DarkMedicine
Crucify the ego, before it's far too late.
I know, I know, you've seen a thousand of these kinds of threads.
Anyways, I performed an A/B extraction on 50g of MHRB earlier this week. It was essentially the "Boil n Base V1.2" that is pinned here on the forum. I used store bought vinegar and sodium hydroxide. I always perform exact measurements and I use lab grade equipment. Separatory funnel, flasks, beakers, graduated cylinders, lab grade ceramic hot plate, etc. I, by a stroke of great luck, have pretty much all the lab equipment a DMT extractor wants. Not bragging or boasting but rather just ensuring you lovely folks that my misfortune was not the result of poor technique or laziness. Anyways, I let my acidified bark (50g MHRB with 500ml H2O/50ml vinegar) stay at about 95 degrees Celsius for several hours. Not simmering or boiling but just almost. I then strained the liquid and squeezed the bark dry. I placed the liquid in one of my flasks and added 130g of sodium hydroxide. I let that sit for a bit until it was cool enough to touch the flask and pour the liquid off into my separatory funnel. I let this sit over night. The next day, I heated my naphtha on my ceramic plate to about 100 degrees Celsius. I then poured the heated naphtha into my funnel with my basified liquid. Swirled it around. Let it separate. Then I separated the two layers and placed my (should have been) DMT soaked naphtha in the freezer. I came back the next day to find no evidence of precip. I decided to just evaporate the solvent at that point. Upon evaporation.....hardly any DMT at all. I have used this same bark with STB methods numerous times. It has worked fine though the yields are low compared to bark I have used in the past.
My question is "What am I missing?" I don't understand what I could have done wrong. My PH meter (digital) was broken the day I started this extraction but I used the same chemicals and concentrations that everyone else uses based on "Boil n Base" here on the forum. Could my PH have been all wrong and I not known it? Would that really make such a huge difference? I have been extracting for a few years now and I have never (since the first few attempts) had an unsuccessful extraction. Now, I have been pretty much strictly STB in the past but A/B is not really more difficult. I just don't understand what I could have done. I am starting to think it is the less than average quality bark that I have. Does anyone else have any ideas or similar experiences? I'm really dying to know here.
Anyways, I performed an A/B extraction on 50g of MHRB earlier this week. It was essentially the "Boil n Base V1.2" that is pinned here on the forum. I used store bought vinegar and sodium hydroxide. I always perform exact measurements and I use lab grade equipment. Separatory funnel, flasks, beakers, graduated cylinders, lab grade ceramic hot plate, etc. I, by a stroke of great luck, have pretty much all the lab equipment a DMT extractor wants. Not bragging or boasting but rather just ensuring you lovely folks that my misfortune was not the result of poor technique or laziness. Anyways, I let my acidified bark (50g MHRB with 500ml H2O/50ml vinegar) stay at about 95 degrees Celsius for several hours. Not simmering or boiling but just almost. I then strained the liquid and squeezed the bark dry. I placed the liquid in one of my flasks and added 130g of sodium hydroxide. I let that sit for a bit until it was cool enough to touch the flask and pour the liquid off into my separatory funnel. I let this sit over night. The next day, I heated my naphtha on my ceramic plate to about 100 degrees Celsius. I then poured the heated naphtha into my funnel with my basified liquid. Swirled it around. Let it separate. Then I separated the two layers and placed my (should have been) DMT soaked naphtha in the freezer. I came back the next day to find no evidence of precip. I decided to just evaporate the solvent at that point. Upon evaporation.....hardly any DMT at all. I have used this same bark with STB methods numerous times. It has worked fine though the yields are low compared to bark I have used in the past.
My question is "What am I missing?" I don't understand what I could have done wrong. My PH meter (digital) was broken the day I started this extraction but I used the same chemicals and concentrations that everyone else uses based on "Boil n Base" here on the forum. Could my PH have been all wrong and I not known it? Would that really make such a huge difference? I have been extracting for a few years now and I have never (since the first few attempts) had an unsuccessful extraction. Now, I have been pretty much strictly STB in the past but A/B is not really more difficult. I just don't understand what I could have done. I am starting to think it is the less than average quality bark that I have. Does anyone else have any ideas or similar experiences? I'm really dying to know here.
