My freezer isnt blast proof. Never had an issue. Youll want to do short room temp periods to evap some of the solvent but not allow the cold crystals to dissolve.
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The plant fats dont really effect it that much honestly. Unless youre a true connoisseur you cant taste a difference.
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No once youve fully vacced the terps youre good to go.
No the white solid layer it forms is the thca. These are cold crystals. When you cap and apply pressure they will dissolve and form a seed layer of clear liquid. As the solvent evaporates itll build more and more pressure which in turn pushes down on the seed layer compacting it more and more until its forced to crystallize.
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Cap them and freeze them. Pulling a vac isnt going to purge the crystals. They are as low as they are going to be. Freezing them is to make sure they stay fresh while the terps are finishing
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There is no second phase in the freezer. We put the crystals in the freezer while the terps are purging to keep them from oxidizing. Once the terps are purged then you can either gram them out seperately or together or what ever you want to do with them thats the end of the sop youre finished.
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They will. I like to pour off then cap the crystals for a secondary crystallization. And NEVER EVER use etoh on your crystals. Use cold pentane.
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Getting cold will help with other contaminates but generally doesnt stop plant fats from carrying over. Ive found the only way for this is a dewaxing between the collumn and the honey pot.
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I use cold etoh, no problems here.
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In any structural situations, your damage will always occur at the weakest park of your structure (glass jars or thin soft steelā¦if the pressure gets to high, then chances are it will pop the lid before your jar breaks, but its always nice to be prepared with preventative measure, constant monitoringā¦and common sense 
(ps. Iām not trying to be a smart ass with the ācommon senseā commentā¦its sad how many people truly lack common sense these days 
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Iāve done this same process as well. No in online dewax. Great cured larf/trim. Crybath for 2 days and I get the same reaction. In the jar the bottom half is a yellowish layer that seems cloudy and a more clear liquid layer above the yellowish layer.
I donāt think wel get th independente Crystalās like others are achieving when they use an inline dewax. But I have been able to take the crystals from a non dewaxed run, washing through with very cold alkane then dissolved in a very cold alkane. Then back into cryo bath(crash). Then 2 days later there is a white layer of separation instead of yellow. It doesnt have a ābloomā look just as the examples that have been posted. Then again I think that has to with having an inline dewax.
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I didnāt think you were being a smart ass. I recognized quickly exactly what you explained about the weak points. Expecting every jar that its unused before I use them. And yes very careful monitoringā¦ we have been able to build our own miner from spare parts this past week and going to test it out with mason jars on the inside of it.
Iām thinking lid jars in the pressure vessel and place in oven for 2 weeks. Set and forgetā¦ besides monitoring
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I made mine like that. A mason jar goes into a piece of sanatary spool without the lid. The minerās screw onto the jacketed platter, when you release the liquid to the miner there is no risk of butane in the air.
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Ive been able to do everything dewaxed and non dewaxed. They all work the same for me. I have had the separation of layers like youre describing but i left it in cryo for another few days and bloom was still achieved.
this diamond attached is from non dewaxed.
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How are you growing crystals that large? All of my batches tend to only have a couple decent sized one (few mm across) but the overall consistency looks like caviar.
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in my experience yes, some of the biggest crystal formations I have gotten are from non dewaxed runs, but the terp portion was garbage compared to if I had dewaxed
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was the terp portion really difficult to work with, or just tasted awful?
the terp portion was definitely harder to work with , less of a liquid state and lacking clarity, containing some cloudiness
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Iām still dubious about performing this trick in a standard freezer.
I imagine the fire marshal would be even more dubious.
an actual pressure vessel in an exhaust hood seems more responsible.
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Have anyone been able to crystallize from running mid grade material that has been frozen with liquid n2 immediately after harvest? From most the people Iāve talked to they have said the starting material has to be great to form crystals.
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