It is a success!

[CosmicFool]

So, long story short:

Yesterday, SWIM had his first experience ever extracting DMT from MHRB. He had about 60 grams of whole rootbark that he threw in a blender with 100ml of water. Then he added about half a litre of ice cold water to a tall glass container, threw in a couple big spoonfulls of lye and after that the rootbark-paste. SWIM had about 110ml of naphta that he added to the mix after soaking the MHRB in the lye-water for about couple hours, siphoned the naphta from the jar with a 2ml medical syringe (a huge pain in the ass to siphon 2ml at a time but it was all he had) and stuck it in the freezer in a sealed glass jar. After a night of freezing, SWIM can see the tiniest of chrystals in the bottom of the jar, white as a pure driven snow


SWIM is not even sure if he wants to smoke it, he's just so happy that his first extraction was such a success. Maybe he should keep the x-tals for forever, kinda like Uncle Scrooge has never spent his first earned coin.

Next week, when SWIM aquires some more naphta, he will try a STB extraction on some Phalaris, which is grows abudantly around his living area. He'd rather do a A/B extraction but lacking the proper equipment the only solution is STB.

Happy happy joy joy!


EDIT:
SWIM was so exited that he actually forgot to ask the question that made him span this topic. How long should SWIM keep his naphta in the freezer, until the naphta isnt cloudy anymore? or will it ever even clear completely? and can he make a second pull in the same jar that still contain the x-tals from the first pull, i.e adding the pulled naphta on the xtals and sticking the whole thing back in the freezer?

 

[ragabr]

Congratulations! Overnight is probably sufficient, and yes you can keep adding in pulls. When SWIM used naptha, she would have two batches of naptha trading off between the solution and the freezer.

 

[CosmicFool]

SWIM has now reached a point where naphta wont collect any more DMT, (or at least SWIM is quite sure about it) and the question is: what next? SWIM has a bigass jar full of lye containing black mimosa liquid, and he's sure theres more magic to make, he just doesnt know what to do, or what supplies to get and some help here would be greatly appreciated.

SWIM tried to browse through the forum but was overwhelmed with teks and lost his way in the labyrinth of chemicals and solvents

 

[BananaForeskin]

Q: what extra equipment would you need to do an A/B? $2 worth of vinegar? I can't see an STB on phalaris producing a very clean product.

And to clarify your latest question: your naptha is saturated with DMT, but but you want to get more magic? Correct? If you've successfully precipitated the crystals, just pour/siphon the naptha off and make sure the crystals are dry. Store them in a small bag in the freezer, or better yet store them in some changa (mwa ha ha). Then put the clean (or empty, if you will) naptha back in the lye-bark and keep going...

 

[CosmicFool]

SWIM has done several pulls now and freezing the naphta doesnt seem to produce much chrystals anymore, so going for jimjam would be the next step he guesses. It is time to start lurking around A/B section then. SWIM just got confused since there is so many ways to make magic happen

You're right, STB on phalaris has turned out to be quite disgusting but since phalaris is abudant, SWIM thought "what the heck" and went to experiment

 

[endlessness]

make longer pulls (that last a few days), mix more times before separating, and pre-evaporate the pulls till there's only a small amount left (lets say, a fifth of original amount), and you should get more magic.

and/or you can do more pulls with a more polar solvent like xylene (yuck) or limonene (yay). If you do chose limonene, next time start with limonene already. BLAB tek explains how to get the actives out of limonene, its all in the WIKI.


Be careful with trying that phalaris stuff, phalaris might have toxic alkaloids. Start very low on bioassay. I would recommend recrystallizing your product to theoretically try to diminish any gramine content. Recrystallization instructions are in the FAQ

 

[CosmicFool]

Hmm. maybe SWIM will switch to xylene next since he has a steady source of 100% pure xylene and limonene is harder to obtain where he lives. The last pull SWIM did yielded quite a lot xtals and the separated naptha did smell more like DMT than naptha, so he just poured it into another container and stuck that back to freezer to see if anything happens.

Seems like SWIM is running out of lye, could lye be substituted with baking soda ash? As in taking some baking soda, spreading it on a pan and roasting it in a owen for a while?

 

[endlessness]

An STB will probably not work with sodium carbonate (and yes you could make sodium bicarbonate into carbonate by putting in oven). An A/B might work, but then again yields might be low. I also dont know how phalaris extraction will compare to MHRB extraction in this sense. Another option is to start looking for Calcium Hydroxide (edible lime), and do a dry tek like amorfati, q21 or something like ron's mesc tek but done with dmt-containing plants.

Whatever way you go, do let us know the results