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"[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]High test alcohol and heat in a domestic setting have always been taboo in my view. With better venting, or maybe arranging a place in an out-building, the risk of unintended fire would drop significantly. Outdoor temps are not sufficient at the moment for more passive evaporation in an unheated environment, such as my enclosed back porch."[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Had a prostatectomy in 2006[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Excellent surgeon, I don't leak and sex is still an option. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Different, but an option. View Image
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Had biological recurrence after 18 months and it was fast, 6 month doubling rate.
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The oil has slowed that to 2 years and my recent addition of commercial CBD has slowed it to what is looking like a 4-5 year doubling rate.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] I'll have actual numbers from my next blood test in about 6 months but my last test showed only a 0.4 ng. increase in PSA in over nine months.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]It's at 21 ng. and change, presently. With 0 symptoms.[/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] So, here's how a lazy, but responsible guy makes oil.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Unless you own a professional fume hood, Iso indoors is a bad move.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The decarb is fine, but I don't even do the soak indoors.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]And passive evaporation turns 99% iso into, at minimum, 91% by absorbing moisture from the air, even when relative humidity is quite low.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Then you have to cope with that water at the end.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Best way I've found is induction plate, 2 quart saucepan, several ziplock bags and a good fan.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]First, get the buds as dry as you can.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I use several, gallon ziplocks for the soak and smoosh.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Pour iso into the first bag, smoosh, and let it soak for 10 minutes or so. Then pour that solvent into a second bag, pour fresh iso into the first bag and let it soak while I smoosh the second one. Just keep water-falling until each bag has had 3 soaks.
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]More that that get less than 1% return.
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I gather the solvent into a large jug. seal it, and let it sit overnight.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The muck settles to the bottom and makes filtering much faster.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Faster filtering pick us less water from the air.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Then, I decant it through a coffee filter lined funnel into another jug, or into the boil pot. (depends on the amount.)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I do all of this outdoors.
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Avoids fumes and flames, yah?[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I set the induction plate to 200° F. for the boil and set the fan to blow across the top.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]That stops any boil over, and avoids burning the product.
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Then I set timers while the iso boils off. At the end I turn the temp. up to 220° to boil off the water.
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]When the large, water, bubbles cease and the tiny, CO2, bubbles begin, kill the heat and fill syringes.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]It really is that easy.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The oil is ready to use immediately. and because of the efficient decarb, it will be very potent.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I squirt 120 - 140 mg. at a time into #2 capsules. (that's about 2 grains of long rice worth).[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Higher doses are less effective.
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Found that out the hard way, trial and error. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Dosage is adjusted for patient size, but 1.1 mg. per Kg. seems close to optimal for me.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]This is what worked for me. It may well work for you.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]So quit worrying and go eat a moose. [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
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Thanks Weez.
That's the sort of detail an obsessive compulsive person like myself can appreciate.
Not sure where I can immediately set up warm environment to bake off the solvents, and if I've read your last several comments correctly, you are opposed to using ethanol/Everclear. (one benefit is that as a person evaps the solvent, thinks too long about all things involved, they can take a low-carb swig of the solvent, and carry on. My anticipated version of multi-tasking...
Can you elaborate re. whether cooking with ethanol, using your approach is possible to be made more safe?
When I made ISO oil years ago, there was a younger fellow from British Columbia here (ICMag) who went by Shmike, or something very close to that.
I had known a PhD plant pathologist up here in the early 1980s (former quasi-partner) who made hash oil in beakers with low-heat cook-off, using petroleum ether. (Some near-catastrophic events that can be laughed at in retrospect occurred), but his oil was always a putrid chlorophyll-laden dark green. He pulverized/ground his cannabis very fine, and soaked it for 24 hours or more, if I recall correctly.
Shmike held fast to his belief at that time that the clippings or loosely refined flower should never be ground up, let alone finely, the material should be 'springy dry' (not crumbly), and should be quickly submerged in the appropriate amount of be agitated briskly for no more than 30 seconds with the ISO (or other solvent used).
I used 1-gallon jars with lids we have here (still), and would pour the solvent from a beer pitcher over the cannabis that was in a sterilized 1-gallon jar, start the timer, and agitate the bejeesus out of it for about 30 seconds.
The result was a product much closer to the taste and smell of the Middle Eastern red Nepali oil of the 1970s and early 1980s.
That was the process leading up to the passive evaporation referenced earlier. I had never considered the iso-laden oil leeching H2O from the air... Counter-productive once that's considered.
I have a number of HRV exhaust grates in the house, but they lack the cfm's for safe cooking of solvents. I'll need to get creative, I think.
Made 2-1/4 gallons of traditional (not American) norther Mexican/Texas chili, but with moose and black turtle beans the other day; yet another act of defiance where the protein news was concerned. Still have some moose steaks, maybe a roast or 3, some nearing-ancient moose short ribs (have to be in a specific mood and energy level to process those correctly and oven-bake them.
Still have a bit of salmon, cod, and maybe a bit of halibut.
So, stir-fried veggies in coconut oil are on my radar for a while to come.
I'm sorry to read that your cancer came back so strong, but feel optimistic to read of your experiences with playing with doses of oil, and the successes' therein.
The concept of 'cell suicide', as it relates to cancer cells' reactions to THC/CBD oils is something that provides some hope, but it's tempered by knowing that not everyone responds the same way to this.
CT scan is done, with all the corresponding 'bells and whistles' a distant childhood friend warned of, though not as significantly as I had perceived from his descriptions. Wondered what happens if a person heads straight from a radiological set like that, or nuclear bone scans, and heads straight to the TSA security screening, and into the detection equipment; does the sensor go nuts?
The nuclear bone scan is coming up Friday or so... Should know after that how localized the cancer is or isn't.
"Another day, another dollar..."
Going to go smoke some White Lotus #4 (my numerical designation), and contemplate changes to my soilless mix, as well as how to devise a safer area to have a comfy temperature in, and not blow it up.
The soil prof wrote back, and my intuition re. calcium binding my P was closer to the mark than I thought.. He replied with tremendous specificity, so now I can spend some serious time digesting his very generous helpfulness, and then take a step forward in that endeavor, and everything else.
Take care, and thanks again.