Yo anyone seen thca turn pink. This rapidly crystallized and looked fine but two weeks later and it’s pink…
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It’s common in material where a bit too much CRC powder was used
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Weird cuz it took 2-3 weeks for it to happen what mechanism of crc oils do that? I’ve seen AA turn a slight red, but bright pink? This is CRX
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It could be that it started right away and you were only able to notice it later on once it advanced to a certain point
Oxygen and surface area seem to cause this
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Picture?
I have made pink and purple “shatter” from thca before. It was well before crc was even a thing.
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I would press thca in parchment on heat. The amount of time dictated color. I could do clear, various shades of pink, purple, dark purple.
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I see this if I cold crash THCa after running fresh frozen (with no media), pour off the terps and leave the cold crash bloom undisturbed for a few weeks. Not exactly sure what’s happening. Last time it happened I put the car in the ove. At 160F for a couple hours and the pink portion turned back yellow. It’s been a couple weeks since then and that jar is starting to turn pink again.
It also has a distinct smell that isnt true to the strains profile but the terpene portion seems unaffected
How long would stay that color before it turned yellow or brown?
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Honestly the surprising thing that I noticed was how slow it got darker. I expected it to be fairly quick but I left a few grams of the pink stuff on my table for months. It slowly turned purple being left completely open to atmosphere.
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I called it “controlled oxidization”
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THC quinone or how ever it is spelled?
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Wish I had analytics but those test were me just fucking around for fun. You could also call it a controlled decarb. And that may be the answer as to why it darkens at close tot he same rate as shatter left out on a table. The remaining acid groups working as anti ox
If I had to guess I’d say it’s from low ph from over crc
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Are we sure there’s no CBD in there causing pink? I know this is about BHO but I have found something interesting in my learnings:
I see pink quite a bit in my heads from D8 production, and I have a hunch that it is the CBD quinones causing the pink because it definitely diminishes to water clear throughout the course of the run which I believe is caused by the acidified adsorbents in the boiling flask converting the residual CBD into THC. I will be testing all of my fractions in house to try and isolate the cause of the pink here real soon.
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I have some pink live resin if anyone wants to try a derb
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Your hunch is right just like duke is right quinone
image source @Photon_noir (sorry put gratephil first time)
Ive also seen pink cbn. Super light pink diamonds were going round hawaii around valentines lmao!
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When I dab diamonds in my puffco and don’t clean it they turn from clear to purple. Also bad diamond decarb sops will yield a purple end product. Me thinks they may all be linked. 
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What type of filtration are you using? I’ve seen this with the tail end of a batch stuck in w1 and ultra clear after it was finally pushed through. Assumed it was from the extended residency time as the rest of the run was golden.
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