Hello everyone,
Sorry for all the questions; I was the bright guy who dropped his ph paper in his solution yesterday. It was my first extraction, using Cyb's Salt tek guide, using 50g MHRB and 50ml Heptane per pull (did 5 in total). Did a lot of heat baths, swirled everything for way longer than was said in the guide (entire process took almost 11 hours!) and generally took my sweet time with it. I combined all the pulls into the same container and put it in the freezer for 18 hours. (btw, found my ph paper when I got rid of the MHRB sludge!)
Now I quickly poured my heptane into another container so it could chill in the freezer for a bit longer but I was eager to see how much crystal I got. The crystals in the container were very sticky but there was a nice amount. The container looked like this when it was out of the freezer for a minute or so:
Did my best to scrape everything out with a spoon (don't have any classic razorblades around, heh) which was quite challenging since, again, it was rather sticky. After scraping everything together it did look quite nice though and had that distinctive DMT smell. Collected everything in a small baggy which now looks like this:
The entire batch measured to be
0.984 grams! Now I'm kinda scratching my head over this; I was expecting somewhere around the 0.6 level, especially since I didn't have the patience to not disturb the container for a longer period of time (say, 48 hours). Now did I get very lucky with my tek + I had a good source of MHRB? Or did I pull a -lot- of fats in my extraction? I might want to re-crystallize but saw in the FAQ that people usually do that using.. heptane; which I already used on my initial pull. Would re-X'ing using heptane do me any good? Did I get such a yellow/oily substance (which doesn't stick to my baggy by the way, it seems it got.. less sticky when I removed it from the container?) since I used a lot of heat/warmth during the pulls? What would you guys recommend to do next? Just take it for a smoke and see what happens or make sure my product is pure as can be?
Thanks in advance!
-remy
(edit: disclaimer: in my culture, "I" is something we use to name our pet Iguanas. Personally I don't have anything to do with extraction teks or anything relating to mind altering substances. My iguana has problems with his ethernet adapter and asked me to speak in his stead)
(edit 2: my pet iguana tells me he has nothing to do with this extraction but says his pet mushroom (not a psilocybin cubensis btw) asked for advice regarding the extraction since the mushroom had issues with his Linux installation, just FYI)