So for about a year I had been in an environment that made it quite difficult to extract without attention.

Just recently, I relocated to a new, extraction friendly environment. Having not done an extraction for a while, I decided to REMOVED, AGAIN... (< Dear mods, I can honestly swear that part was not removed the first time )

The first batch yielded about 0.5% white xtals. I thought it might be a bad batch so I got another one, which yielded slightly less, maybe 0.4%, also white xtals.

I'm pretty sure my extraction methodology was as good or perhaps even better than what it was last year. Back then, I got yields of ~2% DMT/NMT mixture goop.

Has anyone else experienced this?

I think it would be hard to say exactly...when I extract goo from ACRB using Limonene, I get 2% easily (Mix of all alkaloids). But if I am going for a purer product, it is generally around 1-1.5% of DMT crystals and a little wax. Most recently, I got a 1.1% from 100g powdered ACRB. 0.853 on the first 4 pulls. The remaining 3 pulls yielded 301mg totaling 1154mg or 1.15g.

I am thinking of pulling with limonene a couple times on the base soup just to see what is in there still, but I am unsure if I will be able to get around to that this time, unfortunately. The ACRB I have generally seems to be about a 50/50 mix of DMT/NMT + other alkaloids. (Note: This is just a general observation based on bioassay. I do not own any equipment that would reveal the precise alkaloid profiles)

Maybe your bark has a different ratio of alkaloids, like 60/40 or 70/30...? So for me, it has stayed relatively the same in the past two years or so.

What style of tek do you prefer?

The last batch of ACRB I extracted gave me <0.4% compared to >1.3% with MHRB. I'm sticking with MH for the moment until I can get a guaranteed better REMOVED for the AC.

This thread is so heavily redacted it lookalike the response to a FOIA request.

My original post had two big red "REMOVED" thingys before I erased them.
I'm pretty sure there was another reply on here that got completely removed.
It seems like just the word "source" in almost any context will be removed.

mods y u do dis

I use ATB pretty much all the time. Little heat, lots of time.

I've had nothing but problems with every batch of acrb I've tried to work with . Nothing but disappointment. Not to mention high maintenance extraction . Not at all what worked for mhrb.

Yields with acrb were very weak to completely inactive.

Really, that is strange...I've had decent luck with random vendors here and there. I guess it depends on what you are looking for in your final product. I have never had less than a 1% of pretty pure DMT from any Acacia I've ever come across...Maybe it is me...?

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That seems to be the rule - you can't use the S-word.

Maybe mods can confirm

I`m on the same boat called 'low quality acrb(hawaiian)'.

There is 'No Discussion' of sourcing anything (drug/bark wise) but legal live plants, legal viable seeds.
That means no writing it anywhere on the Nexus where a discussion can take place...it's quite simple.

Redactions are there for you (and everyone else) to see where the infractions take place.

Thanks Cyb. That's pretty clear

The first batch I got was powdered and was getting less than 0.3%. Because it was my first xtraction attempt I wasn't 100% sure if it was my method or the quality. I worked with it several times and was 99.99% sure that my method was sound.

The second ever batch, that I recently finished my first extract on, was from a different place and came in actually pieces of root bark. I harvested almost 1% on the first pull and anticipate more is in there yet.

So I guess there are bunk ones and good ones. I imagine as it becomes more "known" there will be people out there selling what ever quality stuff they can get their hands on to cash in one the "demand".