might want to take a look at all the other folks’ pics including mine- acidic conditions cause crystallization of CBDa- if the PH in moisture content is higher, whether it’s the original plant material or the solvent, it remains a liquid and is great for keeping CBD from crystallizing- and they’re fragile when they do crystallize, but you’re looking at a bunch of crystals on this thread
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Wow, i appreciate the pics/videos feedback, it’s great to see others working on this as well, definitely inspiring.
@nostrum @Apothecary36 @Hansel Atleast from these pictures, and my basic understanding, it seems as though the handling characteristics of a high CBDA concentrate depend greatly on the temperature it is maintained at, and the potency/co-migrated impurities from extraction. So at room temperature, CBDA isolate tends to behave as a liquid? It differs from the pic that the @Thedistillator had shown. I would be really curious to see some COAs if you guys end up getting some analytics to compare them.
To the point about the crude, I had assumed Cryo-ethanol would be a great crude material for this since it doesn’t bring over as many waxes. However the material after LLE doesn’t quite behave like a runny oil at room temperature yet, which tells me that we have work to do on purity!
We haven’t had a chance to work with butane/propane extracts yet, but it’s interesting to see these pictures. I’m guessing the other benefit to those solvents is not having to worry about residual solvent removal - which seems to be a challenge if using cryo-ethanol or hexane extracts without de-carbing
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I’ve got cbda crystals that have been solid and stable at room temp for 3 months.
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We have had CBDa sugar out spontaneously in Butane extracted crude. I don’t have the CoA on hand at the moment since I’m on mobile but even the dirty crystals tested at ~85% CBDa. I’m glad more people with more time and equipment than me are seriously looking into this.
Edit: FYI that small Mason jar is still sitting on my desk with stable crystals after 5+ months.
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Well color me impressed. This is news to me! The extraction team just ran some ACDC I’ll have to get my hands on a SV full and see what kinda magic I can make happen. Have people done this with EtOH extracted?
these pics are at room temp
Well let’s assume that perhaps, just maybe, I have a different cannabinoid in front of me. Perhaps cbc or another minor. I will be sending out lab tests today
my chromatogram looks just like yours