well, a big problem though is the final purification is freeze precipitation, and the appearance is the only true indicator of where plant resins end and dmt begins. ive recrystalized like a dozen times now and, i do get crystals although they mostly melt at room temp (its defs not ice though)
the method i initially followed produced a sizeable blob, it was a dry tek that i thought would work well in my glassware, boy was i wrong. basically, long base-soaks, then leech with methanol, and repeat multiple times over the course of days, my modifications over a standard dry tek would just be that i distilled the methanol to re-use, and that i replaced 10% of the carbonate with hydroxide just because i had my doubts about using only carbonate.
i then acidified with acetic acid, did a DCM defat, boiled away any solvent before filtering to ensure no fats passed through.
then basified and transferred to DCM. upon drying out, i was left with something resembling molten resin. i refluxed it for quite some time in pure hexane until it reduced in mass, and from there ive been freeze precipitating. Tonight i finally got something that looks clean, albeit melts into an oil almost immediately, but, this is an oil, rather than the usual goo, theres only one test left to do to confirm
the blob of resin/goo from the DCM after the defat after 2 hexane refluxes, has also been kept, it smells VERY amine-y, like, its in a ziplock bag, it smells actually fishy when i open it. however it is completely inactive and unpleasant, so i dont know what the deal there is.
i tried smoking some of the precipitated goo, it was hit or miss however. sometimes pleasant, other times horrific, sometimes no trace of effect, other times, mind blowing. so physically there was a mix of DMT and non DMT, and other than the crust ring that formed, i couldnt reliably get anything i knew was DMT, from the goo.
Because the tek i followed didnt involve any actual boiling/freezing i think i screwed up there. i just assumed that the leeching power of fresh methanol each time, manually percolating the bark, would do it. ive now pressure cooked that spent bark and will re-attempt. i also cooked some fresh bark too. its like blood in there, meanwhile the spent bark almost instantly settles out, by comparison its like blood that has cleanly clotted out of the plasma.
If the spent bark yields anything ill abandon everything and just recombine ALL of what i have, and follow a proper tek more strictly.
