When SWIM's test of smoking DMT-N-oxide produced tiny effects off of 50mg or more smoked and no familiarity at all in the trip he was wondering a bit if N-oxides were even in DMT at all. This was a back-of-the-mind wondering and he went along with the final pulls of his latest extraction.
He did 2 extractions to re-test each of his teks, one 200g batch using xylene (tek 1) and a second batch of 200g using naptha (tek 2)
While he was testing a bunch of things: solvent solubility/soaking time, vinegar salting process, acetate solubility in water, effects of evaporated tincture vs crystallized spice and a few others, this accidental discovery took him completely by surprise.
Neither of the batches were depleted yet, but the naptha he had been using had become more and more yellow after 5 pulls though it was still freezer precipitating nice white spice and was fully saturated.
A thread on salting brown-naptha made SWIM admit although he's done lots and lots of salting of freebase from solvents he's yet to try it on naptha. He looked at the yellow naptha and decided he'd try it.
The salting went exactly the same as with xylene or d-limonene, the agitation with the vinegar made the solvent cloudy with insoluble acetates, vinegar separated and warm water added and agitated until the naptha was clear.
As the vinegar-water was evaporated it went past the yellow that white DMT acetate are in water and started turing orangy-red. SWIM thought to himself "DMT-N-oxide?"
After dissolving the goo in a minimal amount to vinegar he next evaporated 10 drops and scraped it up and was surprised that not only was it dark red but it solidified immediately after scraping up. This was exactly like his "jungle only" tincture he'd used many times in the past.
The 10 drops only evaporated to 9mg so he evaporated 12 more and got 11mg to make the total about 20mg. Anxiously he loaded up his machine-bubbler and got ready.
Quote from his psychedelic journal:
Conclusion:
SWIM is now pretty sure that he was wrong in assuming that since DMT-N-oxide was yellow that it was the reason for the color and different effects in yellow DMT now he's thinking it is "jungle DMT" instead.
It seems jungle is not very soluble in naptha though. about 75ml of naptha contained only about 30mg of jungle though it had about 300mg of white spice precipitate out.
Also he noticed in a previous freezer precipitation that there was a layer of non-crystallized goo beneath his crystals that wouldn't dry, which was yellowish when scraped, but it would seem that it doesn't all precipitate.
Not sure exactly why with STB extractions so much more is pulled out, this is true with lime STB and lye STB.
He did 2 extractions to re-test each of his teks, one 200g batch using xylene (tek 1) and a second batch of 200g using naptha (tek 2)
While he was testing a bunch of things: solvent solubility/soaking time, vinegar salting process, acetate solubility in water, effects of evaporated tincture vs crystallized spice and a few others, this accidental discovery took him completely by surprise.
Neither of the batches were depleted yet, but the naptha he had been using had become more and more yellow after 5 pulls though it was still freezer precipitating nice white spice and was fully saturated.
A thread on salting brown-naptha made SWIM admit although he's done lots and lots of salting of freebase from solvents he's yet to try it on naptha. He looked at the yellow naptha and decided he'd try it.
The salting went exactly the same as with xylene or d-limonene, the agitation with the vinegar made the solvent cloudy with insoluble acetates, vinegar separated and warm water added and agitated until the naptha was clear.
As the vinegar-water was evaporated it went past the yellow that white DMT acetate are in water and started turing orangy-red. SWIM thought to himself "DMT-N-oxide?"
After dissolving the goo in a minimal amount to vinegar he next evaporated 10 drops and scraped it up and was surprised that not only was it dark red but it solidified immediately after scraping up. This was exactly like his "jungle only" tincture he'd used many times in the past.
The 10 drops only evaporated to 9mg so he evaporated 12 more and got 11mg to make the total about 20mg. Anxiously he loaded up his machine-bubbler and got ready.
Quote from his psychedelic journal:
10:54
I am going to test 20mg of this stuff I salted out of the naptha. it is solid at about 50-60C and it looks and acts like jungle...
10:59
HAHA, that's jungle for sure.
the shorter duraton, the smoother visuals, the COMPLETELY different headspace, and the jungle OEVs and tracers, the higher body load leave no question in my mind that was jungle.
I mean the first tincture I did tests on was 80% jungle then 100% jungle, I know the trip. It was nice and being 20mg it wasn't too hard, I was really observing the effects on comedown since they are more consistent anyway.
Conclusion:
SWIM is now pretty sure that he was wrong in assuming that since DMT-N-oxide was yellow that it was the reason for the color and different effects in yellow DMT now he's thinking it is "jungle DMT" instead.
It seems jungle is not very soluble in naptha though. about 75ml of naptha contained only about 30mg of jungle though it had about 300mg of white spice precipitate out.
Also he noticed in a previous freezer precipitation that there was a layer of non-crystallized goo beneath his crystals that wouldn't dry, which was yellowish when scraped, but it would seem that it doesn't all precipitate.
Not sure exactly why with STB extractions so much more is pulled out, this is true with lime STB and lye STB.