I recently poured off the sauce seperation from my diamonds. The terp sauce still has a potency of 35% total THC (27.1% thca, 11.3% d9thc). With this being said, my terps have a high concentration of thca in the form of micro crystals making my terp sauce too thick. I plan to use the terps to flavor distillate/co2 oil pens so i want to decrease the viscocity. My plan is to add butane to the terps sauce, drop a seed in, letting it sit at cryo for 24 hours and then into the oven at 85 degrees F to attemp to crash out the remaining thca. Does anyone have any experience and advice they are willing to share to guide me through this. Also how do I know when my thca is done growing. I usually pour off the terps when there is no pressure on the lid. Thanks in advance for the support. (I don’t have a chemistry background so dumb it down if possible)
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If the sauce has visual micro crystals in suspension, just cap it up and leave it at 85f for 7 days. Your thca will end up on the bottom.
Decarb it all under pressure.
Pull vac on said vessel, then sweep/backfill with n2 to 5-10psi tops. Then toss on some heat.
Once all the micro thca is gone, toss it in the freezer to condense the terps that vaporized. You may have a slight variation on the profile, but it’s very very light. You’ll have thc in your terps still, but at least it won’t fuck your carts up by crystallizing.
You could gently distill the terps off
I see no need to add additional solvent.
A seed wouldn’t hurt.
Running through a centrifuge filter would get everything that has already crashed (linked above by @Alphaisolations)
Combining the advice so far; add seed, add heat, filter in a week or so.
Then decarb so it won’t happen again in your cart.
The simplest is to do what I said. I assure you, the thca will drop to the bottom in 7 days. Don’t touch the jar at all. You will not grow any larger crystals, but you will have a definitive separation of sauce and crystallized thca. Draw it off with a syringe or just pour it off and stop when thca begins to transfer.
There is further remediation, or you can just do what I do and whip the remaining thca and terps up and give it away to friends and family. Of course, I have an abundance of product at hand and all margins are satisfied with the “waste”
Can you link it? I tried to find it and couldn’t locate it.
Thanks in advance!
If you pull your extract out of the extractor and it’s full of butane still, how do you propose you pull a vacuum on the vessel? And how much heat would you advise?
What is happening here exactly? Is the thca decarbing enough to interfere with thca crystallization?
I do this with finished product.
I did it at 185-195c.
And that’s exactly what’s happening during the decarb
Breaking off the carbon molecule the A in thca. And converting it all over to thc or delta 9.
I mean he could add 10 parts butane and leave on dry ice for 24 hr…
Did you dewax?
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Whoops, I mean the centrifuge tube not the centrifuge.
Ahh ya idk ive never looked for them
Yes dewaxed at about -45 C for 1 hour