Alright, I finally managed to finish an A. colubrina extraction. I came out with a small pile of a waxy yellow crystalline substance that has the potent odor of trytamines. The appearance is consistent with pictures of pure 5-HO-DMT that I have seen on Erowid and other sites. But I wasn't really expecting something quite so sticky and waxy. I really didn't know what to expect, as I have never seen pure bufotenine and I have found limited info online regarding the consistency and appearance. Is this to be expected? It isn't extremely sticky, not like a paste or oil, but I still am wondering what the best way to store it would be. Any ideas on storage methods for sticky extracts? Any insights or thoughts are greatly appreciated.

Sounds good if u got it this clean

So you did FASA, then what? How did you convert to freebase? Did you do any further purification?

As for storage, I guess a glass vial in the fridge/freezer is good. As with everything, storage is always better when cold, dark and dry.

it smells like indole?

Weird. Mine never smelled like indole. All the bufotenine crystals I had smelled kind of like burnt coffee..the way 69ron always described it smelling.

Maybe because you toasted the seeds and it carried some of the smell ? I think toasting seeds is not necessary if one works with FASA and so on.

I didn't toast them when I was doing FASI.

Interesting...

To be honest I really don't remember what bufotenine smelled like.. Once i extract again I'll pay attention to it

Endlessness, I did your method using FASA: Mixed 1:1 sodium carbonate with fumerates, dried, pulled with ethyl acetate 3x, combined pulls and evaporated but yielded a pretty dark and very oily substance. So from there I borrowed the purification step from the No-Smell Tek, by dissolving this oily stuff in 10ml acetone, adding 40mL VM&P NAPHTHA to crash out any impurities, siphoned off solvent and evaporated, leaving .449g sticky, yellowish 5-HO-DMT (hopefully). I will post a bioassay report once my theobromine powder arrives in the mail, since I feel more comfortable using a vasodilator for the first go-round. Thank you for all of your help!

I have read from a few select sources that small amounts of N,N can sometimes be found in A. colubrina seeds, but I haven't found any solid evidence... Perhaps that could explain the smell?