BHO with Vacuum oil/wax tutorial
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It must definitely have to do with the strain's resin composition in some way. If you can take different strains, chopped on the same day for example and use the same bud sizes from either top of plant, middle, bottom etc and still come up with different wax forming temps then it must be that or something along that line.
After that last pic stage where you told me to fold it again I did and it bubbled up quite a bit again then settled down
and eventually went to this:
Then I folded again and it went to this:
That is where I thought it was firming up and going to wax/honeycomb but it didn't. That's where I raised the temp to 135F oil surface and went to watch the fights and forgot about it for a few hours. So when i came back to check on it this is what I saw
Bublonichronic:
Ya man I was just so nervous about wrecking it. Every time I raised the temp I thought of fuck I'm gonna ruin this stuff lol. I'm on a learning curveRaise the temp always seems to be the answer for comb...and yes BC if would have happend ALOT faster if u just went to 120/130 right off the bat, more flavor too with less time in vac, I think I said that earlier
Some more pics of the final beautiful cookie:
I started with 165 grams of ground bud. I spilled some of my extracted oil tane so I'm guessing I lost somewhere around 3-5 grams of oil. Not sure though. So It's around an 18% yield.
I'm curious though; I don't have any holes in my cookie like honeycomb. It's solid throughout. Is that because it didn't solidify at a higher temp while it was bubbling to "catch" the bubbles in a sort of "heated suspension" Or do I have to do something different nest time if I want a more honeycomb look?
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Guzias1
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Hey fade. How did you get to 140?
How did you judge it? Do you raise the temp once the bubbles stop escaping. Please explain the" raised in steps to 140"
I have raised in steps as well. But I also include many fold backs of these oils down to a puck.. You have some nice chunks, such leads new to believe you either ran a good amount, and/or made a cradle for the oil to purge in.
To summarize my questions: how did you go about raising the temps. Did you bleed at a certain vacuum? Anddd did you make a cradle to get a pretty outcome?
Thanks fade! You're input is much appreciated
Bublonichronic
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I hear that man, took me months of being frustrated staring at my chamber tearin my dreads out before I got the balls to raise the temp more, now it's takes hours lol but glad u got it now man looks like some serious dank
fadedawg - that stuff looks crazy dank!
Fadedawg that's beautiful stuff!
I'm on a quest to test out my trim now and some frozen fresh bud.
We chopped today and I separated the spinner bowl trim into two batches. Half of it I put on the screen to dry out and the other half I put in the deep freeze. I'm going to run both of it to see how the oil extracted differs from dry trim vs fresh frozen trim. The trim has both spinner bowl trim and sugar hand trim mixed together.
Kind of worried about extracting from the frozen fresh un dried buds though cause it's a pretty big risk financially if it doesn't work out. I should have also bought a small extractor tube to do small test batches. I saw that Guz did some runs in larger extraction tubes that were only partially filled and used coffee filters (if I remember right) to fill in the empty void in the tube but I'm a bit hesitant to do that..
The spinner bowl/sugar leaf trim mixed:
And the Rockstar buds I'm going to fresh freeze and run:
I'm on a quest to test out my trim now and some frozen fresh bud.
We chopped today and I separated the spinner bowl trim into two batches. Half of it I put on the screen to dry out and the other half I put in the deep freeze. I'm going to run both of it to see how the oil extracted differs from dry trim vs fresh frozen trim. The trim has both spinner bowl trim and sugar hand trim mixed together.
Kind of worried about extracting from the frozen fresh un dried buds though cause it's a pretty big risk financially if it doesn't work out. I should have also bought a small extractor tube to do small test batches. I saw that Guz did some runs in larger extraction tubes that were only partially filled and used coffee filters (if I remember right) to fill in the empty void in the tube but I'm a bit hesitant to do that..
The spinner bowl/sugar leaf trim mixed:
And the Rockstar buds I'm going to fresh freeze and run:Thanks VC! I love the purps the Rockstar puts out. It doesn't yield as good as OG or is as potent as OG but it's up there in my favorites.
Well I'm a restless guy and wanted to put something in the vac while waiting for the other stuff to freeze so I sprayed 375 grams of OG bud tonight
It's a mix of 3 different crops; the oldest stuff in this batch is a month old but all top pieces and the youngest stuff is a week old. Hopefully it still comes out lighter colored.It's going to be one massive muffin!!
Lol ya man 375 g of bud! What's stopping you life's too short!!!
Twitch
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VP you are on the level, just different quantities
Twitch you have no idea how stoked I will be if the trim oil turns out good. I have so much frozen that I use for making bubble with but I could never make bubble fast enough to keep up with the trim stockpiling so if it turns out good for making wax with I'll be running it so steady!
Bublonichronic
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Thats fuckin funny man, expecially since it looks like Canada got a lake fist up its ass lolthis ones for you guzias... say fuck canada now!! haha.
SaybianTv
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Hey there not so fast, you can't just drop words like subzero ass kicking and not give me a number to aim for. What kind of IR gun are you using mine error's out at -21c, I can get a temp probe for a bbq but i smell failtek on my end so I'm asking. I can't stop trying to match where your taking the genre, if your extracting at the north pole im right behind you dragging all my shit, if you say you get a better purge in a volcano im getting my sun screen.
I don't trust the IR anyways so I left the post and got a freezer thermometer to get the ball rolling.
I'm down to get LOW how low is up to you boss
Twitch
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hell yea!!