hey guys, bump
I was wondering if refluxing ground-up bud with hexane would be a better extraction than just soaking at room temp?
I noticed with a extraction done with a soak at room temp for 24 hours flowers still have most of the little trichome "stalks" in place, trichs are gone, but the semi-clear little stalks that the trichomes "rest on" for a lack of a better term are still in place. and the ones that do come off end up getting filtered or settled out.
What the bloody hell are those things?? do they have any medical value? or any thc for that matter?
thanks alot
OH YEAH, and thats some clean looking oil ya got there bro!
Don't worry about stalks, they are empty.
I have never refluxed raw plant material with hexane, though I have done cold extractions with it and use it extensively cleaning up and in alchemy.
With the longer six carbon chain, it is less polar and less water soluble than butane with only four, so I predict that it would do a maximum extraction with low pickup of undesirables.
Since it is so forgiving, I have done cold soaks up to 12 hours and still gotten honey colored oil.
As Jump noted, the stalks that look like wet fur under the microscope are depleted. It is any remaining bulbous heads that we are scoping for.
thanks graywolf, I will be trying it out and letting you know the results. I will either reflux or just use hot hexane for the extraction, also was wondering about using hexane to isomerize with? hhmmm....