Rider509
Well-Known Member
When working with any flammable solvents the usual caveats apply; i.e., no open flames, no smoking, no shuffling your feet across a nylon rug, lots of ventilation, and have a fire extinguisher handy. But I'm a big believer in natural selection so if you do something fatally stupid the human gene pool is enriched by your demise, unless you already procreated and then it's too late, so basically, just don't get yourself dead.
1. For this extraction I started with dried and cured flowers and 200 proof Extractohol. I used 9.5ozs total, equal measures of MamaThai Pineapple Chunk and MamaThai ThaiStik.
2. The flowers were allowed to fully dry in our 20% humidity and were then broken up by hand into smaller bits.
3. Both the alcohol and flowers went separately into the deep freezer overnight. The thought behind freezing is to bind the chlorophyll and other water soluble components in a frozen state.
4. In the morning I poured enough alcohol over the flower to cover, gave them a gentle swirl to fully wet them, and placed them back in the freezer. After 5 minutes I removed and gently swirled, and again put them back in the freezer for another 5 minutes.
5. The mixture was then poured through a strainer to remove most of the plant material, and was then strained through coffee filters. I had several jars ready with coffee filters installed to speed the filtration.
6. The resultant extract solution was then placed in a vacuum pot and gentle vacuum was applied to degas the solvent. After all gas was removed a full vacuum was pulled and heat applied via a hot plate which I modified for low temps and a +/-3F dead zone. In a 29inHg vacuum EtOH boils at about 34C. I found that it was best to maintain a slightly higher temperature to maintain the boil due to the violent start of boil as seen in the video below. This system uses a modified cold trap with dry ice and alcohol to condense and capture the alcohol for reuse and to prevent damage to the vacuum pump.
7. After most of the alcohol was removed the mixture was poured into a pyrex cake dish and additional alcohol was sprayed into the vacuum chamber to dissolve any residue, which was added to the cake pan, and then allowed to evap at room temps until thickened.
8. The thickened mixture was placed on a silicone mat and further vacuumed, with no heat, to remove the balance of the alcohol. Once the evolution of vapors ceased the vacuum was maintained for an additional 30 minutes.
9. The resultant resin was then decarbed at 248F for 35 minutes, at which time no more CO2 evolved, indicating complete decarboxylation.
The resultant CCO is a dark golden amber, very viscous, and smells a bit like heaven.
1. For this extraction I started with dried and cured flowers and 200 proof Extractohol. I used 9.5ozs total, equal measures of MamaThai Pineapple Chunk and MamaThai ThaiStik.
2. The flowers were allowed to fully dry in our 20% humidity and were then broken up by hand into smaller bits.
3. Both the alcohol and flowers went separately into the deep freezer overnight. The thought behind freezing is to bind the chlorophyll and other water soluble components in a frozen state.
4. In the morning I poured enough alcohol over the flower to cover, gave them a gentle swirl to fully wet them, and placed them back in the freezer. After 5 minutes I removed and gently swirled, and again put them back in the freezer for another 5 minutes.
5. The mixture was then poured through a strainer to remove most of the plant material, and was then strained through coffee filters. I had several jars ready with coffee filters installed to speed the filtration.
6. The resultant extract solution was then placed in a vacuum pot and gentle vacuum was applied to degas the solvent. After all gas was removed a full vacuum was pulled and heat applied via a hot plate which I modified for low temps and a +/-3F dead zone. In a 29inHg vacuum EtOH boils at about 34C. I found that it was best to maintain a slightly higher temperature to maintain the boil due to the violent start of boil as seen in the video below. This system uses a modified cold trap with dry ice and alcohol to condense and capture the alcohol for reuse and to prevent damage to the vacuum pump.
7. After most of the alcohol was removed the mixture was poured into a pyrex cake dish and additional alcohol was sprayed into the vacuum chamber to dissolve any residue, which was added to the cake pan, and then allowed to evap at room temps until thickened.
8. The thickened mixture was placed on a silicone mat and further vacuumed, with no heat, to remove the balance of the alcohol. Once the evolution of vapors ceased the vacuum was maintained for an additional 30 minutes.
9. The resultant resin was then decarbed at 248F for 35 minutes, at which time no more CO2 evolved, indicating complete decarboxylation.
The resultant CCO is a dark golden amber, very viscous, and smells a bit like heaven.
