official extraction help thread

[psilocybin]

Any questions or problems you may run into during an extraction can be asked to get other members input in this thread.

 

[Sakkadelic]

Hello guys, i live in a humaid area, in a costal city. in July like now the temperature is 30c and humidity is 70%.
i pulled last night and I put the tray with naphtha in the freezer, today the substance crystallized, and I took the tray out of the freezer and poured off the naphtha. But right away, water vapor condensed on the tray and the crystals dissolved in the water. Another strange thing that happened is that the naphtha turned white! note that i worked with distilled water and white vinegar.
how can i solve the humidity problem? Maybe i should seal the tray in a vaccum plastic bag and then wait after getting it out of the freezer until it warms up to the room temperature??

The condensed water in theory should not significantly dissolve freebase dmt, it's more likely the naphtha residue in the hot weather. What I would try is leaving the dish in the freezer for 48h undisturbed for a better chance of crystals sticking to the container sides. Then when removing from freezer quickly pour off the naphtha and let it drain well, then immediately place the dish in front of a strong fan. Some water will condense but it will evaporate in an hour or so under the fan. if you place your dish tilted the water droplets will accumulate to one side and you can even wick it away with a tissue if you want to get rid of it faster.

Even if the crystals still dissolve and/or get mixed up with water, you should dry it with a fan regardless, you might endup with goo but that's totally fine.

And about the naphtha turning white do you mean it got cloudy? And when did that happen?

 

[Pyramids]

Hi gang,

I started with the Q21Q21 #1 tek until my d-limonene pulls were done (i used fresh d-limo for each pull)
Then, I converted to fumarate via BLAB tek step 4a
Lastly, I am converting the fumarate to freebase (smokable) via BLAB tek step 6

This last step is supposed to take about 5 days in the fridge. After 7 days it was still very cloudy so I pulled it out of the fridge. It's been maybe 9 days now and is still cloudy. There is a layer of crystal formations on the bottom of the jar.

The tek isn't explicit enough, maybe, in terms of how much water should have been added and I may have added a little too much. Should I keep waiting?

 

[DMT_Queen502]

Question... i know this may sound silly but do you have you do the acidification step with vinegar or can you skip it?

 

[alkimista]

Se puede pasar directo a la basificacion si haces con calor todo es mucho mejor

 

[unisonruss1285]

Hello everyone, I was reading the difference between MHRB and Acacia root bark. It sounds like the effects are quite different. I was curious about doing a tek to see the difference, but I'm having a hard time following the guides that I have found. It looks like Acacia is a lot fattier, so you have to go through extra steps. Maybe I'm more of a visual learner, and I just need a video I don't know any help would be greatly appreciated.

The tech that looked the most interesting that I could follow along with for the most part was thick lights tek. I'm a bit dense when it comes to chemistry.

I've done MHRB extraction, about 4 times now. Nomans Tek.

 

[Transform]

Question... i know this may sound silly but do you have you do the acidification step with vinegar or can you skip it?

Se puede pasar directo a la basificacion si haces con calor todo es mucho mejor

i.e. "You can go straight to basification if you do it with heat everything is much better."

 

[Transform]

Hello everyone, I was reading the difference between MHRB and Acacia root bark. It sounds like the effects are quite different. I was curious about doing a tek to see the difference, but I'm having a hard time following the guides that I have found. It looks like Acacia is a lot fattier, so you have to go through extra steps. Maybe I'm more of a visual learner, and I just need a video I don't know any help would be greatly appreciated.

The tech that looked the most interesting that I could follow along with for the most part was thick lights tek. I'm a bit dense when it comes to chemistry.

I've done MHRB extraction, about 4 times now. Nomans Tek.

There are various active acacia species, but I'll take a guess that most likely you'd end up using ACRB, which is Acacia confusa. Sometimes this will contain a large proportion of NMT which, besides also contributing to goo formation, also leads to qualitative and quantitative differences in the subjective effects.

Which of the various acacia threads have you checked out so far? Generally, the only additional steps for acacia an acid boil, filter and defat.

 

[unisonruss1285]

There are various active acacia species, but I'll take a guess that most likely you'd end up using ACRB, which is Acacia confusa. Sometimes this will contain a large proportion of NMT which, besides also contributing to goo formation, also leads to qualitative and quantitative differences in the subjective effects.

Which of the various acacia threads have you checked out so far? Generally, the only additional steps for acacia an acid boil, filter and defat.

That's why I'm so interested. I heard the effects are a lot different! Somehow the come up is supposed to be a little more gentle...and different style visuals as well... and perhaps even a longer duration than N,N DMT T.

The attached photo are the specs for the powdered bark that I'm looking at.

 

[TransistorBass]

Currently doing a pretty lazy extraction, I had a couple of approx 125g batches MHRB in the freezer that had been freeze-thawed multiple times, I'd given it a slow-cooker cook as well before refreezing.

Just done approx 1 week in a Basefied state.

Did the first Naphtha Friday to Saturday, this first pull (150ml) looks to be getting a good yield of crystals in the freezer right now.

I added more Naphtha for the second pull and I'm really struggling to get the layers to separate, instead of 20-30mm depth in the 2L Conical flask I've got about 5mm of clear floating on top after an overnight settle.

Mixing, swirling, has been no different than the first pull.

I added a little extra Lye (45g dissolved in 100ml water) and a few tablespoons of salt to it yesterday to see if I could encourage a better separation but I seem to be stuck at 5mm of settled naphtha.

All done at room temperature, as my last successful extraction from 125g of the exact same MHRB batch.

Thoughts? Tips? Should I try warming the Flask up to see if I can get more separation?

Thanks

 

[TransistorBass]

Warmed up last night and got it settling and a 2nd pull off it. Guess I'll do the same again this evening.

 

[Transform]

Currently doing a pretty lazy extraction, I had a couple of approx 125g batches MHRB in the freezer that had been freeze-thawed multiple times, I'd given it a slow-cooker cook as well before refreezing.

Just done approx 1 week in a Basefied state.

Did the first Naphtha Friday to Saturday, this first pull (150ml) looks to be getting a good yield of crystals in the freezer right now.

I added more Naphtha for the second pull and I'm really struggling to get the layers to separate, instead of 20-30mm depth in the 2L Conical flask I've got about 5mm of clear floating on top after an overnight settle.

Mixing, swirling, has been no different than the first pull.

I added a little extra Lye (45g dissolved in 100ml water) and a few tablespoons of salt to it yesterday to see if I could encourage a better separation but I seem to be stuck at 5mm of settled naphtha.

All done at room temperature, as my last successful extraction from 125g of the exact same MHRB batch.

Thoughts? Tips? Should I try warming the Flask up to see if I can get more separation?

Thanks

Vibration might help too.

 

[TransistorBass]

Vibration might help too.

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