Hash talk

[Gingerbeard]

But can you buy or is it convenient to drive to another state to buy the high-test Everclear? Closest I know about is two states away.

[Ckbrew]

In the land of fruits and nuts you can not get 95% ethanol- ain't that odd.

[Gingerbeard]

That is called 'winerization' Ckbrew. The process you are talking about is how distillates are made. That is my familiarity, anyway. The best I was able to do was freeze the butane. Dry-ice is optimal but needs to be added to until the process is done. A kitchen freezer will do the same but in more time.
I would love to get into that but I have a few drawbacks. One being quantity. The equipment and process handle much larger quantities than I will ever produce. Another being dry-ice. I was sourcing it to use this round. I have a dewaxing column that is made for, and I have gone with dry-ice. The stuff is rare for me to get without a car. Ethanol is special order for me. California is tight on what individuals can buy booze-wize outside of commercial use or in very small quantities. 151 is the highest booze we can get without using ISO. The equipment ain't nothing but a thing to buy. Just like my column.
I thought, maybe, the wax might affect the taste. But the wax and shatter of pre-resin days never tasted like this. It is very much like rosin, which I am not a fan of dabbing.
It is all about the green/gold plant matter.

[Bluey]

Thanks GB

I don't have a glass tube but plenty of different pipes made from steel, poly & UPVC.

I think I'll use this method to extract from the stalks, otherwise they will get tossed.

Also I'll be using the quick wash ISO method for the trim and some green butter from the leaves.

That just leaves the roots that I have no plan for

[Gingerbeard]

Blasting a packed glass tube with butane is the common method. Anything after that becomes laboratory.
Quality, it is not. It is the goodness of the plant that you want to extract from your plant, plus something that you do not.

[Bluey]

That sounds rather complex for my very basic home lab that is limited to a BBQ gas bottle and 4ltrs of isopropyl sitting in my freezer door

[Ckbrew]

The waxes and particulates can be cleaned out by dissolving the resin in ethanol, chilling the solution with dry ice, vacuum filtering with a lab filter, then draw off the ethanol in a purge chamber.

[Bluey]

I was taught a method using butane/propane and a tube to place the stalks in, and then blasting the gas through the tube and out the bottom comes the resin.

Is this method worthwhile? Do you get enough product? Is the oroduct a quality product? Im guessing its hash or is it something else?

[Gingerbeard]

There it is. That burned, fried chicken butt-hole crust I was talking about. I'm letting this stuff sit for a while. See if it ripens or cures. I do not need to be a vegetarian to dislike that smell.
The problem is I cannot separate the finer particulate matter. The super fine stuff that passes through the coffee filter that gives the color. Still too dirty.
A damned thing about this is I still have solvent that gave me so much hormonal imbalance to get. If research doesn't give me a somewhat simple way to clean this up, I'm going to have $28 worth of hormone unbalanced solvent and 11 grams of sadness.
I do not think I will buy one of those washing machines. For $200 I can shake that triangle bag in a bucket of ice, myself.

[Gingerbeard]

Oh. This does not like hit conglomerate resin. Conglomerate resin does not hit the head like weed. My miracle hits the head just like the weed it came from. Which is a good hit.

[Gingerbeard]

Here it is.
3.5 grams and 9.7 grams. Call it 13 grams from 100ish grams of one week cured weed. 13% Might be a % higher than the previous highest % that was not 'dewaxed.'
The 3.5 grams is a mixture of the side taffy and bottom wax since the side taffy was too sticky. I pressed it in my kief press. This is not efficiently pressable stuff.
It smells just like the flower. Smoothe. Almost no taste or vapor smell. including that burnt fried chicken crust taste that I assume comes from less dried weed. Might need a low temp for dabbing.

[Going2fast]

Fast flowering are f1 crosses between a photo and an auto. All of the first gen will be semi photo. Outdoors if I plant them outdoors in late May they are flowering in early July. If you cross them again you will get 25% auto, 25% photo and 50% fast flower. If you pick out the autos from that pool and cross them you get full auto seeds. These are generalized percentages but you get the gist and this is how autos are made. Your fast seeds are actually long veg autos in short.

[Gingerbeard]

No help from Captain Nohelp... Oh, man... that was uncalled for. I apologize.
I just had to go off on another USPS shit. That was a heap of residual USPS angst I just dumped on you that you did not deserve.
How do we give a thumbs up in the comment section?

[Going2fast]

Ummm ........yeah. Itl getcha high.

[Gingerbeard]

What sticks to the side will always be like taffy. The stuff in the bottom of the bowl is like weed wax that will easily scrape off.
What is the difference between the two products?
Technical info: Got the B down to -10° for maybe a 2 minute soak to dewax and blasted directly into the bowl. The bowl went into the vacuum chamber at 100°. I am sure the temperature did not get all the wax and am wondering if the wax-like stuff is just that, wax. That would mean the taffy junk is the actual dewaxed. What might one contain that the other does not?