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Crystals
    #27150008 - 01/15/21 03:58 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

I'm not sure if this belongs here or in chemistry.

But a while back I had the idea to try to extract crystals from my spent substrate.
I soaked an unknown amount of sub in everclear. I let it sit for about a week before straining.
I got pretty busy with life and threw this solution in the freezer and forgot about it. I'm now revisiting it months later.

So I took this....

To cook of the alcohol.


The result looks like this...



So now I'm curious if these are active?

My goal was to minimize waste and just to play around.

Was I successful?

I haven't tried any and I'm not even sure I will, I just like to learn.

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Re: Crystals [Re: 6ixShooter] * 1
    #27150031 - 01/15/21 04:19 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

semi-active possibly, crystals are just mainly salts though.

i.e: i too have made crystals

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Re: Crystals [Re: xXxM1NG0xXx]
    #27150039 - 01/15/21 04:25 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Cool, I'm slightly apprehensive as I'm unsure how to Even dose these, or what I even made for that matter.
A friend of mine is teaching me organic chemistry rn so I'm just expiramenting lol it's fun.

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Re: Crystals [Re: 6ixShooter] * 2
    #27152167 - 01/16/21 08:53 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

Salt and sugar.


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Re: Crystals [Re: Nichrome] * 1
    #27159304 - 01/20/21 11:02 AM (3 years, 3 months ago)

I did it with a half ounce of dry cubes in everclear, boiled a couple times, soaked for 3 days, shook occasionally, filtered. I didn't evaporate it down, but after an hour in the freezer lot's of crystals precipitated out, floating in the solution. I put a scoop of vitamin c in it to slow oxidization and I just shook it up to distribute crystals then measure out a dose with a syringe, put that bitch in a fruit smoothie. The everclear soothes the nerves for the come up depending on the potency and amount you drink for your dose. That shit was very active for at least a month. I think you likely lose most of the potency when you evap.
Edit: This was very helpful to me: http://www.fanaticus.com/mycoalki.htm. Nichrome I like the new profile image


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Re: Crystals [Re: Vinci]
    #27159703 - 01/20/21 02:26 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

Cool, I may try this with the b+ I'm harvesting.

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Re: Crystals [Re: Vinci]
    #27179521 - 01/31/21 02:38 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

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I did it with a half ounce of dry cubes in everclear, boiled a couple times, soaked for 3 days, shook occasionally, filtered. I didn't evaporate it down, but after an hour in the freezer lot's of crystals precipitated out, floating in the solution. I put a scoop of vitamin c in it to slow oxidization and I just shook it up to distribute crystals then measure out a dose with a syringe, put that bitch in a fruit smoothie. The everclear soothes the nerves for the come up depending on the potency and amount you drink for your dose. That shit was very active for at least a month. I think you likely lose most of the potency when you evap.
Edit: This was very helpful to me: http://www.fanaticus.com/mycoalki.htm. Nichrome I like the new profile image




Would not be floating. More likey that what you saw was a starch precipitation as opposed to alkaloids. Alkaloids were likely in the alcoholic solution but not falling my out as crystals.

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Re: Crystals [Re: 6ixShooter]
    #27179537 - 01/31/21 02:54 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

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xXxM1NG0xXx said:
semi-active possibly, crystals are just mainly salts though.

i.e: i too have made crystals



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I'm not sure if this belongs here or in chemistry.

But a while back I had the idea to try to extract crystals from my spent substrate.
I soaked an unknown amount of sub in everclear. I let it sit for about a week before straining.
I got pretty busy with life and threw this solution in the freezer and forgot about it. I'm now revisiting it months later.

So I took this....

To cook of the alcohol.


The result looks like this...



So now I'm curious if these are active?

My goal was to minimize waste and just to play around.

Was I successful?

I haven't tried any and I'm not even sure I will, I just like to learn.




Not likely psilo alkaloids. What type of sub did you extract from?;I will bet that what you have is starch. Not a clear enough pic to tell, but from what you have described, and from my own experience I would think that that is starch.

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Re: Crystals [Re: Cyonic]
    #27179557 - 01/31/21 03:10 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

Brf and I pitched them and chalked it up as a learning experience. I had fun with it.

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Re: Crystals [Re: 6ixShooter] * 1
    #27179775 - 01/31/21 06:05 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

Psilocybin has to be extracted cold or it with oxidize in the water, then you can vacuum evaporate cold with a vacuum pump.
The temperature should be as cold as possible. Ive done it at 10 degrees with no oxidation, at 30 degrees it immediately turns the water blue. This is the cascading blue reaction 💙, if it turns blue thats Psilocybin turning into molecules that resemble Indigo and should be avoided.

For storage, I think freeze drying the crystals with liquid nitrogen would be ideal.

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Re: Crystals [Re: Omnipositive]
    #27179940 - 01/31/21 08:20 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

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Psilocybin has to be extracted cold or it with oxidize in the water, then you can vacuum evaporate cold with a vacuum pump.
The temperature should be as cold as possible. Ive done it at 10 degrees with no oxidation, at 30 degrees it immediately turns the water blue. This is the cascading blue reaction 💙, if it turns blue thats Psilocybin turning into molecules that resemble Indigo and should be avoided.

For storage, I think freeze drying the crystals with liquid nitrogen would be ideal.




Thanks bro that's pretty sweet. I was un aware of this method.
I wanna see that indigo reaction but that would mean I did it wrong.
Vacuum filter.. so like a vacuum buchner funnel?
I have a few projects going on RN but I may try this method.

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Re: Crystals [Re: 6ixShooter]
    #27192808 - 02/07/21 11:59 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

I was wrong about the vaccum filtration, kinda.

You will have to freeze dry the final extract.

Has to be frozen to -58 to -112 degrees F. then pull negative pressure. This causes sublimation, turns the frozen h20 directly to water vapor.

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Re: Crystals [Re: 6ixShooter] * 1
    #27192821 - 02/08/21 12:08 AM (3 years, 3 months ago)

I pulled vacuum with a 2 stage vacuum pump, I used to use to make wax. The water bubbles and looks like it's boiling but its not.

I'm going to keep my eyes open on the university supply stores for something like this.

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Re: Crystals [Re: Omnipositive]
    #27195736 - 02/09/21 03:11 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

Lmk how it goes. I'm waiting on some fiji to colonize.
I'm about to cultivate some enigma, I'm thinking these will be worth trying.

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Re: Crystals [Re: 6ixShooter] * 2
    #27196416 - 02/09/21 09:43 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

That is SUGAR!!! Mushrooms are high in sugar,  an alcohol extraction will pull the sugar out into the alcohol and once cooled the sugar will precipitate and form crystals,  the actives are still in the alcohol. There is a little more to it to get psilocybin or psilocin crystals.  It will need to be properly filtered for one to remove the impurities.


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Re: Crystals [Re: 6ixShooter]
    #27333897 - 06/03/21 01:44 PM (2 years, 11 months ago)

ethanol extraction. Crystal of the gods. sugar's aren't necessarily bad. just understand how to use them. from what I understand psilocybin and Psilocin aren't super stable when exposed to air. might be better locked up in a trehalose crystal structure like this

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Re: Crystals [Re: DINKLB3RG]
    #27334056 - 06/03/21 04:41 PM (2 years, 11 months ago)

Tested?


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Re: Crystals [Re: Vinci]
    #27334909 - 06/04/21 07:31 AM (2 years, 11 months ago)

Oakland is getting a sample for legit analytics. But I can say for certain its active. I can fit about 1/8th equivalent of actives into a size 0 capsule.


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Re: Crystals [Re: DINKLB3RG]
    #27336492 - 06/05/21 04:08 PM (2 years, 11 months ago)

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ethanol extraction. Crystal of the gods. sugar's aren't necessarily bad. just understand how to use them. from what I understand psilocybin and Psilocin aren't super stable when exposed to air. might be better locked up in a trehalose crystal structure like this




It's a complex process and can't be done with ethanol alone,  you have to be able to strip the halogen from it in order to get crystals. Here's an excerpt from Albert Hoffman on the subject.

1. A PROCESS FOR OBTAINING THE PSYCHOTROPICALLY ACITVE COMPOUNDS PSILOCYBING AND PSILOCIN, WHICH COMPRISES EXTRACTING THE ACTIVE PRINCIPLES FROM FUNGAL MATERIAL OF ONE OF THE SPECIES PSILOCYBE MEXICANA HEIM, STROPHARIA CUBENSIS EARLE, PSILOCYBE SEMPERVIVA HEIM AND CAILLEUX, PSILOCYBE CAERULESCENS MURRILL VAR. MAZATECORUM HEIM, PSILOCYBE ZAPOTECORUM HEIM, PSILOCYBE AZTECORUM HEIM AND PSILOCYBE CAERULESCENS MURRIL VAR NIGRIPES HEIM, BY MEANS OF THE EXTRACTANT ACTION ON SAID MATERIAL OF A WATERMISCIBLE ORGANIC SOLVENT FOR SUCH ACTIVE PRINCIPLES SAID SOLVENT BEING SELECTED FROM THEGROUP CONSISTING OF WATER, LOWER ALIPHATIC ALCOHOL, AND A MIXTURE OF WATER AND LOWER ALIPHATIC ALCOHOL, SEVERALLY ISOLATING THE ACTIVE PRINCIPLES FROM THE RESULTING EXTRACT, AND TREATING THE SO-OBTAINED MATERIAL WITH A SILVER IONS-YIELDING HALOGEN-ACCEPTOR AND THUS FREEING THE MATERIAL OF HALOGEN, WHEREBY THE COMPOUNDS PSILOCYBIN AND PSILOCIN AND OBTAINED


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Re: Crystals [Re: Doc9151]
    #27338647 - 06/07/21 09:19 AM (2 years, 11 months ago)

Solvent was the same as described. (wet ethanol)


The ISOLATE won't crystallize if you don't manipulate it. That's correct.

this is a trehalose+active structure. I think this would be classified as an extract not an isolate. (This was done with nothing but 180 proof)

I've had luck crystallizing out of AB extraction. anyhydrous methanol/ethanol work for ReX

The Isolate crystals are translucent and needle like.

also just read something on an 80/20 acetone mix with water. if anything I feel like that would clean it up the most. allowing the sugars to stay in solution with the water. while actives drop out in cold acetone.


also a large portion of the Hoffman paper. I went out and searched it. describes chromatography methods for isolation. only mentioning halogen preventing the crystalization.

if you need an isolate the chances are you're going to try vaping it. I would fill a cart and not need a crystalline isolate.


science does update from time to time. solvent rated membranes are fun.

Hoffman's experimental:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US3183172A/en

I've also had crystals precip out of the alkanes after preforming A/B on extract. however I recommend finding a better NP solvent for your pulls and then use the tane to clean up

I want to try a couple things for further clean up.
I would like to try sublimination as well as a Straight To Base process. I just haven't gotten around to it yet


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Re: Crystals [Re: DINKLB3RG]
    #27340036 - 06/08/21 10:34 AM (2 years, 11 months ago)

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Solvent was the same as described. (wet ethanol)


The ISOLATE won't crystallize if you don't manipulate it. That's correct.

this is a trehalose+active structure. I think this would be classified as an extract not an isolate. (This was done with nothing but 180 proof)

I've had luck crystallizing out of AB extraction. anyhydrous methanol/ethanol work for ReX

The Isolate crystals are translucent and needle like.

also just read something on an 80/20 acetone mix with water. if anything I feel like that would clean it up the most. allowing the sugars to stay in solution with the water. while actives drop out in cold acetone.


also a large portion of the Hoffman paper. I went out and searched it. describes chromatography methods for isolation. only mentioning halogen preventing the crystalization.

if you need an isolate the chances are you're going to try vaping it. I would fill a cart and not need a crystalline isolate.


science does update from time to time. solvent rated membranes are fun.

Hoffman's experimental:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US3183172A/en

I've also had crystals precip out of the alkanes after preforming A/B on extract. however I recommend finding a better NP solvent for your pulls and then use the tane to clean up

I want to try a couple things for further clean up.
I would like to try sublimination as well as a Straight To Base process. I just haven't gotten around to it yet



Damn! Didn't expect to read this from a new account. Cheers brotha. Is your sig image pans or small cubes on the left?


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Re: Crystals [Re: Vinci]
    #27340171 - 06/08/21 12:06 PM (2 years, 11 months ago)

it's a smaller cubensis var. AA+ iso I worked on. it got crazy good flushes.


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Re: Crystals [Re: DINKLB3RG]
    #27341135 - 06/09/21 05:54 AM (2 years, 11 months ago)

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Solvent was the same as described. (wet ethanol)


The ISOLATE won't crystallize if you don't manipulate it. That's correct.

this is a trehalose+active structure. I think this would be classified as an extract not an isolate. (This was done with nothing but 180 proof)

I've had luck crystallizing out of AB extraction. anyhydrous methanol/ethanol work for ReX

The Isolate crystals are translucent and needle like.

also just read something on an 80/20 acetone mix with water. if anything I feel like that would clean it up the most. allowing the sugars to stay in solution with the water. while actives drop out in cold acetone.


also a large portion of the Hoffman paper. I went out and searched it. describes chromatography methods for isolation. only mentioning halogen preventing the crystalization.

if you need an isolate the chances are you're going to try vaping it. I would fill a cart and not need a crystalline isolate.


science does update from time to time. solvent rated membranes are fun.

Hoffman's experimental:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US3183172A/en

I've also had crystals precip out of the alkanes after preforming A/B on extract. however I recommend finding a better NP solvent for your pulls and then use the tane to clean up

I want to try a couple things for further clean up.
I would like to try sublimination as well as a Straight To Base process. I just haven't gotten around to it yet





This is amazing info! Ive looked long ago into getting the actives down to crystal fork but all I could find was people saying it's inactive starches, so there is a way after! Thank you for sharing brother! Please  be updating us!

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Re: Crystals [Re: EnDelfisE]
    #27347135 - 06/13/21 06:57 PM (2 years, 10 months ago)

There is a tek for extracting psilocin at thenook

4 hour process if I remember correctly.


Psilocin is soluble in acetic acid. I believe methanol is involved.

Freebase psilocin, (4OH-DMT) Clcan be smoked for nnDMT like experience which shouldn't be too surprising. It's more potent than nnDMT.  Only takes around 40mg for a average sized adult male where as nnDMT is more like 70mg.

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Re: Crystals [Re: Cyonic]
    #27347908 - 06/14/21 12:37 PM (2 years, 10 months ago)

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Re: Crystals [Re: Cyonic]
    #27348837 - 06/15/21 06:52 AM (2 years, 10 months ago)

Yea a typical alcoholic extract might contain small amounts of alkaloids and this is what the "crystals of the gods" people were perhaps excited about cause the tincture might have worked but I can't imagine they did the maths on the precipitate.
I think it is known to contain a bunch of sugars and proteins as impurities.

Still working on it but my plan is to use methanol for the extraction but do it totally anhydrous, and finalize with a solvent purification step but not sure if crystals can be expected. Might also involve artful recrystallization but seems to me what we are talking about avoiding is mostly doing column chromatography which I do recall Hofmann using, the "halogen" stuff aside.

Anyway thanks, will certainly look into the acetic acid thing but are proteins and sugars really not soluble in that, when the acetic acid concentration is high enough? Because aqueous acetic acid is a suitable solvent if you purify it anyway later but that's not what I think we are talking about.

Checking that out further and the claim does look quite nice about the purity but it seems strange to me that it works, I wonder if the sugars are primarily poly- and oligosaccharides and thats why the solubility in chloroform is so poor.

You would need to have the psilocybin converted to psilocin if the chloroform (or i suppose xylene) is to dissolve it but luckily the acid should do that conversion.

If this works like it says it seems preferable over what i had planned.

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Re: Crystals [Re: Solipsis]
    #27348974 - 06/15/21 08:57 AM (2 years, 10 months ago)

use of acetic acid aids in the dephosphorylation of the ethanol extract.

you can even wet your etoh with vinegar. as long as your pH is around 4 you'll have total conversion of Psilocybin into Psilocin


acetic acid is usually used as the A in AB, or for salting the final freebase to be bioavailable.

it's nice because when it evaporates it doesn't leave a crystalline solid like citric acid would.

however. it's only an acid to assist with the compounds transferring to the aqueous layer during AB.


also I highly recommend only using ethanol if you're making a food safe product. or if you're attempting to vape

I doubt anyone here has capabilities for residual solvent testing for methanol. just be safe is all.

thought anhydrous methanol doesn't work well like anhydrous ethanol, no?


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Re: Crystals [Re: DINKLB3RG]
    #27355197 - 06/19/21 01:08 PM (2 years, 10 months ago)

I've looked at this a couple more times and started planning, it's a quite nice method as a basis. But there are a couple of things I don't understand or might try/change:

- Why not heat with a waterbath during the extractions/pulls but heat it afterwards - only for the filtration? Does extracting hot maybe co-extract the wrong things?
- It seems to be forgotten to be mentioned to include the ascorbic acid in the second pull.
- It's not that the freebase wouldn't be bioavailable (orally that is) since it just gets salted in your stomach and the muriatic acid salt seems fine to me, but it would be considerably less stable, you sometimes see salts like fumarates for synthetic 4-substituted tryptamines. I suppose tartrate should also be pretty good and actually the citrate doesn't seem like a bad idea to me. In this method ascorbic acid is also suggested as a stabilizer, it is unclear if it works so well because the alternative they had was the unstable freebase, or because it is an anti-oxidant, or both... but you do not have to evaporate any excess if you only do it stoichiometrically. Not sure if thats the idea behind the 50 mg and 50 mg, maybe that could be more precise, actually based on molar weight.
- What is (fb) psilocin insoluble in, lol? Cause it would be interesting to do some simple tests on the ascorbic acid combined product, supposedly the ascorbate, would like to see how weak of a base psilocin is (otherwise as a zwitterion, the binding / relationship becomes puzzling to me).
- Don't worry about a drop of residual methanol, look up how many mL you can drink each day without even reaching the toxicity limit - in other words, amounts not even close to what can fit in about 15-30 mg of crystalline product, but far beyond. Be safe but also realize toxicity is a matter of dosage and not a blanket statement about a compound. You need to know what you are doing though, don't stop worrying about it before that but after :wink: Maybe you don't like the idea of ingesting methanol but you can get methanol into your body as a result of eating, drinking and metabolizing random compounds and your body is capable of dealing with a certain amount just fine - same for many other things that would be considered toxins if it would really get out of hand.

I think I wanna add a bit more glassware before I go ahead with this, although a small test quantity not really a reason to wait with that tho i have my chloroform elsewhere. Was thinking about getting some xylene for some reason I forgot already (maybe also cause of red jungle spice), however chloroform is much easier to evap and can actually be distilled over for the most part to recover it, using a waterbath unlike xylene with its high boiling point.
To add the chloroform/xylene, maybe its cool to use a dropper funnel and just put a separatory funnel until a dropper is acquired. A soxhlet seems overkill for this and may actually not be such a good idea, which brings me full circle to question 1.

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Re: Crystals [Re: Solipsis]
    #27356193 - 06/20/21 08:51 AM (2 years, 10 months ago)

This seems like a lot a lot of work? Who isn’t happy with just eating a fresh or or making a cup of tea?  Well maybe cuz now mushies are legal in Oakland they will be like weed. All the good weed will disappear and we get oils and goo! Maybe they do the same with the mushrooms?

It seems like an ez dose pill would be good. Has any heard of those pills that are supposedly psilocybin. Idk dude was calling them instant shrooms in Tucson when I was a kid. I think it was some kind of synthetic mescaline or 2cb. Idk that pill was crazy, kicked in within ten minutes and I lost track of everything time stood still and I was thinking I was the one who had to fix it!  I’m totally not qualified for that job, fixing the time space continuum. Ha ha. Well looks like mission accomplished!

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    #27357409 - 06/21/21 10:41 AM (2 years, 10 months ago)

The cubensis experience is far from a pure psilocin/psilocbin experience. If you eat a pan, you get less mushroom and more psilocybin/psilocin, and the experience is much less body based. I'd say it's a cleaner feeling. This could have to do with other actives (baeocystin, norbaeocytin, aeruginascin, norpsilocin, ß-carbolines) being less present in the pans, or maybe even more.. So I'd say it's very worth exploring the each component of the experience separately.


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    #27358203 - 06/21/21 09:18 PM (2 years, 10 months ago)

A friend in Germany made these recently from fruits of Psilocybe cubensis.  The solvent was methanol and HPLC was used for purification.  Crystalized with acetone.


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    #27358239 - 06/21/21 09:55 PM (2 years, 10 months ago)

Cool. That seems very reasonable.  I have only had a few normal cubes so far. Plenty of em but nothing special. Bi just got a few different exotic types to try and check out. So I’m excited to see what your talking about.

I wish it was as easy to make some psilocybin crystals as it is to stand on a hair straightener and get wax!

I gave my cousin some mushrooms and he told me he smoked them. I was like” I think it’s a different kind of mushrooms people smoke and I think it’s also just the skin or veil of it.

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Re: Crystals [Re: Enjoil]
    #27361140 - 06/24/21 06:29 AM (2 years, 10 months ago)

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This seems like a lot a lot of work? Who isn’t happy with just eating a fresh or or making a cup of tea?  Well maybe cuz now mushies are legal in Oakland they will be like weed. All the good weed will disappear and we get oils and goo! Maybe they do the same with the mushrooms?

It seems like an ez dose pill would be good. Has any heard of those pills that are supposedly psilocybin. Idk dude was calling them instant shrooms in Tucson when I was a kid. I think it was some kind of synthetic mescaline or 2cb. Idk that pill was crazy, kicked in within ten minutes and I lost track of everything time stood still and I was thinking I was the one who had to fix it!  I’m totally not qualified for that job, fixing the time space continuum. Ha ha. Well looks like mission accomplished!




you can fit a 3g equivalent dose in a size 0 capsules.

however. you can fit even more of a dose in a gummy.


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Re: Crystals [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #27361145 - 06/24/21 06:37 AM (2 years, 10 months ago)

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A friend in Germany made these recently from fruits of Psilocybe cubensis.  The solvent was methanol and HPLC was used for purification.  Crystalized with acetone.






any insight on filtration media?
I read something about microcrystalline cellulose as the stationary phase


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Re: Crystals [Re: Solipsis]
    #27361922 - 06/24/21 07:07 PM (2 years, 10 months ago)

been doing it in a 1l soxhlet. yeah, little over kill and slow run time. takes about 4 hours to have it run clear.

Theres better options im already looking at.


I like to extract HOT then room temp evap. unwanteds precip out


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    #27362358 - 06/25/21 06:02 AM (2 years, 10 months ago)

I thought I read that the crystals need to be kept in some kind of solution so they don’t start degrading.  That would be an awesome gummy bear! 

I made some truffles a few days ago and it a pain in the butt to mix each one individually with a toothpick. I found some espresso flavored chocolate chips and mixed em with normal milk chocolate and they came out delicious.

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    #27365578 - 06/27/21 08:04 PM (2 years, 10 months ago)

Very intrigued... Nice one. Have you heard back from Oakland?  Will you post the results of the sample?


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    #27366136 - 06/28/21 11:01 AM (2 years, 10 months ago)

So I got a Soxhlet extractor for this just for most to say that’s overkill. I for one am excited to use it (;


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    #27366137 - 06/28/21 11:02 AM (2 years, 10 months ago)

The crystals oxidize quicker than good L. Yes. So suspension is a must.


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    #27366140 - 06/28/21 11:03 AM (2 years, 10 months ago)

Interesting that the crystals also look like mycelium growing...


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    #27366177 - 06/28/21 11:34 AM (2 years, 10 months ago)

They look like ice on the windshield to me. When I look at that picture it gives me a weird anxious feeling. Like some kind of warning  that says proceed at your own risk!

How do you dose the crystals?  Like, it seems  a 10th of a gram would catapult you into another dimension!

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    #27366231 - 06/28/21 12:48 PM (2 years, 10 months ago)

I’ve yet to experiment with dosing of the crystals, only researched the process of extracting salts and oils  from organic materials


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    #27408505 - 07/30/21 01:47 PM (2 years, 9 months ago)

You would weigh it, 30mg was used in the clinical trials and was said to be the sweet spot.


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    #27408625 - 07/30/21 03:31 PM (2 years, 9 months ago)

Bro, the crystals are suspended in some alcohol or something. How you go about weighing that? Have you done  it?

And I was more asking like do you just eat crystals or do you put them in some lemon juice or what’s the best way to go about consuming them.

So you think about a little less than half a tenth?

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    #27411825 - 08/02/21 12:20 PM (2 years, 9 months ago)

had to use a different lab. oakland went dark on me, hes probably busy with cup. anyways

no clue on starting biomass % if had to guess. 0.4-0.6%

this was done with hot ETOH. Mostly sugars, but might be a little bit better for dosing. I know of a myco extraction company that has been doing psilo extraction, testing it and then adulterating it out to a standardized dose with tapioca powder


might be better to use the fungal sugar in a tek like this. As then the entire product is myco extracted

pretty sure this consitency extract can be reached with any species.

been helping a buddy with cordy extract and he almost has the same texture






Been looking at higher purity methods that are not A/B. FF comes to mind.


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    #27412477 - 08/02/21 10:20 PM (2 years, 9 months ago)

Whoa interesting!  I wonder if the DMT is a lab error?  I've never heard of that showing up in mushrooms before.

If this analysis is correct and my math is correct, you'd take 1000 mg of your extract for a 30 mg dose.  Does that sound right?

How did you find a lab willing to test this?


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    #27412489 - 08/02/21 10:42 PM (2 years, 9 months ago)

Psilocin is very close to N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (it's the same compound just with a hydroxy substituent at position 4). So my guess is it just misread some of the psilocin. Not an error per say.


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    #27412682 - 08/03/21 05:56 AM (2 years, 9 months ago)

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Whoa interesting!  I wonder if the DMT is a lab error?  I've never heard of that showing up in mushrooms before.

If this analysis is correct and my math is correct, you'd take 1000 mg of your extract for a 30 mg dose.  Does that sound right?

How did you find a lab willing to test this?






This is reaaallyyy astonishing!!!

you, my friend are amazing! Thank you for sharing your experiments with the community! All this is so, so interesting to watch breaking through more and more decoding the magic code :P

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Re: Crystals [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #27412779 - 08/03/21 08:34 AM (2 years, 9 months ago)

Alan, sent you lab details on IG.

sounds correct on dosing. gave a friend a capsule, weight of powder inside was somewhere around 300mg (size 0). the trip was hovering around level 2-3

they self reported the weight of the extract with the weight of the capsule included. thus the weight difference in the report.



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    #27412787 - 08/03/21 08:47 AM (2 years, 9 months ago)

I have not extracted Root bark or anything else containing Dmtri in my lab. so it wouldnt be a shulgin style contam.

wonder if it's a further degradation of one of the alks. or possibly the way they're testing lumps the minor alks to that category? I am unsure why, but it was tested for specifically.


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