Hi all. Could really use some solid advice on a San Pedro reduction gone bad. It was the first reduction from a boil of citric acid & pedro. I wanted to bring it down pretty far just out of convenience and the fact that my sep funnel is only a liter. Ph was/is about 3.5 and I got to it just in time to see most of the moisture bubbling through a black tar. I quickly threw a large amount of water into it and then attempted to reboil for awhile. The normal green/darker green color is gone, of course. All black. "Darkness, everybody, Darkness!" Since I wouldn't have reached a temperature to burn or lose the citrate salt, can anyone recommend where to proceed from here to save what I have & continue on with the extraction? For now, I'm stashing & saving that headache & mess(c) & going to work with the secondary & tertiary boils. Thanks so much for any help, links, or info you can provide. It's good to be here, digable planets.
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Might as well try to extract, you got nothing to lose.... I bet you`d still get something out of it.. Maybe keep that separate from second and third boils and extract separately.

Thank you. I plan to. To all of that. Nothing to lose but a little time and some precurs, yeah. I'll update this post when I do with results. I can't be the only person on this rock that has let a reduction get away from them. I'd still be happy to hear any additional feedback/intput from anyone out there who has a solution (pun noted) or answer to this and can tell me if it's a waste of time or not. Godspeed, space monkeys.
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