OK, please somebody point me in the dirrection of a clear natural extraction from chacruna preferably using limonene. I´ve spent weeks searching with no luck and it seems other people are having this problem also. I have the chacruna and im currently makin limonene. Please help, everywhere contradicts everywhere else and its starting to get frustrating. Thanks

Use any standard STB or A/B tek you find around.

BTW, how are you "making" limonene?

Sorry to hijacking your thread amor y paz I just wanted to ask Infundibulum about his signature:



So Google came up with this translation: "as METHO and falls down and muddy, leaning on my two hands and raises"

I am sure its not exactly correct would you mind telling me what is the right translation please ?

Thanks and again sorry for hijacking the thread

how come to ask that just in this thread?

Anyway it means something like "when I fell down and get muddy when drunk, I lean on my hands to stand up."

well I thought any would do it would always be in one

thanks

no more hijacking

i have loads of lemon trees around my house in the jungle so plenty of free lemon peel. Just drying it, blending it and soaking in isopropyl. Then strain and evap. Apparently the stuff thats left is limonene. Just doin a test at the moment. If theres only a tiny yield then ill just buy it but well see

How do you know it is limonene? You primarily need orange peels...also as the isopropyl evaporates so will do most of the terpenes you extract since they are quite volatile compounds.

Now, good luck collecting a total of 10ml of crude citrus terpenes heavily contaminated with fats and oils and wasting a gallon of isopropyl in the end It is always great fun to play around with such stuff, putting your intuition into practise and honing thinking skills, but really, if you want limonene just buy some or order online if not available locally. It is guaranteed cheaper than trying to make your own in quantities sufficient enough to get you through an extraction.

also i dont have scales and the ph paper out here in the jungle dont seem to be much help. it shows up every colour. am i just using it wrong? anyway my question is how do i tell how much sodium hydroxide i should use?