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Hey Now,
Here we go. Going to try my first run. Unfortunately my ethanol delivery is fubar. UPS just notified me of a damaged package and I need to contact the seller. Grrr. . . So it will be Everclear for this one, dammit. I did buy some more 200 proof from another distributor but that's days away and I want to start tonight.
I'll post some pictures but for now this is what I am up to. Tonight I'll pick up some 190 proof Everclear and put it in the freezer along with two pint jars of cannabis. Not sure what I will use, something good without a lot of cut stuff and gently break the buds so as to not tear things up. The point being to avoid opening things up for more chlorophyl, waxes, lipids, the stuff we don't want to extract. That is the whole point of all of this, extract only the stuff we want, THCs and terpenes. QWET or Quick Wash EThanol, winterizing, and if needed polishing is how I plan to do this.
Ethanol is a polar solvent and will attach bond with all sorts of stuff including what we don't want. To avoid picking up the undesirables we lower the temperature as much as we can. I will be using a kitchen freezer so I won't be able to go too low. Later the plan is to use dry ice but for now 24-36 hours in the freezer will have to do. The amount of time the ethanol and cannabis are combined for will allow or restrict the ethanol from performing its solvent duties. If it soaks too long it can become green and if the soak is too short yield will suffer. For making RSO/FECO the exposure will be longer and for vaping oil shorter depending on the material and temps. Since I am going for something to put in a cartridge I plan on short washes. I will do two washes as well.
So that's where I am today. If all goes okay I'll be ready for the next step on Thursday. That will be the actual washes and, if needed, winterization. After that it's vacuum still time to reclaim the ethanol and vacuum oven/chamber to dry it out. AND. . . if all went well add a bit of terpenes/thinner and load up a cartridge.
Stay tuned!!
Here we go. Going to try my first run. Unfortunately my ethanol delivery is fubar. UPS just notified me of a damaged package and I need to contact the seller. Grrr. . . So it will be Everclear for this one, dammit. I did buy some more 200 proof from another distributor but that's days away and I want to start tonight.
I'll post some pictures but for now this is what I am up to. Tonight I'll pick up some 190 proof Everclear and put it in the freezer along with two pint jars of cannabis. Not sure what I will use, something good without a lot of cut stuff and gently break the buds so as to not tear things up. The point being to avoid opening things up for more chlorophyl, waxes, lipids, the stuff we don't want to extract. That is the whole point of all of this, extract only the stuff we want, THCs and terpenes. QWET or Quick Wash EThanol, winterizing, and if needed polishing is how I plan to do this.
Ethanol is a polar solvent and will attach bond with all sorts of stuff including what we don't want. To avoid picking up the undesirables we lower the temperature as much as we can. I will be using a kitchen freezer so I won't be able to go too low. Later the plan is to use dry ice but for now 24-36 hours in the freezer will have to do. The amount of time the ethanol and cannabis are combined for will allow or restrict the ethanol from performing its solvent duties. If it soaks too long it can become green and if the soak is too short yield will suffer. For making RSO/FECO the exposure will be longer and for vaping oil shorter depending on the material and temps. Since I am going for something to put in a cartridge I plan on short washes. I will do two washes as well.
So that's where I am today. If all goes okay I'll be ready for the next step on Thursday. That will be the actual washes and, if needed, winterization. After that it's vacuum still time to reclaim the ethanol and vacuum oven/chamber to dry it out. AND. . . if all went well add a bit of terpenes/thinner and load up a cartridge.
Stay tuned!!
