Hi and welcome..

My personal opinion on your questions is as follows..

1, pull until you can pull no more...

2, FB is a good way to start (imho). Dosages can be more easily monitored (not hard with enhanced leaf but FB alone is like, well, to me I see it as the kind of the "control" dose). One can always introduce themselves via a direct FB vaping session then seek to expand upon that and compare experiences etc, gaining a fuller understanding from the foundational molecule upwards.

Of course this is just my opinion. I have gone from FB alone, to occasional FB+Rue Brew and my next step will either be enchanted leaf followed by Rue+caapi or vice versa (had some in the freezer for a month).

Either/and/or you in for a hell of a ride

I'm doing the same right now too! I hope it works out-- I've done a A/B extraction using heptane using Acacia Confusa, it was certainly more expensive and dangerous than the salad tek.

First off, welcome to the Nexus. Nice to have you.

A pleasure to have another mystic psychonaut with a decent amount of experience under their belt... and a meditation practitioner no less.

A hearty welcome indeed. I think you will enjoy being here, and your carefulness and patience will serve you well. There is a lot of good information here, and a lot of really good people as well.

As for your Q's:

1) It certainly doesn't hurt to keep the soup and try pulling more, esp. if you try a different NPS that might pick up things not picked up by the one you used originally. If you were meticulous in applying the tek, there will be minimal alks left, but it is like a tea bag in that it is never really fully spent... you just get to the point that it is not worth messing with anymore.

2) Going for enhanced leaf or changa is not necessarily preferable, but it does make thing easier if you are not familiar with vaping FB or don't have a good device. Changa is the easiest route because the harmalas help to ensure that you will get the dose, and you can smoke it just like weed... which most people don't have too much problem consuming.

Anyway, welcome once again. I hope you find what you are looking for. Prepare to be amazed.

HF

Well that sent me running for the dictionary!
It sounds kinda like Yiddish, but I guess it's Chinese!

Dzogchen! Sounds like a great place to be!
Nice to meet you, and welcome to the community!

depends on the quality of your freebase , the real good dry stuff usually comes out after several recystallizations with hexane/heptane, atleast for me

sometimes , especiallly with limonene extracts i get somewhat waxy DMT , yet this is very good , however it does'nt vape or smoke properly , its best to make enhanced leaf with this

i haven't tried the hippie salad oil tek , yet i guess i will sometime , in anycase if the dmt is a little wet/waxy just make enhanced leaf , even Waxy DMT is really powerfull stuff if you vape/smoke it properly

Welcome to the Nexus my friend. Oh man, broken containers during extracting is never fun!

Good luck buddy. I'd go for FB spice too. What kind of smoking device do you have?

Unless you're worried about breaking through or want a purer experience, enhanced leaf is the way to go. I've used peppermint several times, and its easier to smoke than weed. For my next extraction I'm planning on putting it on passion flower, which has MAOIs, therefore lengthening the journey. My extractions have always been so small that a bioassay on enhanced leaf always came out to be weak experiences with main effects only lasting a few seconds...

That's great Erlequin! I think you can definitely call that a success. Next time you will only spill half as much and your trip should be stronger.

My extraction went awfully. I don't even know if there was anything in there. The problem was that I couldn't find distilled white vinegar, instead I used white wine vinegar. I ended up with goo... which wouldn't be so bad but burning a little on a knife didn't create that wonderful dmt smell, just a burnt vinegar smell. I still ended up smoking it after infusing it on passion flower. The MAOI's in the passion flower and the unknown compounds in the goo made me nervous but nothing happened except a bit of light headedness. Its back to the fields to find a better grass and onto the internet to find a purer acid.