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endlessness said:
Basics said:
Hi All,

Could you please tell me what other materials could be used for containers?

I'm going to use Cyb's salt tek first and them Max Ion to run a comparison between the two.

I was planning on using all glass though I was curios what out materials may work. I would hope that its obvious that metal is a no no, but I was wondering if some plastics might be alright, such as HDPE or polypropylene.

Ive done some Google and come up wih ldpe/hdpe should be ok with the NaOH. And in my case I would be using heptane it appears that as it is a Aliphatic hydrocarbon HDPE would be the way to go.

Can anyone confirm this my my own personal reassurance and possibly recommend any other options that there may be?

Love and light,

Basics

A lot of people use HDPE, in theory it should be fine for naphtha and lye but personally I avoid plastic due to the possibility of plasticizers or similar, even if the container itself doesn't breakdown. Check this thread: Phthalates: Warning to those using plastic containers/instruments in extractions - Health & Safety - Welcome to the DMT-Nexus

Swimius said:
Hey durr,

SWIM is looking to extract NN DMT and 5-MeO-DMT from a local Phalaris Arundinacea strain. I would love if some other backyard chemists would give a look at my tek before I attempt it.

1. SWIM has began by collecting, freezing and unfreezing this phalaris strain to attempt to destroy some of that nasty chlorophyll that he extracted by accident in one of his earlier extraction attempts.

2. SWIM will make aqueous solution with the grass and lower its PH to around 4 using either HCL or Na2CO3 (allow to sit for several days)

3. Increase up to PH 12 to produce a soluble 5-HO-DMT.

4. Pull N,N DMT and 5-MeO DMT with Naptha and leave behind 5-HO-DMT, and Gramine

5. Evaporate Naptha and Yield alkaloids.

Any thoughts? More specifically which acid do you believe would work best?

Na2CO3 is a base, not an acid. You can use HCl or simply vinegar, both should work equally good, vinegar is safer to use.

The rest sounds ok, considering your phalaris has any DMT and 5-MeO-DMT to begin with. But personally I have never tested myself or read a confirmation that 5-MeO-DMT is soluble in naphtha. I'd think so, but can't be sure until I see this information from reliable source or test it myself, and I also haven't read it here in the nexus yet.


Im sorry I was meaning to say acetic acid but I had bicarbonate on the mind for the base step. Thanks tho!
 
Hi all. Did Cyb's salt tek. Followed to the T. Used pure lye, tap water, and heptane.

Did two jars. One with 50g one with 100g. Froze and thawed both jars once in acid bath then basified for an hour in a heat bath then pulled with 50ml heptane each. Freeze preciped over night in a -17c freezer.

Came out with I'd describe as a tanish colour. Feels waxy and looks like all dmt Ive ever seen before in person before this. Just seems odd to me as I was half expecting it to come out white or slightly yellow without re-x.

Thoughts?

Thanks
 
hi i was wondering if someone can help me on a rue extraction.

i have posted here

but didn't realise this sticky existed.

basically i think i cocked up.

apparently i have been adding way too much lye mixture to get my alkaloids to preticipate.

i have high levels of lye in various mixtures and need it to go to a stable safe state.

so hopefully i can continue to extract.

which is the best way to carry on please?

thank you
 
Sorry Im unfamiliar with that tek. Maybe youve destroyed the molecules.

My query is why all these bark/phyllode extractions have an acid step first?
I would have thought a basify step would be better to break the material down and 'expose' the alkaloids , then acidify the solution now that the alkaloids are more accessible?
 
If your alkaloids precipitated, filter them, and excess NaOH will be in the water so you will get rid of most of it. Then you can redissolve and reprecipitate either with right amount of salt or right amount of base.

If your alkaloids didnt precipitate, its hard to know why because you made a mess at this point, sorry. As I suggested, start again, and follow the tek correctly.
 
Hello everyone!

I just finished my first extraction. However, I think I've done something wrong.

I followed Noman's Tek with 50 gram of pre-powdered MHRB, 1 liter water, 50 gram NaOH, and for each pull 50 gram of naptha (I believe I calculated that this was somewhere between 35 and 40 ml).

I did 4 pulls that evening. After one day in the freezer, I had 4 jars with 4 different results:
- My first pull had some green (I think, I am color-blind) goo stuck to the bottom.
- My second pull seemed to be only Naptha.
- My third pull had some white/yellowish goo stuck to the bottom.
- My fourth pull had some off-white goo stuck to the bottom.

I've vaporized DMT once before, and thinking back of the amount of goo I had back then, I estimated these three pulls together to be somewhere between 5 and 10 of that. Estimated about 100 - 200 miligrams.

I filtered the Naptha through a coffee-filter and then put the jars back upside down. I left them that way for 4 hours, to let the remaining Naptha drip on the lid.

After that, I put the four jars, without the lid, in my fridge (4 degrees Celsius), to let the remaining Naptha evaporate. Very soon after that (I think 15 to 45 minutes), when I checked up on them, The bits of goo were mostly liquified. I thought this could be normal, for with a higher temperature, the freeze-precip gets un-done again.

One day later, the jars had completely dried out and the Naptha smell was gone. I could smell the dmt smell (at least, the way the dmt of my one experience smelled). However, almost everything that used to be in the jars was gone. I can still see that there is something inside there, because the glass looks a bit dirty on the places where the goo used to be.
I think there is still 5% left of the goo I had before drying. Is this normal? Does the goo before drying contain so much of the Naptha?

Also I thought after some research, I have agitated way too soft. I tried to get no waves at all when I rolled the jar around. I think I need to agitate harder (shake it a bit). Also, maybe I should add 2 tablespoons of salt?

I don't think scraping out the jars will be worth trying. Should I just try some other pulls and put these pulls in the unwashed jars again?

I have one remaining pull now in the freezer. There seem to be as much/more chrystals as in the first pull. Some of them are also floating, so I will need to catch them with a coffee-filter. Where should I leave this coffee-filter to dry? In the freezer? In the fridge? At room-temperature?

Thank you so much for your help!
 
Nevermind my previous questions. I think that, because I didn't agitate enough, I didn't pull much dmt.

I mixed some Naphta in the used jars, and found out that the sticky bits on the bottom of the jars were my lye/bark mix. It seems that I accidentaly got some of that in my Naphta as well.

The one pull I still had in the freezer is now upside down in the freezer, with lots of white stuff. Also there is some white stuff on my coffee filter! :)
 
hello.
first post on here about my friends first pull. kinda been staggering along now with him and his pulls of naptha are more yellowish than "milky". what should he do about this? and also just wondering when lids should and shouldn't be on the jars, which steps? :?

edit:
i think i have read now that my friend could maybe defat his yellow pulls to rid it of plant gunk? is this so
also, one of the less murky pulls has a beige colored sludge along the bottom. could this be re-x into a better product, or can it be smoked off of a nail on my friends small bubbler rig? and how much do you think? my friend bounced between the lex and thick-light methods, and made a few mistakes. these pulls are from only 2 acidic pulls worth of 1,000g of acrb. my friend plans on doing two more pulls from the bark and then starting fresh after that along the tek. sorry for the mess..
 
Hallo group! So I've been studying the q21q21 tek 1 (The jimjam party) for a while now and I pretty much understand it completely, but i have some questions. First question: Is the final product going to be a goo or waxy substance? and I have a question/suggestion once someone helps me answer this. :)
 
Thanks a lot for letting us know :)

I want to try this out and test it, see if NMT also precipitates equally easy with fumaric acid or if it will be more selective to DMT.

Did you do FASA or FASI? Can you describe a bit more how you did it, if you precipitated from some non-polar solvent or just redissolved your already separated freebase goo/crystals and did FASA/FASI on it?
 
Thanks, I had missed that part ! :)

If I were you I'd wait to see if the NaOH water precipitates at all.. If not, I'd put it all in a pyrex dish, and evaporate it in by placing it on top of the pot with hot water, like a double boiler/warm bath kind of set up. Then with whatever you have once it evaps, scrape it, put in a glass, and pull with acetone, and evap the acetone to retrieve any DMT/NMT freebase that might be there..

Good luck, let us know how it goes!
 
I've seen a few teks on this forum that say to freeze and thaw the root bark a few times after chopping into small pieces (i.e. before an acid boil). Does this mean to place dry root bark pieces into a container and place it in the freezer or should water be added?

Edit:
The link below is a good example:
 
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