Hello all,
Swim is the first person to ever use limonene to extract DMT. I posted his original tek on this forum, it's called "NON-TOXIC LIMONENE TEK"
I put it in all caps cuz I was so excited about it.
Glad to see there's an interest in it.
The old write-up is actually pretty sloppy, considering what Swim knows now. He's been working with limonene for years, and hasn't touched that petroleum crap ever since. He swears by limonene.
To answer all questions:
Quality:
The quality is amazing. Swim will never smoke petroleum-extracted spice again. There's a darker "edge" to it that, with limonene spice, is replaced by a smoother, natural, organic feel.
Sodium carbonate:
Will work just fine. However it's no good for STB (straight to base) which Swim feels gives better yeild. Calcium hydroxide should work for STB.
How to get freebase:
Swim would not recommend ron's method, though apparently it works.
What Swim does is get dmt acetate (any other salt should be fine as well), then redissolve it in a little HOT distilled water.
Then, in an eyedropper bottle, he has the bottle roughly 1/3 of the way filled with this redissolved acetic salt solution... he adds another 1/3 warm saturated sodium carbonate solution. Then he fills the eyedropper bottle the rest of the way up with isopropanol (isopropyl alcohol). He agitates and the layers separate, iso on top. Using the eyedropper he removes the iso layer which contains the freebase alkaloids, then adds more iso and repeats two more times (3x total iso pulls) then combines iso pulls and evaps. There's still a little sodium carbonate residue cuz it's an incomplete separation, but there's much less that there would be if he just evapped the aqueous layer.
Then he uses anhydrous iso to redissolve the alkaloid goo, using a spoon to crush up the insoluble sodium carbonate residue and liberate any molecules trapped in it. He does this 3-4x, filtering to remove sodium carbonate residue, then evaps the iso onto a small amt. of leaf.
He likes this because 1: it's inconscpicuous, and 2: it's easier to handle, and 3: you may get goo using this method. But seriously enhanced leaf is way better than xtls.
He gets usually 6-9g total alkaloids from a pound of bark powder, and uses 2.3g powdered red poppy flower, but any herb will do (weights may very tho).