SWIMfriend said:One thing I'm recalling is that one of the serious chemists (was it benzyme....or bufoman, sorry if I'm assigning credit incorrectly) was INSISTING somewhere that column chromotography, etc., demonstrated very clearly that there IS no such thing as jungle spice (no such alkaloid, anyway). Obviously, there's coloration, etc., but this person was convinced there's no extra alkaloid involved.
I think the theory would be (or maybe I'm making it up as I go along), that "jungle spice" just includes some "binder-like" molecule that comes along with the DMT, which acts subtly on it's rate of absorption somehow, perhaps...
Jorkest said:hmm..what shall we call it then?
Phlux- said:i read the same thing but i can vouch 100% for the fact that the jungle isolated by its self is active and when smoked with spice it is 100% different, 1 thing that stands out alot to me about it is that it takes a lot longer to come on and its not as violent - is more like moving into a dream, far more friendly and pleasant. I prefer the jungalized spice too - only from this tek tho - never again will the xylene jungle be smoked.
narmz said:SWIM has been experimenting with IPA washes, and it works very well. First off it works well for washing the fumarates, it cleans them up substantially, changing them from a yellow/orange tinted powder to a very-near white powder after three IPA washes. SWIM thinks that the jungle fumarates may be soluble in IPA, and knows that limo is (it doesn't form a separate layer, but seems to settle toward the bottom). Anyhow, IPA also works very well for the freebase step, yielding circular crystal formations, that when scraped result in an off-white powder that doesn't liquify on you when it gets hot out (a problem SWIM was having when using acetone in the freebase step). If you are doing the freebase step using IPA, evap at room temp, just set it out for a 6 hours or so and it will be fine, but SWIM has had problems with the crystal formations when evapping either with higher temps or a constant airflow.
One thing SWIM really wants to find an easier way to do, is breaking up the fumarates. The smaller you chop it up, the more it can be cleaned by the IPA, but doing this by hand can be very tedious.
Anyhow, would love to hear others results using IPA for the freebase step, this is the only way SWIM has been able to get solid smokeables that aren't at all sticky from a limo tek, and also the only way he has gotten his expected yields from the freebase step.
warrensaged said:I got my nicely grown "agave crystals" (they look like tiny 'lil clear Agave cactus's) out of the bestine.
I poured the other 12ml of solvent into a clean beaker to finish evaping & I put a small "seed" crystal in there to help attract the remaining spice.
They are incredible!!!
(The digital camera I borrowed has dead batteries in it :? , I'll need to go get some new ones before I can post some pics...)
I weighed them & the biggest one is .168mg!! I'll hate to break it up into doses!! (no I won't:twisted
The others weighed:
.112mg
.101mg
.079mg
.067mg
.056mg (going to test this one out...prolly tonight...we'll see)
.032mg
.026mg
A total of .641mg of solid-ass DMT!!!
HooYa!
Jokerst, did you ever finish with your extraction of Chaliponga leaf?
You where going to basify it, right?
So have you smoked any? As is, or in Changa?
I am quite curious about that one!!
Ya think one would be able to use Naptha to remove any "J" (hahaha) elements & still have the Bufo, 5-Meo & N,N-DMT's?
Only so it would (hopefully) reach some kind of solid crystal-like end result.
Or do you guys think that would remove so much of the "full spectrum" alkaloid mixture of Chaliponga, as to make it not really worth using Chali in the first place?
Just shoot'in the shit here...
WS
logos2012 said:narmz said:SWIM has been experimenting with IPA washes, and it works very well. First off it works well for washing the fumarates, it cleans them up substantially, changing them from a yellow/orange tinted powder to a very-near white powder after three IPA washes. SWIM thinks that the jungle fumarates may be soluble in IPA, and knows that limo is (it doesn't form a separate layer, but seems to settle toward the bottom). Anyhow, IPA also works very well for the freebase step, yielding circular crystal formations, that when scraped result in an off-white powder that doesn't liquify on you when it gets hot out (a problem SWIM was having when using acetone in the freebase step). If you are doing the freebase step using IPA, evap at room temp, just set it out for a 6 hours or so and it will be fine, but SWIM has had problems with the crystal formations when evapping either with higher temps or a constant airflow.
One thing SWIM really wants to find an easier way to do, is breaking up the fumarates. The smaller you chop it up, the more it can be cleaned by the IPA, but doing this by hand can be very tedious.
Anyhow, would love to hear others results using IPA for the freebase step, this is the only way SWIM has been able to get solid smokeables that aren't at all sticky from a limo tek, and also the only way he has gotten his expected yields from the freebase step.
Yup, IPA all the way. SWIM did 3 IPA washes on the fumerates. Then chopped them up real fine. What works good to chop them up is to use something glass and round like a pill bottle or small jar. Roll the glass object over the fumerates to flatten them out, scrape off the glass, then chop them up, then roll, scrape, and chop again. Should be close to powder. This works good after mixing with sodium carbonate as well. Roll it, scrape it, chop it to mix them when they are dry, then add water, and after it dries do it again. This should make sure all of it gets freebased and that SWIY will get the best yeild.
Anyway, as far as the IPA, SWIM's crystal formations looked similar to SWIY's. Nice and clear and beautiful. They started forming hexagons and other geometries cause there were so many. Scraped into a mostly white but tinted yellow powder without having to spread around and scrape up again. Maybe I will have to get him to post a pic sometime.
SWIM's yeild seems to be good too. Out of 114 grams of bark, the final freebase yeild seems close to at least a gram and a half. SWIM doesn't trust his shitty scale so he is not even going to try to weigh it. Stuff barely smells too. Definitely smells a little but not overwhelming like naphtha extracted stuff.
Perhaps the jungle does get washed in the IPA washes (be nice to know for sure though, could be just fats/oils) but SWIM would rather have beautiful crystals this way than having to resort to naphtha. Also he thinks it's a good idea to do IPA washes to the fumerates cause his still smelled like d-limonene even after filtering twice and since SWIY says it IS soluble in IPA, doing washes will make sure it doesn't just get sucked up into the freebase into the final conversion step.
Jorkest said:the chaliponga extraction went ok..but he didnt have any acetone so he had to resort to 'dried' IPA...but who knows how dry it really was...anyway..the resulting freebase was goupy and never dried...but one late night SWIM got the itch and smoked it all...along with some other crystals he managed to collect from multiple jars...he combined everything into one mimosa/chaliponga extracted mess..and blasted off a few times...
SWIM will have to try the chaliponga extraction again with some acetone instead..but there was quite a bit of goo
Yeah SWIM actually didn't save his washes like he said he was cause he had to use the jar for filtering the IPA after freebasing and he didn't feel like going to the store and getting another jar. So maybe next time.narmz said:Glad to see someone else experimenting with this, thanks for the tip, that's exactly the sort of method SWIM was looking for. SWIM thinks that if the fumarates are ground down small enough, and enough IPA washes are done, maybe 4 or 5, one would end up with white, pure freebase. SWIM feels the stuff produced this way is so much better than the peanut-butter style, which was conditionally solid depending upon the temperature, and consequently difficult to dose. SWIM was thinking that the yellow IPA left after the fumarate washes should be evapped, freebased, and smoked to test for activity, maybe the j-spice fumarates are soluble in IPA, who knows. Would probably be good to separate the fumaric acid somehow before smokin' though.
Yay this is fun!