The Root
 
Posts: 2458 Joined: 02-Jul-2008 Last visit: 27-Sep-2023 Location: The asteroid belt
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DMT-Nexus member
 
Posts: 1952 Joined: 17-Apr-2010 Last visit: 05-May-2024 Location: somewhere west of here
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Healthy-looking crystals, Phlux! A job well done.....  I am paranoid of my brain. It thinks all the time, even when I'm asleep. My thoughts assail me. Murderous lechers they are. Thought is the assassin of thought. Like a man stabbing himself with one hand while the other hand tries to stop the blade. Like an explosion that destroys the detonator. I am paranoid of my brain. It makes me unsettled and ill at ease. Makes me chase my tail, freezes my eyes and shuts me down. Watches me. Eats my head. It destroys me.
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DMT-Nexus member
Posts: 14191 Joined: 19-Feb-2008 Last visit: 15-Nov-2024 Location: Jungle
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Hey phlux, two questions. First, why did you manske a caapi extract if there is no need for removing the vasicine/vasicinone as in rue?
Also, what did you do so there isnt all the salt contamination and so that it grows nicely, less salt saturation and slow cooling?
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Hyperspace Architect/Doctor
Posts: 1242 Joined: 11-Jul-2010 Last visit: 08-Dec-2012 Location: On this plane
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B-e-a utiful is all i can say. "You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness."
— Terence McKenna
"They Say It helps when you close yours eyes cowboy"
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The Root
Posts: 2458 Joined: 02-Jul-2008 Last visit: 27-Sep-2023 Location: The asteroid belt
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i the freebase in vinegar and added about equal volume hot salt water. i did it to get hcl salts - its easy and there seems to be no loss. less salt = nicer xtals - with rue they get to 20cm in 15mins. antrocles wrote:...purity of intent....purity of execution....purity of experience...
...unlike the "blind leading the blind". we are more akin to a group of blind-from-birth people who have all simultaneously been given the gift of sight but have no words or mental processing capabilites to work with this new "gift".
IT IS ONLY TO THE EXTENT THAT WE ARE WILLING TO EXPOSE OURSELVES OVER AND OVER AGAIN TO ANNIHILATION THAT WE DISCOVER THAT PART OF OURSELVES THAT IS INDESTRUCTIBLE.
Quote: ‹Jorkest› the wall is impenetrable as far as i can tell Quote: ‹xtechre› cheese is great He who packs ur capsules - controls your destiny.
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Posts: 981 Joined: 24-Dec-2009 Last visit: 13-Oct-2022
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Quality, lurve a bit of crystal porn!
“Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.”
― Terence McKenna
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DMT-Nexus member
Posts: 3335 Joined: 04-Mar-2010 Last visit: 08-Mar-2024
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endlessness wrote:Hey phlux, two questions. First, why did you manske a caapi extract if there is no need for removing the vasicine/vasicinone as in rue?
Also, what did you do so there isnt all the salt contamination and so that it grows nicely, less salt saturation and slow cooling? First, I must say those are some beautiful crystals! Are they actually as white as in the photos? I also wonder about the Manske – I thought that the Manske pulls out harmine and harmaline only, and leaves THH behind. So I wonder if you have any THH remaining? gibran2 is a fictional character. Any resemblance to anyone living or dead is purely coincidental.
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DMT-Nexus member
Posts: 1955 Joined: 24-Jul-2010 Last visit: 29-Oct-2019
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I also wonder about the Manske – I thought that the Manske pulls out harmine and harmaline only, and leaves THH behind. So I wonder if you have any THH remaining?
Is this a fact? Buon viso a cattivo gioco! --- The Open Hyperspace Traveler Handbook - A handbook for the safe and responsible use of entheogens. --- mushroom-grow-help ::: energy conserving caapi extraction
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DMT-Nexus member
Posts: 322 Joined: 05-Jul-2009 Last visit: 14-Jul-2024
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My one experiment Manske-ing Caapi freebase was that I only harvested approx. 2/3 of the original Harmalas.
This led me to conclude that THH must be lost with Manske.
I made a post about it, I'll have to look.
I thought I might have even re-freebased the solution and recovered some of the lost THH.
I can't remember that part.
I'll have to check my old post.
Anyway, I thought the simple way to check -- and I encourage someone else to try this -- is to re-dissolve a known quantity of Freebase Caapi Harmalas and apply manske: Then see what the yield is...
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Posts: 14191 Joined: 19-Feb-2008 Last visit: 15-Nov-2024 Location: Jungle
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But how do you know what precipitates is THH and not maybe other trace alkaloids or what not? Also remember manske = harmalas+hcl ion+salt impurities, so how can you "check the yield" if you dont know how much of those impurities is there?
The only real way to check would be getting pure THH and doing the precipitation tests or some analytical equipment
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DMT-Nexus member
Posts: 322 Joined: 05-Jul-2009 Last visit: 14-Jul-2024
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Well I think one can certainly at least make a pretty reasonable educated guess if...
A third Manske on Rue = a small negligible loss...
And a Manske on Caapi after the initial Freebase = 1/3 loss.
However maybe I am forgetting something.
Freebase weighs more doesn't it?
How much more?
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DMT-Nexus member
Posts: 258 Joined: 23-May-2010 Last visit: 20-Jul-2022 Location: staticvoid
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Freebase weighs less because it is not forming an ionic compound with an acid. The weight difference depends on the weight of the acid used. And those are some beautiful pictures. Nice deep blue sea feel. These aren't the droids you're looking for.
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