After a few successful A/B Mimosa extractions, I decided to attempt a quick STB for comparison using the same naphtha solvent. But, something happened. My first pull came out as expected with a slight yellowish tint. The second and third pulls came out burgundy/reddish, so, I combined the 2nd & 3rd pulls and put them through a dirty wash using nothing but pure vinegar and they still came out looking like a finely aged Bordeaux...WTF!
Unable to clean up the second and third pulls, I put only the first in the freezer and the following day I was left with a surprisingly large amount yellow and orange crystals. I've yet to sample the orange but the yellow was perplexingly potent considering I used the lazy mans STB process and was expecting minimal results. Damn this shizzle is strong.
The orange product resembles jungle spice but I didn't use Hexane/Xylene or any other none-polar solvent I've read about that is supposed to pull a full spectrum, so this is confusing.
I suppose my questions won't be answered until I run another batch from this vendor through my usual A/B tek. But, I'll be honest, I won't lie...I used a lot of lye. The lazyman's tek called for 60g's of lye but I got a lil crazy and dumped in the whole bottle(454g)into a half gallon of distilled water - could this be the reason why I extracted an insane amount of spice from so little mimosa(?) My first thoughts were that I had extracted a lot of fats, but as previously stated, the final product which did not go through a re-x, was incredibly potent. I don't exactly measure anything out because I'm lazy like that, and that's exactly why I thought the Lazy mans extract would be perfect for me
With certainty I can say, no more than one and a half cups of mimosa was used and with only freeze precipitating the first pull, I yielded one gram, roughly.
To sum-up, I'm curious if anyone can explain why my second and third pulls came out reddish even though they sat in the stew for the same duration as the first pull.
Thanks in advance,
Serato
Unable to clean up the second and third pulls, I put only the first in the freezer and the following day I was left with a surprisingly large amount yellow and orange crystals. I've yet to sample the orange but the yellow was perplexingly potent considering I used the lazy mans STB process and was expecting minimal results. Damn this shizzle is strong.
The orange product resembles jungle spice but I didn't use Hexane/Xylene or any other none-polar solvent I've read about that is supposed to pull a full spectrum, so this is confusing.
I suppose my questions won't be answered until I run another batch from this vendor through my usual A/B tek. But, I'll be honest, I won't lie...I used a lot of lye. The lazyman's tek called for 60g's of lye but I got a lil crazy and dumped in the whole bottle(454g)into a half gallon of distilled water - could this be the reason why I extracted an insane amount of spice from so little mimosa(?) My first thoughts were that I had extracted a lot of fats, but as previously stated, the final product which did not go through a re-x, was incredibly potent. I don't exactly measure anything out because I'm lazy like that, and that's exactly why I thought the Lazy mans extract would be perfect for me
With certainty I can say, no more than one and a half cups of mimosa was used and with only freeze precipitating the first pull, I yielded one gram, roughly.To sum-up, I'm curious if anyone can explain why my second and third pulls came out reddish even though they sat in the stew for the same duration as the first pull.
Thanks in advance,
Serato
