Missiles's Shenanigans!

Myfriendis410 · October 17, 2019, 9:44pm

Glad to see you point that out.

My friend who is a retired Food Science Professor at Cal Poly SLO is now working for a company in the medical cannabis field. I asked him how he would do an alcohol extraction and this is what he told me:

Freeze flower and alcohol separately. 1 gram flower loosely broken up per ounce of alcohol. Higher proof is better. Mix and shake vigorously for 30 seconds. Return to freezer and every 15 minutes agitate, to either 45 minutes to an hour max. Pass through filter and sparge with fresh spirits. This will supposedly extract 99% of the available cannabinoids without damaging the flavor profile.

blackthumbbetty · October 17, 2019, 9:51pm

My blackheart doesn’t allow such things.

AAA · October 17, 2019, 9:53pm

Well, I might adjust my sample techniques based on your post, but I still want to try agitated vs non.

Again my goal is to try and reduce the amount of peripheral matter that finds its way into the extraction to have a higher quality oil.

If the amount of cannabinoids not extracted because of non agitation is let’s say 5-10%, I can live with that if the quality of the oil is that much better.

Myfriendis410 · October 17, 2019, 10:04pm

Temperature is another variable though. Freezing the spirits supposedly helps in this regard. Plus; frozen gets far less chlorophyll.

AAA · October 17, 2019, 10:11pm

Non agitated will be frozen. Agitated won’t be. At least that’s what I’m thinking now.

But, maybe I make agitation the only variable…

blackthumbbetty · October 17, 2019, 10:14pm

Yes. That!

Myfriendis410 · October 17, 2019, 10:41pm

Multiple variables is called the ‘shotgun approach’ and does make it harder to pull meaningful data…frozen extraction greatly reduces the amount of chlorophyll in the extract which may also contribute to the thickness of your finished material.

What color is your tincture when you strain it? Green? The frozen stuff is kind of amber.

AAA · October 17, 2019, 10:59pm

Green, but I put in the sun for an hour or two to remove/kill it.

I do the alcohol in the jar with buds for no more than 20 minutes while shaking the jar.

Bubblehead · October 18, 2019, 2:15am

Looking good ours are almost the same age!

blackthumbbetty · October 18, 2019, 4:28am

Putting in the sun can also degrade the cannabinoids. Just a heads up.

AAA · October 18, 2019, 4:42am

Thanks. I’m eliminating that step this go round.

I tagged ya in the O fical thread. To agitate or not.

blackthumbbetty · October 18, 2019, 10:24am

Thanks for the tag!

abouttime · October 18, 2019, 5:09pm

Interesting read…nice job.
You guys are really a step ahead of me for sure!! Dont know if I can sacrifice the buds for it!!

blackthumbbetty · October 18, 2019, 6:56pm

Trim works just as well, you just need to use more of it.

abouttime · October 18, 2019, 7:35pm

Got it @blackthumbbetty, thanks, I guess I’d rather use my trim for bubble hash!
How ya doin?!?!

AAA · October 18, 2019, 7:43pm

My very first batch of FECO was sugar leaves from very sticky Afghani.

I got a 10% return and it was every bit as strong as the second batch I made with buds. But to the trims credit, it was just the sugar leaves and they were very sticky!

abouttime · October 18, 2019, 8:04pm

No doubt the trim packs a punch @AAA, I did manage to salvage something good out of two spoiled amnesia autos and a blackberry kush from the trimmings. They made great hashishish!

Gremmall · October 21, 2019, 12:31pm

I found this thread last night @Missiles. How this journal (that lots of my fav members post on) went under my radar is beyond me lol. I’ve got the button set to watching even though I’m only 200 posts in lol. I’ll be back with a proper critique after I catch up but so far so good

Missiles · October 21, 2019, 12:50pm

Glad you found me @Gremmall this journal just gets going and going lol Welcome aboard the crazy train

Gremmall · October 21, 2019, 1:56pm

The universe should have known better than to try and keep us apart lol…now it’s in trouble