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Nachooo
#1321 Posted : 1/15/2023 12:08:18 AM

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Hi all, Have some goo, well better said, like a mix of goo and crystals from my first extractions. I want to convert it to crystal. I wonder if I can add the goo to the paste previously disolving it in the water and after that adding the lime and then continue to mix with the cactus powder.
Thanks in advance

Using the previous goo as a spike for the upcoming paste mix seems like a viable idea to me. However, it will mean that you can't accurately deduce the potency of the cactus powder - unless you do the extraction in two halves, one with the spike and one without. That would then become quite informative. If you weigh the amount of goo that you put in - ideally after having desiccated it - you'll get an impression of the efficacy of the extraction by comparing the yields of the spiked vs unspiked halves.


Well.. I am using powder from same cactus clones that grew under same consdtions...after several extractions I found it always give around 1%...But you are right about doing two halves.

What I am really also interested is about using less solvent if possible...like instead of using 1 litre of EA for about 100 gr dry powder and water...just try to use water "enriched" from a previous tea extraction...or even add resin from another extraction to the paste...

I understand I can reuse the EA..but I would like just to maximize the amount of actives the EA could extract in the 5/6 pulls. I read somewhere that there is a limit.. like 10 gr of mesc in a litre of EA or something similar, but I am not sure.
 

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#1322 Posted : 1/20/2023 10:43:05 AM

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Loveall wrote:

Merkin, while my biggest EA crystals are in that same range (6-8mm), I just remembered that they can be grown larger by dissolving in warm water and letting that evaporate slowly (1 week+). Maybe that is what you saw before? You can use a short cup covered by a cloth or fabric to keep dust out. A cup helps water evaporate even more slowly than a shallow dish. Set the evaporating cup in a place where it will be undisturbed (no walking nearby or open and closing cabinets/doors, that is, avoid acoustic or mechanical vibrations). With some luck and patience you may be able to grow massive white xtals weighing several mg each.

There is not much practicallity to this other than doing it for beauty purposes. Larger xtals could be encased in resin to create a pendant, etc.


Thanks Loveall, I am going to try this. I have quite a bit more material than I can use right now and I would like to grow some crystals just to see the results. I grew some really amazingly large spice crystals (through neglect and evaporation rather than intention) and I don't have the heart to crush and vape them. So I just keep them in a small bottle for show Smile There's just something so satisfying about getting it right.

I am still trying with the fumarate version of CIELO - I always seem to get this central cluster of nice long crystals but in a bed of powder no matter how careful I am not to disturb after salting. I think maybe the same re-x method will work for that too.
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#1323 Posted : 1/25/2023 1:33:45 PM

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This is my second attempt at CIELO tek. The first one turned out well but I had some hiccups due to my citric acid being anhydrous, so I took a little different approach this time.

First I dried 3734g whole fresh cact in drying oven for 24h at 60c

This turned into almost exactly 150g dry cactus




I blend it to powderize.

Then I added around 400ml water and 40g calcium hydroxide, and mixed to get the desired consistency.



I pulled 6x 300ml with ethyl acetate. So a total of 1800ml ethyl acetate pulls.

Then I left it in the fridge overnight.

For my first attempt, I decided instead of adding anhydrous citric acid to the mix (which would not dissolve well and maybe stay as impurity in the precipitated final product), I´d make CASEA (Citric Acid Saturated Ethyl Acetate), and add that to the ethyl acetate pulls with my mescaline.

So when trying to dissolve anhydrous citric acid in ethyl acetate, I added 11.1g anhydrous citric acid in 250ml ethyl acetate. It did not dissolve much at all, even after overnight stirring in a magnetic stirrer and some time in the ultrasonic bath.

So I decided to add water in small amounts until it all dissolved. It took about 5ml water for the citric acid to dissolve completely.

So I added all the 250ml CASEA, and there was immediate cloudying. After 1 hr it looked like this:



Left it 24h crystallizing. Got a total of 1.8g mescaline, 1.2% in citrate yield of beautiful needles.




This was from a random Trichocereus pachanoi I had in my garden which got knocked over during a storm by the aluminium structure of the greenhouse I had set up for them. It had not been left in the dark to increase mesc content. I was not expecting much from this particular cutting so I´m very happy.

Thanks for all of those contributing to this tek Smile

NMR and LC-MS analysis will be done and posted in the next few days.

 
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#1324 Posted : 1/30/2023 2:13:14 PM

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Welcome to the cactus fluffy xtal party endlessness 🥰

I assume you decanted after the fridge and left some stuff behind?

Yes, we have found that anhydrous citric acid has difficulty dissolving in anhydrous EA. Theoretically it should dissolve, but you are right that there seems to be difficulty.

I think the TEK as is will work with anhydrous EA, because after the fridge rest the extract is still ~2% water. Coincidentally, that is what you ended up with CASEA.

Happy the CASEA worked so well ☺️ It could be re-assuring for anyone worrying about undissolved anhydrous citric acid. I don't think there it is an issue, but we do get questions about it from time to time.

Looking forward to lab test results 😀
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#1325 Posted : 1/31/2023 8:33:45 PM

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I have a little air destiller that I have used to provide me almost pure ethanol with addittion of a 3a molecular sieve and I was wondering if I can use it with Ethyl acetate. This device has a temperature controller. I know about the ethyl acetate flammable vapor, but with some caution I think maybe it can be used.

Any thoughs on this? Thanks

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#1326 Posted : 2/1/2023 12:12:55 AM

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Ethyl acetate has a very similar boiling point to that of ethanol. However, it might attack any plastic components so you'd best take a careful look at how your device is built. In your picture I would guess the black bit is ABS and the clear/blue lid of the jug is acrylic. Neither of these would last very long in the proximity of ethyl acetate.

If you can keep your distillate in an ice bath, and avoid the use of that lid, the black plastic cowl around the air intake might be ok, given the airflow keeps the bulk of the EA vapours moving away from it. There should be no plastic at all further downstream than this.

Other factors you might want to nerd out on are comparison of the latent heat of vaporization, the specific heat capacity, the viscosity, and the density of both the liquid and the vapour, for both ethanol and ethyl acetate. For starters, it's easy to tell that the vapour density of ethyl acetate will be nearly twice that of ethanol. Maybe that is slightly advantageous here, in the sense that it will sink away from the plastic.




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#1327 Posted : 2/1/2023 5:02:25 PM

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Ethyl acetate has a very similar boiling point to that of ethanol. However, it might attack any plastic components so you'd best take a careful look at how your device is built. In your picture I would guess the black bit is ABS and the clear/blue lid of the jug is acrylic. Neither of these would last very long in the proximity of ethyl acetate.

If you can keep your distillate in an ice bath, and avoid the use of that lid, the black plastic cowl around the air intake might be ok, given the airflow keeps the bulk of the EA vapours moving away from it. There should be no plastic at all further downstream than this.

Other factors you might want to nerd out on are comparison of the latent heat of vaporization, the specific heat capacity, the viscosity, and the density of both the liquid and the vapour, for both ethanol and ethyl acetate. For starters, it's easy to tell that the vapour density of ethyl acetate will be nearly twice that of ethanol. Maybe that is slightly advantageous here, in the sense that it will sink away from the plastic.


Thanks for the reply, I wont use that jug of course..I never have used it in fact, just glass jars.
Thanks for the idea of ice bath the collected EA to avoid any fumes from it... I could use a peltier device instead ..but just try to avoid more electric components.

The inner chamber and the serpentine are both stainless steel and the EA fumes do no reach any plastic.. The holes of the lid are only the air intake for the fan that cool the serpentine.
 
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#1328 Posted : 2/3/2023 1:59:54 AM

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The large seal ring between the distiller steel bowl and steel lid looks to be silicone from what I saw on amazon, like the kind you'd see on an electric pressure cooker lid. It's pretty thick but that might get some wear and tear with ethyl acetate.
 
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#1329 Posted : 2/3/2023 2:12:05 AM

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The large seal ring between the distiller steel bowl and steel lid looks to be silicone from what I saw on amazon, like the kind you'd see on an electric pressure cooker lid. It's pretty thick but that might get some wear and tear with ethyl acetate.

Yes, that was my main concern, but I read somewhere that EA is not agressive on silicone, at the other hand..in normal alcohol destilation, the first fraction known as head, contains ethyl acetate among other sovents like methanol , so this device is supossed to cope with it...
 
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#1330 Posted : 2/3/2023 6:01:19 AM

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Nachooo wrote:
... but I read somewhere that EA is not agressive on silicone...

Shroombee mentioned using silicone lid gaskets no problem with EA. Even if it does deteriorate to some extent after many uses you can probably get a replacement gasket easily. EA compatible or not, I'm considering getting one of these now Big grin
 
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#1331 Posted : 2/3/2023 11:28:13 AM

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starbob wrote:
Nachooo wrote:
... but I read somewhere that EA is not agressive on silicone...

Shroombee mentioned using silicone lid gaskets no problem with EA. Even if it does deteriorate to some extent after many uses you can probably get a replacement gasket easily. EA compatible or not, I'm considering getting one of these now Big grin

I got mine with a discount for about 70$... Right now the only issue I saw is that the serpentin maybe has to cool a little more if you use temps above 85 C..as EA boils at 78 C . I would not use temps above 85C with EA. And as was mentioned earlier..just some refrigeration in the recover jar and probably I will add to the final dripping tube some more copper or stainless tube in serepentine form, just to reduce the temps a few more. Using it I would recommend check the initial volume and the recovered one, and let always some final volume of EA in the device to avoid it working empty after all EA has been evaporated. Of course lot of caution using this kind of apparatus good ventilation, no flames etc etc..
 
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#1332 Posted : 2/3/2023 2:39:03 PM

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Tried n destillation, and the silicon seal suffered some leaks, so forget about this device..it does not work as expected...
 
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#1333 Posted : 2/12/2023 5:29:18 PM

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Got the biggest xtlas yet. Dime size. Not sure why, happened on resused solvent. Xtalization was slower than usual. Another jar xtalized faster from the same paste and had smaller xtals. They remind me of stars. Same salting. The difference was the solvent source (different reuses).

When the CIELO clouds clear, the stars come out 😉
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#1334 Posted : 2/12/2023 8:32:06 PM

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Wiki has been updated for CIELO:

- Added preliminary NMR results from Endlessness. He has confirmed the monomescaline citrate salt form which we had concluded before with crude kitchen tests. Purity came out to 91% which seems low, so he is repeating the measurent/calculation. There was not water signal, so the salt is not a hydrate.
- Moved alternative salting methods to the appendix, including Endlessness' new CASEA approach
- Other minor updates

Feedback welcome.
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#1335 Posted : 2/13/2023 4:05:50 AM

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Those are beautiful crystals, Loveall Love ! Thanks again for continuously working on this project!
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Those are beautiful crystals, Loveall Love ! Thanks again for continuously working on this project!


My pleasure, it is like St. Peter seeing clouds transform into stars in the sky 😊😉😂🌌

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#1337 Posted : 2/13/2023 4:07:25 PM

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Updated the TEK again with more pictures. Added credits to the images. There are two I may have gotten wrong.

The reagent result was from Merkin?
The succinic result was from _Trip_?

I can't recall, will investigate/verify or correcr later, but if anyone knows for sure please let me know.

Thanks for all the help everyone!
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#1338 Posted : 2/14/2023 2:11:29 PM

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Hey!

So just to clarify a couple of things you could edit the wiki, Loveall.

The NMR results show 93.1% purity for mescaline citrate (48.75% of mescaline base in the sample). The only other detectable signal is water so the other 6.9% could simply be this water (moisture from the air? left overs from water in ethyl acetate that didnt fully evaporate?). The thing is we cannot know with this particular experiment because we used D20 as a solvent and deuterium oxide generally has traces of H2O.

I will repeat the experiment again to give a more accurate result and confirm the final purity.
 
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To see if the water is indeed that contamination you could run the measurement in DMSO, which will also dissolve any salt for sure.

Then the water peak will move from 4,79 ppm (in D2O) to 3,3 ppm (in DMSO). If the peak at 4,79 ppm stays exactly like it then it could be indeed some kind of contamination ... but actually that range is rarely seen as organic molecules more commonly 'populate' the area just above 6+ or below 4- ppm.

To know if it is from the solvent and therefore inside of the sample and therefore either a "water contamination" or maybe complexed water which might always be present you could run a NMR measurement with no sample.

Then you can compare the intensity of the water peak with sample / without sample and then you know if it maybe comes just from the solvent itself. Chances might be still that the Citrate will catch up complexed water, which will then always be present, but if everything is crystalline and otherwise pure I guess that does absolutely nothing bad Love


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Fig. 2a: Cactus life stages. [...]


Cool pictures and I love the last one, showing the dried Cactus powder as one of his Life Stages hehehe Twisted Evil Big grin
 
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Thanks endlessness/BW.

Could there simply be water in the xtaline structure? Could the product simply be monomescaline citrate (mono/di)ydrate?

For example how would the NMR look for mescaline sulfate dihydrate? Can you see a difference between water "contamination" and water as part of the natural salt?
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