Yeah, a micron filter is a really good idea. There are things in your solution which are big enough to hurt you but small enough to get through a piece of cotton. Your body is pretty good at compensating for your stupidity
(our brains have evolved to put the body first and mind later), but it can't hurt to use a good filter. Seriously. They are cheap and the trade off of safety for time/money is so much in your favor that there is no valid reason not to.
And now for the tek I used for the extraction:
this was originally dg420's tek. freespirit (both @ the nook) did some modifications and I used nearly the same method, however, I left out a basifying step - it is not needed and only makes the extraction more complicated and easier to mess up.
This is specifically meant for use with mimosa hostilis root - it probably won't work quite as well for other plant material!
The method shown here is for 100 g plant material. For one kilo of plant material, just move the decimal place one space to the right for all the amounts of water and chemicals.
-100 g root bark material is ground to fine powder and added to a glass or HDPE container
-dH20 is added until the bark is covered and saturated
-4 oz of lye is added to 10 oz of dH20 (aiming on over-doing the base instead of under-doing it)
-base sol'n is added slowly to the bark with stirring
-15 oz vm&p naptha into the bark/lye/dH20 sol'n
-mason jar is closed, rolled/shaken for a minute or so, vented, shaken more, vented, shaken and vented a 3rd time
-mason jar is closed and set in a warm water bath for 30 minutes and opened slightly to vent after heating
-mason jar is closed and the heat is turned up slightly (never beyond a low boil) and left to heat up for another 15 or so minutes, at which point, the emulsion with have separated out and two layers will be seen (if everything has been done correctly)
-a large hdpe syringe is used to separate the top naptha layer, this layer contains yr dmt. put this in a glass container.
-9 or 10 oz naptha is added to the bark and the emulsion/sep is done again - this is done 2x for a total of 3 pulls from the base sol'n
-any black bark gunk is separated from the naptha w/ a sep. funnel (will probably use a hdpe bottle or a ziplock)
-naptha is consolidated and poured into clean mason jar and left to cool @ room temp for a few minutes, moved to fridge for a bit and finally to freezer for overnight precip
-pour naptha and precipitated dmt xtals thru filter and tossed into freezer again for re-precip
-dry xtals and enjoy
a few notes
free spirit said:
as for syphoning, you could use the syringe i guess, but like delsyd mentions, you need to make sure that you dont let it come in contact w/ the rubber part or grease the rubber part.
ive seen people syphon w/ hoses, and i personally just use a big turkey baster. (im simple)
the lye solution is fine. when you add yer lye solution once the mhrb sludge turns from pink to purple, add just a bit more of the lye solution and then stop.
that should be enough water, but if you need to add more, add more. you'll know if the mhrb isnt all wet and uniform. if the sludge is too thick, add more water.
as for venting. i dunno if id go a whole minute w/o venting. be careful on this part or your gonna have a purple ceiling and walls and possibly a serious lye burn.
after your naptha has been rolled around in the solution there should NOT be an emulsion. you should see clear seperation of naptha and mhrb basic sludge. emulsions suck. but there typically arent any w/ this extraction.
u dont need acid.
hot water bath is a great way to heat naptha. vent the jar tho.
i use coffee filters.
for storage, put in a cool dark place. altho ive left it sitting in the coffee filters in a caserole dish on top of a dresser exposed to light, dust, etc.. for months and never noticed a loss of potency.
when yer filtering out the dmt from the naptha on the freeze precip part, it never hurts to let it 'dry' in the freezer (i put the jar it was in upside down in a caserole dish w/ a paper towel or coffee filter in there.) because if there is any naptha around as it warms up, the dmt will start to dissolve back into solution.
enjoy.
I had some difficulty precipitating the DMT out of solution in the freezer (though I was probably just impatient), and so I poured my naptha into a pyrex baking dish and left it to evaporate in a well-ventilated area (fan blowing over the pan out a window), sitting on a heating pad. It took maybe an hour to an hour.5 to evap completely. This will not yield as pure a product as freeze precipitating, but it's fine for smoking.
any questions, comments, additions?
oh yeah - extracted DMT can be more pure than synthed, easily. a SLOW recrystalization could yield nearly 100% pure xtals. If you can get the DMT to crystalize without trapping anything else inside its lattice, you'll be good to go. I'd imagine most vendors sell synthesized DMT only because it has guaranteed yields and nobody would believe that extracted DMT can be ultrapure, purer than a synthed product.
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