I know there are multiple threads, but I want to know if the yellowish tint in my Naphtha pulls are okay. it seems to be depositing crystals already and i am still pulling more from the base solution? any comments would be nice!
its not good but not bad either. you might want to do a couple of recrytalizations after you do your pulls.
sounds good. Is that a common place mistake or is that something you can not avoid? It did not happen to me the last time I extracted, but the yield that i received was not as much as expected from. Thanks for the information.
do more pulls leaving the naptha in the bark a shorter amount of time. rather than 3 or 4 and leaving them in there for a few hours. its not uncommon at all
Looks pretty good, actually. It's gonna turn yellow because of oils, like was said before. It's also probably a decent bit of DMT-N-Oxide, which is nothing to worry about. Recrystallize and you'll be fine.
Everything did turn out very well! after the third recrystallization I has some nice off white crystals. Lost maybe 15% at most, but it is worth it. I also pulled all the yellowish resin and used for an enhanced parsley flake mixture!
I have that problem when I extract my mescaline cactus. I did experiment with using citric acid washes to remove the alkaloids from the powdered plant material. You need to do citric acid washes when you use a seperatory funnel, because the plant material cannot be filtered out of the seperatory funnel. The dried extract was very clean without any oils. The yield seemed small and I still need to test the psychoactivity of the product. I decided I would try to use my original and extremely effective oily extract tek except that after salting to remove alkaloids from the solvant. I would rebasify the collected alkaloids in the salting water where many of the oils transfered in the process of removing alkaloids from the basified solvant. The second solvant extraction should only yield pure alkaloids without any organic plant oils. Salt distilled water using 1drop muratic acid per 1oz for the final salt to make alkaloid HCL. The first salting should use 1tsp citric acid per 6oz. Extracting solvant 3x using 2oz of acidic water per basic solvant pull.
