All of us are all always improving! It’s awesome to see others take strides in learning & applicate it for themselves.
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good thing about that “failure” is that if you purge it you can still enjoy the yumminess… also its easier now from what i’ve read to ReX with another solvent.
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Tbh when I misread your post I was going to suggest running it to a non polar solvent which you already have. But it also made me question it when you said two days as I thought they were etoh formed at first, which I mean isn’t necessarily impossible. Salts are a hell of a thing lol
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Yup! Thanks to you I’m improving the quality of the medics for my patients ! Thanks! And how do I use reX to make bigger more pure stones?
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That’s amazing to hear, I’m thankful for those before me who paved the way for us all here to be able to pass the knowledge along.
You can redissolve your thca back into a solvent or even terpene blend appropriate for recrx & go through cycling/evap process to continue stacking after they’ve reached the point in curve of your super saturation, ride that line as long as you can.
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I’m so grateful! It’s a blessing what everyone has done for the industry!, okay thank you! I might try that on the sugar and see if it will make better structures! Thanks!
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So on 2/22/23 I started a recrystallization with butane as my solvent of choice. I redissolved the diamonds and waited till I hit my supersaturation level and then placed a seed in both jars and capped. And set on a 85•F lab grade hot plate. To finish the process, in a 3rd jar I took 60-70 grams of some super fire batter I made a week ago, super terpy and potent so I thought screw it! Let’s try to make some more diamonds, so I dissolved that in butane and then hit my supersaturation levels and a placed a seed, I’m excited to see what happens
All jars are at 85•F with around 10-13 psi per jar.
Based on what I just saw it might not hurt to run your extractions with colder solvent, or on prefrozen material, or ensuring there is no soak, or making sure the column isn’t heating up too much while you’re still moving liquid into the collection, or with a bit of filtration media, or all of the above to give yourself a cleaner starting solution. You’ll be amazed at what a difference it’ll make.
Also, in your most recent pictures it appears you are recovering too much solvent before capping your jars which is why you are seeing fine grain sugar.
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Okay thank you! I will use a Buchner funnel with some charcoal and others, to filter the the solution before I do this again. And yes I know it’s dark, it was pre froze and ran at -100•F with a 30s soak before opening ball valve on my CLS. So what else do you think it could be ? And yes thank you I found that out through some testing, I had very little pressure so I just figured I evaped too much solvent and added more until I found a better point, not perfect tho. Thanks! Any help is much appreciated
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Don’t go with charcoal or carbon activated medias. Use b80/t5 or luster max or perform 6000 or w1,w2,w3 for your best options on this. 
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Oh okay thanks! First time I’ve heard that! Can I know why? And awesome I just made a order of w2 and T5 thanks again!!!
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Carbon is a good media to remove unwanted colors for something you’d be making into distillate but as far as diamonds and thca the ph of carbon makes it a to alkaline of a media to make fast crystallization happen and does tend to initiate either degradation of thca in small amounts to d9 if you don’t loose any overall on your tac.
The other medias will have more of an acidic property but more balanced ph property as well. Some medias when layered in right will always give you an even balance of color & ph property.
(I say ph property as it is a color reference but not due to the amounts of moisture content present for ph to actually be “present” )
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Oh okay thanks I never knew it would throw the ph off that bad that’s awesome to know!
so these w2 an t5 will be more balanced medias for the ph and they wont degrade the thca? that is very interesting thank you!
Correct yes
If you’re talking about filtering in a buchner I’m assuming you mean using ethanol. That won’t work to remove the colors efficiently. You’ll want to filter it in a closed vessel with an alkane.
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Okay I was just using that to remove little amounts of color and fats waxes lipids, just undesirables. And I haven’t used ethanol for any kind of remediation I just usually run the CLS -100•F and everything frozen.
First real Rock is forming!!! Thanks y’all!
For my second jar of sugar that I reX isn’t forming anything crazy yet?
Started a 3rd crash with some super terpy shatter, just redisolved into butane and filter minor fats and waxes. Now I’m just trying to find the solution supersaturation curve
I have been designing them for years.
Very cheap.