I was wondering if we could get a list of failures that people have encountered throughout their tenure in cannabis. In chemistry, people publish their success stories and barely mention any hiccups. I would like to gather all of the failures and put them into a categorized document or folder. I know that this could take forever, but it would definitely reduce the amount of time wasted on wild goose chases.
Decarbing crude in a SPD. Worse, heating nondecarbed crude in a closed SPD with the vacuum pump shut off, causing a hash volcano blasting out of the thermo port on the head Back in the learn by failure days
Dropping a centering ring into a CRC column with AC on top and my face over the column. Had carbon coating my face and the inside of my nostrils. I’m just glad it was AC and not silica.
Didn’t smoke hash oil for years because slabs and wax always were always lackluster except for a few exceptions. Jarred sauce techniques up quality drastically.
People are still making slabs though and I’ll never get it.
@anon93688 you should share some of yours on the reaction side.
To add for this thread, the iodine CBD—>CBN method described in the literature is not sufficient for scaled production, as you mentioned in the CBN thread.
Great idea for an amusing thread, @anon93688! I wish I had room in my brain for all the fails in detail, but I usually just do things the right way with vague but strong semi-conscious alerts to pause right before I make a mistake. I could definitely say what NOT to do if I were explaining a specific procedure, though!
Ooh! I know! Do NOT add a stoichiometric equivalent of cannabinoids as MgO to a distillation flask of crude! Less than a teaspoon per liter of crude is plenty! More than that will turn into concrete with the resin, fucking up the distillation mechanics, making you want to push the temperature way too high just to save it, which can generate an imploding fireball if you vent air into it while hot! Yes, you can reach the actual flash point of cannabis resin in a distillation process! If there is high CBD content, any incoming air will make the condensing vapor turn bright purple, too, but don’t risk it!
Oh I love this one we all been there. Eyes wide, excitement , this is gonna be greee… bang crash pow awww shit. I had a pressure filter looks so pretty slurry layer after layer… and foomp sinter disc imploded sucked shit in my shit awww shit
Ran 4.5lbs of fresh frozen with 500 grams of Activated Alumina in the extraction column and 500g T-5 in the CRC. Ran cold butane and cold column (-78°C) and what I got out contained no cannabinoids.