Has anyone tried making their own extract/concentrate?

[beathappening]

So I have plenty of spare time. I was reading methods on doing a water based extraction that results in a resin, and it doesn't seem terribly hard and could even be fun. Time consuming but more or less following a cooking recipe. Not sure about alcohol extraction methods.

Has anyone tried this? Is it worth it?
I think I'd want to make it 5x at the minimum. The guide online I read is for 3x, but you can do more if you use more water.

[g0ldl10n]

I'd be very interested in this as well. I've got plenty of leaf I'd rather see made into extract, actually.

[BallzDeep9]

Oh man.... I started my Home Extract Project, like over a month ago. Thanks for the reminder.....

I've had a quart Mason Jar sitting in the fridge, full of kratom and Everclear .. gotta do Stage 2 (wring out & make Tincture) this weekend! I'll post here on my progress.

[KurtisCards]

i tried making a extract once, pretty sure i burned it and its useless.

tried it once and didnt notice anything.

started out with 50g and ended up with about 3.5 so im pretty sure i just burned it all away haha

[beathappening]

Oh man.... I started my Home Extract Project, like over a month ago. Thanks for the reminder.....

I've had a quart Mason Jar sitting in the fridge, full of kratom and Everclear .. gotta do Stage 2 (wring out & make Tincture) this weekend! I'll post here on my progress.

Yeah please do. What kind of alcohol extraction are you doing? How strong is it supposed to be? Seems like alcohol would be more efficient than water.

[BallzDeep9]

What kind of alcohol extraction are you doing? How strong is it supposed to be? Seems like alcohol would be more efficient than water.

There's TONS of recipe's on Reddit and around the internet... Search: Extract Tek on r/kratom.. I did a lot of work reviewing & putting together a recipe.. Got some helpful tips.. But I have zero experience! So I got no idea if its any good yet Yes I'm using Clear Springs 190 proof Grain Alcohol, (cheaper than Everclear), very clean.. I'd recommend to ignore the Tek's that recommend Isopropyl. I'm also not interested in Lab stuff like Toluene extraction, for pure alks.. I'll leave that for the Meth cooks

[GrannyJ62]

I have made a tincture with Apple cider vinegar in a mason jar pretty much like balls said except for I just put it back in the cupboard for 6 weeks just shook it up and made sure the vinegar was above the kratom left it alone except for a check every once in a awhile Id give it a shake its pretty good I just use a dropper instead of a gram of tea its very comparable to Lizas tinture I bought.Its really good to have for if your on the go.I did it with The vinegar cause I dont like alcohol.I thought I got the ideal here but it must have been pn line..I just used a t shirt to strain.

[®eddit®efugee]

I've tried twice that I can recall. Both times it just didn't work for me. How do people get those lovely dark crystals? I may just stick to trying to make a resin.

[Feerndad]

I've tried twice that I can recall. Both times it just didn't work for me. How do people get those lovely dark crystals? I may just stick to trying to make a resin.

I've also screwed up somehow with my extraction. Made from good kratom but the end product was basically non-active.

[trigger]

What kind of alcohol extraction are you doing? How strong is it supposed to be? Seems like alcohol would be more efficient than water.

There's TONS of recipe's on Reddit and around the internet... Search: Extract Tek on r/kratom.. I did a lot of work reviewing & putting together a recipe.. Got some helpful tips.. But I have zero experience! So I got no idea if its any good yet Yes I'm using Clear Springs 190 proof Grain Alcohol, (cheaper than Everclear), very clean.. I'd recommend to ignore the Tek's that recommend Isopropyl. I'm also not interested in Lab stuff like Toluene extraction, for pure alks.. I'll leave that for the Meth cooks

I made some extracts with kratom that didn't do much for me last year by boiling a shitload of leaf in water for hours until it got thick and then straining it in cheesecloth and then boiling down the remaining liquid until it was thick again and then pouring it onto a pyrex and baking it until it was dried... then I used a paint scraper and a magic bullet to turn it into powder. It was a fucking mess and a half, but I ended up with a decent amount of "extract" that I used half a gram of in my normal dose for several months. I don't know if it actually worked or if I just thought it did.

I have some everclear that I am not using for anything else - should I use that next time? ACV?

[Bigblind]

Ive made it several times love it takes alot of leaf and time you cant get it too hot i just do water no alcohol.