well guys today I made progress. let me tell Ya exactly how it went down...
I have some blue dream trim/lower nug I need to use for edibles. thought I might blast them and use the oil instead. fir the practice for me and oil is really easy to cook with. awesome.
I didn't measure shit. should probably try just to see but I usually measure efficiency by how much I get per can. I average 2g per on trim/nug mixes. this batch I froze in the open not a closed bag only for a few hours in a sub zero fridge. the trim was pretty dry but not older than a month. I didn't break it down to crumbles like I usually do just packed it lightly with my fingers enough to pack it down some. one unbleached coffe filter and one can of butane thru small glass extractor in to small round Pyrex in water at 115. Pyrex 109-100. scrape to parchmentbas soon as liquid butane was gone but still bubbling. in to vac chamber with same temps as before. start purge, watch muffin till I see no more action. take oil out and smash. repeat vac, muffin, smush till nothin happens under vac. got 1.8 g after I dabbed a dunk. tube could have been fuller?
the improvement? it has a nice glittery shine I haven't seen before. smells better than anything that I've produced before def more terp retention. to top it all off I got shatter consistency. looks goopy but it snaps off. this tells me if I winterize it maybe clear shatter? idk. going to run some more and do a gram or so just to see....
must say that I am convinced fresh or semi dry frozen trim is the way to go. I see a big difference. low temps with a vac makes the proces less than a hour for what I did. mmaking up to a half would take about the same time I think.
keep you posted on the winterizing ... here's a picture of my efforts. the first is afterbtwo or three short burst in the vac chamber. the second is when it was being smoked on already haha. thanks all for the guidance.
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