I must say since joining this forum…things have gotten crazy. I would like to share my results because I know this place is full of brilliant people to see if I am waaayyy off track or maybe on to something. Hopefully we can grow together and I don’t just take.
Here’s what I did/am doing
1.Fresh frozen hemp harvested here in Germany. Extracted with - 45C ethanol. Discharged into large glass beakers and then frozen at -60 for 24 hours. Filtered over 10/5/2.5 microns respectively.
2. Into glass reactor with pentane, super saturation, freeze and crash. To gain CBDA Isolate. Horrible yield but whatever.
3. CBDA into fume hood boiling flask yada yada sparged dried dissolved in heptane where I used TIBA to convert into THCA. Yield was great this time.
4. Blueberries Pigment (blue) extracted with ethanol:water:triaceitc acid then chromatographed. Actually got purple and red pigments. too but was looking for blue bc well I’m sure you guys know.
5. THCA back into glass reactor dissolved in pentane warmed blueberry pigment added, stirred and then forced down by 10 degrees until -30 was reached. I am currently holding there. This is my first day in the reactor so only fingers for now but high hopes. pun intended.
6. My final thought is to recover ML and wash diamonds with cold pentane and warm in vacuum oven to…hopefully have blue diamonds made from hemp…?
If I sound like an idiot already forgive me. If anyone has any better ideas/suggestions for me I would happily work along side you or share or whatever. I am also not a stranger to spending money. Anyways. Thanks you guys. This place is really cool.
Also I would like to have cannabis derived pigments but all that I have accomplished is green…I don’t want green. It looks eh not good to me. Anybody have a specific strain in mind that might accomplish a prettier color?
You should really open source it. Why assert that you know what you’re talking about and not share the whole thing? Are you afraid of legal recourse or physical harm/ stalking from someone?
I would recommend not adding pigments to your perfect hemp derived THCa… add some HTE instead. I have no idea what the laws are like in Germany regarding THC vs THCa, hemp derived, etc (my understanding was that all tetrahydrocannabinols are illegal in any amount over there) but there are a few companies here in the US that have very good hemp HTE with USA farm bill compliant levels of THC. I think you will have better success selling diamonds with sauce that tastes like real high quality cannabis, then gimmicky breaking bad colored THC rocks.
that’s my bet