Slightly off topic but…
Anybody else ever plant those seeds after extraction? I have gotten about a 10% success rate after butane extraction of seeded bud.
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So my phone got swiped off a bar in Vegas and I lost the pics, but basically got a little bit of dark gooey oil that most likely had seed oil in it. I would have expected something more shatter like without the seed oil, and the smell was not something I wanted to smoke. I was just selling crude, so I didn’t want to risk it, and took the time to sort the seeds.
Anybody else running seeded into distillate? Guessing its fine for isolate?
I’ve ran buds with seeds in it for crude and didn’t have a problem they actually grew in the pile of spent material that being said, mine wasn’t heavily seeded . Break it all up and get as many out as possible, because like future said if you get seed oil in there it will never be the distilate people want if it’s not hard and solid st room temp
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Client wants me to run trim with seeds via ethanol extractions into distillate. Seems pretty safe to say that it would be a terrible idea, resulting in runny seed oil contamination???
That would be my response…
@Roguelab has posted use of an open source seed cleaning machine that he’s had success with.
This critter DIY Seed Cleaner Aspirator from RealSeeds
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From my experience seeded material doesn’t effect the output material unless it had been ground up via combine or mill.
Last year we had someone turn 20% seeded material into crude using ethanol. Then someone else distillate it. It made an amazing product over 90% total cannabinoids and crystallized just like anything.
We then had the remaining biomass combined versus hand shucking and basically no one wanted to process it because once the seed shells have been broken then the hemp seed oil will be extracted out and they explained it’s hard to separate the seed oil from CBD.
So this year we hand shucked 20k seeded lbs in Hope’s of avoiding the hemp seed oil. Still sitting on all 20k right now if anyone wants to test it 
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thank you! needs replication, but seems like a useful data point.
@Future, was that tri-crop you made seed oil with milled to hell and back?
@Roguelab, are you deseeding before EtOH or hydrocarbon (or both)?
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Before hydrocarbon only warm runs
With etho I do not have a real problem
With butane the seeds pick up volume also wich i find annoying and the desseding is beeing done by minions so that’s easy math
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or maybe I should just read !!
@LNK seems like you can probably get away with (cold) ethanol on that seeded material if it hasn’t been hammer milled…
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If I run seeded material, is it just the yield being effected? Or will I capture hemp seed oil in the crude?
That being said, What would be the easiest way to separate the seeds from biomass before extraction? Thinking some type of mesh/wire screen…
Not sure how I overlooked that. Looks like a trip to the hardware store is in my near future. Thanks man
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I have a pimped version where all measurments are X4 with a 2400m3 an hour torin as motor and I can clean approx 100 kg an hour
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Did you buy or build? Looking for the most cost effective solution and it seems that building is the best bet.
Build not that hard
at first I build it all in wood no acrylic glass so whoever saw it didn t know how it works
But you need to be able to see the seperation to adjust air speed
If only at the intake slot
I also made a big box underneath where all the leave biomass falls into
To avoid having to open the damn latch every time
Yust seal all connections with silicone
(Not perfect adhesive but food safe)
You will want a hole in the side to poke the biomass mountain inside the box once in a while
at first I build it all in wood no acrylic glass so whoever saw it didn t know how it works
But you need to be able to see the seperation to adjust air speed
If only at the intake slot
I also made a big box underneath where all the leave biomass falls into
To avoid having to open the damn latch every time
Yust seal all connections with silicone
(Not perfect adhesive but food safe)
You will want a hole in the side to poke the biomass mountain inside the box once in a while
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I built a huge one of those to clean trim of fan leaves back in the day. Worked like a champ, 2 shop vacs and a hopper and i was good.
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We put a lil round swing door on the side to control vacum, mine was for fan leaves so it was alot bigger but they do work great
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I use a variac on the torin works also good
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Theres plans on the net, thats where i got mine from and then just built bigger
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