blue.magic
Rising Star
I am literally following the Washing Spice tek after every pull to remove any possible traces of base.
Today I found the water layer under heptane pull was suspiciously cloudy so instead of discarding the water, I put about 35 ml of fresh heptane into the sep. funnel and shook it.
The new heptane layer looked clear and the water still cloudy:
I put the heptane layer in a Pyrex dish and evaporated a bit - to my surprise, it turned cloudy!
Since the heptane was cloudy at about 20 ml, it indicates the basic water layer captured quite a bit of spice.
I was suspicious this washing tek may be a reason I am losing spice in every extraction, the water even smelled of freebase DMT and contained tiny white strands. But now it seems confirmed the washing tek indeed eats quite a bit of DMT.
I never though such minuscule amount of basic water (15 ml) can capture so much DMT. Or maybe it stayed in the sep funnel somehow in the residual heptane?
Or am I doing something wrong or is the washing tek really a "lossy" technique?
Maybe using ice cold water would help?
Today I found the water layer under heptane pull was suspiciously cloudy so instead of discarding the water, I put about 35 ml of fresh heptane into the sep. funnel and shook it.
The new heptane layer looked clear and the water still cloudy:
![r6Q6wqG.jpg](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fr6Q6wqG.jpg&hash=bb6ab285c57bc2c2e26520b2d56bc4ad)
I put the heptane layer in a Pyrex dish and evaporated a bit - to my surprise, it turned cloudy!
![A3RHO24.jpg](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FA3RHO24.jpg&hash=d6eec1b4ab09b9ce2e976b3dfdba37e1)
Since the heptane was cloudy at about 20 ml, it indicates the basic water layer captured quite a bit of spice.
I was suspicious this washing tek may be a reason I am losing spice in every extraction, the water even smelled of freebase DMT and contained tiny white strands. But now it seems confirmed the washing tek indeed eats quite a bit of DMT.
I never though such minuscule amount of basic water (15 ml) can capture so much DMT. Or maybe it stayed in the sep funnel somehow in the residual heptane?
Or am I doing something wrong or is the washing tek really a "lossy" technique?
Maybe using ice cold water would help?