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Dry ice hash to concentrate

RosettaStoned

RosettaStoned

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Received my 99.9% iso today! Using my dry ice hash from my first grow to make some wax....hopefully. I will be using 6.2 g of 73 micron, 17.7 g of 160 micron, and 21.5 g of 220 micron. The method of choice is qwiso. I put my jar of iso and jar of hash in the deep freezer tonight. Won't get to it until Sunday so should have plenty of time to chill. Doing a double wash and using a 25 micron screen to filter. I'll purchase a seed mat to help with the purge of the iso. And as UrbZ suggests, also getting a silicone baking vessel to do it in.

Anyone want to throw out a guess as to how much I'll get?
I'll be happy if I get 10 g
 

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it seems to me that hash is just trics off the plant so you should get a good yield I was thinking about doing the same thing so I will be watching good luck
 
Nice work on the dry ice hash. I was looking towards that direction with my current trim. I usually blast BHO with it.
What's the advantages of turning keif into a solvent based concentrate? You already have the holy grail : a solventless concentrate. What more is there to gain?
Its hard to imagine that 10gr of wax could get you more stoned than 45gr of keif?
These are serious questions I seem to be missing a vital piece of the puzzle.
 
Howdy @Rosetta Stoned, I do not think that You should be using isopropyl alcohol!!! It is poisonous and NOT TO BE TAKEN internally! If You want to further concentrate the dry ice hash, use ONLY ethanol ! Isopropyl and methyl alcohols are deadly to take internally and at best can cause blindness.
 
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Ive been making QWISO with isopropyl for 6 years. Never had a bad batch, bad taste or gotten sick. 99.9 % isopropyl has a 100% eveparation rate. This method is safe, tried and true. Millions of people make QWISO
 
RosettaStoned

I would suggest because you are using hash and not bud. fill your jar containing the hash 3/4 of the way up with alcohol. With bud you have less product to cover and wash so less alcohol is needed. The volume of hash you have would require more alcohol. Might even be easier to seperate in it 2 washes. Half the amount of hash and half a jar of alcohol each wash. You can also double wash each batch.

I can see you getting 5-10 grams of was from this.
 
This would have scared me if I hadn't read about this being done all the time. Hexane, butane, propane, etc are better for you?
 
Wax is easier to work with for one. That powder flies everywhere. I looked under my scope at the 73 and it looks like there's plant matter in there. So....this would remove everything but the resin. And that's what we are after, are we not? It will be stronger and cleaner than the ice hash basically
 
Copy that! I was thinking along those lines... I'm totally on your side on making dank concentrates. Just wondering if making BHO from kief vs. trim would result in a different product. Let me know what it turns out like!

I enjoy regular butane hash oil. I got this quad coil pen for me and the wife and made some crazy good stuff for our thanksgiving trip about 4g from 4 bottles of butane. Now that's exhausted I was contemplating dry ice hash and if you could use that in an e-pen like you can hash oil or wax. I got the big one, ultra large x4coil head so I think it could power through some dry ice hash or kief. It's the plant matter that will probably gum it up?
That's why I'm curious to all this. Thanks for fielding the comments!
 
I like a nice clean bho as well. I would rather not mess around with pressure and explosive gases so the iso is the way I will go. Want to try n-hexane wash next time with a second iso wash and see the difference.
I am also going to just use my nectar collector on the 73 next time and see how much residue it leaves. I would be interested to see how the coils hold up to dry sift.
Quad coil? That has to rip! Probably kills the battery too haha. I will keep this updated with my results on ease of procedure and smoking/vaping quality.
 
I do not think that hexane, butane, and or propane are any better. My point is, why risk using something that is dangerous when there is a safer alternative.
 
I could not find a silicone bakeware anywhere and seed mats were pricey. So ordering online, will be here by Tues. I put another jar of iso in the freezer. More waiting.....should be used to it by now 😁
 
Ethanol (Ever Clear) is safer to ingest (although alcohol is responsible for more deaths than other drugs) and if the solvent is not completely evaporated out, it will not cause harm to you right away.
 
What you will get is OIL, which is just as good to dab, but it's going to be gooier. I evaporated the everclear out of my tincture and ended up with oil. I just did what you're doing with the alcohol, and you won't end up with wax: you have to use heat and compression to get wax. [correction posted below by RosettaStoned: rosin--not wax.]
 
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When I do the alcohol thing, I get tar. Green/black tar.It vapes well and will do you in.
When I make BHO out of the same material, I get a totally different form. Seems purer ie no so much green stuff. I like the alcohol tincture as it seems to have MORE of what's in the flower. The BHO extract is more high, less body. But then, that could vary with the strain.
 
Heat and compression is rosin. There should be a way to stabilize it more, but I will have to read a little more about it.
The green is chlorophyll and you shouldn't get too much in there from iso because it's polar. Chlorophyll is mostly non polar but it sounds like it depends on ionic charge as to how much can be absorbed by the solvent. I think I have this right
The extract should also come out a pristine amber/golden color. The texture and consistency are determined by the temperature and speed in which it is extracted and purged.
 
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So if iso has 100% evaporation rate, what's the harm? I appreciate your concern and I'm not trying to argue. How can this be bad if it has been done before? I feel like something would have come up by now if there was any kind of issue.
 
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