Ah … so … I’ve been absolutely flummoxed with respect to wash times. The “home made” tincture recipes always stress keeping it in solution for a very long time (days to weeks or longer), and taking it out and shaking it regularly. Often there is a suggestion that shaking it longer or more often will help. Where does this come from? All the pros in forums I’ve seen seem to suggest times like you guys did. Any ideas on why this disconnect persists? I would have thought the edible recipes/tincture people would have heard by now?
Also it looks like I’m losing a fair amount of THC enriched solvent in the plant matter at the end, which is a very sad thing. So the longer I keep the plant material soaking, the more time is available for the plant to soak up Ethanol, is that correct? And ironically, longer soak times lead to a worse extraction rate as it’s going to be THC enriched ethanol that is lost in a longer soak (vs. say QWET)? Wow, how irritating.