Jan e Kharabat
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I observed something strange in my recent extraction. Both harmine and harmaline started to behave differently after separation. Before separation they were very easily soluble in water and didn't crash out too soon during manske. After separation, they became less soluble and started to crash out almost instantly during manske.
I thought it had something to do with adding salt directly, so I made a hot saturated salt solution. Initially the solution stayed stable and nothing crashed out, but just about 30 minutes later, the entire thing became a solid block with a pudding like consistency. I left it standing and after a day, dandelion like crystals began to form within the pudding like structure. Another strange thing I noticed was that there were two darker points in the pudding like structure which were the starting points of crystallization. So the pudding was actually two very big fluff balls of crystals, but the needles were too thin and fine. But what perplexes me is how multiple dandelions began to grow from those two big crystals. As if the already formed crystals started to come together and form thicker needles... This was with harmaline.
With harmine I noticed a stronger decline in solubility and it became even more difficult to perform manske. But then I increased the volume of the solution while keeping the same salt concentration, and now I have a cluster of thick needles, but it seems like a good amount of harmine hasn't crystalized. This suggests an interesting interplay between salt concentration and the volume of the solution. I also noticed this in a previous extraction 2 years ago but I thought I was simply doing something wrong.
Has anyone else noticed something similar?
I thought it had something to do with adding salt directly, so I made a hot saturated salt solution. Initially the solution stayed stable and nothing crashed out, but just about 30 minutes later, the entire thing became a solid block with a pudding like consistency. I left it standing and after a day, dandelion like crystals began to form within the pudding like structure. Another strange thing I noticed was that there were two darker points in the pudding like structure which were the starting points of crystallization. So the pudding was actually two very big fluff balls of crystals, but the needles were too thin and fine. But what perplexes me is how multiple dandelions began to grow from those two big crystals. As if the already formed crystals started to come together and form thicker needles... This was with harmaline.
With harmine I noticed a stronger decline in solubility and it became even more difficult to perform manske. But then I increased the volume of the solution while keeping the same salt concentration, and now I have a cluster of thick needles, but it seems like a good amount of harmine hasn't crystalized. This suggests an interesting interplay between salt concentration and the volume of the solution. I also noticed this in a previous extraction 2 years ago but I thought I was simply doing something wrong.
Has anyone else noticed something similar?
