what a mess. between ddealing wiht the tao and the mre general method. i wish i never grinded the seeds to a powder, what a freking sludge mess. THEN I noticed it said you dont have to fliter right away but wait. i had some cone coffee filters handy where i am but have NO idea what "easily pass through coffee filter means. i used th herb percolator. had the damn filter rip open from saturation. i finally decides that this had got to be good enough it still was milky but passed though the coffee filter after seval cotton filter jokes..(getting pissed as i write this) anyway how the HELL do you make a sodium carb solution? i use A+H super washing soda. tryed like hell to dissolve soda in water,,smashing it wiht fingers. I added that to the filters stuff and let sit over night had a gunk at bottom. pour off most of stuff. it was too light to decant rest of solution too floaty. so i put vinager AND fumaric acid in..its got slightly darker but not much added more vinagar..when i swish it makes bubble sounds..GDAM..did it react or still base? I never did geta white milky effect like pics form s carb water. i treye to flter but thoughthat might be the goods that havent rected even though i smell vinagar. hot bathed and added 40g of salt to 300 ml sloution let cool and looks like the same mess that was alkaloids before the vingar..no needles...there is both fumaric and vinagar though in that. the solution i deep red on top which is different then other colors. I really wihs i made a vacuum filtrataion unit. i dont know wahat to do next. plan on saving everything and guess i will try to get the floaty crap that does not seem to shine like needles... crapi really should of got my lazy ass to buy mormal coffee filter since i didnt bring them from my place to friends house the cone ones suck and fall apart at seam