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does old trim affect the texture and color of the wax? i got some trim about a year old sitting in a 5 gallon bucket.
Hey Mustard. Did your re-hydrating technique work at all? I was thinking about the same thing.
It won't lighten the oils color. The oil is darker because it is mostly decarboxylated.
If you want light blonde, start with fresh material,
I'm going to start doing some tests by re-hydrating old dry trim and blasting it to see if it comes out the same as naturally fresh trim. I know the trichomes also change but I think the darker oils just come from dry trim that breaks down really easy. If you lock up everything in water (besides the trichomes since they are not water soluble obviously) then that should help the butane to be more selective to the oils that you want.
Has anyone tried this strategy with old trim to see if the outcome is any different? I'm surprised I haven't tried it before a few years ago when I was making oil everyday it just never occurred to me I was always just trying different purging and whipping methods never did it occur to me that every time I got something really nice it was from super fresh trim.
The only issue with this is wet trim is going to blow out on you. If you can get a pipe with threads on the ends you can buy steel end pieces and drill holes into them to make a solid extractor that will be impossible to blow out.
No, you can't put the COOH group back on.So you don't think it would make any difference to rehydrate some old trim before running it?
You depth of knowledge on concentrates is amazing.Getting blonde extract out of old material is unlikely, unless you exclude the molecules around C-30, which contains the anthro cyanin plant pigments. We haven't been able to do that extracting, but are able to take it out later.
We've successfully done that with both column chromatography and with fractional distillation using a Kugelrohr or Molecular still, but the product is decarboxylated and sticky to the touch.
It's easier to show what I'm talking about with column chromatography, because you can see which fractions the dark color ended up in. There are virtually no C-21 cannabinoids in the first two, or the last three fractions.