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Kief Ledger said:
Ever clear extraction?  Seems to do basically the same thing minus the pretty crystals.  Besides I believe psilo is rapidly oxidized when exposed to the air.

I've been wondering what's the max psilocybinin/alcohol ratio(ie:what's the most psilocybin that will dissolve in the least amount of alcohol).  Could one theoriticelly put say a grams with of actives into a drop of ever clear? That would be so epic!

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Cactilove said:
A representative sample of 2 to 10g of dried mushrooms ...100 mL of dilute acetic acid in a 250-mL beaker. The pH is readjusted to pH 4 with glacial acetic acid.

Is there any reason I could not replace the Glacial acetic acid with citric acid?

Dilute acetic acid is the regular vinegar . Adding mushrooms to vinegar doesn't increase the pH that much.The article is in scientific terms assuming the reader has access to a proper lab and chemicals. If the pH raises up when adding the mushrooms, adding extra vinegar will drop the pH. Adding glacial acetic acid will require a few drops, adding vinegar requires a few ml. No big deal.

How about ammonium hydroxide? Can I just use baking powder or washing soda? Any other food safe basifying suggestions?

Sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate , both introduce sodium and carbonate in your mix. Ammonia evaporates easily from the mix while sodium doesn't, therefore using ammonia is a cleaner way of doing it.

Fuck Ether don't have a supplier and certainly don't want to risk making my own. substitutions? Naptha?

Psilocin is much less polar than psilocybin , hence the higher solubility of psilocybin in water . Water is very polar solvent and psilocin is only slightly soluble in water but soluble in acidic water. Since psilocin isn't very polar , will migrate easier into a non-polar solvent than psilocybin.
Diethyl ether boils at 34.6°C , very easy to get rid of it .So is Chloroform if you have access to it or think it's easier to make. Very close as polarity and boiling point . Acetone is miscible with water so no good, toluene boils at 110°C ,not so easy to get rid of, ethyl acetate may be an option but again , it's boiling point is double the BP of Ether.

"The ether is dried over sodium sulfate, filtered, and evaporated under nitrogen with no applied heat." What is this nonsense? Does a kitchen Chemist have the ability to do this? Any ways around it?

This "nonsense" means that ether will contain water 6g per 100 ml from the extraction . You don't want that water to interfere with crystallization , right ?
How to avoid that ? Drop a little bit of sodium sulfate in , let it absorb the water for a bit and then you filter the ether. Now you have a much drier ether to evaporate. 
You don't need much heat to evaporate ether (BP is 34.6 °C , remember ? ) . Holding the flask or the beaker in your hands is enough heat to quickly evaporate ether.
Don't know why it says " with no applied heat, psilocin can be crystallized from boiling water (100°C) .Maybe is just to avoid oxidation ?
The nitrogen is there to avoid oxidation of the psilocin as much as possible . So it is drying under vacuum .


WIll this come out freebase? If so how do I convert back to a salt?

If your work is very clean you may end up with an oily clear substance . Apparently psilocin doesn't crystallize from ether. You can however re-crystallize from boiling water or boiling methanol , dissolve in acidic water of your choice (citric acid , ascorbic acid , HCl ) , evaporate water and keep the salt. 

Any way to easily store the raw crystal as a salt or do I need to keep it in an acidified alcoholic or water solution?

Psilocin degrades very easy within days or weeks depending on conditions . Some say it is best stored under inert gas at -11°C . If that's not possible , vacuum is the next best thing, still at low temp.

I want a way to get pure psilocybin crystal ...
This tek is for psilocin , not for psilocybin. Psilocybin seems to be  much harder to isolate and crystallize. For more than 60 years people are trying to do that and there's no tek available yet. Everyone knows and can give advise , plenty chemist out there but not one concise method for psilocybin . That should tell something to the amateur chemist looking to get the magic crystals.

...in a vial that will last for a good amount of time, feasible for a beginner home chemist? At the very least some liquid in a vile concentrated enough to get one good dose off of an ml of liquid.
preferably a drop. Psilocybin blotter anyone? What if I wanted to shoot it up? ha ha just kidding

Since psilocin is slightly soluble in Ethanol and Vitamin C is soluble in Ethanol at about 33g/ L as an anti oxidant , this may be a method of storing it.
As far as the "drop" thing, I don't think it's going to  happen. Since psilocin is not very polar , it needs a lot of water to dissolve or about the same amount of ethanol . The other , much better solvents like acetone , ether and hexane , are not drinkable.
So there you are. There's no easy way to extract and store the magic, at least not yet.
Cheers

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