Sr. Verde's: Concentrate Corner

dam and i was on another forum lil did i know the secreat is realy the vector i found its alot less of a hasle that the secreat all other butain i found is just a bitch to work with..

thump easy said:

dam and i was on another forum lil did i know the secreat is realy the vector i found its alot less of a hasle that the secreat all other butain i found is just a bitch to work with..

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is your spell check broke? IMO power 5x is just as good as vector

oilmkr420 said:

Hey matt, I recovered this from previously used plant matter w butane. It had been dried for weeks, ground, and then extracted. EtOH brought the butane back to life again. That clings on quite well.

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WTF is going on here? U ran some bud that was already extracted? Please elaborate.

I wasn't bagging when I said jello, I seen after it was shatter. yes I ran a second extraction on stuff that was claimed to have 10% yield removed. So I worked a qp and pulled 6 grams from that. It was dark, but still good. 5% co-solvent lead to the darkness.

Vector is better because its combination of methyl propane, propane, and butane. 5x is only n-butane. Its also the reason vector cost so damn much.

Question for the pro's

Is a 2.5 CFM vacuum pump large enough to purge or do I need to spend the extra 50$ on a 3 CFM 2-stage?

And does the 2-stage come in handy for purging?

Also does purging make a considerable difference in quality? texture?

First off I have never done concentrates before
I read TONS of your information, literally EVERY post and reply for the first 90 pages.

I will be doing tons of this stuff and keeping you well updated....

Definitely open to your constructive criticism.
First off I used flowers. Have yet to attempt anything with trimming. Probably saving that for some things along the forum I picked up.

Photo(1) first attempt, flowers frozen by regular freezer(contained in bag not sealed too tight, sat 18+hrs overnight) about 13 grams ran through SS Turkey Baster ~2/3's of a bottle 300ml Vector 5x.
I think I needed to heat it more before I put it in vac container as the product was too hard....on to the next one.

Photo(3) Second and Third attempt. Second attempt flowers dried and cured then frozen overnight ~12grams. This is the lighter colored one!!!
Third attempt used flowers not dried but frozen using compressed Co2 for quick freeze(some sort of attempt to see how colder buds react when wet and frozen quickly just before butane extraction)
Based off the yield of 2rd attempt, so far, this is by far the best yield we have gotten.

Whipped both of these for 2nd and 3rd attempt although I will be making one using fdd2blk's method, and also MattRize's once I get the proper equipment.

Most likely will be buying the okeif 44g system

Thanks everyone

the talk of vacuum pumps came up in a conversation. my buddy has a rotary vein pump for me. They were getting into military specs @ 400 cycles.... it kinda lost me. I never would have guessed my opportunity to land a job would have ever came from weed. I have some caffeine extractions going up to eden for chemical analysis. If my methods score comparable to something eden can pump out, then I scored a sweet gig. Thanks for allowing me to post and not banning me, lol. Thanks to all the mods.

Have you ever tried Ice water extraction using a mixture of dry ice and regular ice....or all dry ice?

Curious as I saw a forum where someone had experimented with it. They did not post yield or % quality.

If the buds were more frozen wouldnt it reduce the ammount of plant matter that got into the mixture as well?

I feel like curious george on here

I run my frozen material with dry ice, in a dry container before I do ice water. only because its easier to get different grades, and less time for chlorophyll to change the water/hash color. seems to yield a little more. if you add dry ice to water it will react and make a bubbling water mess...

dangledo said:

I run my frozen material with dry ice, in a dry container before I do ice water. only because its easier to get different grades, and less time for chlorophyll to change the water/hash color. seems to yield a little more. if you add dry ice to water it will react and make a bubbling water mess...

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If the washer is less than 3/4s full I dont know about that one...Might be worth a shot. I still wonder exactly how the other guys got it to work for them.
Time to burn!

i was planning on doing a run tomorrow. Is using 2 brown coffee filters the best way to filter the thc or is there something better? And how do you get the honeycomb look, does it just require more vac purging? and also to get a bigger return i should grind to small chunks?

"BHO buddy says hi!"


::credits to jbone204 of reddit.

Mattchew05 said:

If the washer is less than 3/4s full I dont know about that one...Might be worth a shot. I still wonder exactly how the other guys got it to work for them.
Time to burn!

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I dont do washer cycles, ive got 5 gallon and 1 gallon bags, dump the amount of dry ice that you would ice, and its a mess. I have not done it with material in, as i had left over dry ice.

Ha and another
http://i.imgur.com/cwWYM.jpg

::credits to jbone204 of reddit.

Try a column. I like diatomatious earth w a piece of cotton as a filter and activated charcoal in the solution to be filtered hot.

Excited that i will get to try a buddy's wax. Just bumped into him and chatted. His stuff is tested @ Steep Hill, we didn't have time nor privacy to get into numbers. Kinda bummed he doesn't do it himself (he ships his bud to LA for processing) but excited nonetheless

i'll get more info when we hook up before long.

The Outdoorsman said:

Question for the pro's

Is a 2.5 CFM vacuum pump large enough to purge or do I need to spend the extra 50$ on a 3 CFM 2-stage?

And does the 2-stage come in handy for purging?

Also does purging make a considerable difference in quality? texture?

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2 stage necessary, if not for purging then for longevity of your pump.

Bho buddy is sweet

omg has anyone ever seen blue char, the fireworks aside....
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