Yellow solvent

[Thehogg]

The solvent isn’t clear and easily separated. It’s hard to pipette off without the mud coming up. The mud is sticking to the glass too. Too little solvent?

This was a reduction from 3 to 1 liters.

 

[Transform]

Simple - don't pipette straight into the precipitation dish, use a separate jug to catch any stray drops of base soup from out of the naphtha before transferring it onwards.

The solvent may be cloudy due to saturation with DMT, and a yellow colour in the naphtha is entirely normal. Pictures would be helpful towards commenting with more certainty, however.

 

[Voidmatrix]

Simple - don't pipette straight into the precipitation dish, use a separate jug to catch any stray drops of base soup from out of the naphtha before transferring it onwards.

Sounds familiar

The solvent isn’t clear and easily separated. It’s hard to pipette off without the mud coming up. The mud is sticking to the glass too. Too little solvent?

This was a reduction from 3 to 1 liters.

A lil more solvent can serve as a buffer that wouldn't hurt and can limit the amount of soup you pull. With practice you will get better at pulling without catching any soup, and nevertheless, use the method @Transform mentions above. In using that method you're leveraging the stickiness of the soup material to keep it out of the precipitation phase.

One love

 

[Transform]

Quick question- what do you mean by

This was a reduction from 3 to 1 liters.

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Does this mean:

• that you're trying a smaller extraction overall than previously;
• that you've decide to use less water for the same amount of bark compared to last time, or
• that you've taken a 3 litre acidic brew and simmered it down to 1 litre?

Or maybe something else?
Reducing the volume may increase the likelihood of emulsions so a more thorough rundown on exactly what you've done so far would make it far easier to troubleshoot your situation, which (tbh) on the face of it looks like "I've f*'d it up cos I don't really understand what I'm doing". The process of explaining how you got to your situation will help you to progress positively from that space.

Sounds familiar

And then there's the trick of including a bit of water with a pinch of sodium carbonate to wash the pull a little. By now I should have set up macros on my keyboard for this stuff.

 

[Thehogg]

Quick question- what do you mean by

?
Does this mean:

• that you're trying a smaller extraction overall than previously;
• that you've decide to use less water for the same amount of bark compared to last time, or
• that you've taken a 3 litre acidic brew and simmered it down to 1 litre?

Or maybe something else?
Reducing the volume may increase the likelihood of emulsions so a more thorough rundown on exactly what you've done so far would make it far easier to troubleshoot your situation, which (tbh) on the face of it looks like "I've f*'d it up cos I don't really understand what I'm doing". The process of explaining how you got to your situation will help you to progress positively from that space.


And then there's the trick of including a bit of water with a pinch of sodium carbonate to wash the pull a little. By now I should have set up macros on my keyboard for this stuff.

Boiled down 3 liters. It was on accident. But I went with it.

 

[Thehogg]

Quick question- what do you mean by

?
Does this mean:

• that you're trying a smaller extraction overall than previously;
• that you've decide to use less water for the same amount of bark compared to last time, or
• that you've taken a 3 litre acidic brew and simmered it down to 1 litre?

Or maybe something else?
Reducing the volume may increase the likelihood of emulsions so a more thorough rundown on exactly what you've done so far would make it far easier to troubleshoot your situation, which (tbh) on the face of it looks like "I've f*'d it up cos I don't really understand what I'm doing". The process of explaining how you got to your situation will help you to progress positively from that space.


And then there's the trick of including a bit of water with a pinch of sodium carbonate to wash the pull a little. By now I should have set up macros on my keyboard for this stuff.

I put a little salt in it thinking it was emulsified. Didn’t make much difference