I've smoked brown goo with no issue lol that being said I'm pretty good at getting white xtals consistently and definitely prefer them. However, in my experience the impurities present in more colorful spice are actually harmless alkaloids contained in the plant (especially with acacia confusa) and actually serve to potentiate the experience. A girl I'm quite fond of agrees that the dark spice is stronger and lasts longer. Sometimes I like to pack some yellow spice in my pipe and put white powder on top and melt it all together before I hit it. This is a sublime elixir but definitely increases the risk of insectoid encounters. I'm not a professional chemist but IME dark spice is perfectly safe to smoke and just results from the presence of plant fats or betacarbolines

Here's what I'm looking at now. This is the second batch of naptha, the first was yellow like this. Whole lotta brown hanging out down there in the basified water. First pull is drying, I'm just going to combine a few and then pour one last one by itself to determine if I'm still getting anything out. I think I solved what my problem was using your guy's help, the faq and hindsight. Only results will tell but once it's all dried I'll post a pic and let you know where I think I screwed up.

Hey guys check this out. While waiting for the first pull to evap (crystals are already forming) I went to stir what is still in the measuring cup and noticed this sitting right where the naptha/waterline is. Could these be dmt coming together because the naptha is so concentrated?

Now I'm seeing something new. There is a layer of something on the water that when I stir spins in the naptha section. It looks like the oil the appears on chicken noodle soup when you warm it. Also, a white residue is forming on the spout from where I poured it and on the knife I'm stirring with. I think that's a good sign. What do you think the chicken broth stuff is?

Is this a picture of the cleaning process? If yes then you had a lot of plant material/base soup in your product
The goo on the knife and between the layers is not dmt crashing out but dmt that didn't dissolve in the first place. You should put it in freshly boiled water and stir untill nothing is dissolving anymore..

I was kind of worried about that because my last pull of naptha was still cloudy and it was the last of what I had. I'm going to run to the store now and grab some more. This is what I was left with in my evap tray this morning. That looks a whole lot better, but I wonder if it needs to be cleaned again.

The last pull just left some film on the bottom of the evap dish so I guess I didn't need to run to the store for naptha but I'll end up using it so no big deal. My crop now has no smell. No floral, naptha, sneaker etc. no smell at all.

It's hitting me right now, the realization I'm actually going to vape this stuff and I'm a little nervous. Will it do nothing, or everything? I don't have a mg scale so I'm not real sure how to do the sandwich method with any accuracy but I do plan on dilluting 1 gram into 4ml of e-juice and dripping my Limitless Plus. I hear that works rather well.

In all my reading I've come to the conclusion that this works similar to salvia and can grab you by the ninnys and throw you around a bit. I'm about as informed as one can get (reasonably speaking) with plain leaf salvia, extracts and tincs as I've gone through an unestimatable amount of pounds in my day. It's been awhile since I've been in the boat of not knowing what to expect and it's kind of exciting. Hopefully God will be with me on this one. Do you guys remember your first time? I'm not sure how many drops to put on my coils so I'll start with 2 drops per coil, 2 coils puts me @ 4 drops of solution.

Here's another question for you guys. I tried brewing up some Ayahuasca, 7 grams mhrb and 50 grams "red" caapi. Lightly boiled until reduced 3 times, collected the pour offs and reduced them to a cup. Drank, watched the clock, and blew chunks at about an hour in. The effects I got were subtle but notecable. Some closed eye activity was apparent but I ended up dosing off.

When I woke up my entire body felt like your head does when it lays on your pillow just right and your pillow cradles your head so perfectly you don't want to move. You knkw what I'm talking about? I've never heard that described in a trip report before but it definately wasn't placebo.

I thought it might be due to weak mhrb that I didn't get more effects but now that I've done this rather sloppy extraction I can gauge my bark at around the average 1.5% so it's not that. Aside from splitting up the caapi/root bark boils and drinking the caapi about 20 mins before the rb do you have any suggestions to get full effects?

One weird thing when I drank the brew was that when I tasted it I got the feeling like I'd done it before. I've never drank it before but I swear it was so familiar like watching a movie you've forgotten about and then remembering where you were when you watched it as a kid. It's a pretty distinct taste so I doubt I'm getting it mixed up with some other sort of tea. It probably is what it is, but I thought that was pretty strange.

*edit - Oh yeah, where I think I screwed up on the extraction. I said I was doing the Lazyman tek but I was actually doing a tek based off the Lazyman Tek and since reading the suggested ly/water/bark ratio in the FAQ I found out I was just a tad light on my lye measurement. Whether or not that's actually what the problem was I don't know but when cleaning I used the ratios suggested in the FAQ and the results speak for themselves. The good news is I have a better idea of what to do if I need to fix anything in the future so I have some back up plans in my arsenal incase anything goes wacky from here on out. I want to try it with ACRB now and see if I can pull off the defat step and from there start trying freeze precipitation and actually come up with a crystal worthy of posting in the "just some crystals" thread. That thread is insane.

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N/m.. plans changed.

Can you not erase pictures once posted?

Just wanted to post this incase anyone was interested. This is the results of the first pull off my second extraction using the adjusted bark/water/lye recommendations in the FAQ. This looks much better right off the bat even though there's not much in there. 100 grams of bark. It makes me think my first batch needs to be further cleaned as well. Making progress.

Something just hit me, now that I have this I can just encapsulate it and drink the caapi by itself then take the capesule. I'll have to find out how many mg's are suggested.

No your lye measurement is fine. I think half your problem is that you're only using 600ml of distilled water. When I do a STB extraction I use 1500ml for 100g of mimosa bark. Most people like to use klean strip vm&p naphtha. Always test your naphtha.....

I switched it up too 1,500 ml per the FAQ's recommendations and what's showing up now is pure white little crystal mounds. I should have come here sooner than I did as it seems you guys have it all figured out. I'm sure glad I didn't get impatient and smoke that origional brown stuff, I bet that would have knocked off a few brain cells.

Are there any alternatives to naptha? Where I'm at it only comes in little cans and they have big cans of things like acetone for a lot cheaper. I hear different solvents mentioned but haven't ironed out what's good for what just yet. If I could switch over to one of the solvents that comes in a big can that would save some cash and ease my mind about carring out multiple cans of naptha. I have a tray about 20-30 minutes away from being evaporated so I'll show you what you guys helped me get too. Also since I switched ratios the knife I use to stir with gets these crystal designs on it that are pretty wild looking.

I'll consider it a win when I get to post in the "just some crystals" thread. Those are so beautiful it would almost be a shame to smoke them.