I actually wasn’t referring to you sir or your facility, the only reference I made that associated what you said was about the growers & what products they may or may not use. The facility i mentioned I worked with for over a year & also had family work at for the last 3+ years.
You may be Bigoil but your ego doesn’t help you.
Also cause the folks it’s happening to are also extracting cannabis… something that in large production pest/ mildew/ molds do occur, whether you’d like to think so or not.
Also I was at your lab for a consecutive 5 days. While shadowing your extractors to learn the flow of the facility.
If you have upped your filtration/crc from what it was with just a couple filter plates on the end of a column, kudos.
I’m a lazy piece of shit who has operated some traps in the boonies and there has been a time or 20 when jars may have not gotten washed and they still popped out diamonds
My official opinion on this is that something didn’t get fractioned off and made it into the tanks of butane and propane and is messing up the lattice and trapping solvent into it which then evaporates and creates enough inclusions that the lattice falls part into chalk
The minute you reform that in pentane it’s all good.
The pentane doesn’t have the contaminant or it doesn’t influence the saturation curve enough to form too quickly and trap solvent.
I would just start cold crashing everything into chalk and skipping the middle man and go str8 into pentane.
So do you have a theory on how we can make it happen on purpose?
For it to be this the impurity would have to be something soluble in butane but readily evaporates or melts at ambient temp and pressure. But can stay a solid at cold temperatures.
It may be a solvent that’s a bit more polar that doesn’t have a great affinity for butane but does have an affinity for THCa, if there’s not a lot of it present it should no trouble incorporating itself in the mixture homogenous.
If that solvent had a higher boiling point than your butane/pentane I guess it could work itself into the lattice as your alkane evaporates and your crystals grow with the unknown solvent inside them. Then at normal pressure/temp it can evaporate, causing smaller crystals to grow from bigger ones as it does so.
I would think it would just go into the mother liquor tho.
I think by this logic a tiny amount of ethanol or acetone might be able to make it happen on purpose?
Solvent seems like the most likely candidate but the super strange thing is I have some batches growing that specific structure in some jars but not all. We have not removed the crystals from the jars yet.
This is from the same biomass I’ve been running all of the past year. It’s terpy fresh frozen and grows nice diamonds already. But the shape of the crystals is different. More rectangular or like elongated hexagons.
Has anyone asked their solvent supplier about analytics and quality assurance measures? I’m sure they’ve been made aware at some point. I use Solvent Dirent and can honestly say (as an ex-doubter) it’s consistently cleaner than most of the butane/propane I’ve used over the past 8 years of BHO extraction.
