Hey guys,
Its summer and Covid19 is happening so I have a month off an I'm unfortunately staying home for most of it. Because of that I need some things to keep me busy while my GF is at work.

Anyway, after doing a recent extraction I have re-discovered my passion for DMT and I thoughts I'd update my tek. There are a few key things I know I want to do, but as it says at the top of the tek, it's a collaboration of idea from fellow Nexians so I thought I'd reach out for suggestions as well.

So, if you have any suggestions for clarification, additional information, adjustments or what-not let me know.

Also if you just have a question about the tek you can ask it here, it might result in a useful edit as well.

I just finished my update. I re-wrote about 60% of it with my most up-to-date information and updated all the pictures. Still open to suggestions though.

This tek was one of the handful I pored over again and again in the months leading up to my first extractions. I loved the use of colored text when discussing the different spectrums of spice. It is one of the first things that got me interested in jungle spice.

I've had great success with standard A/B method myself. I love it. But maybe one of these days, just for the heck of it, I will try out your tek.

Just one thing. You had mentioned that your stash of acetate went bad overseas. What's up with that? Maybe it doesnt store well this way?

Yeah, I didn't want to take grams of DMT overseas so I just brought a few doses on innocuous machine balls. I at that point I wasn't even smoking, so it took me a year or so to get to making a bong and trying them out. When I did it was like there was just dried gunk that didn't didn't produce any smoke when heated. The average temperature the country I'm in is about 30C and its pretty humid too, the balls were in a sealed glass container (opened a couple times) in a cabinet.

I just dropped 60mg of vinegar tincture DMT on them and let them evaporate. Normally this produces a powerful and easily smokable product so it was totally surprising. It was doubly surprising because in vinegar tinctures and freebase crystals it last years at least.

Right now I have 20mg test balls both evaporated then scraped up and also dropped then left to dry. I'll smoke them at 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 6 months and 1 year and update the tek accordingly.

Hi q21q21

One thing i wanted to be clear on about your tek is that excess vinegar can always be evaporated right ? there is no need to remove it by any other method ? (after the salting step and during freebasing aswell)

@ Jin

Evaporating the vinegar has in my experience been the most reliable method. I am in the minority in preferring this method, but the alternative methods seem to have much larger issue in my opinion.

In my tek I link to the BLAB that recommends salting out DMT-fumarate or DMT-acetate and then converting to freebase with sodium carbonate and using acetone or isopropyl alcohol these processes not only require lots of extra materials, but can lead to HUGE losses of DMT.

https://www.dmt-nexus.me...spx?g=posts&t=11531
This post, which admirable as it is and well written, shows an experienced extractor losing 58% of his DMT in the process! (DMT-acetate is 1.33% the mass of DMT freebase). Any sort of re-crystallization or conversion I've tried has resulted in similar losses as well.

Since evaporation is not a chemical process like freebase conversion, it carries almost no risk of DMT loss (in my experience). The only caveat is the need to smoke DMT-acetate instead of DMT freebase.

I have started a pose to try to compile information about smoking acetates and put everything I know about it here: https://www.dmt-nexus.me...p;m=1066032#post1066032 but I think it asks a lot of questions many people do not know, hence the lack of replies.

Thanks q21q21