to acolon_5: i usually got a gooey residue which could be dried to a hard resin after waiting a few days. i recently found out that the procedure i was using (standard 96,6% ethanol extraction) was the way to go but that my filtering was poor. its all about the filtering. the problem is if you crush the mushrooms into powder, the powder will be so fine that it will easily go through most filters. your alcohol should be mostly clear with a slight greyish tint to it. be sure to always filter when the solution is still hot. otherwise you will loose alkaloids in the filtering process.
also if you squeeze the filter to get the rest of the liquid out, dont add the squeezed stuff to your finely filtered stuff. it will hold alotta gunk you dont want. squeezing seems to push the gunk through the filter. save the squeezed stuff in a different container and do some extra filtering on it or just let it dry out seperately for a crude unrefined extract which can still be used otherwise. i usually redissolve the gunky stuff in 70% ethanol to make a kind of tincture of it. this is quite nice to have on the road when you got no measuring equipment. you'll have to test the potency of that stuff for yourself tho.
it seems to be somewhere between 30 & 50% alks.
it is also very good to often redissolve the stuff in more 96% ethanol and let it sit around for 2 days undisturbed. there will be fine sediments which will settle to the bottom. i usually add those sediments to my gooey crude extract so i will not loose anything. in the process i also save up all the water used to clean out the jars and pour it all into one glass. this will hold a nice trip when you're finished processing 50-100g of cyanescens
if using shrooms high in psilocin content i usually do my standard ethanol extractions (i usually extract about 3-4 times) then i do another extraction with methanol since psilocin seems to be more soulable in it. this will not result in much. maybe 5-10 hits from 50g of cyans.
this is how i do it. i have found that one can improve many things.
for filtration i use a combination of spread out cigarette filters, coffee filters and a aquarium pump filter.
patience is the main factor for the whole process. and it costs alotta money because of all the ethanol you need to use. i would never sell my extract since it is of much more value then the mushrooms themselves.
i usually need 2 liters ethanol for 75g of mushrooms. its fuckin expensive.. here it costs like 35 euro per liter.
i had a very enlightening journey yesterday evening from what i thought i had extracted from one gram cyans. man this was potent. i actually had thought of having done too much at one point.
its also fun to clean out the residue from the glassware with some weed. i save up this weed for smoking it on shrooms. it enhances the trip alot!
