Disregard the color… it was pure white but since I tossed in sink dish soap mixed in.
Ok so I’m curious what this stuff is?
Was open blasting in my 2lb pressurized column… dry ice slurry and all… 10 celcius outside and rainy…
When emptying my tube into the pyrex, I noticed it foaming and frothing up alot. I didnt think anything of it… filled the pyrex(pyrex measure cup) and set on on the warm water to boil down…
While reducing I noticed foam would stick to side walls … and solution looked cloudy… and no signs of foam going away … I figured the dewaxing process may have not worked properly and I had fats waxed lipids and such… or that humidity had occured inside the tube and I had condensate trapped in my product…
My solution in the past to this was to put in deep freezer… 30 min… then everything would settle to the bottom and i would pour the clear liquid off and continue to boil down.
Anyways… after liquid poured off and put back to boil i had what looked like ice on the bottom (which I have had happen before when water/moisture trapped) I sit it aside to melt but it wasnt really melting much… moring after I noticed it turned to a white crystalline powder like in the videos.
What is this? Is this fats and lipids? Or did the thc crash out that fast and I tossed out a bunch ? Really what is this stuff?
Asked in a fb group and was told it’s the thca cold crashing in my extraction tube with the dry ice slurry… but looking for second opinions…
Just to reiterate… weed was buds… trimmed wet and dried for a week and then sealed … total time from chop til processing was about 2 weeks.
Ok … dang… would think I tossed at least 100g out… fuck me…
Si this is the “leftovers” from the last tube I emptied out… so this white stuff caked along the walls and right at the bottom that looks kind of like ice… that’s all thca?
Not capped… sitting in water outside bubbling away super slowly at about minus 7 Celsius… the water was not warm yet… and about an inch of ice formed around the bottom of the Mason jar
Here are a bunch more videos… as you can see it took me about 20 min but I redissolved all the white stuff in the first jar… and if you look at the new jars from tonight’s batch… you can see white stuff all along the bottom … this is jarred even before boiling down… just let it sit out 20 min in the -7 weather before I start to boil down…
Well it doesnt really… that’s why I made this post… I left the “ice” that was lined along the bottom of my pyrex measuring cups on the counter over night to melt… it didnt melt…so I tried to wash it out with soap and water and what you see in my very first post is what didnt want to dissolve in water.
What’s in the jars on the bottom I can get to redissolved if i cap the jar and shake it around a bit… but it will fall out within 30 min again
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