2 questions!

What is a suitable container to do larger extractions, around 300g-500g mimosa... right now i've only been extracting 50g mimosa at a time using 2L glass jars, would like to take an extraction on a larger scale.

also

I have an old jar of mimosa with a layer of CLOUDY naptha on top that has been sitting in my closet for 7 months soaking. Will there still be DMT in this naptha? Everytime i try to pull it, it is almost indistinguishable from the mimosa in my pipette and doesn't seperate easily like fresh naptha in a fresh extraction. Any ideas about this old mixture? Should i just toss it out or is there a wealth of DMT ready to be taken from it.

Thanks

Pull it and give it a wash with sodium carbonate (or maybe 2 or 3 washes). Then freeze or evaporate it and see what ya get!

Pokey

SWIM likes the giant jars of pickles sold at many grocery stores.
These jars are probably around 2 gallons in size. Look around, you'll find em.

He puts the pickles in another container & boom, he has a suitable container for an
extraction of up to 500g mimosa.

You're talking about 50g mimosa per 2l....
That's a 1:40 ratio!
You can easily do 1:10 (200g mimosa per 2000ml water.)

If you're a "trooper" (or dumb, it just depends) like SWIM, you can cut it down as far as 1:5-1:8...
Just expect a bit of difficulty in separating the naptha from the water/mimosa.

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As for the cloudy naptha ...
Trying adding more lye, if that's what you're using.
The solution may not be basified enough.
If that's not the case, the cloudy naptha MAY contain a good amount of DMT.
If adding more lye doesn't work, just freeze-precip the naptha and see what falls out.

1) a gallon milk jug

2) Sitting so long you have pulled plant oils from the bark into your solvent layer. There is likely some DMT, and you can still freeze precip, but with the amount of oil you are describing it might not be worth it. (I would try anyway tbh)

Confucius was doing a huge amount of extractions last month and jumped right into it using giant Sunny D bottles. They're of the 2 HDPE type, which by confucius' logic is the same grade of plastic used to store lye, and thus equivalently safe. We've talked about the dangers of extractions in plastic and while he isn't naive about using glass, the situation wasn't something to have an issue over.

There's some literature here I haven't read regarding extractions and plastic, but I haven't had time to read it. (read: it's lost somewhere under a bunch of papers)