Making own oil or honey oil

fskitch said:

Stays kind of gooey even after the freezer.

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Thundercat said:

The way to get a nicer cleaner, tastier extraction is to go fast and cold. I have a whole tutorial in my signature line about how I make my quick-washed iso extractions. It has helped countless people make a nicer product as quickly and easily as possible at home. It will retain most of your terps and leave you a clean delicious dabable concentrate.

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Fadedawg said:

We routinely extracted the sugar leaves and popcorn with the buds. It's all good.

Here is how we extract using QWET: https://graywolfslair.com/index.php/diy-cannamed-production/9-4-extraction/9-4-7-ethanol-extraction/9-4-7-1-qwet

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DCcan said:

Well, I like your links and methods. They helped me clean up my oil, increase the yield and quality.
Really appreciate the time you guys put into that, just didn't want you to think it went unnoticed.

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yummy fur said:

What did the unevaporated solution look like before adding charcoal and after filtering the activated charcoal. Also when it's at room temperature you will notice that it has a consistency unlike anything else you have seen. I'd use a couple of tablespoons per oz of weed myself, so I'm interested to know how pale it was after filtering. Put match heads worth of oil in some aluminium foil and burn it off with a match underneath. See how much residue there is, if there is, this is how I used to smoke it in the 70's, chase the dragon, but you need to be careful to not let the foil get red hot.

Here's a funny story, a friend of mine bought his friend around who apparently has a very high tolerance so he said, gave him one spot of oil then we heard a crash as he fell over and just stayed collapsed on the floor. I've never seen that before.

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fskitch said:

It looked brown and muddy as usual. Coffee filters had to be stacked 4 deep. Had to filter 5 times, charcoal gets through coffee filters.

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yummy fur said:

Yeah, I used 8" circular lab filters in a glass funnel, and gravity drain, removes all the AC in one pass. Not sure stacking filters is going to do the job, seems that if it can get through one, then some will always get through but a bit slower. I'd redissolve that and let it gravity drain through a proper filter, it should be the colour of honey.

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Thundercat said:

The way to get a nicer cleaner, tastier extraction is to go fast and cold. I have a whole tutorial in my signature line about how I make my quick-washed iso extractions. It has helped countless people make a nicer product as quickly and easily as possible at home. It will retain most of your terps and leave you a clean delicious dabable concentrate.

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yummy fur said:

you'd be surprised at the quality of oil you can get from poorly trichomed leaves. My method for the lower quality is to use 100% acetone.

Get a large jar with a wide neck and a smaller jar that will fit through the neck, and a stocking. Put all the low quality leaves in the big jar, you can really stuff them in, then add maybe 500ml of acetone and don't shake it just put the lid on and turn the jar gently for a very short time, then with enough stocking over it so that you can use the smaller jar to gently squeeze the weed. The whole process from pouring in the acetone to pouring/squeezing out the acetone should only be about 20 seconds. I'm not trying to squeeze every last drop because it's only low grade leaves.

If done quickly and efficiently you'll have a pretty pale liquid that you can then evaporate over a double boiler. It makes a very red stoney resin that is more viscous than honey oil.

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yummy fur said:

Yeah, I used 8" circular lab filters in a glass funnel, and gravity drain, removes all the AC in one pass. Not sure stacking filters is going to do the job, seems that if it can get through one, then some will always get through but a bit slower. I'd redissolve that and let it gravity drain through a proper filter, it should be the colour of honey.

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