Haha nah bro it’s just foam, tiny pieces of dry ice there
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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.
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1000 posts. Great thread
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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!
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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
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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?
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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.
Melting into an oil
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what vac levels/temps do you notice this happening at? My last run I threw in the vac at room temp and didn’t notice anything, but it was only in there for a few hrs at most. Would be a cool way of decarbing though, melt crystals until it’s just an oil that way you can be sure everything has been decarbed
Ur not reaching temp to decarb in ur oven at 80-90f…100c was decarb I thought…but I haven’t in a year so idk
I was under the impression that under vac the temp needed for decarbing is greatly reduced, so that with the addition of more time would definitely result the decarbing process starting
Not at 80-100f no
This from some pretty reputable guys!!! I’d have to say so myself at least… and I believe everyone else around here will agree
I use vac too…it will speed up for sure…but to change molecular bond temp needs to be much higher
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Sorry buddy but decarb is not dependant solely on temperature it’s a little bit more complex.
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Decarb reaction rate
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Cool chart! Idk how to read it 
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sorry, here is the source with explanation:
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I’m no brain so just to understand this in for dummy term…
At 70f… which I do all the time (normal room temp storage)… Then material after a year(it says 3k hrs, which like 140days…so let’s say it’s stored room temp storage containers for year…
It won’t make diamonds bc it’s decarbed? Hmm somewhere my brain can’t handle that
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Maybe they some science behind it I’m not understanding…or maybe the chart not in hrs…but after reading few looked like it was…help me understand buddy…I wanna get it completely!
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