Cute puppy aussietripper but probably not extraction related.

On a different note: Does anybody have an advice how to "pull" harder? I'm harvesting my 7th pull now and I'm still getting 120mg.

I don't want to throw away good MHRB because 120mg are 5-6 trips but I'd prefer doing 4-5 pulls to get most of it out and be done with it.

Cute puppy aussietripper but probably not extraction related.

Hey guys I still don't know what to do with my mixture.
I did a citric acid/fasa extraction from MHRB and now it is at the point when crystals should form. Instead I have a dark brown mixture with a pH of 1. I am suspecting the acetone not to be anhydrous (though I dried it with MgSO4). Would there be a way to remove water from the mixture, or anything else that might help getting DMT-fumarate crystals ?

Would there be a way to remove water from the mixture, or anything else that might help getting DMT-fumarate crystals ?

The tek:

1) dissolve 5g of citric acid per 100ml acetone

2) take the shredded/powdered bark and cover it with enough citric acid acetone. Incubate in a warm place, gently agitating every so often. After 2-3 hours, filter off the citric-acid saturated acetone extract and set aside (this solution should have acquired the dark reddish colour of MHRB). Repeat 2 more times.

3) saturate acetone with fumaric acid. Acetone can hold ~20mg/ml fumaric acid if let for a day or so to completely dissolve.

4) Add the fumaric acid-saturated acetone in the citric acid-saturated acetone MHRB extract. One cannot put too much.

5) Set it aside and wait for 2-3 days. One should see a yellowish precipitate on the bottom.

NOTE: In step 2 one is making an acetone extraction and at the same time converting the alkaloids their citrate salt. After addition of the fumaric acid-saturated acetone in step 4, there is an interconversion of alkaloid-citrate to alkaloid-fumarate salt, like:

dmt-citrate + fumaric acid <-> dmt-fumarate + citric acid

citric acid has a pKa of 3.13, while fumaric acid's pka is 3.43. Fumaric acid is a weaker acid and thus in the above reaction one should have most of the dmt as a citrate salt and just a tiny amount as a fumarate salt. dmt-fumarate however is totally insoluble in acetone (while dmt-citrate is perfectly soluble), and it precipitates as soon as it forms. The insolubility of dmt-fumarate acts therefore as a "sink" and given time all of the dmt-citrate will eventually convert to dmt-fumarate and precipitate out.

6) wash the precipitated fumarate salts with acetone, then take them out and let them dry.

7) dissolve the alkaloid-fumarate salts in 5ml of tap water, then and then add saturated sodium carbonate to make the solution basic. The alkaloids will be freebased and the solution will become milky. In 3 days they will precipitate out forming nice needle-like crystal in the basic solution. At this stage, one can filter the solution (nasty procedure since the crystals tend to be sticky and waxy) and retrieve any left alkaloids by dissolving them in acetone.

8 ) Let the crystals dry, wash them with acetone (it removes any traces of sodium corbonate which is totally insoluble in acetone), evaporate the acetone and enjoy the product.

For the FOAF of SWIM 30mg were for a good STRONG experience.

Please watch language.

By foam do you mean emulsion? Or are you actually getting a foam on top of your solution(s)?

Those aren't air bubbles. They are water/NPS bubbles.

How did your foaming cause your extract to not yield much? Those two things are unrelated. If your extraction didn't yield much is probably wasn't basified enough(which would also lead to foam/emulsion) or your solvent wasn't saturated well enough during freeze. Either that, or.. your bark might not be good? It seems like every extraction you run into problems. Do you think it is possible it is not MHRB or can you be certain it isn't operator error? Lol.

You dont need to boil for that long. 3-4 hours is extremely sufficient. Strain out the bark and reboil it with some fresh acid solution to grab more goods. Bark-less solutions is ALOT easier to work with than soups. But be sure to do multiple boils on the same bark because theres always going to be some goods left in your bark, especially if you only did 1 boil. Try to press/squeeze the bark to get all of the acid solution out.