. The other option is to try to stick in the freezer without pre-evaporating, and then reusing the naphtha. Specially the later pulls will need pre-evaporating otherwise they wont be saturated enough for the dmt to crash out.

 

[ZarathustraMadman]

Is it possible endless to put more fresh naptha into the mix? Maybe even removing the old naptha from the mix and replacing it with new out-the-container stuff?

thanks

 

[endlessness]

That is what pulling means, yes.

 

[ZarathustraMadman]

But I have been just pouring the naptha from my 1/2 pint jar back into the mix like the Dankville method says and re-using it for the next pulls, I thought that this would be the best way allow the most dmt to get mixed in with the naptha. So I can the naptha out the mix and replace it with brand new stuff?? That would be awesome as my first pull from the freshest naptha was pure white, though it was not a lot at all...but my naptha is getting really dirty looking (I did use powdered MHRB)...

 

[ZarathustraMadman]

I can't wait until I get this right so I do not have to ask so many extraction questions and can get on to other topics...