Hello all. Just joined as a newbie, been making FECO and edibles for around a year.
When researching the FECO (using golden dragon Tek) method, I learned that you are meant to decarb the flower in the sous vide first, then alcohol wash, filter then purge. I've today found out that I might be wasting my time with the sous vide decarb and that a full decarb can be done in the purging because it's using heat.
Here's my current method/setup:
Double vac pack broken up buds.
Sous-vide for 70mins @ 200f
3-4 washes with 96% ethanol
Filter golden dragon with cheesecloth, then buschner funnel/filter setup
Purge alcohol with desktop still at 174-177f, reclaiming ethanol. (Time taken depends on amount of eth to purge)
Finish off purge in double boiler, waiting for bubbles to stop forming.
Collect and store in oral syringes.
So my question is do I need to sous vide decarb at all? If not, how do I know I'm getting optimum THC production and avoid too much degradation to CBN? Should I watch the temp in the double boiler stage too? Should I be stopping the heat at some point and letting room temp evap off the rest of the alcohol when I've reached optimum THC?
Many thanks in advance.
When researching the FECO (using golden dragon Tek) method, I learned that you are meant to decarb the flower in the sous vide first, then alcohol wash, filter then purge. I've today found out that I might be wasting my time with the sous vide decarb and that a full decarb can be done in the purging because it's using heat.
Here's my current method/setup:
Double vac pack broken up buds.
Sous-vide for 70mins @ 200f
3-4 washes with 96% ethanol
Filter golden dragon with cheesecloth, then buschner funnel/filter setup
Purge alcohol with desktop still at 174-177f, reclaiming ethanol. (Time taken depends on amount of eth to purge)
Finish off purge in double boiler, waiting for bubbles to stop forming.
Collect and store in oral syringes.
So my question is do I need to sous vide decarb at all? If not, how do I know I'm getting optimum THC production and avoid too much degradation to CBN? Should I watch the temp in the double boiler stage too? Should I be stopping the heat at some point and letting room temp evap off the rest of the alcohol when I've reached optimum THC?
Many thanks in advance.
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