Or so a fairly experienced acacia extractor tells me (no it aint my swim) Shake it to buggery (make sure pH is nice and high so emulsions don't form - 13+) and by the time it's settled (maybe an hour max) it's all across.
So they tell me. Well, makes sense to me, after A/Bing meth, this one time, it was like magick, shook it up and vooom! it was across phases.
If you getting weak output, probably weak input. If you are having trouble with emulsions, try salt and/or higher pH. I have heard people say that pH 15 and 16 works quite well. Certainly 13 my experience says isn't too high. Good visual judge- if it's dark, almost black, and kinda soupy, it's probably alkaline enough.
If you've got a local plant, quit getting mhrb, as much as it might be one of the strongest sources, it is way more expensive than a trip down to the bush and a trek. Might take a few times but you'll feel better having got the stuff yourself. If you're in the US, there's desmanthus and arundo donax, (though the latter is said to not be as nice) we're blessed here in OZ, there's maidenii and obtusifolia (all over the east coast up to just short of the tropic of capricorn).
Oh, and I think I have mentioned this a few times today - dmt makes nice crystally tartrate salts. NEWS NEWS! nobody has done this before. I looked at the options, and it seems that tartaric acid (tarting agent legal AFAIK anywhere in foods) is the most stable and soluble. And sure enough, it makes nice tidy crystals. I will have pictures some time soon, possibly tomorrow, my swim is working on it.
Quit this freakout about using needles with psychedelics. It is completely stupid when it comes to DMT. So much is wasted in a smoked dose yet and IV dose is very close to the same (just a tad faster) and if one makes a neutral salt (has to be between pH 6 and 7) it can be IM dosed as well, giving a 40 ish minute experience. Not to mention that an IV dose is less than half of an 'official' inhaled dose (so you can get two IV doses for the price of a smoked dose, I know where my money is).
DMT was a nightmare for my swim before he discovered making salts and IV dosing. he can't be the only one. Plus making pure freebases is a pain in the ass. Considering plenty of people IV less than 80% purity drugs all the time, with practise better than that kind of purity can be achieved with dmt tartrate. And nobody has looked at other salts really. I suspect that though the HCl doesn't crystallise, it's probably quite good in a needle too. Phosphate, citrate, ascorbate, sulphate - these will all make unstable salts. Tartrate is the most stable counterion that I have seen other than hydrochloride. And it does make crystals with dmt.
(for emphasis) dmt tartrate grows crystals very nicely. doit.