Morninggloryseed
Bluelight Crew
For what it is worth, I do think air and moisture are the real culprits...not so sure about light as I've always had em stored in the dark...but many samples of 4-substituted tryptamines (some as the base, some as fumarate salt) have been stored at times outside of ideal conditions, but always in sealed glass vials, and some have darkened with age, some considerably so, but none ever went gooey and all that I've resampled over the years don't seem any less potent than before. And some psilocin fumarate has never been taken from a plastic baggie, has hardly spent any time in cold conditions, and is going to be highly missed when the sample is depleted. Well, being a hobbyist mycologist was a lot of fun, I am sure it still is.
Air, moisture, and light are the real killers. I had an 8 year old sample that began to turn a rusty brown colour about 6 years prior. The vial was wrapped in parafilm and stored in about 300g of silica to prevent hydration, then placed in a locked cabinet at room temperature. Since then the sample shows little more degradation.
4-AcO-DET, by contrast, is much less stable and is still showing a little progressive degradation in the same conditions. I haven't run a TLC, but I suspect the purity is still pretty high in both cases.
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