The jar on the far left (and which I’m holding up) is the pour off of the top of their first terp attempt from several weeks ago that was allowed to sit on a shelf undesturbed, although at room temp and not well sealed.
The other 3, are from right to left, 5 min, 10 min, and 15 min pulls @ ~700psi and ~45 F on the cyclone
The hemp going in had decent nose, but was ugly.
The 3 pulls need to be filtered/dewaxed, and then they are off to a client who isolates the individual terps.
Kinda surprising what the terp pulls look like. I was expecting something more clear. Very interesting to see. What is the ballpark ratio of terps to contaminates? Curious to see the results after filtering and dewaxing.
The color comes mostly from the cannabinoids. The trick is to remove the terps from the cannabinoids by fractioning off the individual terps and leaving the cannabinoids in the boiling flask. We are still working out our process and have only done it at small scale. We still need to get some lab work done to see if we have terp loss with our method. After we know it is a solid method and that we are not loosing terpenoids I will gladly share more details.
Yes cold with as much vac as you can swing. Just need enough to bump those terps off and to cool them ASAP so they drop in the collection flask before they make it to the cold trap. A nitrogen sparge is a great idea will have to try that out.
Hey @Future Former Vitalis Member here, close friends w Stringy and the boys at AGMS. Separatory funnel for 24 h, and then 25mm syringe filter will clean those up great.
