Removing charcoal

Hello, so I have ounces of kief and was doing some experimenting. I soaked it in 99% iso...unfortunatley the wash turned out green. I read something about using charcoal to take the chlorophyl/green out so I loaded up a coffee filter with charcoal used for my aquarium and attempted to filter it.
Unfortunatley this turned my solution jet black...I cant determine if it took the green out.
I have ran this through more filters to try and catch the black stuff but it doesnt work.
Any suggestions on how to clean this up? Also any suggestions on how to easily remove chlorophyl from an iso wash?

Sadly I can't help you with removing the charcoal. I'm not sure how fine of a filter you would need for that.

I can talk about ISO washing though, I've done a good bit of it over the years. The biggest keys to not getting chlorophyll in your wash is to get everything as cold as possible, the material, the alcohol , even the container(I just use the mason jar the material is in) are best cold. I usually even wrap a towel around the jar to keep my hands from warming it up. The second key is doing a fast wash. It doesn't take alcohol long to melt the trichomes and extract the oils inside. I never do longer then about 30ish seconds per wash if I want a clean smokable extraction.

trambles said:

Hello, so I have ounces of kief and was doing some experimenting. I soaked it in 99% iso...unfortunatley the wash turned out green. I read something about using charcoal to take the chlorophyl/green out so I loaded up a coffee filter with charcoal used for my aquarium and attempted to filter it.
Unfortunatley this turned my solution jet black...I cant determine if it took the green out.
I have ran this through more filters to try and catch the black stuff but it doesnt work.
Any suggestions on how to clean this up? Also any suggestions on how to easily remove chlorophyl from an iso wash?

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The charcoal particles are submicron. Try filtering through Ditomacious Earth or a 0.2 micron syringe filter.