Extraction My way of making BHO

[HashMaster]

Friends and Professor @HashMaster.

I was reading about oils in the infamous Wikipedia. Information form that source has to be checked and double checked.

What I found is that our material contains lots of THC-A, the inactive, acid form of THC. The wiki article says the carboxylic acid form, which is an inactive form of THC has poor solubility in solvents. Also, the carboxy-THC needs decarboxylation for being psychoactive.

Could the plant material be toasted in the oven for decarboxylation?
I don't care about terpens, if they are lost. I want to get the goodies out and to maximize goodies, it seems like a decarboxylation protocol should be designed.

A morning shot from the balcony, just to get in the right mood.

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Yes, that is exactly how it is done.

I do it in the oven on a covered cookie sheet.

Do a search on here and you will find various times and temps.

I was just heading off to bed........

 

[Dr. Babnik]

Yes, that is exactly how it is done.

I do it in the oven on a covered cookie sheet.

Do a search on here and you will find various times and temps.

I was just heading off to bed........

Great! I was just planning to read about it. I will get lots of waiting time today. Going to chat with the hospital MD. They are never on time.

Sleep well, @HashMaster
My local time is 8.14 am.

 

[cli420]

Friends and Professor @HashMaster.

I was reading about oils in the infamous Wikipedia. Information form that source has to be checked and double checked.

What I found is that our material contains lots of THC-A, the inactive, acid form of THC. The wiki article says the carboxylic acid form, which is an inactive form of THC has poor solubility in solvents. Also, the carboxy-THC needs decarboxylation for being psychoactive.

Could the plant material be toasted in the oven for decarboxylation?
I don't care about terpens, if they are lost. I want to get the goodies out and to maximize goodies, it seems like a decarboxylation protocol should be designed.

A morning shot from the balcony, just to get in the right mood.

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It could be toasted in oven, Don't go over 180 F - 240 F I wouldn't recommend the oven but to each is own. Are You trying to cook with your oil im assuming? I'll PM you a link I found interesting you might find it informative.

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

i think there may be a bit of confussion here.only needs to go in the oven if you are eating it.as smoking is decarboxilization.

 

[Dr. Babnik]

It could be toasted in oven, Don't go over 180 F - 240 F I wouldn't recommend the oven but to each is own. Are You trying to cook with your oil im assuming? I'll PM you a link I found interesting you might find it informative.

I have to smoke it. I can eat 10 g hash with no effect what so ever.

 

[Joe383]

Sorry about the late reply. Yes you can use the oven. My brother in law uses the oven but his turns in to butter not clear oil like mine. It has great smell and flavor though his way too. He uses high heat like 350 but only tell the hash starts to bubble up and look like spit. It is only about 10 sec in the oven. I would imagine water would work great too. I use the water during the blasting process to eliminate most of the butane right off the bat.

My brother-in-law uses a water bath like me right off the bat, that's were I got the idea but then scrapes it in to a pile, puts it on parchment paper and in the oven to purge his stuff. My sister says its amazing. If I was to use water for a purge I would leave it un disturbed and float the container you blasted in, in water with a thermometer in your water. I would not let the bottom of the container touch the bottom of the pot I had the water in and see how well it purges out with just heat and then also experiment with carefully trying to whip the BHO while its in the water with out getting water in it during the heat purge.

I tried to use parchment paper the first time and the griddle on low heat. I carefully let the BHO run around on the paper but this for some reason gave an off flavor to the finished product. I don't know if it was the silicon on the paper, I transferred the flavor from the griddle " It was clean but maybe " or if I maybe burnt the product. I will never now because I don't smoke so I have to try and figure out my mistakes by my wife's descriptions which is usually just " Its just bad, I don't know what you did but you $#@%&! It up " LOL.

Honestly if what ever method you settle with gives you a product that's hard like rocks even if there is some butane in it, that's as good as your going to do with out a vacuum chamber.

 

[Joe383]

Just did a batch. Pulled 3.7G this run, not bad. It was a mix if trim and buds. It was also slightly damp this run. Turned out good.

 

[derek420colorado]

Just did a batch. Pulled 3.7G this run, not bad. It was a mix if trim and buds. It was also slightly damp this run. Turned out good.

Ok so I am going to tell you about grinding the buds or trim up. Yep you are correct the quality is higher, that means there is less "other stuff" than just THC. When you grind up the material it busts the cell walls and lets the "other stuff" that is not THC out. So yes you will get more oil from ground bud, but the extra weight is stuff like plant lipids and the cutitcle layer of the trich head. So long story short unless you are selling your oil don't grind the buds

 

[pop22]

If your smoking/vaping it, no need to decarb. And the solubility varies depending on what solvent you use. Alcohols, Butane, and refrigerant Don't show much difference in solubility of THC in either form.

Friends and Professor @HashMaster.

I was reading about oils in the infamous Wikipedia. Information form that source has to be checked and double checked.

What I found is that our material contains lots of THC-A, the inactive, acid form of THC. The wiki article says the carboxylic acid form, which is an inactive form of THC has poor solubility in solvents. Also, the carboxy-THC needs decarboxylation for being psychoactive.

Could the plant material be toasted in the oven for decarboxylation?
I don't care about terpens, if they are lost. I want to get the goodies out and to maximize goodies, it seems like a decarboxylation protocol should be designed.

A morning shot from the balcony, just to get in the right mood.

View attachment 588417

 

[Dr. Babnik]

Ok so I am going to tell you about grinding the buds or trim up. Yep you are correct the quality is higher, that means there is less "other stuff" than just THC. When you grind up the material it busts the cell walls and lets the "other stuff" that is not THC out. So yes you will get more oil from ground bud, but the extra weight is stuff like plant lipids and the cutitcle layer of the trich head. So long story short unless you are selling your oil don't grind the buds

I am going to blast the rest of my autmazar. No need for decarb. You say not to grind...do you crush the buds in any other way?
I know @tripaholic88 uses a food processor at a particular point in his dryingprocess.

Also, is there a rule for how much butane is needed per weight unit of weed?
I have this small tube. It takes like 17 g grinded material when the weed is packed by gravitation. Next time, I will apply some preassure and fill it more, as recommened by @tripaholic88.