When I was really broke I used to get the shop that I work for now to save stems from prerolls that I would grind and QWET. Ended up with a super terpy extract from it wasn’t bad at all. No idea the numbers i got though, I used a lb of stems ground at a time approximately
Place in Pulawy? The quality dropped so much that they squeez literal garbage. And they will not set the god damn rig to anything that the customer may suggest. Few weeks back a friend received 5% CBD paste from them.
Yes sir
It s a damn mobster ring governement owened
The robbed 25 % of the last batch
And made some doo doo that took 7 winterizations to get to 40% incredibel
For the unit is very controlable
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I get better crude doing QWISO on a minimally processed hemp I grow myself then they do with CO2 on processed biomass. Last batch that came off the roto clocked (after single winterisation and bentonite/de/ac filtration) at 47% CBD and uncder 3% THC.
But I process deseeded and destalked flower (hand harvested and hand processed). Tons of people buy biomass in a form of 0.5cm particles with everything including leafs, seeds and stalks.
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Yes thats the way to do it
That biomass is crazy shit
Useless
I’ve heard from a consultant with 15yrs hemp experience once say that most of the CBD in a high CBD yielding variety is found within the lignin of the plant. Thoughts?
Could you explain lignin ? Please
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My understanding (which is remedial at best) is that in most fibrous plants there are usually two main components that make up the plant mass 1.Cellulose(usually used to make paper and textiles etc.) and 2. Lignin (which needs to be removed from the cellulose before the cellulose can be made into other products) which I was told makes up a significant amount of the total CBD within a Cannabis/Hemp plant. I believe he made a parallel with his experience in the paper industry. FYI im not a cultivator by trade so take it easy on me if this doesn’t make sense it was just something I heard from a knowledgable reliable resource.
Well i am not a botanist nut i know cannabinoids
Cannabinoids are made in trychromes of wich there are 3 types and only one realy holds (makes) most of the cannabinoids
Trichromes grow in / on the flower of the plant
Now in france al legal cbd must be extracted from the stalks and stems of the plant not from the flower
And indeed this is beeing done and achieved
But at amazing low %
The folks i know that do this yield 0.15% of cbd-a
How did that cbd get there ?
We think it just got infected from the flowers either by wind gravity or when harvested
Some folks say the plant realy produces some cbd in ligand
Maybe a botanist can vouwch for that
Either way i doubt that extracting this biomass makes any sense
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nope. not sure what they were trying to convey, but CBD is not produced or found “within the lignin”.
Where was this consultant working with hemp?
I have heard of fiber type hemp being retted in the field, then extracted for CBD, in eastern Europe. one might characterize that CBD as “within the lignin”, but as @Roguelab states, cannabinoids are produced in specialized structures (trichomes) and there is zero lignin in them.
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I once gave a friend a contractor bag of fresh leaves from my harlequin cultivar, the flower regularly tested at 6% THC 12% CBD. Well she made cannabutter out of those leaves and ended up with un real numbers on the cbd side of things and almost no thc. I dont know if it was just an analytical error on the labs part but it is something that i have pondered ever since.
Seems plausible under his theory, only more time and standardized testing will tell.