…you’re putting solvent in, right?
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do you have a microscope? Examination of the tricomb heads would be where I would start, if you see intact tricombs you are doing some thing wrong.
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Lmao yes, a shitload of it at that
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In the mail now. Should I hope to see neither stems or heads?
Still running Domestic freezer fresh frozen?
No this was cured 
330g of lower/mid nugs with 30lb of solvent got me 30g
Wtf.
Fresh solvent since running fresh frozen? And you upped your solvent:material already if I’m not mistaken?..
Have you extended your soak times at all?
I’m almost stumped lol
As long as the entire batch was as quality as the pic above, your yields should be solid…what did you pull from that material?
Something weird is going on.
It was. No trim, just 1 strain of nug for this run. It’s fresh solvent since I ran improperly kept ff, but I ran proper FF with it once before. I did a 45min soak with a bi-directional fill
Did you break the nugs up at all?
I’m stumped past that. Lol
Yep, rubbed each handful between my hands to break it down before lightly packing
What was your yield on that run?
This one landed at 9%, 30g from 331. Material was hung for a little less than two weeks, then sent my way and ran. Probably a little moisture left in it, but not much
look for the resin heads
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Ps if anyone thinks they could help, I’m certainly willing to compensate
This much moisture would be irrelevant. Imo
Send the material out for testing prior to running. So you know your input materials potency…
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You should be able to rub that extracted nug in your fingers, with a little force, and if you left a bunch of cannabinoids behind, you cal literally feel it on your skin. If those trich heads are intact, they will tell you when you squish it in your fingers.
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Put your hand on the line as it enters your column, record the weight of solvent that has left your tank when you feel it go past.
Injection path compensated for.
And yeah, we need pictures and plumbing.
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Did we ask what happens if you go again?
Same material. Fresh solvent. Clean collection.
It’s not ideal, but it is one method for getting a handle on what you’re leaving behind when you don’t have analytics.
Removing the material and repacking before going again is arguably more accurate than just going again. Your call.
As others have mentioned, a ‘scope (even decent phone camera) is extremely informative… if you still see balloons the party isn’t over yet 
Rubbing it gleefully between your fingers comes with rumplestiltskin status (practiced at turning straw into gold 
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Edit: I knew how to find that image. I think there are also some decent images of post extraction material around here, but I have no clue how to find them.
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these are better… still not post extraction, but worth the view.
…I mistook the SEM’s of split/empty trichomes as post extraction at some point. I suspect it was the sample prep now.
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Will measure the loss in injection path next time, but doing the math on my mt69 coil and 2x 48" 1/4" lines tells me around 3oz. I did run that material again actually. The first run was loose packed, then I stuffed all my spent material that day into one tube, ~2lb trim and nug, then ran it and got 14g of decent shatter (attached). Next time I’ll probably try an hour long soak or so, but I shit you not I put at least 30lb of solvent through that first run of 331g. Filled my 12x12 collection 75% of the way twice
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