You’re thinking, and that’s important. You just need the experimentation. Give me a bit, have something coming to demonstrate. @Shieskebab
Getting the morphology of the crystals is a fun trick. Requires a very pure solution.
Having anything that the THC can gather around causes a point to form.
Moisture, air, dust, all can have an effect on nucleation.
Mind blowing to me that early recipes called for adding water. @cyclopath
They must have loved snap-crackle-pop dabs.
Do you know how much 100ul is? Its like a drop of water, not enough to make your extract crackly or pop.
Pardon my ignorance but can you explain any more this addition of 100ul to the crude as anti solvent. I guess Im having trouble wrapping my head around how it would have enough effect. Im picturing a pin head size amount floating on top of a jar of crude I just poured from my recovery vessel. I’m assuming that’s incorrect but if youre able to add more I’d appreciate it.
Trying to reply to @thesk8nmidget but dont think I replied to him directly.
I know it’s very little, but just the concept of adding any, is already a head scratcher enough. Don’t mean to come off “er mer gerb-ish”
I do not know the mechanism of how it works, i dont even know if it does work, but i do know antisolvent is a real thing and can absolutely work wonders if you have it dialed. I didnt share the 100ul trick, I was just saying that 100ul in 1000g of extract isnt going to make it crackle.
Hmmm that’s a neat set of dynamics I’d enjoy scratching my head over.
Yeah it stops at -30, and it went a little over when I wasn’t looking for a minut but maybe more in the -30.xx. (one review stated the vacuum generator was to strong for the pot and could easely destroy it left unattended, but he was happy with it and stil gave 4 stars on the kit)
Haha, I think that was my review actually. I imploded the acrylic top of an Amazon “vacuum chamber” but didn’t really care too much because I bought the kit for the 7cfm budget 2-stage pump.
Lol, yeah oké, dont leave unattended, got mine from Amazon too, looks like same pot too.
My best assumption would be because it doesnt want to stay in the solution it tries finding ways out, and in the proces creates tiny water particels throughout the whole solution that get trapt, causing too many points of nucleation and then everything crashing out to sugar? Idk😂 finished high skool on healthcare on almost the lowest level, never really paid attention and later years didnt have no science stuff since I went healthcare.
My Latest little jars going:
The first one was a batch of mimosa×orange punch with budder like consistentancy that I wanted too crystalize, took about a week or so? (I should really wright stuff down)
And this one, wel I did everything I learned wrong on purpose.
I took decent little nugs, slightly on the wet side of cured (grow had almost no fluff)
Blasted it with 85/15 butane/propane blend, took material out, let if freeze by evaporation😂mixed and crunched a little and blasted again.
Repeated this 2 times, and for the hell of it I than let the material soak in the solution for a couple of minuts.
Al the solution was collected in one jar and capped when still liquid.
Liquid turned out dark as expected but
against what I expected stil crystalized and these look more defined than my previous ones, And still they keep forming around day 3/4.
Love making this stuff😂
See: Thc-a Recrystallization (alex siegel method)
Kind of like a really dry martini: “just mutter vermouth over the glass…”
All you really need to do in OR (most of the year) is whisper “anti-solvent”
…and with our current gas supply, no such incantation is necessary…
Might should move this…
What about a Medusa fix that involved mining in butane, over water?!?
(Nevermind, will create “floral water”)
Super cool.
I don’t seed, and I don’t do any extra voodoo if not necessary.
Curious to see the number of ways people instigate crystallization.
If I have a “dud” jar, I may use a needle utensil to place some points of nucleation on the very surface of the material.
But from there, low and slow.
Was gonna say, wouldn’t that suck up terps and other light volatiles.
Floral water sounds lovely though.
not if the reason you’re creating it is your butane needs a bath (comes in dirty from the manufacturer)…
so yeah, dumb idea number 600432
Believe so, some DI or Distilled water during distillation of dirty solvent in question, hopefully catching sulfides/mercaptans/other water soluble nasties.
If my memory serves correct.
Did I get a gold star sticker? @cyclopath.
I f@#$in’ live, for golden star stickers.
Not sure if it’s been mentioned before, but ostwald ripening is purty neato.
I took some crystals that were small sandy but clear and pretty clean of terps, about 150grams or so I decided to try a butane re x
Day 4
