Digital Man
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It is understatement to say that only "clean" flowers of the highest quality should be used in the process that I described above. ANY pesticides, mold, mildew or other nasties will certainly volatilize in this process and be caught in the condensers and traps. Since only separation techniques are used with no solvents, these will likely contaminate the collected terpenes and have very bad effects when vaped. In short, unless you know for certain how the flowers were grown, it would be highly unethical to do this extraction tech for resell, unless of course if entire terpene batch was sampled and subjected to thorough lab analysis.
The original impetus of my efforts centered on taking world class flowers and creating a world class extract that mirrored the effect profile of the mothers. I am currently extracting terpenes, doing a -50C ethanol extraction, purge to shatter and add back terpenes for vape carts. Blind tests, which are ongoing, have noted a huge difference in effect when cannabis terpenes are added. .1ml per gram (.9 ml) of shatter is some of the most potent vape imaginable with the right strains. I have tested some Chem D hybrids that have been devastating.
So just to be clear ...... you are taking fresh frozen buds .... extracting the terpenes which will equate to no more than 5% in total, naturally occurring.......... in the process destroy the buds and then add back double the amount of terps that were present in the original flower ???? Is that about right ?