Swim and his friend just harvested from their first extraction a few days back, and all turned out well.
General method: DMT Handbook
Began with 500 gs of Acacia Confusa inner root bark.
Put it little by little into a blender. Worked well.
Filled up a pan with the grounded up bark then added acidified water of a ph around 3 (using Phosphoric acid).
Cooked the bark for about 1.5 hours at a time with 3 different rounds (don't think we had to top off the water during the process).
Combined the 3 rounds of acidified water (using milk container) and kept bark for possible future use.
That ends the first night.
The second night they boiled the water down to make the amount of liquid more manageable and to make it more concentrated.
After being rewarmed they basified the water using Sodium hydroxide to a ph of around 13.
Then prepared the solvent.
They added the Naptha (exact amount escapes me at the moment, will edit later if I come across it again... but I believe they may have used a tad too much).
Began shaking in 1 minute intervals with 1 minute air out breaks between. Shook vigorously 9 times.
After letting the concoction sit and separate they siphoned the base out then carefully poured as much naphtha off as possible. Once they got the levels down they used a turkey baster to further separate the two liquids.
Repeated that process 3 more times. The 2nd time shaking 6 times and the last round 8 times.
Once they collected all of the naptha there was, just barely, some darker colored liquid floating at the bottom so they separated it again (and probably lost a tad of naphtha/dmt in the process).
They poured the naphtha in a large glass bowl and covered it with tin foil (didn't rubber band it to make it air tight which they may do next time).
Set the large bowl in the freezer and then they let it mellow out for about 2 days (two nights and one day). When they opened the freezer the second day they saw more crystals than they were expected (though since it was their first time they didn't quite know what to expect).
They quickly removed it from the freezer and poured out the naphtha (losing a few tiny crystals but not a substantial amount), turned it upside down on top of two bowls and let it drip dry for about and hour and a half (occasionally blowing a fan through the gap between the turned over bowl and the table it was raised above).
They put the remaining naphtha in the freezer to see if anything else could be salvaged.
In the end they got a turn out of over 3 grams (maybe 3.25 to 3.5), not including the dmt we could retrieve off of the curves of the bowl.
The crystals were entirely white except for the very bottom (where it was still slightly moist) where it had a reddish tint to it. They ended up not using much of the redder dmt.
Starting with 500 grams of bark and ending with 3.25 grams gave us roughly a yield of .65%
Their next endeavor they may do a few things differently and may purchase some better equipment to make things more precise but they are pleased with the outcome.
Smells like dmt.
Tested it with some friends and it definitely does what it's supposed to!
Thanks for reading! If the community has any helpful hints they'd like to share it would be appreciated.
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