If you have partitioned your extract, the larger portion of the lost salvinorin can be recovered out of Naphtha by doing a process called "back washing" the (green) Naphtha with a fresh mixture of Methanol/water, added right back to the Naphtha in the separatory funnel (After the Methanol w/salvinorin has been drained off). For those of you who haven't guessed, when Naphtha and Methanol/water are mixed together in a separatory funnel, the Naphtha floats on top of the Methanol. Adding water to the Methanol increases the polarity of the methanol, making it immissible with Naptha, otherwise they will mix. If you were to try to add straight Methanol and Naphtha together, they would readily mix and no partition between the solvents will occur.

Cleaning up your dry extract using methanol or isopropyl:
Methanol can be used to clean up extractions directly (as opposed to cleaning them with naptha, then cleaning the naptha with methanol), but some of salvinorin is lost to the methanol because methanol will hold at least 3.15 mg per ml. Plain old 99.9% Isopropanol (Isopropyl) can also be used for cleaning up an extract and would be better than Methanol because it will saturate with about one fourth the amount of salvinorin per ml. Acetone would be the worst solvent to use for cleaning it up, it can hold at least 23 mg of salvinorin per ml. Keep in mind that you can't easily clean up the extract when using the quick whole leaf extraction process unless you first separate off the sand-like layer of particles that you will also extract out with the salvinorin. I still don't know what it is, but it isn't salvinorin A. Also, even using the two step process (When combining all of the Acetone together) you may get plenty of green, but it won't be so much that looks black. Aged lea! f that is six or more months old (the longer, the better) seems to be much better for this use, as it seems to extract out much less chlorophyll when using this quick process. A traditional 'cure' designed to destroy chlorophyll in smoking materials may also help with obtaining a cleaner extract.

Crystallization Notes:

One of the tricks that people use to grow crystals is to warm Methanol up and then add crude salvinorin to it. Because Methanol will hold much more salvinorin when it is warm then when it is at room temperature, the crystals slowly start to form as the liquid cools. In some circumstances salvinorin will just drop out of the fluid in a crude form, without crystallizing. Sometimes you need to seed the fluid with a crystal from a previous extraction, this can kick things off. Even so, I have seen salvinorin just drop out of the fluid as a non-crystal substance, even as white or light-green flakes. It can look like small sandy particles, flakes, a fine sludge, or crystals. It may be greenish, grayish, white or translucent with a yellowish green tint, depending on the type and quantity of impurities. One of the most pronounced things about salvinorin in solvent such as isopropyl, ethanol, or methanol is that it loves to stick to glass. In crude form, it will usually stick to ! the glass, but can be easily swished away by jiggling the solvent in the glass around. When I cleaned up my last quick Acetone extraction by pouring the dry extract into Methanol, the salvinorin that fell out into the bottom of the small 50 ml glass container was almost all crystalline, mostly greenish translucent crystals, but the crystals didn't stick to the glass at all, until I poured all of the Methanol out, then they just all stuck together to form a greenish gray sludge because they had not dried. They didn't look like crystals at all after I removed the Methanol. One of the methods used to keep crystals from adhering together is to pour out the Methanol, or what ever you used to grow them in, and then pour in a small amount of Naphtha to keep the crystals from sticking together. Then, you can more easily separate the individual crystals for drying, since Naphtha doesn't like to hold salvinorin, it will just evaporate off without dissolving your crystals away.

Notes about Acetone and Black Wax:
Ending up with black wax doesn't mean that your extract is ruined. It isn't. You just won't get the purity that makes enhanced leaf easier to smoke. For some, this is important. A regular extraction with 99% Isopropol alcohol isn't bad at all if your making some 5X, at that concentration it isn't hard to smoke, but go higher and it gets too sticky. For making your own 10X you need to get the salvinorin out without the gunk.