In your opinion. How do you get the last out of an extraction?

[GenesisCorrupted]

I want to maximize as much as possible. But at some point, it’s gonna be impossible, right?

So take a look at this before and after.

Should I just take the last of it and put it into a jar and throw it into the next batch I’m trying to extract it some point in the future?

Should I try to put stuff into the bottle to bring the surface up into the narrow neck to try and get a couple last pulls?

Or should I try and get rid of a bunch of the crap at the bottom and then make it easy to get to the layer of good stuff on the top?

 

[donfoolio]

After several pulls, there will be literally no more crystal coming out of your solution. Even with a little rest of solvent in the bottle, I consider it done fron this moment.

Of xours, filtering and passing in a separation funnel will help you get the last bit of solvent out of your solution, but when the solvent comes out clean in the fridge, I stop. ( Takes for me usually four to five pulls).

 

[Transform]

Just fill the bottle with a bit more (basic, if you like) water, so that the last bit of naphtha forms a thicker layer in the narrow neck. Any remnant of naphtha after that, along with its tiny bit of DMT, can be the angels' share.

 

[acacian]

For initial pulls, it can be good to pull with a solvent that has a higher holding capacity - such as DCM, toluene, limonene or Xylene. Then you can discard your soup and salt the alkaloids out of your solvent, rebase and pull with fresh Naptha.. then you can essentially see whether there's any alkaloids left floating in your now clear basic polar fraction.

 

[Physics131]

Thats how i like to do it: Minimal loss low volume salt wash
But if your soup is very thick it could stick in the new extraction jar.

Onther way is to do always 1 additional pull.
Freeze it seperately and check if dmt xtals out.
If no then you already pulled everything out.

 

[Jan e Kharabat]

You can check for the presence of DMT in your naphtha pulls by adding a drop of benzoic acid dissolved in naphtha. If the drop produces a clouding, you can add some more and let it rest for a while, DMT benzoate will settle at the bottom. You can continue pulling this way until no more clouding appears or until you feel like it's not worth the effort. I made around 20 pulls, or probably even more, I lost count. I was still pulling around 30mgs of benzoate by the end, which is around 16-17mgs converted in freebase. At some point I decided it's no longer worth the trouble. You can collect all the benzoate and convert it back to freebase.

 

[Voidmatrix]

Towards the end, when I'm on my last pull or so, I mix the solvent more times so there's a higher likelihood of getting as much of the remaining DMT into the solvent and then topping off like @Transform said, if I really want to get ad much solvent as possible. It's not really that much more though, and the remaining solvent layer is negligible in terms of measurement.

One love

 

[The Traveler]

At the end I give it this stare , and when I do that long enough it will finally give up it's last pieces of DMT.


Kind regards,

The Traveler

obvisouly meant as a joke

 

[Transform]

I ask myself, "Which one of these molecules is the one that will bring me enlightenment?"

Then I decide it's the one that's already in the crystallisation dish and call it a day.

You may think I'm joking, but I'm not.

 

[Transform]

@The Traveler - I SAID I WASN'T JOKING

Spoiler: .

 

[The Traveler]

@The Traveler - I SAID I WASN'T JOKING

/me pinks away a tear from laughing.

You told me in your post that "You may think I'm joking", it's at that exact point my imagination took over and I stopped reading the rest.

Well meant excuses if that offended you.


Kind regards,

The Traveler

 

[Transform]

/me pinks away a tear from laughing.

You told me in your post that "You may think I'm joking", it's at that exact point my imagination took over and I stopped reading the rest.

Well meant excuses if that offended you.


Kind regards,

The Traveler

Ambiguity is both a blessing and a curse in the English language.

 

[Voidmatrix]

Ambiguity is both a blessing and a curse in the English language.

Especially in text!

One love

 

[Transform]

Especially in text!

One love

Especially in text!

 

[Voidmatrix]

Especially in text!

Especially in TEXT!

One love