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The right jar pic are crystals i´ve extracted over the last month and re-x-ed at least three times. The middle one is all from the first two pulls i did during this report. I don´t think they need any cleaning.

The 3d one is the 3rd pull. This one i will re-x once when i get the little jar full.

The right jar is exactly as tall as a normal zippo lighter.

So pretty, the picture mesmerized me. God job Cha. Have you tested the product yet? Interesting to know if it is any difference on the effect between the one you re-x-ed three times and the first two pulls.

See. almost no difference in 3 re-x and no re-x in your product. That's how you know you did a great job. Lol. Enjoy the fruits of your labor!

What you should do now is reabsorb your right most jar into naptha and let it air dry in that jar to form beautiful crystals!

Will do !

I will use the 'rt <-> fridge' method you described in the growing a crystal thread .. where I can't post

Only tried the pure one and that only 4 or 5 times. No breakthroughs .. but nice first steps in hyperspace.

As soon as I've tried the others I might post a report. But then again I might not

Here we go. I still found some impurities in the glass after adding warm naphta. I removed it as good as possible with my eyedropper pipet thing.

Here pics of the saturated naphta before putting it in the fridge and after 15 minutes. It turned milky real quick.

How often should i swith from fridge to room temperature ?

Don't worry about doing the fridge<->rt tek. That was for not wanting to evaporate any naptha. What you want to do is just let that shotglass sit in room temp for many days with your baking sheet papers over the top, rubber banded down with a single hole in the paper til its fully evapped.

That milky white is beautiful. You're going to fall in love with the crystals that form when this is over.

I put some toiletpaper (clean) on the glass and rubber banded it.

This is what it the crystals looked like this morning.

They all cluster in the bottom, so not any single giant crystals forming i think.

edit:
I warmed up the solution again to dissolve the crystals so perhaps they would rather start forming one big crystal in the bottom. Is that wise ? (see small pic)

Yes. DMT has a tendency to form multiple crystals instead of one. But by doing what youjust did you cause the multiple crystals to grow upon each other. You've got great intuition when it comes to this whole process.

I laughed at youur clean TP comment. Haha

Aren't they gorgeous?

Thanks. It seems like the logical way to get them to grow as one.

About the TP .. people seem to re-use as much as possible here .. so i thought i´d point it out

The crystal really are gorgeous .. i spend hours looking at them to see if i can watch them grow. I think i can´t. But i will keep on trying.

Here they are ..

Meanwhile .. i´ve done two pulls of a mimosa batch i got from another supplier. This looks a little cleaner, as the naphta stays a little cleaner.

The second pull was about 4 hours after the first, but for the socond pull i warmed up the jar with soup and naphta in a hot water bath for about an hour. So it was pretty warm when pulled.

It think i got much more of the jimjam things out there. So thats also interesting. Someone mentioned earlier that the only way to get a lot of the plant oils and extras out, was to pull the naphta warm.

See pic.

As i have indeed been falling in love with the crystals, i found it only normal that i take their picture with the good camera.

The crystals turned out to be excellent models and the pictures are magical.

What kind of camera are you using? I'm not sure if I'm just a terrible photographer or have a mediocre camera (likely a combination of both) but I wish I could get some shots like that.

I use a Nikon d700. But it´s mainly the lens that makes these pics possible. For these pics i used a 105mm micro lens. And also i used a tripod .. that´s very important when doing these kinda close-ups.

And thanks

Oh my god those are BEAUTIFUL.

Yes they're my sweethearts

The upper pics look like one bigger angel with a couple of smaller ones hovering in the air around her.

The last pic is my fav.

Have you been promoted to full member yet?

No not yet, but i´m having a lot of fun as newbie. Not to say i´m not hoping the crystals will help me get promoted eventually though.

They are a really nice photo-subjects. They do exactly what i ask. I´m sure many pictures will follow.

I have a question about Changa again. In the awesome thread on Changa, the OP mentions that he first lets Lemon balm sit in his IPA for a while, so the final Changa gets scented with the scent of the lemon balm.

So Ive picked some lemon balm and other herbs and put it in some acetone, as i can't find IPA here. Will that work too ? And do the herbs need to be dried first ? Or will fresh herbs work better ?