Extraction Cherry Oil - Honey Oil

[Northern Grower]

It's called honey or cherry because it's red or honey colored. The idea of this extraction is to avoid getting un wanted chlorophyll into your extract. We are connoisseurs who wants to smoke green oil for your head stash?


In this extraction 99% isopropanol, was used. Before you attempt this, put your trim in the freezer the day before you extract. Also put your iso in the freezer. It won't freeze but you want everything as cold as you can get it. The idea of the cold is that when frozen the plant matter won't release the chlorophyll as easily, having your iso cold also helps in this process.

As always the better the starting product the better the end. You can only shine up a ball of shit so much. If you know what I mean

I let my jar sit in the freezer for 4 hours.

Only use glass.. Solvents will pull easily dissolved metals into your extract.. No one wants that.:thumbs:

"borrow" one of your old ladies hair ties, and put a sheet of bounty on there. I only use one sheet. I want to get the iso out of the plant matter asap. The warmer you get the iso the greener your end product.

You should have a honey/amber red or clear liquid left. If you have green at this point your iso either got to warm, or you let it sit too long.

This is where allot of people don't have the patience. If you can let your iso evaporate out with out heat you will have superb quality. Often the terp's are intact so you get some flavor in your end product.

You should be able to read a news paper through the end product. The longer you let it sit the closer to glass and brtille the end product becomes. I usually wait until it's fairly stringy to put into a storage vial.

Dosage: I bet you can't get past 3 little drops. This will expand in your lungs and lay you down for the count. I've seen people do the funky chicken on my kitchen floor from a nice ripp, Bailer guarantee.


It is harder to get clear oil when you use any kind of alcohal as a solvent because the water from ice and the plant material helps the iso pull chlorophyll out. If you use other solvents you can wash out the chlorophyll with salt water. Or in some cases the chlorophyll won't dissolve into the solvent at all.

The idea is to get to the finest more pure extract.

The next step beyond this would be to refine it further by isomerization, which i might touch on in the future.

 

[MrMcbud]

Awesome,thanks Bailer.
I notice stems in there aswell,i usually only use sugar leaves and popcorn buds.
Do the stems add anything noteworthy thc/cbd wise?
I would love to see the isomerization,googling it now
I find if i leave mine to evaporate naturally it gets a damp mouldy smell to it.
actually rewashed it to get it better on the nose

 

[Northern Grower]

Might be your environment helping? Was the trim cured? I try to cure my trim a bit, and make sure it's dry. I have gotten a damp type smell once when I bagged up wetter trim.

I just put the stems in because I am stingy and want to get every last bit. The better the stuff you put in the better end result, so i am shorting myself. If you used more trim and bud you will increase your yield in extract. not so much the quality of the extract. You are pulling all the same stuff, from buds, leaves, stems. Just more of "it" in the flowers and leaves.

One thing noteworthy. I don't cut up my trim, i have found the smaller the pieces the more green I pull.

 

[gearbear2]

put a sheet of bounty

better than a coffee filter?

 

[MrMcbud]

Cool,trim was dried but not cured at all.
next batch i will be sure to cure it too.
Had a fellow grower offer 4 boxes of various trim,i think i shall

 

[TheLittleBoyWhoPointed]

The addition of leaf and stem increases the cbd% ....sugar trim leaf generally have a higher cbd to thc ratio compared to bud, sun-leaf generally have a higher cbd to thc ratio compared to sugar trim leaf, stems generally have a higher cbd to thc ratio compared to sun-leaf

{higher thc to cbd ratio->->->->->----<-<-<-<- higher cbd to thc ratio}
{bud....<-->..........sugar leaf......<-->.......sun-leaf........<-->.......stem}

TLBWP

 

[Northern Grower]

better than a coffee filter?

Yeah the coffee filter always plugs up so fast, gets down to little drops. The bounty is thick enough to stop the big stuff but still keep a good flow. When I have gotten bits through or you can see particulate still i'll just do it another round with a new sheet and a clean jar. Never had to do any more than 2.

Had a fellow grower offer 4 boxes of various trim,i think i shall

I would :thumbs:

If you still get a whiff of that damp, just use a double boiler method to evap the iso. At least that way you won't have any chance of it getting into the final product.

 

[iiiarockiii]

how much trim did you use, and what was the yield outcome in the pictures supplied above?

 

[breederj]

I like to cure what I smoke but not what I make hash outta. The older the product the darker the hash. Too much light on the drying product uct will