IGNVS said:
thats what i want my crystals to look like, can you ask him what method he uses in recrystalization?
That is a very big subject with him. He has told me a little about it before I didn’t understand most of it because I don’t know anything about chemistry and crystal formations. But I will try to tell the basic technique he uses.
He is an old hippy he learned how to extract DMT in the 70s on a commune. He has his own property now at 10,000 ft elevation in the mountains. On his property he has a tool shed that is where he grows his crystals outside so he depends on the weather for the right conditions.
He does regular pulls with naphtha and puts them in jars and keeps the inside at room temperature until the weather is right. He says if it is too cold and windy that the crystals won’t grow well or if it is too warm they won’t grow well either. He waits for a low pressure slow moving storms in the spring and fall. He has lived in those mountains for a while so he knows the weather well. He likes it to get to about 40F degrees in the day and drop to just below freezing in the night.
When the weather is right he takes the jars of naphtha to the shed and pours them in to the evap pans that are level and leaves a small air flow in the shed (I asked him if the shed could blow up from the fumes and he said he’s not sure but he brings his favorite chainsaw in when he does this).
The pans are filled about an inch deep the next morning the crystals have started to form. Depending on the weather when about a ¼ or1/3 of the naphtha has evaporated and the crystals have started to form good he puts a slice of cardboard under one side of the pan so one side is a little higher and one side is a little lower then the rest of the pan.
When the conditions are good the yellow oil in the naphtha will slowly start to go to the lowest corner. So the DMT collects on the crystal formations and the oil goes to the low corner. When there is only a little yellow oily naphtha left in the corner he pours it out and is left with clean crystals and no oil. I asked him if there is any DMT stuck in the oily solvent and he said he has evaporated it and never found more the 10mgs so he just throws it out. The evaporation is controlled by the weather and the airflow in the shed. But he says the weather system controls all of it and he just adjusts the airflow to that. He says it take anywhere from 3-4 days to 6-7 days to grow good crystals.
It is a nice method because it gets nice pure crystals right from the first evaporation. But it is not something you could do in an apartment.
This is about all I understand of the process he talks a lot a lot humidity and barometric pressure, weather systems and crystal structures, which I don’t understand. When you ask him about growing crystals he will go on about it for a long time and talk about a lot of stuff but I usually get lost in the conversation. One of these days I am going to get a book on crystal formation and try to learn a little more and go talk to him some more about it.
He is an old school hippy and is very superstitious about crystals he believes that when a crystal is growing it absorbs the energy from the atmosphere. He never mixes the different crystals together so he has jars and vials of different crystals grown in different weather systems it is very beautiful to look at.
He makes really good DMT crystals, he only makes enough for himself and a few friends and family but it is always a treat to get some of his crystals.