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I just never understood why anyone would want a solvent present? Oddly enough a lot of my buddies prefer BHO too.It’s all personal preference- we have the ability to to press rosin - which I like - my wife likes the bho
Alcohol is a preferable method over butane so if It smokes great that’s the route I want to take.
I think I read it takes a lot of chlorophyll and other nasty tasting stuff out of the plant, so wasn’t great tasting.
It's not that people want the solvent, its that Butane fits the THC molecule like a key in a lock. Efficiency for extraction is very high.I just never understood why anyone would want a solvent present? Oddly enough a lot of my buddies prefer BHO too.
Given the choice I don’t understand why someone would want to smoke anything extracted with a solvent. (I’m a hypocrite because I smoke my buddies BHO crumble all the time). Butane may fit like a lock and key but you can’t ever purge 100%. So yes efficiency is outstanding but purity not necessarily. Intentions matter. Personal or commercial? A press is just so simple and if the flower ain’t doing it, whip up some bubble hash to step it up. All respects to @Moe.RedIt's not that people want the solvent, its that Butane fits the THC molecule like a key in a lock. Efficiency for extraction is very high.
Given proper treatment which typically means a vacuum oven to remove the butane, it is a very "healthy" way to smoke weed. Inhaling burned organic plant matter is most doctor's biggest issue with cannabis as medicine, this eliminates that completely.
Turns out that is not true. You can, and it gets done every single day commercially. But at home? I see your point. We aren't required to have the stringent testing (in my state concentrates must be tested at 0 solvent prior to sale) done by the big boys, and how do you know when it is done? Without commercial lab facilities, you are potentially leaving some behind.Butane may fit like a lock and key but you can’t ever purge 100%.
Lol look man I’m trying to prevent another “in home explosion” from improper butane usage. Ethanol ftw.Turns out that is not true. You can, and it gets done every single day commercially. But at home? I see your point. We aren't required to have the stringent testing (in my state concentrates must be tested at 0 solvent prior to sale) done by the big boys, and how do you know when it is done? Without commercial lab facilities, you are potentially leaving some behind.
At least with Ethanol, who cares if you do?
Sorry I was referring to edibles.Smoking solvent is bad m'kay, so if you use any kind of solvent to make concentrates, its important to let it "cure" and to burp it the same way you would do with green bud.
Try getting your insurance to pay to rebuild your burned up garage after they find out you were doing BHO when the fire started. Again, maybe time for a safety thread we can just link to going forward.Lol look man I’m trying to prevent another “in home explosion” from improper butane usage. Ethanol ftw.
Thanks I appreciate that.Alcohol is IMO both easier and safer at home. The drawback is that as a solvent, it is not as good as Butane or Hexane at locking in to cannabinoids.
I have a bunch of videos on this topic, you will see me running both dark green and blonde thru the rotovap. The dark green is several aggressive washes to get as close to 100% off the plant as possible. It also grabs some unwanted stuff making it green. This is not the stuff that is destined to be smoked, it will go thru another process such as short path or chromatography column which strips away everything except cannabinoids. That means it removes terpenes too, so this is a bulk kinda thing for producing non-full spectrum extract.
The blonde stuff is what I use for edibles where you taste it (gummies, etc not capsules) or for smoking. This becomes full spectrum and tastes similar to the original bud. If you bud tastes like hay, this will too. But on the primo stuff, its pretty amazing quality.
The difference between green and blonde is only in the way you wash. The rotovap doesn't change.
Sorry my alibaba link did not work. I was linking to a machine almost the same as mine. I have a 5 liter that I got from China. Vacillated back and forth on that or a US made one for a while, but ultimately I am very pleased after running hundreds of liters thru this thing. My only regret is that I wish my chiller was one size bigger so I can run all day without the temps creeping up.
If you have specific questions about the hardware I'll try to help.
So frustrating Ali links take me to the homepage.
Turns out that is not true. You can, and it gets done every single day commercially. But at home? I see your point. We aren't required to have the stringent testing (in my state concentrates must be tested at 0 solvent prior to sale) done by the big boys, and how do you know when it is done? Without commercial lab facilities, you are potentially leaving some behind.
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