Next time I will do better job of documenting in case of problems.....
tl;dr
I think somehow washing my spice with tap water and violently shaking ruined the whole pull.
---EDIT
well after further research im not POSITIVE that was emulsion but sounds like i have seen my first emulsion, and would explain how this pull got ruined, maybe if I had just lightly rolled the mix during washing none of these problems would have happened
its come to my attention that that foamyness/weirdness in my washing vessel MAY have been an "emulsion" I'm not sure what one looks like. I had violently shook my vessel with the naphtha and tap water when i was washing it. Maybe this is what ruined the pull.
--original post
Okay So I did my first pull with 400ml of naptha and was WAY too much evaporated down to a minimal amount and eventually collected 350mg of yellow powder. I was able to scrape it off the pyrex tray after normal freez precip.
On my first pull i did a carbon wash of 100mlwater/5g of baking soda
people told me my yield of 350mg was very low so i thought maybe that the culprit was either
1. I have heard reports that doing a baking soda wash causes a big loss of DMT yield. I am not sure how true this is.
2.I had used too much naptha and having to take it in and out of freezer multiple times was causeing the low yield.
So my second pull i rolled around for an hour. I suspected that the baking soda had caused low yield. I washed out the jar that had the baking soda water in it and filled with just regular water.
When I put in the naphtha on top of the baking soda water, I shook it like last time, except this time it foamed up very weirdly and the naphtha which was rather clear before, looked kinda weird and foamy. I thought it was very strange and even after waiting for like 10 minutes it didnt settle. So i pulled and after small evap put in freezer.
for 3 days i evapped more and every time i took it out it would be frozen in a big clump with yellowy looking powder gunk in there, but it would always melt back as soon as i take it out.
I had hardly any liquid in it this time when i took it out the liquid was all frozen! but it melted down into liquid again. Im thinking maybe normal water polluted the naptha some how.
Im sitting here trying to just evap all the rest of the liquid since freeze precip is total failing at this point, and wonder how to save this pull.
Somehow by washing with regular water instead of baking soda caused it to foam up and ruin the yield or something. So while washing with baking soda maybe reduced my yield, the water wash maybe destroyed it completly. I am evaporating this for like the 3rd time and it seems like not very concentrated and is not evapping.
I think its polluted with regular water.
If anyone is interested i upladed 4 videos of my solvent on the chat area, since i couldnt do it here.
tl;dr
I think somehow washing my spice with tap water and violently shaking ruined the whole pull.
---EDIT
well after further research im not POSITIVE that was emulsion but sounds like i have seen my first emulsion, and would explain how this pull got ruined, maybe if I had just lightly rolled the mix during washing none of these problems would have happened
its come to my attention that that foamyness/weirdness in my washing vessel MAY have been an "emulsion" I'm not sure what one looks like. I had violently shook my vessel with the naphtha and tap water when i was washing it. Maybe this is what ruined the pull.
--original post
Okay So I did my first pull with 400ml of naptha and was WAY too much evaporated down to a minimal amount and eventually collected 350mg of yellow powder. I was able to scrape it off the pyrex tray after normal freez precip.
On my first pull i did a carbon wash of 100mlwater/5g of baking soda
people told me my yield of 350mg was very low so i thought maybe that the culprit was either
1. I have heard reports that doing a baking soda wash causes a big loss of DMT yield. I am not sure how true this is.
2.I had used too much naptha and having to take it in and out of freezer multiple times was causeing the low yield.
So my second pull i rolled around for an hour. I suspected that the baking soda had caused low yield. I washed out the jar that had the baking soda water in it and filled with just regular water.
When I put in the naphtha on top of the baking soda water, I shook it like last time, except this time it foamed up very weirdly and the naphtha which was rather clear before, looked kinda weird and foamy. I thought it was very strange and even after waiting for like 10 minutes it didnt settle. So i pulled and after small evap put in freezer.
for 3 days i evapped more and every time i took it out it would be frozen in a big clump with yellowy looking powder gunk in there, but it would always melt back as soon as i take it out.
I had hardly any liquid in it this time when i took it out the liquid was all frozen! but it melted down into liquid again. Im thinking maybe normal water polluted the naptha some how.
Im sitting here trying to just evap all the rest of the liquid since freeze precip is total failing at this point, and wonder how to save this pull.
Somehow by washing with regular water instead of baking soda caused it to foam up and ruin the yield or something. So while washing with baking soda maybe reduced my yield, the water wash maybe destroyed it completly. I am evaporating this for like the 3rd time and it seems like not very concentrated and is not evapping.
I think its polluted with regular water.
If anyone is interested i upladed 4 videos of my solvent on the chat area, since i couldnt do it here.
