SeedySimon
Member
Hey guys,
Maybe somebody can help me out here, I am getting very bad extraction rates with my QUISO extract. Only slightly more than a quarter of the cannabinoids is extracted (end product is satisfying though).
The material I used for extraction were some flowers of medium potency and 99% isopropanol. I put the flowers as well as the isopropanol into the freezer for a couple of hours. Then I put the whole flowers into a bowl, covered it with the alcohol and stirred for 2 minutes.
When I looked at the remaining flower material under a 30x microscope I didn't note any difference, I imagined that there must be less trichomes but mostly they seemed intact and there was not really any visual change of the buds. So I got a bit suspicious and had the buds lab-checked after the iso had evaporated. And turns out that 73% of the cannabinoids were still in the buds I had washed.
Since alcohol is supposed to be a good solvent for cannabinoids I don't really understand why my extraction rate is that bad. Would it take more time? Or is it the saturation rate of isopropanol, therefore the need of much more? Or is the fault of the low temperatures (though those in my understanding should mainly affect the pureness of the extract, less the efficiency).
Any ideas would be highly appreciated as I feel a little lost here and would really like to know what's the problem and how to increase efficiency to do more extracts in the future.
Maybe somebody can help me out here, I am getting very bad extraction rates with my QUISO extract. Only slightly more than a quarter of the cannabinoids is extracted (end product is satisfying though).
The material I used for extraction were some flowers of medium potency and 99% isopropanol. I put the flowers as well as the isopropanol into the freezer for a couple of hours. Then I put the whole flowers into a bowl, covered it with the alcohol and stirred for 2 minutes.
When I looked at the remaining flower material under a 30x microscope I didn't note any difference, I imagined that there must be less trichomes but mostly they seemed intact and there was not really any visual change of the buds. So I got a bit suspicious and had the buds lab-checked after the iso had evaporated. And turns out that 73% of the cannabinoids were still in the buds I had washed.
Since alcohol is supposed to be a good solvent for cannabinoids I don't really understand why my extraction rate is that bad. Would it take more time? Or is it the saturation rate of isopropanol, therefore the need of much more? Or is the fault of the low temperatures (though those in my understanding should mainly affect the pureness of the extract, less the efficiency).
Any ideas would be highly appreciated as I feel a little lost here and would really like to know what's the problem and how to increase efficiency to do more extracts in the future.