What is going on? Issues w/ batch

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So here’s the deal. Not super experienced. Done some pulls before with powdered MHRB that turned out and was super happy with. Mod edit: NO SOURCING.
Used shredded bark this time, that granted was shredded to what I would consider pretty fine (almost like splinters if you pulled them from your hand) and I did not process them to be any finer.
Ran a kg @ 15:1:1. PH 13.75. Let it set 24 hrs before I added 750ml of naphtha(which I realize doesnt hold to my 15:1:1, but I was just reusing some solvent I had in a different container)added to my 4 mix.
Here’s where I might start running into something’s so please point them out as you see them.

For external reasons I had to let this sit for about 5 days before I did my first pull. When I did, everything was fine except there was what appeared to be the bark(looked yellow but splintery) floating on top of the water but below my naptha layer. When I extracted my naptha down to that layer I only got about 450ml. Was kind of confused but figured naptha was diffused in with that layer of material. Didn’t wash the extract, Just went straight to deep freeze. Haven’t checked to see how much I got.
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Added 1000ml back to my mix. Mixed it a lot and due to some weather, couldn’t pull for another 2 days.When I went to try, layers had no separation. Added 1000ml of close to boiling water saturated with 350g pure salt. Mixed well and let sit overnight. Seperated well, but now theres a layer of yellow goo under naptha layer. Pull everything I could before touching that layer and only got 400ml. So now Im wondering where practically a quart of naphtha is. I decided to separate off that layer of goo. Got plenty of lye water with it, but got it all pulled off. I now have 3 other jars with varying degrees of separation in them.



I think I’ve definitely found my naphtha but I have no idea how to get it. One jar has 4 distinct layers that you’ll see. The naphtha and lye layer obviously don’t concern me, but what do I do with:

1) The yellow layer? What is it even? I briefly tried to run it through a coffee filter but it was snail slow and some of it was making it through the filter anyways and reforming into small balls(oil or fat?) so I abandoned the endeavor until I consulted you guys.



2) What about the brown layer? It looks more like what has been in some of my other batches that I just chalked up to an inseparable agitation layer. Looks more like very tiny air bubbles or something, but now that I’m seeing them seperated and doing the math might contain a decent amount of solvent. Is there anything I can do to break them or do I just chalk it up as lost and toss it like I have been.

3) Obviously, this material has had what many would consider a long while to stew. Should I even bother with a 3rd extraction after over a week?

4)Ive never had that yellow layer form in a powdered batch previously. Is it normal? Have I just been lucky on batches before? Is it possible I have bark I thought should be MHRB but actually is ACRB? Is it just common in shredded? Did I let the batch sit so long that the material just broke down into that sludge and I did it to myself?

5) Ive never had a batch that was highlighter yellow, is it bad that it looks like fluorescein?

6) Should I be Soda washing this before freeze precipitation vs after? Ive done both and before seems way easier but idk the ratio of soda water to use when rinsing a larger volume of naphtha vs such a minute amount when redissolving the spice. Any advice?

Thanks for all the help!

 

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I'm confused why you're trying to process a kilo when you're not that experienced. Stick to 50 to 100g runs until you can execute those flawlessly.

You are also using far more nps than you need to.
There's certain specifics like your soup volume and vessel that might speak to why you chose to use that much. But when you do a 100g run you should do 30ml pulls and it doesnt scale up to 300ml for 1kg afaik.

I cant answer most of your questions because there's too many unknowns but for 3 - yea go ahead. I've read of people doing pulls on jars they forgot about for months.
And for 6 - with that crazy volume of naptha i would hope you easily avoided pulling any black soup. But if you did pull soup with it, i wouldnt wash the big volume. Freeze precip (though i'd highly recommend evaping a bunch first because 750ml would hide 3/4 of a gram of dmt from you) it first and then depending on how bad it was contamed you can re-x it, dissolve it in a minimal amount of naptha and soda wash, or you could do a full on mini a-b.

After looking again, that yellow goo looks like it could be a bad emulsion but idk enough about your process to speak confidently about that.
Time and warm water baths would help if thats what that is.