And what’s the best Tek for growing the largest diamonds for those of us that don’t have access to some those things, maybe more hillbilly method LMAO… Which gave us some of our best creations! Cheers
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The best for growing large is the original tek. In jars
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Cheap anyway
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My reading of @Plant2pipe’s comment, is that he is suggesting spinning to separate the finished crystals from the remaining mother liquor.
I’m guessing the tek would involve a filter in the tube to hold back the crystals, and pass the terps. Almost identical to using a buchner, but with gravity turned up so that there is no need to wash with solvent at all.
something along the lines of https://www.coleparmer.com/i/sartorius-vivaspin-20-centrifugal-concentrators-pes-membrane-10-000-da-12-pk/3622472
which was the largest off the self option my 8sec google got me.
Edit: looking a little harder, the “concentrators” which is what the above is, do come in 250ml sizes, but they have a defined retention volume, so are not ideal for the purpose.
Which makes a basket style centrifuge the correct solution. At whatever scale you see fit…
https://www.google.com/search?q=basket+centrifuge&source=lnms&tbm=isch
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Adding to it … so I suppose the jars leaked a lot because the butane in about an hr & half long it completely dissolved and left me with a minimum of around 1 inch on tane … as well I got hooked up with this today by @PurgeLabs In Benicia I’ve been going to them since they started and since have been homies now ! It’s a pressure vessel. I know I can pressurize this with nitrogen but what would you guys recommend ?? Placing a single jar inside or filling it independently ?
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I’m no specialist but I think it would be much easier to just set a jar down in there something you can pull out and work with once it’s ready
i place my jar inside the diamond miner. I do my crash phase inside the jar. Place jar inside my diamond miner and place the whole miner in the oven at 80F. When the oven is full. I just leave the diamond miner outside as its about 80-85F here almost year round.
I really like you miner…pretty cool design!
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Sounds like the ticket for bulk separation.Still gotta wash them to clean the surface, or there gonna have that yellow look.
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Curious as to what ratio of solvent people are running. 10:1 in the original SOP is more than i’ve ever done.
Is this standard? I’ve been running roughly 4:1
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It doesn’t really matter if you use the same amount, just ratio it out… When it says 2/3 full or 1/2 referring to your mother solution, I usually get scared and don’t seal to at least right at half way gone or barely above, no matter if I had to pour into multiple jars or not
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On a normal shatter run, I think a 3:1-4:1 is pretty standard. When i saw the OTS Tek SOP, I too questioned the Solvent Ratio of 10:1 but the Original poster is running pretty cold so i imagine the wax pick up is minimal so they are trying to grab every last molecule of THC. Hence the over saturation of material with a ratio of 10:1.
Then the original poster does a second dewaxing in their buchner funnel attachment to remove the waxes that did get picked up hence purifying their mix. The last step make the HT easier to pour off. When not dewaxing like the origanal poster. My mother liquid is thick and it seems to take forever to pour of if i can at all. Never thought of the second dewaxing until reading their post. Now its made this process much easier for me.
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Try using keep the vessel and pressurized it. That vessel has a lot of room for pressure to build so if you’re not pressurizing it then its gong to evaporate to fast. You can pressurize it by either adding butane or adding nitro.
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when using nitro for pressure is it safe to assume that more pressure = faster diamond growth? and if so would there be an issue with going with around 200 PSI or more?
no. thats not a safe assumption
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No pressure. more pressure doesn’t equal less time. The pressure is only there to slow the evaporation. Because evaporation and growth go hand in hand. There really arent any ways to speed up growth. You can speed the process but the will cause more smaller diamonds.
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Even without cryo i still get better yields and the same quality doingna 10:1
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Hey new here just wanna say thanks to all for the info!
I just got my diamond miner last week and had a few questions.
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I ran out of dry ice over the weekend so I only had it on cyro for about 30 hours tops. I left in a regular freezer for another 2 days. Is this going to effect things? If so is there anything I can do?
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I’m a little bit confused about what to do after. My vessel looks about 1/3 full. It’s sitting at 85f right now and it’s about 22 or 23 PSI. Do I just wait lol? Do I burp? Will all the solvent evaporate eventually?
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Seems like you are on the right track. Is the PSI consistent? I believe you should just wait at this point. Cryo isn’t entirely necessary to the process.
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Ya its been the same PSI for the last 12 hours or so. Thanks!
The cryo esentially is just to speed the process up. It gets the thca to the bottom. Taking off weeks of waiting. (Actaul times varie. This has the ability to cut down time. If executed properly.)
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