I just finished my first extraction. Everything was looking fine in the freezer. I had crystals on the bottom and sides of the jar and what looked like crystals floating in the naptha. After 8 hours of being in the freezer I pulled the jars out and ran them through the coffee filter, but after the filter dried there was nothing in it. The bottom and sides of the jars looked promising but as soon as I scraped the insides and managed to get it off the spatula I was left basically nothing. Not enough to have any sort of effect. I only used 70 grams of bark because I didnt want to use all of it my first time and mess something up. Is there a reason things went wrong? If someone could help me out Id love to give it another go sometime soon. and also is there a better way to scrape out the jars then with a spatula?

Hey SunEater! I have read many threads about this exact problem and maybe i can give you some good advice. First, make sure you freezer is set to the lowest temperature, and put the jars in a bin of ice. This will make it so your crystals don't dissolve back into solution from warming up. Also, i use a knife to scrape all of the crystals off the sides of the jar and then swish it around before pouring it, this way makes it so you can get the crystals easier and they done dissolve. Next, when you poor the solution through the coffee filter check and see if there are crystals on the filter to begin with just to make sure. If there are crystals then remove the filter and lightly blow on it to help evaporate the naptha because its likely that there was too much naptha and dissolved the crystals on the filter. You should put that same naptha back in the freezer that you used because its likely that the crystals are still in there. Hope this help, good luck!

were you saying scrape the jars before I pour them out? and it's a ml of naptha for every gram used right?

Yeah, thats correct, i scrape as many crystals off first and then pour the naptha. And yes, 1 ml of naptha for every g of root bark however, a if you dont seem to be getting many crystals try using less naptha. Sometimes i only use 75ml of naptha for every 100g of bark. This will allow the solution to be more concentrated with DMT which will make it so more crystals precipitate in the freezer. Let me know how it goes!

Heres what I do.

1) pull the solution in to a tupperware glass tray with snap lid. This is important because scraping from a jar sucks! A nice small flat bottom try is much better!
2) put in the freezer (with freezer on the coldest it can go). Leave in for 12 - 24 hours without going in and fiddling with it. Make sure the lid is on tight.
3) drain the solution slowly and the floating crystals should stay in the bottom. Just pour slow!
4) put the tray back in the freezer (without solution, just christals). It is ok for there to be traces of solution in the tray, just not layer thick. Make sure the cover is off for this part.
5) 20-40 minutes later check the tray. Smell it and see if it smells of solution. If it smells like the good stuff then that is ok. might smell like earthy, leather or funky. Just not like solution.
(a) if it smells ok. Then take out of freezer and cover it with lid. Leave in your house for about 30 minutes. Do not play peek a boo with it. Just leave it or condonsation will form and make your crystals wet.
(b) if it smells like solution still, then leave it longer in the freezer. Then go back to it in about 20 more minutes. After then follow ^^ (a)
6) take lid off and scrape up the crystals and enjoy!

Note: if you are careful when pouring the solution, then you never need a filter. I used a small metal strainer before and that worked fine. I just feel coffee filters can eat up your crystals if you let it get warm. I tried it and it ate mine up, so I will never use it again! Metal strainer worked great and just place back in the freezer with the rest. Then just flip it over and tap it out on a mirror.

Note: the solution you had from the pull when you drained it off, you want to save that and put in a jar for to use for future pulls. Solution never goes bad and you can add them all together in one jar to use for later pulls.

Note: when pulling solution, you NEVER want to get the brown gunk!! If you do get some in there then you need to tip the tray to the side and wipe up the gunk with a tissue. Gunk is your worst enemy!


Hope this helps!

so should all the pulls go in the same glass tupperware then? And also I noticed that a separatory funnel can be made from a ziplock bag, do I pour whats in the jar into the bag and then back into the jar or no?