Hello Nexus

I have been dormant or some time, since my first mimosa drytek using q21q21.
with the fall of mimosa I have weary to try and preform the magic ritual again and with out the ease and purity of mimosa.

I one day felt the calling and decided i need to experiment with drytek and q21q21 tek on ACRB. I find working with minimal water and lye preferable. I'm sure I could handle it safely I would just rather not, you know.


PREP

well anyways I weighed and powdered 330 grams of frozen ACRB. I then started a hot water bath going for 130 F on the water. My entire process was carried out with this hot water bath.

ACID BATH

I prepared a mixture of Distilled water and some very fine vinegar. it was eyeballed about 1:1. I prepared way more than I need so i could mix to the desired consistency.I mix the acid water in with the ACRB in the Pyrex baking dish till it was just above the top of the bark. I mixed it up till the powder start to make a loose runny mud. then I let this sit in the hot water bath for 1-2 hrs. If the mud starts to dry and form a skin add some more acid water and re mix.

BASE

I had weighed out about 300 grams of Ms. Wages Pickling lime. I start adding it slowing and mixing it into the mud. I can see it working, turning the reddish purple to a grayish off color. I used almost all of the 300 grams, I just kept mixing until I saw none of the original color of the bark. my final consistency was a slightly dryer mud, almost crumbly.

I find it wise to add small amounts of Ms. wages, it will clump up and take some effort to incorporate completely.

I let the based mud sit covered for about 2-3 hrs on the hot water bath to hopefully ensure some success.

PULLING

For my pulls I measure out 600 ml of Klean Strip VM+P into a pouring cup. I did 5 x 125 ml Pulls letting each sit in the bark for about 30-45 minutes. some more solvent was needed to make up for the bark absorbing some.

all 600 ml was reduced down to about 200 ml. this was hopefully in pursuit of super saturation. I then poured 125 ml into a 4 Inch Pyrex pie dish. the other 75 was poured into a mason jar for crystallization experiment. I evaporated the 125 ml because i was expecting some goo from the Freeze precipitation anyways. the 75 ml I placed in the freezer was left in there for a full week on high blast

RESULTS

I yielding 708 mg of golden goo which is the first few pics. This goo was spread into a thin layer and dried to a very nice wax which is the 4th picture.

The freeze precipitation has been poured of but have not weighed it out. also its fluffy white crystals that are completely stable =D. I don't know why I got Crystal tho i was really only expecting goo. I didn't think it would be an outcome for such little effort, the crystals in that picture have been out of the freezer for 48 hrs.

I will post my final yield once i get that crystal scraped up. looks like i got that 708 mg +/- 500 mg from the freeze precipitation, so well call it 1.2 g tentatively

but at the end with out the community of the nexus, I would not be able to achieve this, I have to thank everyone who has ever written up a tek, I've read them all and absorb so much knowledge. more that I ever did in school. ill be posting my bio assays and trip reports soon.

Much love and joy everyone

little update my estimate was a bit generous I scraped up 184 mg of white fluffy flakes from the jar still a thick layer of settled goo I want to grab. also when I poured off my solvent I poured it into another jar and more goodies are crashing out now

but here are the results, also I apologize for my gooey scale, I think she wears it well

P.S. I learned how to do thumbnails

so you only yielded <1g from 330g of ACRB? thats pretty low.. unless im not understanding.

im not worried about yield just sharing the journey with loved ones. but the yield so far is 890 mg, ill be doing another pull or two and maybe a toluene pull on top of that.

im very pleased with the result so far. in the future ill be attempting a standard A/B on the same amount of material and then comparing.

also any hints on calculating the yield, my public schools were no good. ive googled for some guides but im only getting 0.00026 but that cant be right

This is my choice of Tek, and I just tried it for the first time with ACRB and I am having a bit of trouble.

My Pulls came out great, milky and saturated put them into freezer on full blast. When I checked on it 18 hours later..
Nothing crashed out. Still just milky.
Does it need to sit in there for a week to precipitate out?

I pulled it out, going to let about half evaporate off then stick it back in the freezer.

I really prefer this Tek, for me its easier and less messy. I love if I could get it to work as well as it did with MHRB.

Thanks for the work you put in, and sharing your results.
And tips or help you could offer would be appreciated!!

Also, I'm working on Cyb ATB as well, I'm sure to get results one way or another.

im not sure if leaving it in the freezer for that long was necessary for the crystals I got. goodies started dropping out in a few hours once I put my jar in. I just waited until the naphtha appeared clear in the jar before I poured it off.

when I poured my naphtha off I poured it into another jar and stuck it back in the freezer, it was still a bit milky after I poured it off the crystals. within 2 hrs there were 12 big chunks forming, im going to take them out later tonight or tomorrow and dry them out. see if there stable or goo.

If they turn out being goo ill try re-x with like 10-20 ml off hot naphtha and doing a 48 hr deep freeze. I might not sure this is all just stoned thoughts. but what if being so cold for so long some how forces NMT + oils and what not to the bottom. from what I saw there was a layer of white fluff snow crystals sitting on top of a waxier crust between the crystals and the glass

are you using a hot water bath the hole time, Mz.Gypzy. I tried a smaller 50 g batch with out the hot water bath. my naphtha was milky even before reduction but nothing crashed out. so I just evaped all that naphtha to yield some yummy goo. I don't know if it was related but im just trying to cover all the bases here.

Im really happy with the Goo/Full Melt Wax stuff. it feels so earthy and natural.

bout to post a trip report too

Thanks for the reply and your help.

I stuck it back in the freezer over night after evaping half, and there is finally crystal formation, looks like there will be some goo as well. I'm totally fine with the goo, this is my first go with Acacia and want to experience the full spectrum.

Yes, I use a hot water bath the whole time. Maybe with this Tek it just needs longer in the freezer to precipitate out.
Also, I have moved since my last extraction, maybe the freezer is not a cold as my old one.

Looks like I'm getting results, so I'm happy about that!

Thanks agian for the help. Happy Travels.

Uhhh, this has nothing toi do with your tek or really even your post, but when i went to click on the pic of the yellow xtals to enlarge, I was sent to a page that had disgusting child porn pics at the top, along with the pic of xtals.
WTF!?!?!?

Im not kidding. Mods maybe take a look. I was on a coffee shop terminal, but doubt that has anything to do with it.

Im not saying you have anything to do with it but , wtf man?

Oh man thats my goto image hosting site. never had a problem in the past. But thank you very much ill change it over once i get home from work today

In the mean time if a mod removes the images that would probablly be for the best.

Mz.gypzy if your okay with the goo/wax just evap your solvent With the hotwater bath and a fan. Just make sure its outside or you have a vent set up to carry fumes away.

Im working on a evaporation dome to capture my naphtha vapor before it enters the atomsphere, i hate evaping solvents but sometimes its a necessary evil. Ill deffintaly be uploading my procedure once its complete.

Also thinking about vacuum purge on the end after the evaporation dome, to really clean those last ppms of solvent left over, i cant detect them in my finished product but i know they are there when you just evaporate

Lol i also tried viewin the image in my phones browser was just a fullscreen ad of some very graphic sex.

I am so sorry to everyone i may have offended