Decarbbed diamonds fully, no bubbles.
When do I add HTE?
Do not want to decarb HTE with diamonds obviously.
Already filled a small batch of disposables. Some came out cloudy, and others nice transparency.
My question is, how do I avoid the foginess or “crashing out”?
Nothing fancy. Hot plate and stirrer. Sharbb cart filler. Doing about 30% HTE to diamonds
How was it extracted and crystallized? Were you open blasting and doing jar tek or using a closed loop and a miner? Cloudiness could be fats depending on your extraction conditions.
The HTE is still going to have fats, lipids, and THCa that will cause clouding, especially at 30%
Only other thing I could think of is your stir bar being inefficient for homogenizing. Not knowing your budget or size I’d recommend the Scilogic Overhead Stirrer.
Dewaxed HTE
Not sure of the tek used to extract diamonds.
Heard.
So proper stirring maybe needed.
Is 30% too much of a percentage as well?
Do you know how it was dewaxed? If you could post a picture of the HTE and/or the clouded carts that might help diagnose the cause.
If it’s fully decarbed you’ll have no bubbles whatsoever or pressure forming if it’s in a sealed jar. At least 160f. If any amount of bubbles or pressure at all form it’s not done which will contribute to cloudiness.
I haven’t done this in a few years but can’t you dissolve whatever in methanol and then freeze the shit out of it to see if there’s chunks of fats/lipids in it after a bit of water applied a certain way. I forget what the full process was so don’t go by me at all. @Roguelab could probably elaborate way better than me though. Might need more cooling power than what’s easy to find though.
Didn’t ask how either. Just gave you an idea of how you check yourself.
I sure see a lot of bubbles? You know HTE can have micro-granules of THCA in it as well especially if it was spun out. Almost looks like crystal formations happening. If that’s the case it’s not decarbed.
This is just the dewaxed HTE… not sure if decarbbed. Didn’t decarb in my process, only applied little heat to draw into cart gun.
I do see bubbles as well, looks like sugar on rim as well.
Treat me like a rookie, but teach me like a pro 
I’m learning as I go
check to see if your THCa was cut with CBD
happens quite a bit
No worries, not trying to make anyone feel bad. I don’t think dewaxing is your issue, I see formations happening in there. The left vape looks more like granules which is cloudier the right one looks like the crystals are forming so it looks clearer. There’s a bunch of threads on here about THCA formation/crashing and also how people spin out their HTE - strongly suggest reading them even if you have no interest in manufacture/extraction of those because then you’ll at least have the basis for what you’re looking for. You got this, bro
I personally decarb at 160f which is low and slow but still keeps it fast enough where I don’t go nuts watching it. I always make the joke that it’s like drowning a man, you don’t stop til the bubbles do.
What are signs big chunk THCa diamonds would be cut with CBD*?
Smell, color?
TIA
They wouldn’t form as a crystalline substance together
Heard. Thank you, I been googling and searching, but I’ll search deeper.
Would you recommend me decarb the HTE with the fully decarbbed diamonds for a better product ?
AKA, seperation as I see in my products now or…?
TIA
they can’t co-crystallize?
I’ve seen a bunch of results of it mixed on COAs, can’t remember if it was only powdered isolates or not
I would say do yourself a favor and maybe decarb half a shotglass worth of the HTE and once it’s bubbling see if it’s changed the terpene profile at all, if not what’s the harm. Then you can mix it at different ratios and hit the sweet spot vs. all of it mixed in
Do this in a sealed jar so you don’t boil off the volatiles btw, sorry for not including this previously. It might make a difference, it might not - either way, better safe than sorry.
I mean if you’re getting big chunks of THCA chances are I would say no? Honestly just from a business perspective to me I don’t see why they would do it because almost everything when purchased in quantity is gonna get a 3rd party COA done on the customer’s end anyway and those don’t look like small jars so why shoot themselves in the foot?
race to the bottom + no one to hold anyone accountable. 350/kg for cbd, 1500ish for thca, there’s definitely a financial motive to try
