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 Neca
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 Hexane, properly from start to finish (with photos if wanted) 
#761011 - 12/08/14 11:51 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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So I'm getting shit green bud (imagine the first "weed" you bought as a youngin) and making honey oil via hexane extraction, how many folks have experience with this? I am currently working in a "3rd" world country and hexane and sub-par buds are plentiful (1 kilo for shit green for $200US AND I ONLY CAN GET THAT, no hash, no oil, just lots of shit ready for the taking) so that's no drama's and I can run multiple test different ways to dial it in but just started researching this process. I've already made my extraction setup minus the fume hood and reclaim part to reuse hexane which will come in a few more trials plus my trip to the mainland. but a question I have is how do you wash your hexane honey? I normally double water boil off hexane till honey consistency and then do a water wash close to the end but does that remove all hexane as well? I add enough water to fill a small jar (.5 ltr) full again after adding water volume (separates into an oil on top and water bottom mix). I take a syringe minus the needle and suck out as much of the water as I can which is noticeably green from sucking up chlorophyll and then boil off any additional water at the end on a hot plate hoping that takes any free hexane with it. Hexane boils lower than water right?, but does it also bond and stay with water?
So my question is, for you guys making hexane honey, is water enough to purge off any extra hexane/green material or do you still need to do the alcohol wash/freezing technique? I've done two pulls with just a hexane wash, one was water washed after and came out as proper honey, the other was a different strain from the get go with no water wash and had a waxy/pudding consistency at the end that kept creating bubbles as it sat (hexane boil off I'm guessing). Is that solely because one was water washed and one wasn't or was it the strain that made it waxy? Biggest question is if water wash is good enough to get rid of all extra hexane and impurities or if there is another method that will give better results (alcohol/freezing)?
With the shit green I get, I'm getting around 8-9ml product per 100 grams of blended green stuff (around a 1 cup and a half bud). This sound right?
If anyone is interested I've been working on my "lab" and have made a pretty efficient process with different soak times/results that I can post if people want to see along with pictures of the final material (i'm an engineer and write/document everything). Hexane washing is that easy if you can get a on going supply so just wanted to feel you guys out because I can make pure strong oil versus kilos of shit grade green. I tell them the hexane is for hull paint or thinners since I live in an industry area  .
Attached is a pic of the two different pulls, the darker/pudding looking mixture is a 100g buds soaked for 30mins plus one additional hexane rinse to flush out oil (1lt hexane total) and no water wash. The lighter looking honey pull was from a "hexane rinse" I did where the hexane was constantly flowing for 15min due to the fact I made a small exit hole at the bottom so flow was restricted. So the green was always covered for 15 min (.75lt hexane pour), then waited for all hexane to drip out and followed with a .25ltr hexane flush and then water washed the results and came out with a "honey" product.
Let me know what you guys think, I can post pics from start to finish along with amounts used and times needed to reach end results. Im also going to "water wash" half of my waxy pull to see if that removes any extra "contaminants" to result in a honey quality, so will update.
Just if any of you guys have experience, please save me some time with real world experience versus me reading 100's of retards post where they don't even show results let alone pull their head from their arse.
Thanks brothers,
Neca
PS= for the attached photo of two pulls I did from similar local strains but one was water washed and one wasn't, so please give me any information possible as to how any of you doing this finish it off or how you got better results? Ultimately, I am trying to make a med grade product in a country that is illegal but still has many patients in need. So I need to make sure my way is safe before offering it to already sick people. Marijuana is one hell of a healer.
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 COOKED101
Eagle Eyes
Registered: 06/14/13
Posts: 60
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Re: Hexane, properly from start to finish (with photos if wanted) (moved) [Re: captain.koons]
#761565 - 12/13/14 05:10 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Acetone hash.  
Try a shorter contact time and have everything ice cold.
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