Elrik
Rising Star
So I'm basically ready to do an extraction, I'm perplexed by one common feature of the teks tho. People seem to leave each xylene/toluene layer in the extraction mixture for up to 24 hours. This is apparently because of emulsions and the current penchant for extracting cactus powder rather than concentrated tea.
My plan is to get ~850 grams of chips extracted and concentrated to half a liter or so of 'tea', base to pH 11+ with lye, add xylene, and stir on a stir plate set to medium to hopefully avoid emulsion. Planning on 4 pulls.
What I cant decide is how long to leave each pull stirring before I stop for a little while and draw off the xylene?
In the absence of emulsions and cactus powder would 2 hours of mixing suffice?
It would be great if I could get it done in one day.
Its been over a decade since I read up on mescaline extractions and these days I cant even find the simple scalable old school tea teks, everything is powder, microwaves, gallons of methanol, and VAST quantities of lye :lol:
This first extraction will be on Kimuras Giant X SS02
My plan is to get ~850 grams of chips extracted and concentrated to half a liter or so of 'tea', base to pH 11+ with lye, add xylene, and stir on a stir plate set to medium to hopefully avoid emulsion. Planning on 4 pulls.
What I cant decide is how long to leave each pull stirring before I stop for a little while and draw off the xylene?
In the absence of emulsions and cactus powder would 2 hours of mixing suffice?
It would be great if I could get it done in one day.
Its been over a decade since I read up on mescaline extractions and these days I cant even find the simple scalable old school tea teks, everything is powder, microwaves, gallons of methanol, and VAST quantities of lye :lol:
This first extraction will be on Kimuras Giant X SS02