this is actually a mix, all flowers. some The Flav from my garden, just a little amber on the heads. and part from BlueberryxNL, not from my garden./\ OK. That is WICKED. Awesome coloring! Looks delicious and super freakin pure! Good job on that my friendPlease tell me, for the sake of my own notes, what coloring did the trichomes have on your material (clear/amber/cloudy percentage guesses?) that you used for the oil? also, was the oil from flower or trim? I'm curious to find out, in my own hashmaking, what the best trichome ratios are for good oil. Obviously we start looking to chop our plants with cloudy trichomes, but is it best to leave them going a little longer, or to take them a little earlier to get the ultra-light colored oils? In regards to BHO.
what do you guys think?
I feel you my man, I'm not hating your product just trying to help you improve. Every batch you run, you will figure out how to make it a little better.. You will see
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Personally, when I was using a mighty vac, I found the oil to be purged well enough after 4-6 purges. It was a bitch, but I was trying to be a perfectionist and usually went 1 purge more than I thought I needed. (habit like checking locks twice)
Bookmark this for when you save up, I use it and really like it. It's actually a good price for the quality, and you should be able to pick one up at a local harbor frieght. They are everywhere
. http://www.harborfreight.com/two-stage-3-cfm-air-vacuum-pump-66466.html
awesome, ive bought a few tools from harbor freight all good stuff. and sr verde i know ur not hating i like critisism, u cant learn from mistakes if u dont know what u did wrong. and im the same way with the foodsaver 5 times thru for about 5 min a time, more if theres still bubbles.
I can second this, I also use the same pump, works the charm and for the price it's unbeatable. Literally the same quality as a robinair you'll spend $250 or $300 on.
how does a 2 stage 3cfm pump work compared to a 1 stage 6cfm pump (which i use)
heh, I must be super OCD then cause even when using heat I tend to vac it 10-12 times at 10-15 minutes each haha, till it stops bubbling (just don't pull it out and whip air into it, it'll bubble forever if you keep doing it lol...
I think we talked about this a few pages back, but 2 stages pulls a deeper vacuum, more quickly, cfm don't mean much unless you have a bigger chamber...
Are you using some type of heat source inside the vacuum chamber? Once I started using a warmed ceramic bowl to hold my parchment/oil in... it took 30% of the time out of my purging, as it just came out faster..!
i have checked it with a gauge before it gets to 29 is that enough
I believe at sea level 26Hg should be adequate to purge, 29-30Hg is about the best you can do.
I have actually been using heat less and less, but of course the purge takes longer, but works out quite well in the hot NorCal sun... Some oils seem to take a month or more to purge this way so it's not for the impatient, but I love the results, usually very clean and flavorful.
I believe at sea level 26Hg should be adequate to purge, 29-30Hg is about the best you can do.
Yeah I dig, my only problem is when the oil gets cold. I'm usually spraying at night, just with how my schedule goes - and the oil will be cold and malleable at the end of a vacuum purge if I don't use anything to warm.. I'm with you on the use less heat. However I'm only talking about putting a ceramic bowl in the oven 30 seconds before your oil to keep things from getting cold, instead of using it to warm things up.
30hg is the absolute best anybody can do, but I doubt anyone here has a chamber that can go to 30hg. That's an absolute vacuum, and usually only exists in space, or at some high tech government funded facility like NASA.![]()
But yeah I agree anything more than 25 is great, & closer to 29 is even better!![]()