The Day Tripper
Rennasauce Man
SWIM recentely dried some p. torch cuttings he had recieved from an online vendor, and had some scraps he could'nt fit in his dehydrator. He decided to just make a quick resin from them instead of firing up the dehydrator for another 12hrs. He put 1/2 isopropyl %90, and one half distilled water with ~8 drops %30 hcl in with 1/2" chunks of cacti.
After letting this sit for a few days, stirring often, he decanted off the liquid and evaporated it on the lowest heat setting on an electric stove under a hood. He was left with a brownish oily resin that definitely had some excess crap in it. He tried to dry it the best he could, heating and using a fan, to ensure all the water was evapped off.
Once he was sufficiently happy it was as dry as possible he scraped it up, noticing its still wettish oily consistency. He put the resin in a small mason jar and poured in ~30ml of dry acetone. Stirred and worked the resin, and found it would get whitish around the edges, and the water was getting more and more green.
He let this decant overnight and noticed a dark green acetone with tan/whitish precipitates on the bottom. He strained off the acetone, and dissolved the precipitate in distilled water, evaporated it again, dried, and washed once more with acetone then back to distilled water again and evapped. What he was left with was a yellowish oil at first, that when worked with a razor blade would harden up and crystallize. Swim put it over a low heat source (room heater) and got the Pyrex plate warm/hot.
When he scraped it up, it was shattering all over his hands and razor blades, little shards of crystalline something! He knew if he tried to scrape it up as-is, he would lose a bunch all over his hands, he added a small amount of distilled water, and evaporated again, being careful to get the resin scraped up in a pile before hardening it. He then heated up the Pyrex dish again and the resin began to turn white and lighten up as it dried crystallized. He decided to leave it overnight to dry out more, but to his surprise in the morning it was back to an yellow/orange hardish resin. IT seemed to suck up some moisture from the air.
SWIM wonders how he can dry this resin, he's fairly sure it pretty potent (plenty bitter), and would really like powder instead of resin. Has anyone ever had really pure torch resin that's this hygroscopic before? Would he be able to dry it better if he did an a/b on it and salted out of limo with hcl? It would be cool to be able to get it dry without that extra work, and would prob save more of the full spectrum alkaloids by not basifiying.
Any ideas? Is this just the nature of Torch alkaloids, or how he extracted it in anyone's opinion?
Heres the pic he took last night, then in the morning when it was wet again-
After letting this sit for a few days, stirring often, he decanted off the liquid and evaporated it on the lowest heat setting on an electric stove under a hood. He was left with a brownish oily resin that definitely had some excess crap in it. He tried to dry it the best he could, heating and using a fan, to ensure all the water was evapped off.
Once he was sufficiently happy it was as dry as possible he scraped it up, noticing its still wettish oily consistency. He put the resin in a small mason jar and poured in ~30ml of dry acetone. Stirred and worked the resin, and found it would get whitish around the edges, and the water was getting more and more green.
He let this decant overnight and noticed a dark green acetone with tan/whitish precipitates on the bottom. He strained off the acetone, and dissolved the precipitate in distilled water, evaporated it again, dried, and washed once more with acetone then back to distilled water again and evapped. What he was left with was a yellowish oil at first, that when worked with a razor blade would harden up and crystallize. Swim put it over a low heat source (room heater) and got the Pyrex plate warm/hot.
When he scraped it up, it was shattering all over his hands and razor blades, little shards of crystalline something! He knew if he tried to scrape it up as-is, he would lose a bunch all over his hands, he added a small amount of distilled water, and evaporated again, being careful to get the resin scraped up in a pile before hardening it. He then heated up the Pyrex dish again and the resin began to turn white and lighten up as it dried crystallized. He decided to leave it overnight to dry out more, but to his surprise in the morning it was back to an yellow/orange hardish resin. IT seemed to suck up some moisture from the air.
SWIM wonders how he can dry this resin, he's fairly sure it pretty potent (plenty bitter), and would really like powder instead of resin. Has anyone ever had really pure torch resin that's this hygroscopic before? Would he be able to dry it better if he did an a/b on it and salted out of limo with hcl? It would be cool to be able to get it dry without that extra work, and would prob save more of the full spectrum alkaloids by not basifiying.
Any ideas? Is this just the nature of Torch alkaloids, or how he extracted it in anyone's opinion?
Heres the pic he took last night, then in the morning when it was wet again-
