cronicoldguy
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Hi.
To tell a bit about myself, I am in my 50s and have been smoking cannabis since I was about 14yrs. Cryonic from 20s on. I have always wanted to grow, but the opportunity/situation never came about. I use it for medicinal purposes as well as recreational. More so medicinal. I avoid pharmaceuticals as much as possible.
About 5 years ago, my ex wife was diagnosed with cancer. Although we had been separated for over 20 years, I offered what support I could. During that time, I learned of RSO and its benefits. I made a few crude batches with ethanol and offered it to her. She tried it but ultimately passed on it. Since then I have made a few batches for myself.
In the last while, I have done some reading on the web in the quest of refining my product further inexpensively, at home. I purchased a couple of vacuum flasks, Buchner Funnel, filter paper, Celite 545, and activated charcoal for filtering. I have a Source Turbo as well.
My goal is to have full spectrum oil thin enough to use in a vape cartridge. I want this oil to be 100% extract and as natural as possible. No thinners or additives. Just ethanol as a solvent for initial extraction. I am not doing this at any scale this is purely for personal use. I just want to be able to produce the highest quality product the average person can at home. THC is most desirable component. CBD secondary.
Most recent procedure I have been using. I know a lot of you will laugh, but hey, thats why I am here. To learn.
1) Dry flower in oven at low temp. 10 mins
2) Grind flower
3) Put ground flower in coffee press cup and fill with ethanol to 1/2"-1" above flower.
4) Let soak for about 30 mins stirring frequently.
5) Use unbleached coffee filter with coffee press screen and squeeze/filter out all solvent possible, pouring into collection jar.
6) Repeat the above for second wash and add to collection jar.
7) Filter one more time thru doubled up coffee filter.
8) Put in fridge freezer for a couple of days or so for shit to settle out -winterize.
9) Siphon the top layer of solvent off without getting any transition. Settled matter and the little bit of good solvent left thrown in junk jar for whatever I dont know.
10) Filter once again thru doubled up coffee filters.
- Distill the solution in a Source Turbo recovering ethanol.
Once the Celite and Activated Charcoal arrive, I will follow steps 1-10, but plan to add these steps prior to distillation in the Source Turbo.
Once step 10 has been completed, I will place filtered solution back into freezer and freeze over night with 1 table spoon of Activated Charcoal mixed into it. Buchner funnel, Celite and charcoal also in freezer.
11) Place filter paper in funnel and wet with solvent.
12) 1/2" layer Celite 545, wet with solvent and make a cake
13) 1/2" layer of Activated Charcoal, wet with solvent and make a cake (should there be a filter paper between cakes?)
14) Replace prepared funnel in freezer for an hour or two.
15) Vacuum filter into flask
16) Distill filtered solution in Source Turbo.
Again. I am a total noob trying to learn proper extraction. Flame away. lol
Extracting and producing concentrate for my personal use is a bit of a hobby as well. So I am keen to learning proper techniques and procedures. I have researched different extractions processes and ethanol extraction seems the simplest and least expensive to learn. At the end of the day, I want to be able to consistently and efficiently produce a quality product. Once I have a handle on extraction, I would like to venture into distillates.
Given my interest, I am hoping to source a small scale affordable rotary evaporator in the future. Any suggestions?
Thanks for taking the time to read and any suggestions or tips are greatly appreciated.
To tell a bit about myself, I am in my 50s and have been smoking cannabis since I was about 14yrs. Cryonic from 20s on. I have always wanted to grow, but the opportunity/situation never came about. I use it for medicinal purposes as well as recreational. More so medicinal. I avoid pharmaceuticals as much as possible.
About 5 years ago, my ex wife was diagnosed with cancer. Although we had been separated for over 20 years, I offered what support I could. During that time, I learned of RSO and its benefits. I made a few crude batches with ethanol and offered it to her. She tried it but ultimately passed on it. Since then I have made a few batches for myself.
In the last while, I have done some reading on the web in the quest of refining my product further inexpensively, at home. I purchased a couple of vacuum flasks, Buchner Funnel, filter paper, Celite 545, and activated charcoal for filtering. I have a Source Turbo as well.
My goal is to have full spectrum oil thin enough to use in a vape cartridge. I want this oil to be 100% extract and as natural as possible. No thinners or additives. Just ethanol as a solvent for initial extraction. I am not doing this at any scale this is purely for personal use. I just want to be able to produce the highest quality product the average person can at home. THC is most desirable component. CBD secondary.
Most recent procedure I have been using. I know a lot of you will laugh, but hey, thats why I am here. To learn.
1) Dry flower in oven at low temp. 10 mins
2) Grind flower
3) Put ground flower in coffee press cup and fill with ethanol to 1/2"-1" above flower.
4) Let soak for about 30 mins stirring frequently.
5) Use unbleached coffee filter with coffee press screen and squeeze/filter out all solvent possible, pouring into collection jar.
6) Repeat the above for second wash and add to collection jar.
7) Filter one more time thru doubled up coffee filter.
8) Put in fridge freezer for a couple of days or so for shit to settle out -winterize.
9) Siphon the top layer of solvent off without getting any transition. Settled matter and the little bit of good solvent left thrown in junk jar for whatever I dont know.
10) Filter once again thru doubled up coffee filters.
- Distill the solution in a Source Turbo recovering ethanol.
Once the Celite and Activated Charcoal arrive, I will follow steps 1-10, but plan to add these steps prior to distillation in the Source Turbo.
Once step 10 has been completed, I will place filtered solution back into freezer and freeze over night with 1 table spoon of Activated Charcoal mixed into it. Buchner funnel, Celite and charcoal also in freezer.
11) Place filter paper in funnel and wet with solvent.
12) 1/2" layer Celite 545, wet with solvent and make a cake
13) 1/2" layer of Activated Charcoal, wet with solvent and make a cake (should there be a filter paper between cakes?)
14) Replace prepared funnel in freezer for an hour or two.
15) Vacuum filter into flask
16) Distill filtered solution in Source Turbo.
Again. I am a total noob trying to learn proper extraction. Flame away. lol
Extracting and producing concentrate for my personal use is a bit of a hobby as well. So I am keen to learning proper techniques and procedures. I have researched different extractions processes and ethanol extraction seems the simplest and least expensive to learn. At the end of the day, I want to be able to consistently and efficiently produce a quality product. Once I have a handle on extraction, I would like to venture into distillates.
Given my interest, I am hoping to source a small scale affordable rotary evaporator in the future. Any suggestions?
Thanks for taking the time to read and any suggestions or tips are greatly appreciated.