|
Some of these posts are very old and might contain outdated information. You may wish to search for newer posts instead.
|
lovepalace
FunGuy
Registered: 05/07/05
Posts: 64
Loc: God's Country
Last seen: 14 years, 4 months
|
Got Crystal ?
#5319814 - 02/20/06 12:36 PM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Extraction has long been an interest to me. Over the last couple months I've been conducting a series of experiments trying to determine the best method. My last extraction was done with 30g. and methanol first soak then ethanol/water second soak (12h/24h). Filtered liquids where combined and placed in the garage to evap under a fan. It's winter now and quite cold. When I checked on it several hours later I noticed that there was a white precipitate falling out of the solution and it had only reduced in volume by about 1/3. It was like it was snowing inside the beaker. I think the cold temps helped to facilitate this. Small crystals where starting to collect on the bottom of the beaker. However after all the solvent was evaporated off I was left with a considerable amount of brown goo. Which came as a surprise even After vacuum filtering through a fine filter paper which was supposed to eliminate the goo. So in a desperate attempt to salvage the extraction I redissolved it in some water/ethanol and placed back in the garage this time without the fan. The goo quickly dissolved in the solution but I noticed a couple crystals that where larger than usual and did not dissolve easily. I was not concerned because I figured they would just act as seed crystals. To my surprise when I checked the next day there where several crystals forming on the bottom of the beaker. over the next several days with slow evaporation they continued to grow into what I have pictured below. Three grams total after drying and very easy to handle. For my next experiment I'm going to try using a piece of these crystals as seed crystals in a new extraction with slow evaporation in cold temps (like making rock candy with sugar water) to see if I can duplicate the results.
Sorry forgot to mention they are the result of 30g. of mushroom powder.
-------------------- Reality is a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there!
Edited by lovepalace (02/20/06 12:55 PM)
|
gdman
badger, badger,badger...
Registered: 12/10/02
Posts: 16,286
Loc: Dancing In the Streets
|
|
Cool, DMT?
-------------------- Got a question about a substance? Erowid might already have your answer! Have questions about the mushroom experience? The Tripper's FAQ may have your answer or someone else might have had your question before. I know up on the top you are seeing great sights, but down at the bottom we, too, should have rights. - Theodor Seuss Geisel Dr. Suess "I didn't come here to be easily understood" - Steve
|
giz
daydreamer
Registered: 02/08/06
Posts: 651
Loc: EU
|
|
nice work, but what are they? you dont mention what kind of crystals they are
|
Linuxman
PsychoactiveResearcher
Registered: 12/29/05
Posts: 113
Last seen: 6 months, 16 days
|
Re: Got Crystal ? [Re: giz]
#5319829 - 02/20/06 12:42 PM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Good lord thats cool!
-------------------- "We can't stop here man, this is bat country" "There is acid in the beer in the red cups"
|
lovepalace
FunGuy
Registered: 05/07/05
Posts: 64
Loc: God's Country
Last seen: 14 years, 4 months
|
|
Psilocybin crystals hopefully!
-------------------- Reality is a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there!
|
thedudenj
Man of the Woods
Registered: 08/18/04
Posts: 14,684
|
|
why are they brown
-------------------- "You all are just puppets... You have no heart...and cannot feel any pain..."" you may think thats pain you feel but you must have a heart to feel true pain and that pain wont be yours
|
Schwip
Never sleeps.
Registered: 06/27/05
Posts: 3,937
Last seen: 11 years, 4 months
|
|
That is fucking awsome!!!!!
in awe great work !
-------------------- -------------------------------- " If the sky were to suddenly open up there would be no law. There would be no rule. There would only be you and your memories... the choices you've made, and the people you've touched. If this world were to end there would only be you and him and no-one else. " .............. "MAN! You know there aint no such thing as left over crack!"
|
Nephlyte
Misfortunate One
Registered: 10/11/05
Posts: 1,025
Loc: South Texas
Last seen: 13 years, 7 months
|
Re: Got Crystal ? [Re: Schwip]
#5320045 - 02/20/06 01:56 PM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Yes, i'm curious too.
Was this extraction of psilocybin?
-------------------- "To do right is to know what you want. Now when you are dissatisfied with yourself it's because you are after something you don't really want. What objects are you proposing to yourself? Are they the objects you really value? If they are not, you are cheating yourself. I don't meant that if you chose to pursue the objects you most value, you will attain them; of course not. Your experience will tell you that. But success in getting after much labor what you really don't care for is the bitterest and most ridiculous failure." -George Santayana
|
Yrtlzmo
Registered: 02/17/04
Posts: 2,623
|
|
.
Edited by Yrtlzmo (02/07/13 03:26 AM)
|
Abrainspot
Stranger
Registered: 01/06/06
Posts: 1,500
Loc: Rewind
|
|
Wow congrads, that is impressive
|
stefan
work in progress
Registered: 04/11/01
Posts: 8,932
Loc: The Netherlands
Last seen: 3 years, 6 months
|
|
nice crystals!
but 3g from 30g of mushrooms... that's 10% --> I wonder what's in those crystals
|
chuck_lanuck
More Strange
Registered: 01/16/06
Posts: 70
Last seen: 17 years, 11 months
|
Re: Got Crystal ? [Re: stefan]
#5320233 - 02/20/06 02:54 PM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
he never said what type of "crystals" he was talking about...
-------------------- We're all mad here.
|
inv3rse
OP-4Warez/0day-warezon Rizon
Registered: 08/26/05
Posts: 312
Loc: Denver, CO
Last seen: 4 years, 2 months
|
Re: Got Crystal ? [Re: stefan]
#5320251 - 02/20/06 03:00 PM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
impressive and ver interesting...
-------------------- "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." "Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a main era - -the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant." Hunter S. Thompson.
|
abrad84
Stranger
Registered: 10/15/05
Posts: 1,128
|
|
Quote:
chuck_lanuck said: he never said what type of "crystals" he was talking about...
Oh really...
Quote:
lovepalace: Psilocybin crystals hopefully!
|
Nephlyte
Misfortunate One
Registered: 10/11/05
Posts: 1,025
Loc: South Texas
Last seen: 13 years, 7 months
|
Re: Got Crystal ? [Re: abrad84]
#5320318 - 02/20/06 03:25 PM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
abrad84 said:
Quote:
chuck_lanuck said: he never said what type of "crystals" he was talking about...
Oh really...
Quote:
lovepalace: Psilocybin crystals hopefully!
Haha, didn't even see that. duh.
-------------------- "To do right is to know what you want. Now when you are dissatisfied with yourself it's because you are after something you don't really want. What objects are you proposing to yourself? Are they the objects you really value? If they are not, you are cheating yourself. I don't meant that if you chose to pursue the objects you most value, you will attain them; of course not. Your experience will tell you that. But success in getting after much labor what you really don't care for is the bitterest and most ridiculous failure." -George Santayana
|
Kingkole
im not a noob...im a a doob
Registered: 11/30/03
Posts: 506
Loc: canadiana
Last seen: 7 years, 3 months
|
|
Cool!
|
Koala Koolio
TTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGG
Registered: 01/07/04
Posts: 7,752
|
Re: Got Crystal ? [Re: Kingkole]
#5320462 - 02/20/06 04:01 PM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Nice, but I too wonder what on earth is in there. I posted a guide from triptamine recently for quality psilocybin crystal extraction using vitamin C. It doesn't really stay stable otherwise. Good luck...
-------------------- You're not like the others. You like the same things I do. Wax paper, boiled football leather... dog breath. We're not hitch-hiking anymore, we're riding!
|
A0999
Disco ish
Registered: 09/27/02
Posts: 3,489
Loc: TEXUS
Last seen: 16 years, 1 month
|
|
um yeah cool n stuff but why did you assume you were going to get crystals w/ just an alcohol extration and evaporating? and filtering is not going to yeild you a pure product free of impurities...
-------------------- Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful
|
EquilibriuM
dream stalker
Registered: 07/17/05
Posts: 2,323
Last seen: 16 years, 9 months
|
Re: Got Crystal ? [Re: A0999]
#5320556 - 02/20/06 04:23 PM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
smoke it and tell us.
-------------------- HELP!!!!!!!!!
|
lovepalace
FunGuy
Registered: 05/07/05
Posts: 64
Loc: God's Country
Last seen: 14 years, 4 months
|
Re: Got Crystal ? [Re: stefan]
#5320589 - 02/20/06 04:31 PM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
For those who are not familiar with alcohol extractions it goes like this .
grind shrooms into a powder and soak in alcohol. [image][/image]
then filter and evaporate off the alcohol to end up with this. [image][/image]
which can then be put into a gel cap or redissolved into alcohol (vodka) and consumed. [image][/image]
The extractions are easy to perform and are effective at removing the alkaloids. However the efficiency and consistency of the final product can vary considerably. The problem is that the alcohol also extracts some other fats and oils from the shrooms which results in a sticky brown tar. This tar makes the crystals hard to work with and the amount of tar varies with each batch. Even with good filtration. Also the crystals appear to be hygroscopic and absorb moisture from the air. so if it is not consumed in a short amount of time or stored in alcohol or a desiccant container it will melt back into a goo and become inactive. Efficiency and storage are why most people don't bother. It takes time and money and the end results can vary. So the idea that I am working on is to somehow remove the tar or the crystals from the solution yielding a purer more stable product. You can see in this picture that the crystals precipitate out of the alcohol easily enough. [image][/image]
this was the remaining water/alcohol after the crystals where removed [image][/image]
which then turned into this [image][/image]
If you look at the crystals in the first post you will see aside from a little brown residue on the some of the crystals they are quite clear. They are not sticky and quite easy to handle.
Now these are obviously not pure that is not the objective. however a reduction from 30 g. to 3.g is a good start. Based on this information 30 g. should contain about .7% psilocybin that would be about 200mg. so my 3g. crystals should be about 7% pure (I think). My 30g. powder would be about 8 3.5g. doses which I know the effects of in both powder and tea form. so if I consume about 375mg. of these crystals hopefully it will have about the same effect. I'll test in the next week. Then I will eat the brown tar and see if anything happens. If I am lucky the crystals will contain all the goodies and the goo will contain none. Time will tell.
-------------------- Reality is a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there!
|
|