Hey guys, been a while since I've been on here and just decided to check in. Someone asked about using xylene for the defat. Very bad idea. The problem here is that spice is soluble to some extent in every solvent in both of its forms. Spice is also an indole which means it is aromatic. This will cause both it's forms to be highly soluble in xylene and toluene, which are both aromatic.

I think some variation of this tek can expose the real potential behind acacia. I believe it to be a very potent source, but the defat step has to be perfected. This has to be done with a solvent that is great at picking up oils but one that does not like the protonated spice. I would think gamsol would be a good one but you never know for sure. I think an alternative route is just to pull everything and then worry about seperation techniques once all the spice is freed from solution. I've been playing with DCM as a cleanup solvent with some success, but I'm finding the best results are coming from my hybrid solvents that incorporate aliphatics and DCM. I plan to keep working on this and will let cyb know what I find. Happy extracting nexians!

CTM

Hmm... so if a yield is more powdery than crystal it's likely to be the NaOH? can anyone confirm or deny this? I need to know before I either dispose of or use the last batch of mine... its white and i thought it was just really fine crystals but could be described as sand or powder...

The oily extracts of Acacia confusa have been shown to be a combination of NMT and DMT. There may be small amounts of oils/fats, but defatting is not necessary with Acacia confusa. IIRC, the oil and fat content of Acacia confusa is comparable to that of Mimosa hostilis, which is to say that for all intents and purposes it is negligible. If you are not satisfied with the DMT/NMT goo (although many members prefer it to crystals), recrystallizing or using ThickLight's tek will yield white DMT crystals which produce effects indistinguishable from DMT extracted from Mimosa hostilis.


It is pretty unlikely that you picked up any sodium hydroxide, unless you were not careful when separating your nonpolar solvent pulls and you pulled some of the bottom aqueous layer along with them. Recrystallizing is much easier than doing a mini-A/B and it is equally effective at removing NaOH and other impurities, if not more so.

Been lots of great info in this thread thus far and will be watching it. Picked up my ACRB and am simmering and reducing away. Much different smelling bark with a much redder color to it, not like the powdery pink/purple of good MHRB. Have friends at other sites as well as here that have had success with this material, so I'm excited and hopeful.

Thanks for the info guys.
I dont really have access to the material required to try and separate nmt/dmt, needless to say, i suspect the extract was predominantly nmt, as it was a very different feel and a lot dmt features (that one experiences with mhrb extraction) were absent.

I did read somewhere, that the afterglow with nmt is a little longer, which may account for why your experience lasted longer skoobysnax?

I like your idea of adding with mhrb extract to see how they work together, but as for working with it on its own, i didnt get a great deal from.

Shall report back when this occurs