Each time I've tried to extract from ACRB, I see white lumps (rather than crystals). I always have a nagging feeling that it's just the salt or something. Does anyone else get lumps?

Alls I get is a pile of bright yellow naphtha ring around my glassware ,, sick to death of this non active confusa , it seems it's everywhere , bloody highway robbery !!

Which tek are you using? How certain are you that what you have is actually ACRB? Have you dried these white lumps out?

I am using the Max Ion tek. I'm not certain at all that this is ACRB! And, I have not yet dried out the lumps. Previous (and failed) extraction attempts have taught me that these lumps disappear once I decant/evap the remaining naphtha (into clear "nothing" or scraped goo).

Here is a couple photos of my acrb one with flash and one with a lamp..compare..
Your inner material looks a little light in color?
Shouldent it be more red?..or is it just your photo?

That's completely different looking to my bodgy looking crud !!

Well the outer white spots look close.. its just the inner part of bark looks a little lighter;;
Also my bark is in shorter peices...
Yours may be stems which should be good if its acacia...

You're bark is so much more fatter in diameter and mine is I think stem bark , but I don't think it's confusa I think it's a sub species as it only gave a small amount of unactive goo !!

No I'm putting it in whole root , dirt , cigi lighter and all !!

No I blitz mine up in coffee grinder till it's full on powder !! It still has a little bit of fibers here n there but it's pretty fine , almost dusty !!!

I get lumps ,but thats a bunch of chrystals clumped together.
When i have removed the naphta ,and used a fan for ca 20 minutes,the white lumps turn to white fluff when scraped from the pyrexdish.
I belive you should get a new supply of bark...

TT

Now that's a good sight to see !!!

What bark , grams ? and TEK did you use traveling tommy ?

This was acrb,picture from 1 pull from a 75g exracktion. I used cyb`s max ion tek.
Went wery well,i did not measure everything,i pulled 8 times.the last two pulls only gave 40mg of golden goo (not Worth the job).But i got about 2% yeild in totall I`ll be doing only 6 pulls from now,as the tek says.

Yes I like cybs TEKs I was thinking of doing the ATB hybrid salt TEK but throwing a defat in there to get rid of the yellow goo ,, some ppl like it , but it gives me a bloody headache !!

Yes i tried that tek too (the ATB hybrid salt TEK) without the defat step. worked well too.
I have used the same bark all the time ,and have the impression that the max ion tek has a slightly better yeild,and purity. But its fun With diffrent tek`s
I have four diffren colurs of goo from diffrent extractions: black,brown,red and golden...the goo seems to get pulled in the later pulls,i actuall never tried to smoke any of it as i am not sure that it might be some base-stuff still left there? But i once got pinkish spice, i think it was red goo underneath the white fluff that goy scraped upp and mixwed together so it was a little sticky , that dmt had a spesial pleasure to it

Yes they certainly have a life of there own ,, I enjoy smoking it very much but haven't had a really deep visual Experiance yet I'm still under double digit so training wheels still on !!

My "preflight anxiety/fear" i got rid off not long ago, so training Wheels just off here..
good Luck With NeXT extraction.

How long do you do the freeze precipitation?

Nice clean looking lumps..
Still..When ever the crystals melt the turn back to amber goo anyway..dont they..?
Thats why.. [with acacia].[unlike mimosa that is so easy to get crystals from..]
i sometimes dont bother with the extra work ..and just evaporate everything ..because it seems that goo and crystals are one of the same/? arent they?
cxrystals are wearing their dress cloths... goo is just naked..

I freeze 12-18 hours.
The lumps i get are not melting,i take out the naphta and use the fan wery quickly it does not have time to melt,but i dont think it would have melted anyway even if i wasnt in a hurry.
Heres a pickture after removing naphta and finished With the fan(below)...
I never had any chrystals melt here as i have seen. strange
Sometimes there is goo that lays like a very thin layer beneath the x-tals in my pyrex dishes.
so it can be difficult to colleck the x-tals without some sticky-icky..

I save the goo also but havent really tried it yet.

Now you got me interested...!
T.T..what kind of bark are you using with cybs teck?....acacia..or mimosa???????
I ask this because cybs teck is usualy for mimosa bark...
If its working that smoothly for ..[acacia].. ..thats great...
It looks super easy and without doing hours of acid boiling ...
I hate doing 5 hours of acid boiling the acacia bark ..! will cybs teck work for ....
acacia confusa bark???
thanks..