Hi friends. I'm darkstarrider, a student of science and engineering, just graduated from school in cambridge mass. I'm so happy to be introducing myself to a community of individuals such as yourselves. I'll keep it short for now: I'm quite an experienced explorer of consciousness but had never experienced DMT and the world that surrounds it. Only recently was I bestowed the gift of extracted dmt & harmala alkaloids. Additionally these last few months have been life changing (life-upgrading) from a bad relationship, getting a job, yada yada. So I was just beginning to get back into biochem and healthy living, etc. Then this gift of chemical bliss.
I gave it a go, during a fast, with some other tryptamines and had a wonderful experience -not breakthrough but wonderful. That experience will be described in a later post...
In any case, over the last couple months since, I have been full throttled into chem/biochem as a hobby with many perspectives - and consciousness altering substances are one such perspective. I have even been keeping a lab book, charts, tests, etc. It feels good to be back in the groove of the chemical symphony.

So I'm excited about life and my brain/mind and my exploration into new learning. And as such, I decided to give my first extraction a go! I chose Harmala Alk extraction from P. Harmala seeds as they are cheap and high yield and as most important: inexpensive to practice with...
So on recommendation from a friend I followed the gibran2 easy caapi extraction tek to the letter. I did it twice. I extracted the freebase.
The first one my yield was 3.3% (2.13g from 65g) and I know exactly where I lost about 1/3 or so my yield. (Initial: 1.5g, secondary: 0.6g). (please ignore my sig figs ;P )
That's why I tried it a second time.
The second time is still in the process but I can tell my yield is MUCH better and I'll update this thread with the initial and final yields tomorrow. As expected I learned some tricks the first time around that came in handy for the second extraction.

I've attached a picture of the freebased harmala alkaloids from the first extraction. I've just given them a try...
@25mg smoke in pipe - earthy taste, dazed, physically sedated. Effective amount. 20-30 min wave. + experience based on previous harmala experiences.
about 45minutes later smoke additional 27mg in jazzy cigarette and again felt a solid +. Slightly different feel smoking it as compared to ingesting it.

Anyway just wanted to give a quick introduction. I love the community and so happy to finally join it! I plan on contributing and learning as much as possible!

More to come but Hello! So much excitement about my first successful extraction!

darkstarrider

By the way - as this is my first extraction, please anyone feel free to comment on how it looks. It's very soft. Which makes sense but just want to get some feedback. Thanks friends!

Warm welcome to the Nexus. I always like to see the demographics of DMT enthusiasts.

Welcome. I am inspired by your results to do a caapi extraction as well. I've had a pound of those seeds sitting around for a few weeks along with a quarter pound of vine. Your extraction results look good. Thanks for posting your experience with tasting the product as well. Dig your name too it reminds me of a song from my favorite band. Again welcome. I'm gonna check out " gibran2 easy caapi extraction tek" NOW!

Looks tasty! I highly recommend smoking some dmt shortly after smoking some of those! and of course, welcome aboard!