Questions on evaporation

[theghost]

Hi

I just did my first extraction with Cybs Hybrid Tek. Will post up my thoughts and results later.

My question relates to the stage after you have frozen the naptha.

After I took mine out of the freezer, rather than fanning it (I didn't have a fan) - I just put my dishes into a cardboard box with air holes on the side and put them into the shed. They have been out there for more than 12 hours and the bulk of the solvent is gone - there is the sticky layer on the bottom which still smells of solvent. Although advice says that the solvent smell should be gone, I am assuming the solvent smell is stuck in the sticky layer? See photo attached.

Can I now scrape off for recrystallization?

Would you expect a sticky layer after re crystallization as well?

Are the crystals usable now if the sticky stuff is still there either now or after recrystallization? My plan is the vape the stuff so obviously I am concerned about vaping in solvent.

One final question - when I have scraped my stuff out should I leave them on paper for further drying so all sides of the crystal are exposed to the air to let the solvent come off? i.e the crystals stuck to the glass may still have solvent in them on the underside? Should I use a razor to brake all the crystals into a powder?

 

[bezevo]

it takes more time ...................

 

[theghost]

I suppose I can give it another night. I wonder if I should do the scrape so its all loose at least...

 

[Sakkadelic]

Heyyy that looks very nice! Well done on your first extraction

Curious about how much material you started with.

Can't you leave it outside the box for a few hours to get aerated? Next to a windowsill at night would be great.. that should take care of residual solvent.

Scraping it up and leaving it to dry some more would be good too.

The sticky stuff is ok, it's basically dmt. If you were careful pulling and are confident you didn't pull any of the base soup then you're good to go. A rex can be fun so go for it if you'd like to try and get bigger xtals, the sticky layer might still be there though. A mini A/B or washing the solvent with warm water (with a pinch of sodium carbonate) before freeze precip would help clean the dmt and possibly make it less likely for a sticky layer to form.

I would also gently scrape the xtals and put them aside for a "pure" pile, then go hard scraping everything else with the sticky layer and have a "less pure" pile, and make changa with it.

 

[bezevo]

sticky and goo is usually just as pure as white or yellow crystals or powder .

due to the polymorfic nature of DMT .

it is mostly a myth that white is more pure .. it does look perty heh