Hrm I'm getting 20 seconds, 20 mins, 2 hours, 6 hours, 2 days, weeks+ on googles for how long to wash for.
My scientifical thinking thinks if I leave it too long it will break down more than the THC but I'm undecided if this is good or bad, will it add to the taste or just matter from the plant that has no effect other than watering down my product. I think I need to play with this one unless anyone has already done so?
as far as storing goes always glass(plastic seems mess with taste an smell) if u cant find glass bottles where u live im sure u can find mason jars get the smallest ones they have. i use Ball Deluxe Quilted Crystal Jelly Jars 4oz and 8oz for storing my iso, dry sift and hash etc..
for making iso
make sure ur trim,buds w.e is very cold(via freezing if completly dry) before washing. also make sure ur iso is very cold. do this will help make the resin glands nice and brittle and brake off of the stalks with a short shake. the shorter the shake the more potent and less green it will taste. i shake for 20 seconds or less and my iso comes out to a very glassy almost like rock candy like texture that is overhelming potent and tastes wonderfully. ive done longer washes the product is runny,oily, very sticky, hard to handle and very green tasting imo.
stick to shorter washes with very cold trim and iso..
Found a nice place for bottles too 'naturallythinking' might bring them up in a google
Gonna get 1 of each color What size be good? Probably gonna be processing a few ounces of bud max at a time 5ml? not sure about the lid either they do some polycone ones with droppers inbuilt but is that useful or not?
whoa so 20 secs for runny pure yellow oil or a little longer if i want it runny so i can bottle
Will try to freeze next time too. I'm guessing just to help the trichs fall off so they melt into the iso solution easier and pass through whatever I strain with
Still gonna get the little bottles I googled. I love everything having a specific home OCD crew hollah I got some 420 stash jars one of which is empty atm so that will do for now unless it's runny in which case it will probs stay in the pyrex its in atm for a while hehe
glass vials are usually sold at decent head shops around here. whatever you use glass is good because you can heat it to soften the oil up when it hardens.
cthulhu, Cheers dood I shall check in the morning for a clear one until my colored ones arrive
midwesthighs, I see what your saying now! What have here reminds me a bit of my BHO before it fully dried out not that that made it much easier with the small amount I had that was probably full of toxins due to the shop bought tube I used.
It's not that green anymore but a little dark hehe, tastes nice though and got me over stoned compared to the bud it came from
Now I haver a dilema, I got a bag of quality trim and a bag of air bud and don't know if I should ISO, BHO, or Bubble. I've never been good with choice hehe gotta have it all!
The head shop was lame(all 3 of them)! but the ones I ordered from an aromatherapy site arrived and I scraped up what I had into one which now looks a bit like this:
Some hardened oil
Now on the wish list is a little metal or glass spoon, wasn't feeling the plastic ones attached to the lid sitting in my oil
pothead6 Could be your using too long a wash. The solid stuff up there was made by doing the last bit of evap over a slow cooker you could do it over water on the stove if your brave but it was pretty much done by that time. If you mix it a little while your doing this I think it makes buddah?