SWIM thinks that mabey, if you used fumaric acid as your main acid v. hcl, acetic, etc, then you could reduce alot more. DMT fumarate is extremely soluble in water. like really freakin soluble. 10ml can dissolve a few grams of DMT Fumarate in swims experience, at room temp.
So if fumaric acid can work, you could reduce alot more. But swim dosent think you can reduce too much. That kind of change will not F-up your extraction, as long as you aren't stupid and evap it all the way and burn it. Methods may change to keep a less hydrated extraction efficient, but dry/resin/heavily reduced tea teks can and do work. Swim has always had an idea to reduce a mhrb tea down to a resin, FB with Lime, dry with mgso4 and low heat / dry air. Get this down to a powder, then just dump the powder into you NP. Swim would use d-limo, bec. its a efficient solvent.
This should be THE most efficient and low # of pulls way to get the goods. and Basically no water to slow down the pulls, you just have to decant very well, or be able to filter d-limo. Swim can't. Too messy and he is freaking tired of spilling d-limo, filtering always leads to spillage with limo in swims opinion. This is assuming that you can get the dmt to let go of its natural acid, and salt up with the fumaric acid in the initial boiling.
SWIM understands though why more water is good, besides the fact that it holds more DMT. SWIM figures even though there's more water, that gives it more surface area to pull with the NP. Even though the Alkaloid concentration is lower, they are more spread out and accessible to the NP when you shake the shizzle out of your base/np mixture.
SWIM likes the dry tek because its low profile, easy, and doesn't require lots of base. Also because swim is really against using a shit-ton of lye just to extract, then dumping the liquid somewhere. Even thought its used as a drain cleaner, lots of energy was used to make/purify the lye, shipping the lye, etc. Also, SWIM paid for that shit and is known to be stingy lol.
Just think, the goods are still there, even if they precipitate out. As long as you decant, any other funk that gets stuck in your NP is decantable or filterable out. SWIM always gets massive contamination of CaOH in his limo drytek pulls from cacti and rootbark. But let that limo sit over night on something that vibrates, and all of the CAOH will decant out.
Bottom line- IF you can be more efficient with all of your materials and still find good results from a tek, its a fine trade-off, and makes swims wallets and minds a little lighter.
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