Saving buds from Glycerine or PG extraction

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wired604

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Hi!
I have a question about this, I'm not sure it's feasible!

I made a few attempts to make PG and VG extraction, I kept the plant material because I read about snowballing, so I was intending to do it.

I ended up doing QWISO with ethanol rather than pursuing the VG/PG extraction due to QWISO being way more potent.

I was wondering if it would be possible to get back the remaining THC from those soaked plant material.
For example:
Should I try to put the not so dry plant material in alcohol and do a QWISO on it?

Let me know if anyone has already a thread on that or tried it.
Thanks!
 
qwizoking

qwizoking

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I think you mean qwet ..both use alcohol the first part stands for quick wash, second stands for alcohol used..

Other than that.. your not making much sense to me.....
 
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wired604

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darklawliet said:
Do you mean, clean and recycle your bud?
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Yes that's what I mean.
Since the plant material I'm refering has been soaked in glycerine and some other plant material is soaked in PG.
I was hoping to remove the PG/VG and then use the plant plant material left over in alcohol for a quick wash.

Should I just dump the soaked plant material directly in the alcohol and just proceed to a quick wash for about a minute?
 
darklawliet

darklawliet

Active Member
Ive never done it or heard of it being done. Im sure if you look hard into it you will find some answers if none get posted.

Personally id take this as a chance to expriment a bit and be the one with the answer :)
sadly thou that means smoking the bud, and you dont really want to be smoking unclean bud so be careful. Post your results :)
thou honestly i thing the thc wouldnt even be there or alive to actually bother with. Even if you clean the bud, youve allready harvested rescources from it. So i cant imagine it would be worth it. The thc levels of the bud id assume would be substancially lower.

Just go with what you feel comfortable and post your results because i for one would definately be interested to hear what you come up with :)
 
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wired604

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Thanks!

If I see that it will just make it evaporate or remain intact then I will extract. I'm thinking a longer wash because as you said some of the potency elements are already gone, but as per finding I should still have 70% of the CBN in the VG plant material (http://skunkpharmresearch.com/) and between 60% to 80% in the PG ( no scientific documentation found)
I was actually planning on looking of the effect that alcohol has on PG and VG to see the analyse possible impact.
That was my strategy unless someone knew!

Ill post my findings and approach if I choose one.
 
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wired604

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Not sure if I will attempt with PG
There seems to be some risk to convert the Propylene glycol into Ethylene glycol which is toxic.
The glycerin should work but ill have a higher concentration of THC in the glycerin, the main thing is that glycerine would evaporate after the THC evaporate, so ill have to quick wash my buds into alcohol and then let the alcohol evaporate, purge the remaining alcohol and i should have a glycerine imbued with some QWET.

I'm not so confident it will work. I'm not sure how the alcohol and the glycerin will mix
I would like to try and just side mix some alcohol and some PG, with a 2nd pot who would contain alcohol and VG.
See the results and make an informed decision.... the thing is I lack in scientific method to determine what needs to be checked with the liquid.

-How do i determine if there is alcohol
-How do I determine if the liquid is still VG or PG

Would it be simpler to just blend them into edibles? those were decarb'ed....
 
darklawliet

darklawliet

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Okay cool, an idea comes to mind with your PG dilema. Ethylene glycol binds to water correct, so if in the event of propylene becoming ethylene. And you could even try and force this.. you would beable to rinse off the bud with water to.
A) the ethylene will bind and rinse easy off.
B)any soaked remains will dilute.

After this i would put out the bud to air out for around 10 days to break down any remaining ethylene.

If you can force the change, the ethylene might be easier to clean ;)
When sampling thou, any distinguishably not weed sweet flavour would mean there are still traces of ethylene.

I wouldnt beable to say much for blending the alchohol and glycerin :P but again id love to hear what you find out! :)
 
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wired604

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The more I think about it the more I'm planning the idea to drop it all.
It seems risky since I'm not sure about the impact mixing both liquid will have. On top of it I have no equipment to test the final product before consumption so I wouldn't be able to get valuable data out of the experiment.

I will keep them in cold extraction until I feel like using them again.
I expect taste isn't going to be that amazing since they were used in previous hot extraction process.

But ill keep the snowballing concept in mind.

Thanks for the ideas.
 
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