Lots of ppl requested that i post what i did to get the citrus spice aegle and myself had spoken about, i really dont know how it is any different to what is posted here allready - i kinda just followed the instructions posted by 69Ron then freebased it.

Here is what swim did - btw swim is still on pull 5 - pull 4 yeilded about 220mg of acetate so lots more in there still.

Swim started with 100g MHRB



Chopped it up with scissors



ground it up



added 100g calcium hydroxide - perhaps overkill but im sure its fine



added just enough water to moist it but not make it watery then let it sit for about 10 mins
added about 300ml d-limonene and put it all in a big consol jar - shook it up like mad and let it sit a few times
then filtered it by squeezing it thru a piece of cotton cloth



swim noticed that there was some water in the first squeeze - it was separated from the dlimonene and put aside - swim thinks this tek works better when drier.

about 25ml of vinegar was then added to the d-limonene and shaken like crazy
the vinegar and d-limonene were separated and this process was repeated 2 times - all the vinegar added together and evaporated to yeild a mixed mimosa alkaloid acetate goo



the d-limonene was then put back on the bark and lime mix and pull 2 done while swim continued to convert the acetates to freebase form - to do this swim mixed the goo with 2 parts sodium carbonate and enough water to make it moist



this was then dried to a powder, ground and 3 d-limonene pulls were done on it



the d-limonene was evaporated to yeild



freebase lemon spice - the taste is not bad and the fx are very different to normal spice - its smoother and not as shocking and feels more complete - you can feel the jungle alot. to dose swim decided weighing it was just going to be messy and a good eyeballing was needed so swim put some on a pin and tried 1 drop from a pin - very active - very nice.

swim thinks there is still d-limonene in the spice and wants it to evap for longer before he tries smoking any more - swim is also hoping that it will xtalize somewhat over time.

The total yeild will be calculated after the bark has finished yielding - but second pull was just as big if not bigger than pull 1 and pull 1 was quite reasonable anyway - swim thinks this tek will yeild well over 1.2%


second pull was added to the first then d-limonene was used to see if any kind of separation occured between jungle and spice third pull is in the same picture - see the swims citrus spice color swatches thread.

pull 4 has been added and all mixed up - pull 5 is on its way and the vinegar came off the d-limonene yellow orange so it looks like it still has a lot in there.

after pull 3 swim changed to using this



It is far easier and superior mixing it by hand. The bark and lime is packed in there so hard one would imagine no d-limonene could penetrate it but it pours through in minutes.


sorry for excessive pics

Good stuff ol' chap!

SWIM now has a pyrex casserole lid covered in the honey spice - looks like its as dry as its gonna get. He's looking forward to trying it out very soon!! Will be his first ever pure experience

okay so swim decided his is as dry as its gonna get too - have a look






swim is sticking it in a box of dessicant and will scrape it up to store later.

The dessicant seemed to have helped, its dried now even more - it is no longer able to drip from the blade to the plate and needs to actually be scraped up, the dlimonene smell is still there but not as noticable anymore. swim told me he put it in the freezer - ready for appropriate disposal where legal.

what are you using as a dessicant? and how exactly are you using it?

just a dessicant tub(silica jel - for kitties) as for drying edible fungus - with the spice layed out flat on a dish

ahh i see

That is beautiful. Before the (new) Nexus, people were considering the end-product goo (or "earwax" ) as a failure and something that needs to be somehow corrected or refined. It is nice to see this is changing as people now appreciate the goo for being a beautiful totally smokeable and powerful mix of alkaloids from MHRB. Plus, SWIM's friend dislikes recrystallisation for getting ultra-white spice and he finds it pointless.

Hooray for the GOO!!!!!

swim is and isnt happy with the goo - smoking it is lovely but its not nice to store and handle - slowly but surely its getting more solid.
the weight of the spice in the pic is now 460mg - lots more pulls to do.

The pics were great! It's so useful to see what the heck is going on. Thanks for making the effort to share all this, Phlux.

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I think I saw a much earlier post somewhere about adding some cellulose to thicken and make manageable. Perhaps even some arrowroot. It is a sauce thickener for cooking. It can be found in the 'spice' section of your local grocer. I live in the US but I would think it could be found anywhere. It is supposed to thicken while not affecting taste.

Shot in the dark.


Anyway,

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beautiful, phlux!

thanks a lot, this is a great contribution!

SWIM is just waiting for the right situation to make his first natural extraction, and these pics help him answering some questions he had about the process.



(edit: just noticed this was an older thread which I've missed when I was traveling... great stuff nonetheless )