zanog
Member
Hi,
I have been thinking about making concentrates for a long time.
I'm still at the beginning of my learning curve.
In my country its illegal to grow weed that have more than 0.2% THC content, so it seems if I can clone a mother plant that can't produce more than 0.2%, I could actually grow hectares of it, that would be a lot of THC and a crapload of CBD, terpenes, fibers, hurd, etc. I could keep the THC(A), some terpenes and CBD and sell the rest with the remaining useful stuff. If I can avoid getting caught processing THC then this could work on paper.
In my mind this scenario could work (maybe because I don't have much experience in chemistry so far):
- harvest material and dry it on dry ice
- grind to dust mix into hexane or possibly DCM?
- preform fractional distillation under high vacuum(so thca will boil below the decarb temp) to separate THCA, CB*, terpenes(individually) with all the solvents recovered.
Could this be done efficiently?
I'm still researching methods, but I realized it would be faster with some pointers from you.
Thanks.
I have been thinking about making concentrates for a long time.
I'm still at the beginning of my learning curve.
In my country its illegal to grow weed that have more than 0.2% THC content, so it seems if I can clone a mother plant that can't produce more than 0.2%, I could actually grow hectares of it, that would be a lot of THC and a crapload of CBD, terpenes, fibers, hurd, etc. I could keep the THC(A), some terpenes and CBD and sell the rest with the remaining useful stuff. If I can avoid getting caught processing THC then this could work on paper.
In my mind this scenario could work (maybe because I don't have much experience in chemistry so far):
- harvest material and dry it on dry ice
- grind to dust mix into hexane or possibly DCM?
- preform fractional distillation under high vacuum(so thca will boil below the decarb temp) to separate THCA, CB*, terpenes(individually) with all the solvents recovered.
Could this be done efficiently?
I'm still researching methods, but I realized it would be faster with some pointers from you.
Thanks.