So, I've seen several people complain that after doing a small scale Acacia confusa extraction that instead of crystalized DMT they get waxy yellow goo that is difficult to successfully smoke (few people know you have to use a dabber). Anyway, Swim has also gotten these results. He thought the...

Make sure the people you're talking to have worked with acacia before. I'm telling you, the brown stuff on top of your aqueous solution (and under naphtha, if you've already done that) is in fact the plant fat you've been trying to extract. Also, make sure you acidify the water containing the...

Oh, OK. That sounds cool. I just found out there's one step this tek skips though. Shouldn't the water that the A. confusa sits for a day in be acidified to pH 3-4? I haven't been doing that because it's not in the instructions, but the Nexus said that since we're basifying, we should also be...

And a question of my own, if I were to use 50g of A. confusa instead of 20g, should I increase the water or can I let it remain roughly the same or only slightly increased? More importantly, the NaOH is proportional, correct? If I were to use 5-10g per 20g of Acacia, does that mean I should use...

No, dude. You actually should pull that stuff out. That's your fat you've been shaking it for a day for. You use the naphtha to pull it out. You can then separate them later for recycling purposes.

Are you sure? With Mimosa you don't go through this, but in Acacia you have to remove the "chunky brown stuff" (fats). That's the whole point of running the defat. If you leave that stuff in you might as well be doing it for the sole purpose of dirtying your naphtha.

Thank you, both veritus and vibrancy. I'd just like to answer at question that's been confusing some people: If you performed Vibrancy's tek and ended up scraping a yellow goo, then the problem was you immediately took it out of the freezer at the end. You have to set it in the fridge upside...