I just grew some absolutely gorgeous Acacia confusa crystals that I’m pretty proud of...
The trick to monster crystals is this.
Use the first pull of each step (you can do additional pills later for lower grade), for the acidic water extraction do it for 24-48 hours at room temperature with occasional agitation, for the naphtha pull don’t use too much heat (this takes practice) or agitation.
Wash the naptha with a 5% bicarbonate solution that has also been pre-heated to avoid cooling the naphtha solution and prematurely precipitating the DMT.
Then recrystallize as normal. Once your pour off the naphtha if you notice some yellow globules try to manually separate them at this point via spatula/toothpick/whatever.
Scrape out the DMT and air dry. Now get some fresh naptha heating up, once warm maintain its warmth while you drip this onto your DMT. The actual DMT will dissolve much quicker than the yellow oils, keep dripping in and swirling until your satisfied then quickly pour it off into a TALL AND SKINNY container.
The tall and skinny part is important, it allows for larger crystals to form over wide flat containers.
Now the next part can go one of two ways...
The easy way is to leave this container at room temperature for 4-8 hours, fridge for 4-8 hours and freezer for 6-12 hours. The slower the better.
OR if you want crystals you that’ll make your friends shit themselves..
Find a way for the temperature in the container to slowly fluctuate between warm and cold, usually a garage in colder seasons works well. Talking temperatures ranging from 50-60F day and 30-40F night. If you can’t do this, try doing room temperature during the day, and fridge at night.
For a month switch the flask from room temp to fridge, this will essentially cause lots of recrystallizations to happen each time slowly creating better more defined shards.
In the end recrystallization depends on a lot of factors and if it isn’t done right it won’t clean up much, takes some practice doing right.
Multiple re-x’s can be worth it if you want insane beauty.
Acacia can produce better crystals if the right stuff is sourced, NMT is easier to clean out than the yellow oils often found in Mimosa.
The best crystals I’ve grown either grow in long needle like globes that look like sea urchins (sometimes these crystals grow longer than an inch but break easily) or hexagonal/blocky shards.
-GC