Shard Garden

[ChemoSabe]

I stole an opportunity to sneak a quick peek into swims buddies  illustrated dream diary and this is what I’ve brought back from it.
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I know that this level of crystal farming is mere childsplay to the seasoned rock candy veterans out there but there was a time I would have been quite impressed by these so I document them here for that former self and others similar in spirit to be impressed (or not) with.

Procedure was an outgrowth of what I call Worlock’s newbee recryst method

Post 235464 (missing)

(Worlock: "Re: ReCrystalizing Chilli", Stimulants) and has been reposted by many others in various forms.

input
4 grams of “virgin top cream pulls”  taken from initial titrations of a 16gram batch
125ml acetone
30ml 99% isopropanol

Crystals were allowed to initially form with the flask sitting on the hot plate as it slowly cooled. The hot plate was gently reheated twice to melt away wimpy sized fuzz and hair-like formations afterwhich it was finally left to sit without disturbance for a full 6 hours.

After this point the flask shots were taken.

Next the flask was transferred to the freezer for another 6 hours resulting in an 8ball of jumbo shards somewhat reminiscent of what is sometimes referred to as "murder".

Conclusion notes for the "duh" archives
- larger amounts increase chances of bigger crystal formation
- in this realm of experimentation the lack of patience is quite possibly your worst enemy

Aside from the central penny in the flask shots all size reference coins are either silver dollars or half dollars.







Rock candy frontier on the horizon.

In all ways that might ever matter to anyone this message is a complete and utter work of fiction presented here solely for entertainment porpoises.

[jemma_jamerson]

those fictional pics remind me of that scene out of the movie the 'core' when they stop half way in that crystal field, and there are miles of shards....

shards are every where, so are scum spelt 'dea'

bee carefull mate  

they look flawless and clean as they should bee well done!!!!

[unionpacific]

cool pics

[gluecifer69]

Very nice!  Way to go Chemo, keep farmin those shards!

[ChemoSabe]

I relayed to swim's buddy the response to my public airing of his dirty diary and his response was.....

"if anyone claimed to have experienced excess salivation as a result of viewing the images then I'll consider the public response portion of the experiment to be a full success"

PS - he was also a bit disappointed that no comments were made about the 2 dollar bill. But he can be a bit stupid about unrelated and irrelevant details like that.

[tweeker421]

[livid]

[Snarg]

might be a stupid question but what kinda alcohol did you use?

iso? denatured? ect.

[unionpacific]

snarg: if you would have read his post you could clearly see 125ml acetone and 33ml isopropyl per 4 grams

While we are on the subject of recrystallization does anyone have any techniques/tricks to grow more unique/appealing crystals than all normal shards? not for resale purposes but just to experiment or want something different than your normal crystal chunks

 I've heard of people using methyl sulfonyl methane (not cutting it to shit, but throwing 1 or 2 grams in with oh say 14grams of white powdered meth doing a slow rextalization over a week or so NO DISTURBANCES AT ALL (or waiting for half of the solution to evap),chucking it in a icebath or the freezer for a few hours on harvest day and ending up with wide thick clear jewels that seem to have many clear,thin layers stacked on top of eachother. 

anyone have any suggestions?
or any other food safe chemicals that might work? 
different types of seed crystals?

I've also heard of people adding flavor to it by spreading the crystals on newspaper and getting your choice of non cfc aerosol potpouri and spraying 1-2 small/quick light mist about 1-2 feet away from the newspaper and blow lightly to get a real light mist on the xtals, dry with a fan
(coconut and watermelon was going around here for a little bit, the only way to fuck it up is spraying way to much, a dark room with a light where your spraying it would be pretty easy to see the mist in the air allowing you to control where it goes with your breath.

BTW did anyone ever write that writeup on flavored stuff, I can't remember what flavor it was..I want to say vanilla but I'm not sure.. (I remember reading something like "stay tuned for _______  flavored meth writeup"a while back and never reading it, I wonder if it was this technique or another

My opinion on colored product:
Alot of tweekers think just because its colored the crystals are hella good, better than normal clear shards, when I see colored shit the first thing I think is >impurities >by products >chef fucked up on a batch, or half assed it. I'm sure alot of bee's belive clean slowly rextalized meth is almost always CLEAR not colored,and also cracked back clear until the bowl is dusted

[livid]

in theory  water will  take longer to to evavorate than . iso, thus giving more time for meth xtals to grow longer.

[ChemoSabe]

The info on growing crystals rock candy style is in this thread

Post 476898

(buzybee: "larger crystals", Stimulants)

Methyl ethyl ketone can be subbed for acetone in methods of crystal cultivation which rely on evaporation as it dries at a much slower rate. Personally there is something about it's smell that turns my stomach so I avoid it's use when possible.

Plus I've yet to develop the needed patience for anything longer than a one days duration.

[ChemoSabe]

Jeeze I never thought when this was first posted that in a mere two months I might look back at it and, due to the new era of gakk infestations, say "those were the days".

Of course I don't fully buy into that defeatist and pessimistic attitude but it does display a certian envy concerning the relative ease in which swim's buddy once partook in such an exploratory experiment.

And lucky for him he's scraped together at least enough older era rainy day psuedo to now get one final similar experiment's worth to enjoy within this newly gakked up era. He'll surely be savoring it as if it'll his last one. As it very well might bee.

but again that's pessimistic

[ChemoSabe]

In the editing of motion pictures what ends up on the cutting room floor is another term for that which ends up in the trash bin.

I present these old castaways here because I think they deserve a second chance to be viewed by someone other than swims buddy.

[cycosyince]

Ah yes the kodak moments. Piss off the Feds, put a stack of Ben next to the pile and relate how the shards are the cream the C-notes are the candy... heheheh... or vice versa
I wanna play in the shards
I wanna play in the shards
OH! I have been. Everything looks so crystal clean today!
Too bad the state fairs don't have a meth category where a panel judges the qualities of various county entries for the best in show, cleanest buzz, BIGGEST SHARDS etc. That is my vision of a more likeable place to live, (sigh)
Party on Garth.
Fine photos and I'm sure a fine lil sack hu-RAH!
blah blah blah
yakkity yakitty yak yak yak...