How important is it to use distilled/Di water in this Tek? I just started three 100g batches and only used Di water on two of them because i forgot i needed to use Di water. Lol

Oh, and of course all three batches are mixed up (glass bowls all look the same when they are all the exact same!) Haha

Yooo well it is written in the TEK why it was proposed to used distilled one:

As it does not contain other electrolytes (but will slowly uptake CO2 forming carbonic acid and lowering its pH - dont wonder), it has more power to dissolve other things / drag them out of your bark.

+ deionized water is more likely to flow into the root bark cells and break them upon freezing. Yet I still want to check if this whole Freeze/Thaw process really makes a difference, also if deionized water does it. But as long as there is no test (which I'm aware of) doing this freeze/thaw does not take any big efforts.

If it REALLY makes a difference - I dont know. But as deionized water is pretty cheap, why not just use it?

As you already used regular water - no worries, I guess the majority of everyone uses it, but it is more that you can think that at least at this point you did not loose any efficiency upon using distilled water.

There should be a test to prove that it really improves yield, but just in theory it should do and as it is cheap you may consider it the next times if you want.

I have multiple jugs of distilled water, i just forgot to use it just for yhr freeze/thaw portion of the TEK.

Everything is going fine with these batches, but im noticing a red/orange foam on two of them. Does that mean they aren't based enough?

So at what stage do you have foam on your batch?

And with batch you mean your material inside a container for heating / pulling?

I would say if there is air inside that material (what you get when you put everything in the blender and mix hardcore) then there should be foamy stuff on the surface. Should go away upon heating, but maybe you already heated everything and are past this stage?

In general when the solution is acidic it is more likely a dark red. When it is basic it is just plain black.

Inbetween at ~ pH 6-8 there should be some grey stuff precipitating, but dissolving again when pH gets higher.

So if your solution is really RED when you put a little bit out with a spoon, it could be still acidic.

But of course you could just try it with a pH paper, but I guess you have none if youre asking already ;o