My friend is really having troubles with extracting dmt and he would love any amount of help in any way, shape, or form because he's struggled his way through 3 extractions, now being the 4th and even though he had slightly traceable success the first time due to a different method, he's really getting disappointed with all the effort and work he's put towards trying to work an efficient and lye-less way of producing and even his dreams are telling him something in his ways must be seperated. He wasn't sure where to add this thread because he doesn't know what the problem is, so without further ado, here's a concise rundown of what he's done so far:


Mixed ATB

1. Filled tupperware with 950g ACRB (blended into pieces no bigger than a thumbnail) and 2L distilled and acidified water (1 1/2 tsp citric acid per 4L).
2. Nuked twice, 1 minute break in between 1 minute MAE's (Microwave assisted extraction).
3. Boiled 4 times, 90 minutes each time, strained out with a shirt.
4. Split into 2 separate extraction vessels and inflated both to 3L per glass jar, so 6L total in 2 jars.
5. Implemented Cyb's Max ion tek (I believe it's from this tek) step by adding 450g non-iodized salt to balance the distribution ratio (partition coefficient).
6. Attempted to use sodium carbonate (bicarbonate put in oven in excess of an hour), however after using more than 150g (why so much?) to bring the pH up to a mild 10.4, I broke down and used about 50g of lye roughly to push it up to 11.7 or 11.8.
7. Used 5 roughly 400ml xylene pulls and an experimental acetone pull of about the same volume after leaving vessel in hot water bath for long enough to warm contents. Pulls were added to vessel and vessel was turned more slowly than swiftly a full 360 degrees sideways/up&down 6-10 times on average. Very minimal to no impurity or soup in most of the final 6 jars.
8. Final 6 jars salted with roughly 100-140ml FASA total (heated to take in at least the required 309mg/100ml) at a rate of 10ml every 10 min using a 1ml glass syringe.
9. What is left after 16 hours (I know, slightly less than alotted because I'm quick to assume failure at this point) is honestly negligible lol. I mean some have sizeable piles of flakes in them at best, but it's not looking very optimistic on its own right now


*He can't confirm this is A. Confusa personally, but he did a 500g extraction and did yield enough to confirm it was a dmt-containing plant. He isn't sure how much the saturated solvent should cloud upon disturbing the surface because he's never seen a perceivable difference between a 50g-extraction's saturated solvents or the latter, but there was slight to mild clouding upon blowing on and salting the xylene/acetone, only enough to steal a glance for affirmation.

He assumed that since the distribution ratio was adjusted by the non-iodized salt, the xylene/acetone would then be strong enough to pull the freebased dmt out of the bark and deliver it safely into his jars, however, although highly unsuccessful, the xylene was slightly, but noticably more effectual than the acetone. He also knows he should have tried this on a 100g extraction first, but because of his lack of spare time, he needed to be able to use the opportunity he obtained to have some for a long while following now. But any help is so much obliged, he's really hoping he doesn't have to use DCM and he knows sunflower oil and lime/limonene can be used, however he prefers using the solvents because they seem quicker/easier/possibly better (someone tell me if I'm wrong and sunflower oil or lime/limonene is better at pulling because I'm not close-minded ). Many thanks for any help anyone may offer!