Safe to store coconut oil & BHO in a syringe?

I decarboxylated BHO in cocounut oil and collected the product in a syringe. The black part in the end of the plunger that seals the barrel is made of rubber or silicone.

I need to know if coconut oil dissolves the black part. Is it safe to store the product in a plastic syringe?

Only if the syringe is stored rectally.

It'll be fine to keep it in the syringe. I use mason jars myself but cook the pot in the coconut oil rather than make BHO first. A lot of beneficial medicine is lost making BHO that gets captured when the whole plant material is decarbed in the coconut oil. I recently read of a technique on another forum to make coconut oil extracts from buds and trim fresh off the plants so all the terpenes are preserved. Many of those are lost just drying and curing the pot then most if not all are lost with further processing like making BHO especially if vacuum purged using heat.

I'll be making some BHO soon so I can mix it with dry sift kief to make nice black hash. Nothing like a blast off the hot knives to set you back on your ass!

Thank you OldMedUser for helping me with the syringe problem!

This batch is from some old plant material that I use for learning how to make more pure extractions but I agree with you about the loss of terpenes. I guess that I also lose some of the terpenes when winterizing because the ethanol smells really wonderful after it is distilled. Normally I would not winterize my edibles.

With the technique you describe, is it possible to effectively extract the THC from the plant material with no other solvent than the coconut oil?

a lot of dispensaries sell oil in a syringe

MikeGanja said:

Thank you OldMedUser for helping me with the syringe problem!

This batch is from some old plant material that I use for learning how to make more pure extractions but I agree with you about the loss of terpenes. I guess that I also lose some of the terpenes when winterizing because the ethanol smells really wonderful after it is distilled. Normally I would not winterize my edibles.

With the technique you describe, is it possible to effectively extract the THC from the plant material with no other solvent than the coconut oil?

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All I use is coconut oil. I screen the pot through a 1mm mesh screen then straight into the oil in a crock pot. Got a small one for batches up to 250ml and the full size one that can do 4L at once. I use a variac to raise the line voltage to get the oil hot enough that it decarbs the pot. You can see bubbles start coming off around 235F and I let the heat get up to 260F and by then the bubbles stop. Old pot doesn't bubble much as it's mostly decarbed on it's own. You can use an oil bath to heat a pot of coconut oil to get the temps up that high too. I really want a nice heated magnetic stirrer so I can just load it up, set my temps, then check on it once in a while instead of having to stir it every time the commercials come on.

I'm going to do some with the trim I put in the freezer recently that was fresh off wet buds so I can get all the terpenes. I've always used slow dried and cured buds before so will have to use 3 - 4x the weight to have the same amount of material if it were totally dry.

Liquid sunflower seed lecithin is added as well then the batch is refrigerated and thawed a couple times to encapsulate the cannabinoids and make them work better. I've been reading some new methods on another forum about how to make it work best for different conditions like cancer etc. I don't have to do much to tweak my method to fit the way they have worked it out.

The old ways of using pot oils like RSO and "tacking" etc are going the way of the dodo.

It would be interestering to try that technique next time I have material from a medical strain.

Temperature control is almost impossible with my ghetto setup so a heated magnetic stirrer is on my wishlist too.

A decent thermometer is all you really need to get accurate temps and even small batches can be made on a stove-top or hotplate using things you can find around the house.

A pot to heat some cheap vegetable oil. A smaller pot to hold the carrier oil, (coconut, olive etc), a bent up wire hanger to separate the two pots, and accurate thermometer and a spoon to stir it up.

Allow the pot to dry well and pass it through a screen like a sifter or strainer to break it up then cook it in the oil until it decarbs around 250F, add some lecithin then simmer for a while and strain it out. Done.

I have a magnetic stirrer but it's not heated. I use it to make colloidal silver. I also have a Variac unit that I use to control the voltage to a crock pot so I can raise the temp higher than it's designed to go but could use the oil bath method if I didn't have that.

This is my ghetto setup making a 1L batch of cocobudder using the wife's mixer to take over the stirring chore. 50g of pot to 1000g of combined oils, (coconut oil and the lecithin), to make up 1000g with 10% or 100g of lecithin.



I've also built a simple moonshine still to make my own EverClear , tho we can buy that here, and to make pure naphtha from Coleman's Camp Stove fuel or purify other solvents. Even figured out a way to distill butane with simple gear so I can process a lot more material from the same cans of 9X filtered butane.

Having a diploma in chemistry and good DIY skills helps a lot but things like making the cocobudder is something anyone can do if they're not a total klutz. Anyone fairly competent in the kitchen can do it. Not everyone is tho and I feel sorry for folks that are all thumbs.

Try dumping bho into a vessel with water that is ice cold while its stiring .