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mardybum
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SWIM has just started his first extraction, using the DMT Quicktek as guidelines. Because he has never read, heard or seen anyone who has used Acacia bark in the Quicktek, it is purely experimentation.
Atm, SWIM has two extractions ‘running’. One on 4-500g of Acacia Maidenii/Acacia Obtusifolia phyllodes, and another on 200g of Acacia Maidenii bark.
According to the Quicktek, bark does not need to be added to acidified water as it can be directly deffated beforehand. The DMT in the bark is in salt form already, thus defatting will extract the alkaloids (fat), but not the salts (DMT).
So, SWIM ground up the bark and put it directly into his warm solvent. He let the bark sit in this solvent overnight, then poured out the solvent and added new warmed solvent to the bark. He again let it sit overnight and this time after pouring out the solvent, let the bark dry. Then he put it back into new warmed solvent where it is sitting right now. After the bark has sat in this solvent overnight, he will add it to basified water and let this mixture sit for a few days. Then he will do the normal solvent pulls and evaps on this basified mixture.
The phyllodes on the other hand, were subject to SWIMs foolish impulsiveness. He didn’t bother defatting the phyllodes but instead added them straight into basified water. He now realises how fatty his final product is going to be after he does his solvent pulls on this mixture. He is having trouble here. SWIM thinks, he will do 3 pulls on this mixture, and freeze precipitate these pulls. Once crystals have formed, he will run the solvent through coffee filters to collect the crystals. Will this work? Will clean crystals still form when the solvent is quite fatty? Then, assuming this works, he will evap the left over solvent which drained through the filter, obviously getting some sort of fatty or oily goo. With this goo, he is thinking of either recrystallising it OR running it through the normal acid base extraction so he can defat it after he’s put it into acidified water. What is best suggested? He is leaning towards re-extracting with the a-b.
SWIM thankyou’s for any help, and apologizes for any foolish mistakes he may of made in his first extraction. Any help or suggestions are extremely welcome and much appreciated.
Atm, SWIM has two extractions ‘running’. One on 4-500g of Acacia Maidenii/Acacia Obtusifolia phyllodes, and another on 200g of Acacia Maidenii bark.
According to the Quicktek, bark does not need to be added to acidified water as it can be directly deffated beforehand. The DMT in the bark is in salt form already, thus defatting will extract the alkaloids (fat), but not the salts (DMT).
So, SWIM ground up the bark and put it directly into his warm solvent. He let the bark sit in this solvent overnight, then poured out the solvent and added new warmed solvent to the bark. He again let it sit overnight and this time after pouring out the solvent, let the bark dry. Then he put it back into new warmed solvent where it is sitting right now. After the bark has sat in this solvent overnight, he will add it to basified water and let this mixture sit for a few days. Then he will do the normal solvent pulls and evaps on this basified mixture.
The phyllodes on the other hand, were subject to SWIMs foolish impulsiveness. He didn’t bother defatting the phyllodes but instead added them straight into basified water. He now realises how fatty his final product is going to be after he does his solvent pulls on this mixture. He is having trouble here. SWIM thinks, he will do 3 pulls on this mixture, and freeze precipitate these pulls. Once crystals have formed, he will run the solvent through coffee filters to collect the crystals. Will this work? Will clean crystals still form when the solvent is quite fatty? Then, assuming this works, he will evap the left over solvent which drained through the filter, obviously getting some sort of fatty or oily goo. With this goo, he is thinking of either recrystallising it OR running it through the normal acid base extraction so he can defat it after he’s put it into acidified water. What is best suggested? He is leaning towards re-extracting with the a-b.
SWIM thankyou’s for any help, and apologizes for any foolish mistakes he may of made in his first extraction. Any help or suggestions are extremely welcome and much appreciated.
