solvent color and amount.

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So.
400g ICARR@ V#RDE (SAN PEDRO) finely ground chips in each Gallon jug.
400g lye and 2000 ml Distilled water added, each
Shaken was allowed to sit for 8 hrs.

I then added 400 ml toleune to each and mixed gently until the NP was completley submerged and then a little more.

The vessel then sat over night maybe another 8 hrs or so. There was no seperation , and what appeared to be an emulsion. The soup looked very thick, chunky almost.

Then.
1000 ml distilled water was boiled and table salt was added until it would not dissolve anymore and then some. After the water was boiling an unknown amount of lye was added - no more than 250 grams.The solution was split between the two vessels. Seperation occured almost instantly and the entire NP layer surfaced.

The Solvent was/is a light reddish brown color. anyone have this happen to them? I believe it is due to the heat/ and I may have a small amount of lye that came up with it as well? My second pulls appear to be more of a light green color.

Minus the first two red pulls, Im planning on combining the rest of my pulls (6) -adding a little water to them and letting it sit for 24 hrs followed by a decant to help remove that fine impure sediment ive read about before going on to salting.
Should I basify the water a tiny bit, or will clean distilled help achieve what Im going for.?

 

[dg]

yes, if you use neutral/plain water to wash the np, you will collect many of the avail alkaloids,
if you must do a wash, be sure the ph is higher than the np(hard to ph test np solvents accurately, so if you ph the wash above 9 you should be safe-iirc the pka is 9.56)

nice post, seems like you are on the right track,
d