Welcome to the Nexus.

Your spice looks very nice and fine for intake and takeoff This thread may help you understand the different "looks" that can come about.

And just re-x (recrystalize) if you're worried about basic soup contamination.
Congrats

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Depending on the quality of your bark, and if you perform your pulls with hot solvent from a hot soup, you may get 1.5 to 2% yield.

I tend to play it safe; if I feel there is one drop on basic solution in my pulls I re-x. The soup is highly caustic, so I can imagine a small amount still doing some potential damage to the lungs and throat. Granted, I tend to be paranoid.

And leaving them together in the soup overnight should be fine

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In my personal experience it is more effective if everything is hot. Hot naphtha grabs more DMT, but when the soup is room temperature, the solvent can reach equilibrium faster, and so grabs less DMT out of the soup.

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From my experience, and simple answer, yes. This thread, starting at post 16, may answer more questions about it as well as what you can do to remedy it/

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Well bear in mind different forms of ingestion of a given thing can have different side-effects, eg ingesting vs vaping/smoking.

And nothing should really happen by just letting it sit. Worst case scenario is you get emulsion, but that can be fixed.

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Your spice does look tasty, congrats!

To avoid soup droplets, i like to pipette the solvent into a glass vessel, let it sit there for a few minutes, then pour it carefully into the evaporation dish. Soup droplets will sink to the bottom of the first vessel and stick there.

The soup droplets are usually really dark though, to me your pics look like you don't have any.

Allow more of the solvent to evaporate and then pop it back in the freezer. I always have a little floating around after freeze precipitation. I tend to allow it to accumulate in my pour off jar of used solvent until there's a decent amount and then will retrieve it.

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Still lookin pretty good.

It tends to have a waxier consistency in some parts as you go on, typically the upper edges of whatever vessel the solvent has been sitting in and evaporating from.

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If you're only retrieving the top layer of solvent, then it should only be DMT.

Root bark can vary in alkaloid content as a result of various factors such as when it was harvested,age, etc.

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As you manage to acquire more through extracting, you may find that that feeling may grow

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With DMT specifically, you could recrystalize, backsalt your solvent, do a mini a/b on a batch that needs to be cleaned up, precipitate larger crystals, or try out other teks

With changa, you could start extracting your own harmalas. There's also experimenting with a plethora of herb combinations.

I'm sure there's stuff I'm missing. Lol I'm tired.

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Dude it looks pretty darn good hey.

Mine always looks like caramel, but tastes like... something horrid.

One million percent know how you feel. There is an enjoyment of extraction many times stronger than consumption.

I find the process sort of alchemical, vicariously putting my mind and spirit through the same process, extracting more purity and magic of self

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