I'm in the process of cleaning up my 2nd Bufo extract & it is a pain in the ass to get it really, really clean!!
I nixed the first extraction I did, as it seemed like it was getting more & more gooey & oily as I went along.
I tried boiling what I had in Zylene & things just seemed to go to hell from there. I think I had way too much left over orange oil in it when I went for the Zylene boil...
So I chalked that one up to a learning experience & started over, better prepared for the next one.
Now this one is going along well, but good grief those toxins are some tricky bastards to try & get out, aren't they!!!
I have had one little accident that seemed to help remove a large amount of the oily toxins & my extract has been much drier since.
Here is what happened:
*I followed Jokerst's D-Limonene tek, doing just one D-Limo boil.
*Like a jerk, I got a bit impatient (I know better than this by now...) with the D-Limo evaporating/Bufo drying so slowly & I put it in the oven, with the oven door cracked open a bit, at what I thought was 150F degrees to help speed things up.
I don't know if I bumped the dial, or just set it wrong in the first place, but when I went back, 45 min. later, to take the dish out, the oven temp was set to 350f degrees!! I took the dish out & although the D-Limo was dry, the Bufo stuck to the glass dish was pitch black!!
I was pissed!!
I figured with the oil in the D-Limo, plus being on glass, must have added enough to the temp to burn everything (I was incorrect, it was only hot enough to burn off a lot of the sticky toxins!!).
*So in hopes to retrieve something from the burn, I scraped up the burnt-black, somewhat hard substance of the the glass dish, dissolved it in acetone & poured it through a cotton filter stuffed in the tip of a funnel, to filter out the burnt shit. I did this 3 more times, until there were no more black solids left floating in the acetone. The last filtering was dripped into a large glass dish to evaporate the acetone.
*When I scraped it up, I had some very fine tan powder!! I was stoked & so happy that I clearly did not burn up any of the Bufo!!
*I could tell there was still some of the burnt stuff in there, so I did another D-Limo boil & what was scraped up after evap was cleaner than anything I had seen so far, but was still not pure crystals.
*I have now done 2 more D-Limo boils & have a nice tan extract, but it seems the more D-Limo boils you do, the more the orange oil builds up.
*So I'm thinking of doing the FASA step one more time, to salt out the Bufo & remove the orange oils. Then re-basify with sodium carbonate & then through the cotton filter again until any solids are gone.
I'm hoping that what dries out from that should be a very clean Bufo crystal.
Key word there being; hoping!!
I will then test it & report back as to whether or not toasting, after the D-Limo boil removed a large amount of other toxins, or not.
I remember reading about the natives toasting the seeds before grinding them into snuff. Then toasting again, after adding lime to basify.
Seems, at least visually, to have burned away a lot of the crap!!
I'll let you know after FASA removing the left over orange oils.
I also have a new batch of seeds coming from Maya, their products are always of the highest quality, so far I've been using FV's seeds and they seem like good quality but I've not tried any other vendors seeds to comparison them to.
I want to try toasting the D-Limo cleaned Bufo extract again, to see if I can get the same result. If it wokrs the same way again I'll write up & post how it was done, in steps.
I plan to re-toast 1/2 of the next extract & compare a final product the has been toasted & re-cleaned, to one that has just been D-limo cleaned.
WS
I nixed the first extraction I did, as it seemed like it was getting more & more gooey & oily as I went along.
I tried boiling what I had in Zylene & things just seemed to go to hell from there. I think I had way too much left over orange oil in it when I went for the Zylene boil...
So I chalked that one up to a learning experience & started over, better prepared for the next one.
Now this one is going along well, but good grief those toxins are some tricky bastards to try & get out, aren't they!!!
I have had one little accident that seemed to help remove a large amount of the oily toxins & my extract has been much drier since.
Here is what happened:
*I followed Jokerst's D-Limonene tek, doing just one D-Limo boil.
*Like a jerk, I got a bit impatient (I know better than this by now...) with the D-Limo evaporating/Bufo drying so slowly & I put it in the oven, with the oven door cracked open a bit, at what I thought was 150F degrees to help speed things up.
I don't know if I bumped the dial, or just set it wrong in the first place, but when I went back, 45 min. later, to take the dish out, the oven temp was set to 350f degrees!! I took the dish out & although the D-Limo was dry, the Bufo stuck to the glass dish was pitch black!!
I was pissed!!
I figured with the oil in the D-Limo, plus being on glass, must have added enough to the temp to burn everything (I was incorrect, it was only hot enough to burn off a lot of the sticky toxins!!).
*So in hopes to retrieve something from the burn, I scraped up the burnt-black, somewhat hard substance of the the glass dish, dissolved it in acetone & poured it through a cotton filter stuffed in the tip of a funnel, to filter out the burnt shit. I did this 3 more times, until there were no more black solids left floating in the acetone. The last filtering was dripped into a large glass dish to evaporate the acetone.
*When I scraped it up, I had some very fine tan powder!! I was stoked & so happy that I clearly did not burn up any of the Bufo!!
*I could tell there was still some of the burnt stuff in there, so I did another D-Limo boil & what was scraped up after evap was cleaner than anything I had seen so far, but was still not pure crystals.
*I have now done 2 more D-Limo boils & have a nice tan extract, but it seems the more D-Limo boils you do, the more the orange oil builds up.
*So I'm thinking of doing the FASA step one more time, to salt out the Bufo & remove the orange oils. Then re-basify with sodium carbonate & then through the cotton filter again until any solids are gone.
I'm hoping that what dries out from that should be a very clean Bufo crystal.
Key word there being; hoping!!
I will then test it & report back as to whether or not toasting, after the D-Limo boil removed a large amount of other toxins, or not.
I remember reading about the natives toasting the seeds before grinding them into snuff. Then toasting again, after adding lime to basify.
Seems, at least visually, to have burned away a lot of the crap!!
I'll let you know after FASA removing the left over orange oils.
I also have a new batch of seeds coming from Maya, their products are always of the highest quality, so far I've been using FV's seeds and they seem like good quality but I've not tried any other vendors seeds to comparison them to.
I want to try toasting the D-Limo cleaned Bufo extract again, to see if I can get the same result. If it wokrs the same way again I'll write up & post how it was done, in steps.
I plan to re-toast 1/2 of the next extract & compare a final product the has been toasted & re-cleaned, to one that has just been D-limo cleaned.
WS
