so ive ran orions tek three times now... (mostly to the letter)
https://www.dmt-nexus.me...aspx?g=posts&t=42775
but ive only been getting a .3% yeild...
as ive been reading other teks, i see things (i think) ive been doing wrong...

1) during my acid boil, i was boiling down, then adding more vinegar/water (ph of 4, test with litmus paper), not pouring off, adding more, then combining and reducing.
2) i add my lye (to a ph of 14) and then salt (i then read on a soap making forum that salt wont dissolve well in lye, that i should add salt then lye..)
3) about an hour after lye is added, i then add naptha and pull (X3), do the freeze precip, then evap the rest...

ok, so correct me if im wrong, but i need to do multiple boils... combine, then reduce. add salt, then lye. now, do i need to wait longer (maybe a day or two) before my pulls? i think i read (or misunderstood) but do i need to let my solution cool down before i add WARM naptha?

and i have another question that i probably shouldnt worry about yet but im still wondering... if i drop a bud of some quality smoke into my saturated naptha for like an hour or so, then dried it back out, would i have "supercharged" the bud with some spice, or do you think the actives in my smoke would end up in the naptha?

thanks

How sure of what you're getting is root bark !!

Are you pouring off the excess naphtha after the freeze precipe

You put the salt or saline liquid first then lye

First of all you must do three acid boils , not just keep adding to the same pot !!

Try Cybs salt TEK it's so much newbie friendly !!

You can't drop a bud into the naphtha but you can do that with dissolving crystals into a small amount of IPA or acetone then leaving to evap !

(two more things i thought i should mention... i am using ACRB, and i leave the plant material in the mix through the whole process)

this run will be my first using multiple boils... (just ran 5X to be sure)

twice ive poured off the naptha before evap (but i think i waited to long), once i didnt... not that it mattered much, i get goo either way... (i have tried adding a de-fat, once before basifying, once after, both i still get a much lighter coloured goo... another reason i suspect my bark, not that i have any knowledge on if or not tree bark has more fats)

and ill check cyb's tek out. thanks

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Cybs tek really is the truth. Using the same bark with other teks when I first started I had fery disappointing results. Cybs tek cured that. Freeze/thaw before hand too a few times and youll really be rewarded.

If you follow that 100% and still get low yields, then its your bark.

Hi again onesickfreak ,

You really should read the FAQ section and the attitude section whilste you're there ,, it's a no no to talk about suppliers for the safety of the group !!

sorry, you guys run a much tighter ship than some...
i edited it out

A little off topic but would you guys say cybs tek produced a higher yield than q21q21s naphtha tek? I'm talking MHRB by the way. I'm doing a 125g extraction before I go see shpongle and tipper at root wire and although I get great yields from the drytek, I'm certainly interested in the max ion tek

^ Your av is priceles with the space background, makes heavy breathing that much better

I plan on trying the maxion tek for my next go, with acrb though. Not mimosa.