ONLY GOT A HALF OZ OF EARWAX OUT OF A HALF LB.? please help

I got half lb. Of sugar leaf and it was covered in crystals, I got really quality wax that's bright yellow and very tasty.



But I thought I was supposed to get somewhere around 50g's? Like 1/4 return?

I used a glass extraction tube with single cofee filter and rubber bands..and ran about 3-4 cans per tube.
I kind of feel like the tube I used or the setup I used for screening didn't create enough pressure maybe??

The weed was also not ground up until half way threw, but all of it had crystals all over it still and still smelled great?

I'm going to use my brother honeycome extractor and see if i get any more.



ANY advice is appreciated

well you used trim not bud so your going to get less. to be honest 1/2 ounce of good earway sounds pretty dam nice for just trim..

You got more than 20%.
Good work.

Trousers said:

You got more than 20%.
Good work.

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please explain your math on that

you shooting big my friend..

if you feel you arnt doing it right, you should try smaller runs.. each strain is different. each takes a slightly different method..

from my experience:

1/2 lb. of:

nugs: never done - (valued @ worth smoking)

sugar leaf, smokeable good stuff, crystally yummy: 3-5 grams an oz -(valued @ worth bho)

lesser value stuff, terrible trim, dont even look crystally: .5 -2 grams an oz.. -(valued @not worth bho) (rather a butter, or bubble hash, or some other medicinal use)


also from my experience, filters will not make your yield any noticeably lower, i use 10 + coffee filters, just cuz i dont want anyyy plant matter in my material..

alsoooo, what are the dimensions of that tube you are using? sounds like you missed a bunch of good stuff while blowing. recommended tube size are right around 1inches in diameter. i have a 5ft long, 1inch I.D., tube coming, stoked :]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]

basic advice:

pack your tube evenly, and fairly tight, but dont break open your tube doing so.. (butane takes a bit longer to get through the tube, but we are not worried about time)

use a few more filters, it wont hurt

the rubber bands sound like they arent putting enough pressure inside your tube, you dont want the butane spaying anywhere, but through your weed, and exiting out your filter, (if you spray and you have leak coming out of the top of the tube where you insert can, fix this, and also, i would recommend a metal hose clamp, rather than rubber bands. )

also, do not grind your weed, if you are a fan of the bright yellow gold goo, dont grind... grinding does more harm than good to your final product. (quality over quantity)

good luck!

also, what type of trim you using? a mixed variety? or one type? if its one type, and you are going to be working on this single type for a while? take notes on it if so~!

The bottom line, is your not going to get more buzz out of something then there is in it, in the first place.

If you get more yield you'll get less quality.

Trousers said:

You got more than 20%.
Good work.

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he got 14g back out of 225g... 10% return would be 22.5 grams... so 1% would be 2.2 grams. 14g/2.2 = 6.36 he got approx 6% return. dont know how you came up with more than 20%..

the other day I washed 100 grams of nice sugar trim with 10 cans and got 19g back. you should be able to get more than 14g from 220.

What would be good return rate?

I'mm using pure sugar leaf of one strain covered in crystals, smokeable trim.

yeti5508 said:

What would be good return rate?

I'm using pure sugar leaf of one strain covered in crystals, smokeable trim.

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I use this general rule of thumb on return weight of trichomes with butane:

1 oz. of sugar leaf, smokeable. will get you 3-7 grams out (1 pull). i have never hit over 5 grams out an oz personally, but some claim to have.. (this is with one pull, you can always let the trim dry out, and re blow it again, yields will only be about %20 as good as your first pull though.. )

I use an oz. chop finely. 2-3 cans at once. 7 grams minimum. 20% minimum. up to 25% return.

We have gotten up to 28.1% BHO Absolute from outdoor plants, and our lowest yield was from Catalyst grown inside, at 5.7%. Our average from our own indoor harvests, are around 23% Absolute Amber.

I mention Absolute, because the above numbers are from using a Terpenator, and the oil was washed out of the collection pot with EtOh and winterized before weighing.

A Terpenator is a butane extraction and recycle system, that allows close control of the soak and flush cycles, not possible with an open column, but possibly duplicated with a thermos extraction.

On average we remove about 8% wax by weight when winterizing, but it can vary considerably, with outdoor parts producing more wax. That makes our 23% Absolute about a 24.8% BHO raw oleoresin yield.

Guzias is right every strains differnt, I get the most wax from super auto strains like auto superlime/limeberry not sure why I get more with autos think the thc glands are bigger on autos compared to the bud/leaf size.

Dont forget to run your trim 2 times. Sometimes the gooiest shit i get is from the 2nd run

Hotsause said:

Dont forget to run your trim 2 times. Sometimes the gooiest shit i get is from the 2nd run

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seriously???? throw that shit out its not worth the trouble

biglungs said:

seriously???? throw that shit out its not worth the trouble

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well.. for many people, its wellll worth the trouble :]

it def dont hurt to run it again, sure the yield is wayyyy smaller, but like this fellow said

Hotsause "

Dont forget to run your trim 2 times. Sometimes the gooiest shit i get is from the 2nd run"

i ran a rerun last night, i tried a new idea out, was horrible, maybe ill throw the video up, the pull wasnt too bad for being a rerun, but i fucked up hard core pulling it haaa, ya, ill get vid up on how not to do this

I also did a re run last night. what a waste of butane. it all comes down to how youre doing your first rinse I guess. I rinse mine fully the first time... as my 2nd test showed. I already knew that. a 2nd rinse is always fun though.. just for the hell of it.

I re- rinsed the weed I had sitting in my small honey bee extractor. it was an oz that had 2 cans ran through it already. then sat for 3 days and dried. I removed it, mixed it all up, removed the first, dirtiest, clogged filter, leaving 5 more in the cap. and re ran it.

I then emptied it, and re filled it to the nuts with around 50g of rinsed weed from a 100g batch that had 10 cans go through it.

I then emptied that and filled it with the remaining 50g of rinsed weed.

in total, I think I used 3.5-4 cans... so 24$ worth of butane and ran it through 125g of rinsed weed and I got back around .75g of some kinda gross oil. I value my good oil at 40-50$ a gram. this junk was 30$ a gram and I only got 3/4g or so from it.. so barely worth the 2nd rinse. shoulda just saved the butane.

lolll!!!! .75 g, even out of a re 125 g. ... compared to a nice pull, thats soo much work for some dirt, dang,

well, was fun like you said, and more learning experience ! you gotta see what just happened to me last night, im making video now. its all fun, just dont blow up!

here is the worst way i have ever sprayed in my life :]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIqGS50k6z0&feature=youtube_gdata

haha yeah I seen that in the other thread too. wtf were you doing putting it in that pink thing??

why not just spray into the white dish, then put the white dish into a hotter one??

I use a ss dish from walmart that I got for 4$... it works awesome for the cook off in hot water. 100% oil recovery with a flat blade and a pair of forceps. no metal shavings ever as its SS and it works just awesome. 2 of those and youre set. plus 1 smaller one to spray into to check if its coming out clear or yellow still.

fack me,

well i think im not building enough pressure as i only got 6% return,

i think im going to rerun tommorow with some hose clamps and like 5 coffee filters to help build pressure and also pack the shit out of it