Wax looks nice. That "shatter" looks gross.
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Thanks for the post. Can I ask what you dislike about the shatter? In my experience, my high CBD projects have always come out as shatters like this. Clubs and patients seem to like it though.
ICOVO- Its the color and lack of clarity. I keep getting shatter like this and cant move it to save my life. I want that 1/2" clear glass. Are you heat purging or vac purging your comb?
ICOVO- Its the color and lack of clarity. I keep getting shatter like this and cant move it to save my life. I want that 1/2" clear glass. Are you heat purging or vac purging your comb?
IF your oil is coming out that dark it's due to your cannabinoids being partially decarboxylated. This is most likely happened from using old material, material that was kept in less than ideal storing conditions and or to much heat during your purge. Partially decarboxylated oil can still be stable, but fully decarboxylated oil has always been thick oil consistency.
Shatter/glass (stable oil) comes from fresh material, freshly dried is the best, also dewaxed/winterized oil is much more stable the oil that hasn't seen these processes. low temperatures as to not decarboxylate during the purge, Proper thin film purge under -29.9 in. hg. Avoid folding also, almost all thick film purging with heat turns into wax. It allows nucleation points to form much more easily than when thinned out.
I know you want "thick" slabs of glass without folding, but it is hard for oil to stiffen up with out being purged in a thin film. Especially 1/2" good luck getting that to shatter up. There just isn't enough surface area exposed for it to be purged properly into shatter(depending on your materials age and purge temperatures of course). More surface area the better, this isn't opinion it's a fact, thin film purging is more effective then thick.
would you dry wet clothes in a pile or would you hang them out individually?
For sure man I hear you and understand the theory behind the thin film purge. I have seen shatter that was super thick and still had little dimples in it where you could tell there was a vac release that happened as it was a solid mass.. You think they thin film purged and then at the very end used a mold or something? I still cannot get a good shatter unfortunately, I am just beginning to understand the nature of honeycomb...
I like that vac purged banana og comb pictured above for sure.
Did I read that correctly-? Your shatter was a some shake that had already been blasted?
What temp are you using for your wax? This patty seems a little too done.
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Out of curiosity IC OVO, why do you make wax from stuff that yields as high as 18%? Wouldn't you get more $$$ selling as nug instead? Most of the stuff I have seen running 18% would sell for around $2500/pound at wholesale. So even if you sold at $30/g wholesale, you would still get $100 less than selling it just as nug. Then whomever buying it would get less ROI having to sell the oil at $50/g rather than just $40/eighth. Do you have a reason for doing this? Am I mistaken in my numbers?
Here is some of my stuff:
Hey Vape, awesome Shatter! Please share more when you have some pictures.
Secondly, no you aren't mistaken in your numbers. There was a few reasons for doing this. First of all, I work closely with several well known clubs (VFL, Elemental, Harborside, and others). The runs that produced this awesome wax was outdoor nug, and I really don't have a market at the clubs for outdoor bud. I don't take my stuff to the grey market either, so I really had nothing to do with the outdoors other than make it into wax.
I'll be doing an outdoor run next seasons solely for the purpose of waxing it all. I'll be running the Banana from the first post, which yielded an insane 26%, by far the highest I have gotten.
Gotcha, thanks for the response!
That's funny, banana kush has been my highest yielder ever at 28%. Still looking for a strain that will get 29%!