HippyDippy
Rising Star
I am currently working on my first extraction's worth of spice. I decided to run 500g of MHRB bought as Tepezcohuite. I went with an A/B extraction and pulled roughly 1% spice, so about 5g. Now this 5g of spice was in various qualities across the board, as shown here:
This spice that I am going to recrystallize:
And the following is why I am going to bother with all the extra work...
I really didnt like the way it was so difficult to mess with the darker stuff, and I wanted to clean it up. Plus, having never done the spice before, I didnt know what I would enjoy smoking. I have read so many different trip reports across the spectrum of jim-jam to pure crystals, that I knew it was valuable to try the different levels of spice I came away with. This also meant that I needed to make some cleaner spice. Well, cleaner spice I made:
Now that I have tasted this white spice, I doubt I will venture back to to this dustier looking powder for myself. I can, however, see that it has a place and purpose. It is certainly not as powerful as the white powder, and therefore it is much gentler to give a spice virgin. I noticed that the duration was less than half also. This brown spice allowed me to enter hyperspace on more than one occasion, as well as a couple of waiting rooms, but it only lasted 4 minutes max with and afterglow lasting for about 15 more minutes. All of these trips were dosed between 50-70mg.
The pure white spice sent us to hyperspace for around 12 minutes each, with an afterglow lasting for another 20-30 minutes. One thing that I noticed when I first harvested this white powder though, it was much less dense than the brown. In other words, it seemed like a lot more, but weighed considerable less than I first thought. The whole pile of white goodness only weighed in at 240mg!!! This meant that a pile of white weighing 25mg was the same size as 50mg of the brown. My e-mesh is nearly at capacity with 25mg gently soaked into it. I am so glad that we didnt try to load 50mg of this white spice!! it is honestly SOOO much stronger than the brown stuff.
The main difference that we all took away from this white spice, was how the experience was so much crisper. The colors were much brighter, though still just as vivid. The brown spice seemed to make the same colors but in a darker shade. The Blastoff was also much smoother, and much faster. We all reached hyperspace within 30 seconds of finishing our hit. Each trip lasted longer than 10 minutes with the longest topping out at 14 minutes.
Now that we all had such a positive experience today, we decided to further process half of our brown spice. I have already redissolved 1100mg into heptane, separated the oils that fell out and am beginning to recrystallize. What am I doing different, and why is this relevant??? Well after much reading about recrystallizing, I figured out that the best way to make monster crystals is to go about it as slow is possible. So I took a styrofoam ice chest, and placed my electric tea kettle in it. I allowed my jar of heptane and spice to get as hot as practicable in the kettle, inside the ice chest with the lid on. This will keep the jar of heptane warm for hours, allowing it to cool as slowly as possible. My plan is to let it sit in the ice chest for 24 hours before I move it into the fridge. Then 24 hours in the fridge, and another minimum of 24 hours in the freezer.
We should have some awesome shards after all that, eh?
This spice that I am going to recrystallize:
And the following is why I am going to bother with all the extra work...
I really didnt like the way it was so difficult to mess with the darker stuff, and I wanted to clean it up. Plus, having never done the spice before, I didnt know what I would enjoy smoking. I have read so many different trip reports across the spectrum of jim-jam to pure crystals, that I knew it was valuable to try the different levels of spice I came away with. This also meant that I needed to make some cleaner spice. Well, cleaner spice I made:
Now that I have tasted this white spice, I doubt I will venture back to to this dustier looking powder for myself. I can, however, see that it has a place and purpose. It is certainly not as powerful as the white powder, and therefore it is much gentler to give a spice virgin. I noticed that the duration was less than half also. This brown spice allowed me to enter hyperspace on more than one occasion, as well as a couple of waiting rooms, but it only lasted 4 minutes max with and afterglow lasting for about 15 more minutes. All of these trips were dosed between 50-70mg.
The pure white spice sent us to hyperspace for around 12 minutes each, with an afterglow lasting for another 20-30 minutes. One thing that I noticed when I first harvested this white powder though, it was much less dense than the brown. In other words, it seemed like a lot more, but weighed considerable less than I first thought. The whole pile of white goodness only weighed in at 240mg!!! This meant that a pile of white weighing 25mg was the same size as 50mg of the brown. My e-mesh is nearly at capacity with 25mg gently soaked into it. I am so glad that we didnt try to load 50mg of this white spice!! it is honestly SOOO much stronger than the brown stuff.
The main difference that we all took away from this white spice, was how the experience was so much crisper. The colors were much brighter, though still just as vivid. The brown spice seemed to make the same colors but in a darker shade. The Blastoff was also much smoother, and much faster. We all reached hyperspace within 30 seconds of finishing our hit. Each trip lasted longer than 10 minutes with the longest topping out at 14 minutes.
Now that we all had such a positive experience today, we decided to further process half of our brown spice. I have already redissolved 1100mg into heptane, separated the oils that fell out and am beginning to recrystallize. What am I doing different, and why is this relevant??? Well after much reading about recrystallizing, I figured out that the best way to make monster crystals is to go about it as slow is possible. So I took a styrofoam ice chest, and placed my electric tea kettle in it. I allowed my jar of heptane and spice to get as hot as practicable in the kettle, inside the ice chest with the lid on. This will keep the jar of heptane warm for hours, allowing it to cool as slowly as possible. My plan is to let it sit in the ice chest for 24 hours before I move it into the fridge. Then 24 hours in the fridge, and another minimum of 24 hours in the freezer.
We should have some awesome shards after all that, eh?
