UGH! I have a story for you guys.
So i got some trim that looked amazing, for trim, over 350gs of it. Smelled not too bad, like trim that had been frozen for a month or so. And a good split with 2/3 goin to us and the grower only wantin 1/3 So i got to runnin it and it was all goin smooth. Use up almost a whole case after runnin 5 tubes at about 70-80gs per tube. So we have our hotplate set low as always with a pan as a buffer in between. It was a lot colder than usual outside, around 50 vs the usual 70-80, so when we came back after the last blast aand saw it was runny we just thought the combo of cold weather chilling the hot plate/buffer pan plus having blasted 350gs which even at like 5% is 17 ish grams. That much oil is usually pretty runny in the medium sized pyrex we have since its so thick. So we bring it inside for the scrape and heres where the bulllshit starts.
Grab a razor and first line, ZERO stickiness. The stuff flows like its not even touching the bottom of the pyrex. So right off the bat im 99% sure i know whats wrong. So we pour off whats left onto our PTFE sheet that we do the first purge on incase large amounts of excess hydrocarbons are left in it. The stuff flies out of the pyrex almost like its OILED........
At this point im now positive i know what it is. But we start the heat and let it sit at 100 degrees to see if maybe the large amount/outside cold temps kept some butane trapped in it. No real reaction to the heat couple bubbles but only for a few seconds. So we say fuck it and throw the lid on and pull a vac. Get about 28.5" and the stuff starts bubbling mad like its completely unpurged and filled with butane. We watch closely and over the next 30-45 minutes it doesnt stop.
By then i knew exactly what it was. Or i thought at least. NEEM OIL!!! This was my first guess because a lot of growers see "use up to 2 weeks before harvest" on the bottle and do just that. Even though a good grower knows if you have a bug/mold problem to take care of it in veg because it only gets worse in flower. Better hold back a crop a week or 2 rather than spend 8-10 weeks fighting bugs/mold. They also mistake that "2 weeks before harvest" because that is more for fruits and veggies, which have hard outter skins that you can rinse off before ingesting.
So i call my friend who knows him and im pissed! I now have about an OZ of nasty contaminated oil that i want to throw in the growers face. He gets ahold of the guy and its EVEN WORSE???? I didnt think it was possible. One one hand the result is slightly better but not much.
HE USED COOKING SPRAY!!!!!!! Like pam or canned olive oil........... I wanted to chop every one of this guys plants down for being such a fucking SCRUB at growing. His excuse was "it drowns out all the bugs" Yeah fucking idiot, along with the taste and smell of your weed. Why even fucking grow if youre going to make it nasty as fuck! Its one thing to have a not awesome pheno or be a newb and mess up on nutes so it turns out so so. But for a guy who, according to him, has grown for over 5 years he knows NOTHING about growing/extracting.
So the only positive side to him using cooking oil is that ill be able to put it into gel caps without the potential effects of eating neem oil on my mind. FUCKING SCRUBS! i swear, i had my friend give him a good yell for wasting our time and money on some poop. We told him dont even talk to us unless you have a completely untouched run of plants/trim.
So just a little (long ass) story for you guys. If you ever come up with some similar shit you know the problem.
Sorry for the long post. But this story has to be told.
BEWARE OF THE SCRUB GROWER. The ones that thinks time=knowledge=wisdom. Ive been growin about 5 ish years and ive made some mistakes. But ive never felt like smoking ANYTHING that ive grown/extracted would possibly be bad for me. Because i dont spray my plants hardly ever. The occasional spray if i get clones from other gardens or if i let my clones root a few days longer than they should and develop a little pm. But i dont even spray in late veg. Mainly because i dont have problems with anything. No bugs, no mold, no bullshit.
End rant.