Palindrome
King of Schwag
I was giving QWET a try yesterday, been a long time since I did any extractions as I have been away from growing.
Now I don't have any blasting rig and most my equipment was taken by the cops 10 years ago, so figured QWET was simple enough to just do on the kitchen table.
BUt I messed something up, or maybe not. I am not sure what happend, or should I say how?
As a test I did a trial with wet trim!
93% Ethanol
extraction done at -26 C (-15 F)
Soak time 3 min.
Vaporized off the ethanol in a water bath, thats where the odd stuff started to happen.
Never quit seen anything like it, but it all kinda went back together at the end and I decarbed it at 100C (210 F) for 30 min.
To my surprice I wasnt able to desolve the extract again, after it was decrabed. First time I try this, back when I was younger we just smoked the tar from ethanol with hour long soak times LOL Tasted horrible, but got you really wasted.
Anyway after desolving what I could, I did a smoke test and no effect. Very little flavor, just alot of smoke n bubbles.
It desolves in water with ease
Anyone with an idea what happend, it have not yet been winterized or done any attempts to dewax or anything.
I am guessing the goo left is sugar and/or wax separated out as solids, but how and why?
Now I washed out the goo, but still interrested in what happend.
Was at first pretty amased but the result of 6.2 gram return, but alot of that was apparently just crap.
Still haven't winterized anything yet, trying to figure this out firs and if it's infact just a good thing that happend. As it was fully water solvable, I figure there where nothing active about it.
The smell was like, old vaped weed, when you clean out a vaporizer.
Now I don't have any blasting rig and most my equipment was taken by the cops 10 years ago, so figured QWET was simple enough to just do on the kitchen table.
BUt I messed something up, or maybe not. I am not sure what happend, or should I say how?
As a test I did a trial with wet trim!
93% Ethanol
extraction done at -26 C (-15 F)
Soak time 3 min.
Vaporized off the ethanol in a water bath, thats where the odd stuff started to happen.
Never quit seen anything like it, but it all kinda went back together at the end and I decarbed it at 100C (210 F) for 30 min.
To my surprice I wasnt able to desolve the extract again, after it was decrabed. First time I try this, back when I was younger we just smoked the tar from ethanol with hour long soak times LOL Tasted horrible, but got you really wasted.
Anyway after desolving what I could, I did a smoke test and no effect. Very little flavor, just alot of smoke n bubbles.
It desolves in water with ease
Anyone with an idea what happend, it have not yet been winterized or done any attempts to dewax or anything.
I am guessing the goo left is sugar and/or wax separated out as solids, but how and why?
Now I washed out the goo, but still interrested in what happend.
Was at first pretty amased but the result of 6.2 gram return, but alot of that was apparently just crap.
Still haven't winterized anything yet, trying to figure this out firs and if it's infact just a good thing that happend. As it was fully water solvable, I figure there where nothing active about it.
The smell was like, old vaped weed, when you clean out a vaporizer.