Howdy all!
I just joined this community and I’d love to probe all of your experience in the cannabis field for my own venture.
I’m currently working on creating (or piecing together) an SOP for my own CBD production from Hemp. I have a lot of family and friends who are interested in CBD and I would like to produce for them.
What I have so far:
Decarboxylation - I do this as the first step, using an oven. I set the herb in the oven (set 125C) with a temp probe to let me know when the herb reaches 120C, where I set a timer for 45min for decarb.
Extraction - I have been doing ambient temperature extraction with ethanol inside a glass kimchi jar with a mixing head attachment. Extracting for about 40minutes.
Filtration - practically non-existent for the moment. I just use a cheesecloth to strain out the trim(shake).
Distillation - using a distillation set with a vacuum to reclaim some ethanol.
Thats about it. I’ll use this extract and mix it with sugar to put into mints, tablet, other edibles.
I’m looking to up my filtration game and potentially extraction, but do not want to kill my bank account. I’m willing to spend a couple hundred on upgrading, but I could use some guidance.
I was thinking about purchasing a buchner funel with celite 545 to get some of the unwanted particulates, but aside from that, I do not know where to start. I know that chilling ethanol can help with keeping unwanted chlorophyll and waxes from extracting all-together, but can I just get a styrofoam box, set some dry ice inside with a metal pot with ethanol inside to chill it?
Anyway, I know this is a lot, but I really appreciate any help you all have to offer.
You guys have really inspired me, thank you all so much!