Lots of experiments have been done as fas as changes in sops. From cold crashing to not cold crashing to room temp (62f) to ovens ranging from 75 up to 100. All have still resulted in the Medusa stone issue. If you can think of it, it has been tried. There’s about 4 of us actively working on figuring out this issue for months. It was something that came out of no where.
Then a few months ago we noticed other extractors getting similar formations when they never had before as well.
Now just last week another extractor is 100% getting the Medusa stones. We run I would say more then the average company and I have a feeling because we were going through tanks faster then others we noticed it first.
For the longest time we thought it was something that tainted our equipment which is why we did so many extra cleanings and even set up a small system with new parts with fresh gas and got the same results. We had switched to ln2 to generate pressure for n2 assist and there was a time we thought this was the issue so we went back to n2 tanks and cleaned the system and got all brand new lines and valves and the issue still persisted.
Now I’m really leaning to it being something in the gas, but we are on the 3rd gas company with same results so far. (Not long enough to see if the newest company turns to stone) but the formations are exactly the same as prior. And for what ever reason it wasn’t until we started seeing these super square fast growth crystals that we saw this issue.
Lastly just want to re-iterate that when we re-x in pentane the diamonds do not turn to stone. Nothing shows in any of the coa’s for finished product besides some residule butane. No benzene has ever tested in our products or even gas that we have sent out pre distil.
I appreciate everyone that has taken time on their thread to try and put in their 2 cents.
All of the material is from multiple growers. Happening to all the biomass we process whether its an old harvest or a fresh harvest. We specifically had one harvest we got a considerable amount of material of, half way through us processing it is when the issue started to appear. When we had gone back to the batch, after we noticed the issue, that batch then started to react like the rest.
Got some in the oven will see how they turn out. We had previously tried heat: it either dissolved the formations with us unable to induce growth again or the stones started to medusa in the jar.
The batch that started medusaing half way through it we actually had a pour where half the pour meduased and the other half stayed beautiful rocks. Weird ass shit
Though we are not doing anything to induce/speed up growth. Before all of this it would take anywhere from 4-8 weeks to get a jar to look like the one above.
They sit on racks 30 ft away from any equipment that gives off a frequency. All our hvac is even pretty far away. And once again that theory doesnt hold up considering he same spot was having 0 issues before March and nothing in the facility changed.
Why did the distillate fail so hard for butane? Just curious but back to topic… i still resell goods from my 2/3 of the facilities i produced for and have yet to see/hear anything like this occuring with both sites running nearly 500 units dry daily. They do run ff as well without issues just slower crash times due to terp-cannabinoid ratio
Maybe im skipping some messages so sorry if this has been interated already… what powders are being used and at what volume? Source of powders? If something is occuring with crystallization id wager its a purity/contaminant issue(obviously) and considering the fractionating process of oil giants these lighter hydrocarbons are seperated pretty well/easily with their several story high fractional towers. Could it be the gas most definately but considering they distill oil in high population cities i think its safe to ASSume their process is a lil more refined than the dirt diggers. (MIT has a pretty cool 8ish min video explaining their distillation process on youtube.)
Im sure our industry has substantially created demand and we cant expect a pit in the ground to reliably give the same composition forever(this is psuedoscience and a random belief on my end)
Id lean more against powders, maybe the source is running low and its being cut, maybe its just more speculation on my end cause there were some shortages not long ago.
Disclaimer - do not start a rumor of this and the powder companies this is purely speculation as ive noticed most legal labs run different powders than my previouz and is why im speculating so. We/they also bought a couple tons of it before the shortage and nothing like this has yet to occur with old stock .
Some frequencies are beyond what we would notice or even feel. Have you taken bio and fuel to another location and run it on another machine to see if the problem persists?
