Hi lovely people!
This is my first post and took me a while to post it since i start reading in here.
Well, SWIM has been trying to extract spice for over a month with very little success, till now.
-First one, a friend came home with a kilo of mimosa root bark and the DMT handbook. For the extraction a pound was used, my friend made a huge mess but not spice have been seen and then he left to Colombia.
So i was left with all the stuff and over a pound of root bark, what to do??? nothing at all. One week after that i hosted another friend coming from mexico, with 4 kg of mimosa, 1 was left at home as a gift. SWIM assume it must be a sign from the universe, you must make it!!. SWIM have had several times ayahuasca but never seen crystal dmt and has no idea about chemistry or extractions so SWIM start to study and research. It decided an STB extraction so he try it.
Second extraction, SWIM got goo, SWIM has no problem with goo it seems to be psychoactive but the yield is low.
--between extractions SWIM does homework, SWIM does study--
-Third extraction, SWIM takes much care about the extraction process. SWIM gets goo again and low yield. now SWIM is starting to have problems with goo, crystals are wanted.
-Four extraction, SWIM takes extreme care about the whole process and a carbonate wash has been added. SWIM gets goo again. SWIM start to question his intelligence. SWiM is even embarrass of posting this nonsense.
--SWIM goes to a rainbow gathering and run into a brother that knows about dmt extraction and regularly practice it, he very quickly say to SWIM get another naphta, thats your problem-
-Five extraction, SWIM use zippo lighter fluid as solvent. SWIM gets white pure crystals!! 2.5% yield!! SWIM´s very happy!!
At the end the problem was the solvent and SWIM got stuck with that because he never thought it could be different qualities of naphta, at the end naphta is all he used. First and trouble one it says Naphta 40º-60º (no idea what are those numbers) the second and good one was zippo lighter fluid wich is 10 times more expensive