I may be a little late to the party but was been busy reading all I could before i started running this seasons new material. This is my first attempt at diamonds. It was fresh frozen Wedding Cake extracted with n-butane in a CLS. These pics are 14 days from extraction and 12 days from dry ice. I manipulated the temps every so often, never going above 90*F in the water bath, forcing the crystallization. I don’t care for large diamonds, per se. Also, this rested on a mini fridge with a box over the top covering the light so it wouldn’t be affected by UV, as opposed to putting it in a vacuum oven. I only have one vac oven and I’m using it for other projects. Gonna wait a few more days before I crack this open, wanna see if i can force precipitate any more out of the liquid/terp fraction. Thank you community!!
Man those look tasty. I was using one of my vac chambers but to free it up I bought a 10 gal fish tank at Walmart for $14 and this-> Amazon.com
I laid the tank on its side and cut cardboard and made a door .
Nice!! I love the clone mat underneath, genius! My concern would be light and UV affecting and breaking things down in the jars so make sure that’s kept in the dark
I wrap all my jars in foil it looks super tweaker
Okay I was actually just wondering if you could dumb down the process for me. Like what do you do? Do a pour up in a jar but have more butane in the pour up and not recover all butane? Then you put that on a chest of dry ice for a few days and burp the lid every 6 hours? When you do you see crystals? Can crystals be made with etoh? I also don’t have a butane recovery pump.
Started with dried trim…
24 days in jar, ran through CLS dewaxer plugged up, had to thaw dewaxer negating dewax, dumped in jars from dewaxer, boiled down from 3/3 to 2/3 placed in cooler with dry ice and iso alcohol overnight jars looked like this, slowly brought to room temp, with lids loose boiled to between 1/3 and 1/4 then capped right, one jar worked the other had to have more solvent added which the next day growth became obvious it will most likely turn to sugar terps
I wash using puretane from a can I set it on dry ice till it barely sprays, kinda break up the chunk then in a metal screen for sifting stuff I spray em off, if they are large not much melts, do quick fast then roll around, place on parchment then stick in vac oven and purge the butane off, they get a little foggy but pass residual tests every time.
Basically… evap the tane til it get super thick, then dry ice it. I actually poured my tane into a jar that had been pre-frozen in the dry ice and froze it right away. I prob shoulda reduced a bit of the tane first… I didn’t burp at all, just capped when I took it outta the freezer after letting it off-gas
U make me smile every time! I love how u got full bloom…was u getting full bloom before? Was material column dewax?
Looks spectacular!
I got that pretty much every time, sandy looking not like otssc but definitely something, yea it was a room temp everything except dewaxer, which I had to warm up I’d say partial dewax at best, cuz there was definitely wax on the filters but I’m sure it could a been better
This is the jar we had to add butane to we did not recrash and swirled around so its growing sand now lolhere is after about a week
about 2 weeks
Side by side
Is that a sheet of ice or dry ice
Haha nah bro it’s just foam, tiny pieces of dry ice there
Ok. So start off super cooling your tubes or gas. You want it to be at least -110f. Do your run. Then when you’re recovering. Pull it down to around a 3:1 butane:extract. So if you’re expecting 50 grams try to leave around 150 butane. Then pour into jar. Cap loose and stick on dry ice/isopropyl. No burping. After 48hrs you should have cold crash. Then take it out and leave at room temp for a bit. You dont want the cold crash to dissolve. But you want to evap about half the butane. At this point tighten the cap and place at 85°f.
1000 posts. Great thread
If u do cryo cold crash at the 1/3rd level (where would freeze over if u where seeding)
I’m finding I can cold crash there for 2-5min and get this every time… Would this be considered the same for smaller jars? Quart jars 1oz product in it…short way to do cold crash? Instead 24-48hrs? It even work inside my collection base I checked w that on my first run for experiment
O yeah and I’m finally not getting just white sand
It’s white bloby now! The pic doesn’t show but has white specs floating in liquid top part too
Even seeded the jar which I never do
Oyeah @cyclopath it didn’t MELT! Think I know what that means!
Just locked her down
Water thin still, got chunks all in it that didn’t melt, and they are not the seeds I put it…
I feel I can do in smaller jars but I’m still mastering these
Think I was doing it all wrong before…white sand only , to much solvent,
Frozen over solid, not enough
And @Otscc a 3:1 ratio solvent to oil really helps…u can really see the layer when cold
Also after 5hrs getting ready to move to heat
…my cold crash STONES that formed melted 
My seed did tiny bit but not all way… Next time I’ll let lil more evap before seeding… Maybe another 1/4… Wasn’t quiet super saturated I’m assuming…it’s art what can u expect…bet I get large chunks no matter what!
That layer on bottom is still really solvent rich… Even if using 3:1 my oil layer must be saturated also, damn lids bend up heavy EVERY TIME!
Way harder than my recover all solvent sugar jars… Scares me every time! Think next time I’ll let another bit solvent go before capping … After seeing jar explode got me all timid and shit…even burped this jars to get lid a lil push to it…bc was grown up ass much as it could go!
I can’t remember who on here but one of the smarter guys mentioned in a thread (maybe this one) that they cycle the temps so that crystals begin to crash on the cold side, then melt when it’s warmed. Once this cycle happens repeatedly, the crystals form much larger singular stones.
Whoever mentioned that, please correct me if I’m wrong or elaborate a bit on what I said
That’s exactly what I did, they got huge! I brought out warm up and back in over and over…
I think I must have sealed to early maybe bc my cold crash is always superficial…I swear you can see the clear puddles of thcA on bottom though
Has anyone notice that after too long in the oven their crystals decarb?
how do you tell it’s decarbed. does it change from a crystal to something else? It was my understanding that THCA will crystallize, however other forms of THC won’t.