osubzero18
Rising Star
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Hello everybody! I really need some advice as to what I am doing wrong with my mhrb extraction. I initially had 500 grams of bark.
My first extraction I used Noman's updated tek word for word ( No ammonia wash of course) with about 150 grams of bark. I used 2250 ml of distilled water with 175 grams of pure NaOh. I prepared my basified water solution first, making sure it was not too hot and making sure the reaction was complete. Then I added my bark and left it in the jar for over an hour shaking it at regular intervals. My bark was not pre powdered I blended it into a mixture of powder and fibers.
I went ahead and did my naptha pulls. 4 pulls in total leaving the 5th pull in there to sit. I used about 150 ml of naptha per pull ( I am aware this may have been too much now ). My beginning pulls were pretty yellow in color while the later ones were mostly clear with a tiny tint of yellow. I froze my pulls overnight in jars in a freezer at -16 degrees celcius. ( closest to -20 my freezer will get)
And here comes my problem. In the morning I was expecting snow globes but nothing. The jars were completely freezing and the naptha looked more clear than the night before it was no longer cloudy. Out of 4 jars 2 of them appeared to have a somewhat white somewhat amber precipitate at the bottom. I poured out the naptha over the filter and these white amber colored precipitates fell into the filter. I was really ecstatic that I had such a good amount of DMT on my first try however this was not the case...The "precipitate" quickly melted back into a brownish clearish liquid.
I almost think it was just frozen water that somehow was still in the jars ( I did rinse them out prior to putting the pulls in them )and possibly some NaOh bark solution snuck its way into my pulls which froze in the freezer while the naptha did not....The filtered naptha I left in a glass pyrex pan to evaporate. The liquid naptha was clearly yellow, yet when it completely evaporated, nothing. There was absolutely nothing left over in the pan after evaporations....
So a couple days later I tried again with almost the same method. I used 100 grams of bark this time, 1250 ml of water and about 200 grams of NaOH. This time around my naptha pulls were almost completely clear. After freezing overnight, same thing, no crystals, after evaping, nothing remains. I would like to add I did not use a fan in one of my evaps and I did use a fan on the other evap. Both evaps produced nothing. I still have the NaOh solutions with the bark so perhaps some precious spice is salvagable. I also still have a couple jars of yellow naptha sitting in the freezer with no crystals.
Can somebody please try to help me figure out what I am doing wrong? Any advice on how to do another extraction or to salvage something from my previous extractions would both be greatly appreciated. I still have about 250 grams of bark I do not want to waste. Help me please guys
Thank you so much for taking the time to read/
My first extraction I used Noman's updated tek word for word ( No ammonia wash of course) with about 150 grams of bark. I used 2250 ml of distilled water with 175 grams of pure NaOh. I prepared my basified water solution first, making sure it was not too hot and making sure the reaction was complete. Then I added my bark and left it in the jar for over an hour shaking it at regular intervals. My bark was not pre powdered I blended it into a mixture of powder and fibers.
I went ahead and did my naptha pulls. 4 pulls in total leaving the 5th pull in there to sit. I used about 150 ml of naptha per pull ( I am aware this may have been too much now ). My beginning pulls were pretty yellow in color while the later ones were mostly clear with a tiny tint of yellow. I froze my pulls overnight in jars in a freezer at -16 degrees celcius. ( closest to -20 my freezer will get)
And here comes my problem. In the morning I was expecting snow globes but nothing. The jars were completely freezing and the naptha looked more clear than the night before it was no longer cloudy. Out of 4 jars 2 of them appeared to have a somewhat white somewhat amber precipitate at the bottom. I poured out the naptha over the filter and these white amber colored precipitates fell into the filter. I was really ecstatic that I had such a good amount of DMT on my first try however this was not the case...The "precipitate" quickly melted back into a brownish clearish liquid.
I almost think it was just frozen water that somehow was still in the jars ( I did rinse them out prior to putting the pulls in them )and possibly some NaOh bark solution snuck its way into my pulls which froze in the freezer while the naptha did not....The filtered naptha I left in a glass pyrex pan to evaporate. The liquid naptha was clearly yellow, yet when it completely evaporated, nothing. There was absolutely nothing left over in the pan after evaporations....
So a couple days later I tried again with almost the same method. I used 100 grams of bark this time, 1250 ml of water and about 200 grams of NaOH. This time around my naptha pulls were almost completely clear. After freezing overnight, same thing, no crystals, after evaping, nothing remains. I would like to add I did not use a fan in one of my evaps and I did use a fan on the other evap. Both evaps produced nothing. I still have the NaOh solutions with the bark so perhaps some precious spice is salvagable. I also still have a couple jars of yellow naptha sitting in the freezer with no crystals.
Can somebody please try to help me figure out what I am doing wrong? Any advice on how to do another extraction or to salvage something from my previous extractions would both be greatly appreciated. I still have about 250 grams of bark I do not want to waste. Help me please guys
Thank you so much for taking the time to read/
my pictures matched yours and everything. I got nice yellow pulls from my naptha (50 ml pulls). I put the pulls in the freezer in pyrex glass sheets for about 18 hours. This time i did notice some crystals in my sheets and I was able to get some product out of my pulls, however the only way I could get any product was with evaporation and scraping...When I poured out the naptha from the sheets the crystals for the most part quickly melted into a liquid...Some crystals remained and I was able to recover them after putting the fan on the sheets but very few probably 25 mg or less from each pull.
