Just want to share what happened, i dont think it will be a problem in the end it just surprised me.

I was working with my selective naptha and collected my pulls. Then I saw that a realy tiny speck of the soup was in the container.
No problem I would just evaporate and then change it to the freezing container. I decided to put the naphtha container near the window with a stocking for keeping out dust so some evap could start. Some hours later I noticed the naphtha was not clear any more. It has a pink hue to it.

So it seems the droplet dissolved in the naphtha. the container was left for 12 hours and it looked normal but after a few hours in the sun the color changed.
I guess I will have a kind of pink spice when I will freeze it. Maybe I can rid of the pink with a re-x.

Why would a droplet in the soup dissolve and leach in to the naphtha ??

The more extractions I do the more I learn but also more strange things happen.

maybe some other non-polar pigment came across with the mimosa remains. Maybe the mimosa stayed as small suspended droplets that seem to make the naphtha pink? maybe its some weird impurity from plastic you were using or from impure naphtha or god knows what.

You can just salt it out with vinegar, discard naphtha, add base, repull, washing and freezing, to clean up well whatever you have

Many maybees, but your right I am not sure what happened.
But it seems somehow small particals of mimosa got in to the naptha.

I decanted the hot nahptha in another container and there is mimosa residu in the first beaker.
This residu cant be dmt because the naptha is hot.
Still the naphta in the new container has a hue.

Are you shure about the continuation for this batch ?
Why not freeze and re-ex it ?

Do you think I can not get it seprerated with re-x ?

I got a couple specks in one of my pulls and it gave all of the spice a kind of red-ish tint. I just went ahead and scraped it, was planning on just adding it in with the rest of mine and doing a re-x but now I'm wondering if that's not the best idea.

yeah you can freeze and re-x... Its just that a re-a/b is more thorough and since the source of impurity is unknown in your case, it would be more sure to get it out. But you can try a re-x and see what comes out. You could also divide it in half, and do half normal freeze and re-x, and half re-a/b, and then you let us know how it compares

I will do a re-x and re a/b and report.


The reside in the left container was scraped. It was red.
I am quite shure the hue is caused by tiny particles of mimosa.
The vinigar MHRB used was the last from a big bottle and thats where those particles collected

I just dont understand why these particles where not vissible in the nahptha.
Only after all was collected and 12 hours later it suddenly got this hue.

I dont use plastics in my extractions and the nahptha is of good quality.