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GrayWolf's Lair

GrayWolf's Lair

A Posse ad Esse. From Possibility To Realization.

  • 1. About-Us
    • 1.1 Article by Graywolf/JD Ellis
    • 1.2 History and about
    • 1.3 The Grey Wolf in Alchemical symbology
    • 1.4 From Russia with love!
    • 1.5 Dr Kate Welch and our presentation at PSU
    • 1.6 What happened?
  • 2. Legal, Political, & Current Affairs
    • 2.1.1 Latest NORML Articles
    • 2.2 The Oil Wars
    • 2.4 Extraction Innovators U-tube regarding closed loop extraction evolution
  • 3. Medical
    • 3.1 Granny Storm Crow’s List 2019
    • 3.2 RIP Brandy
  • 4. Authors Columns
    • 4.1 Graywolf
      • 4.1.1 About JD aka Graywolf
      • 4.1.2 The Elvis(es) have left the building
      • 4.1.3 Posting standards for reader comments
      • 4.1.4 Process Evolution
      • 4.1.5 About 1.1’s new artwork by Dented Art
      • 4.1.7 Modern Extractor Bonus E02 POD cast with Graywolf.
      • 4.1.8 Where is this handbasket named Facebook headed??
      • 4.1.9 Thoughts and sayings
      • 4.1.10 New Nostalgic Book, by D. Gold
    • 4.2 Eloquent Solution
      • 4.2.1 About Carla Kay, Eloquent Solution
    • 4.3 Pharmer Joe
    • 4.4 Dr Kate Welch, Pharm D
      • 4.4.1 About Dr Kate Welch, Pharm D
      • 4.4.2 Cannabis Formula from the US Dispensatory, 1870
      • 4.4.3 Cannabinoid Carboxylic Acids, THCA and CBDA
      • 4.4.4 Introducing Dr Kate Welch, Pharm D
    • 4.6 D Gold
      • 4.6.1 About D Gold
      • 4.6.1.1 Hello and recollections, by D Gold
      • 4.6.2 Red oil in the late 60’s and early 70’s
      • 4.6.3 PURE THC for three bucks a gram?
      • 4.6.4 Dave Golds MEGAPLANT Challenge
      • 4.6.5 Questions About Long Term Flower Storage?? by Dave Gold
      • 4.6.6 The Chilum by Dave Gold
      • 4.6.7.Canna-Beer by D. Gold
        • 4.6.7.1 D Gold’s Cannabeer update
        • 4.6.7.2 A few more thoughts on CANNABEER by D Gold
        • 4.6.7.3 CO2 for cheap, beer for free by D Gold
      • 4.6.8 COVID, CBD, TERPENES, by D Gold
    • 4.7 Doug Cody
      • 4.7.2  The Solvent Wars, by Doug Cody, Cannabis Home Sciences
  • 5. Upcoming Speaker & Vendor Events
  • 6. Classes
  • 7. Raffles
  • 8. Essential Oil Safety
    • 8.1 Sweet Mary’s Charms
    • 8.2 Plant Waxes
    • 8.3 Salvaging Moldy Material
    • 8.4 Sweet Mary’s Charms II
    • 8.5 Oh Sweet Mary, What is that perfume you’re wearing?
    • 8.6 Where does all the color come from?
    • 8.7 Vaping illnesses and deaths
    • 8.8 Characterizing the smell of Marijuana by odor impact of volatile compounds
    • 8.9 Guide to buying Delta-8-THC, by Erich Berkovitz
    • 8.10 FDA Residual Solvent Standards
    • 8.11 Dr Justin Fischedick On Plant Terpenes
    • 8.12 Butane/Propane Mystery oil
    • 8.13 How much LPG mixture can I safely load in my tank?
    • 8.14 Please do not immolate yourselves extracting BHO Indoors
  • 9. DIY CannaMed Production
    • 9.1 Safety
      • 9.1.1 DIY Canna-med Production Safety
    • 9.2 Growing
      • 9.2.2 Indoor garden
      • 9.2.4 A crash course in grow room automation
    • 9.3 Harvesting Drying and Curing
    • 9.4 Extraction
      • 9.4.1 Hand rub Charas
      • 9.4.2 Dry sieve
        • 9.4.2.2 Refining to full melt using electrostatic charges
      • 9.4.3 Bubble
      • 9.4.4 Rosin Extraction
      • 9.4.5 Vegetable and Nut Oil Extraction
      • 9.4.6 Glycerol Extraction
      • 9.4.7 Ethanol extraction
        • 9.4.7.1 QWET
        • 9.4.7.2 Subzero extraction
        • 9.4.7.3 Giant Tea ball extraction
        • 9.4.7.4 Alcohol Extraction Overview
        • 9.4.7.5 Recovery stills
      • 9.4.8 Isopropyl extraction
        • 9.4.8.1 QWISO
      • 9.4.15 Pentane/Hexane/Heptane
      • 9.4.9 Alkane extraction
        • 9.4.9.1 Pentane, Hexane, and Heptane simple Alkanes
        • 9.4.9.2 Propane/Butane extractions
          • 9.4.9.2.1 Butane Safety and social responsibility
          • 9.4.9.2.2 Overview of BHO extraction
          • 9.4.9.2.3 Butane Mystery Oil Removal using a Terpenator
          • 9.4.9.2.6 Mystery oil content by lighter fuel brand
          • 9.4.9.3 Absolute Amber from Banana Silver Ladyboys by Jump117
      • 9.4.10 n-Butane, Isobutane, and Propane Rated GRAS by FDA
      • 9.4.11 BHO Open Blast
      • 9.4.12 Thermos extraction
      • 9.4.13 Lil Terp Passive Extractor
      • 9.4.14 Active Closed Loop
        • 9.4.14.1 Vapor boost for cold injections
        • 9.4.14.2 Unloading Columns With Air
        • 9.4.14.3 The History of BHO
      • 9.4.15 Pentane/Hexane/Heptane
        • 9.4.15.1 Extraction
        • 9.4.15.2 Recovery
      • 9.4.16 Vacuum Purging
      • 9.4.17 Extracting oil from fan leaves and stems
      • 9.4.14.4 The Cotton Candy Extraction Technique
    • 9.5 Formulation and Application
      • 9.5.1 Holy Anointing Oil
      • 9.5.2 Graywolf’s EZ CBD Topical
      • 9.5.3 Suppositories
      • 9.5.4 Dab and Vaporizations Sytems:
      • 9.5.5 Cannabuttons
      • 9.5.6 Cannapops
      • 9.5.7 Royal Jelly
      • 9.5.8 Adabadoya snowballs
      • 9.5.9 Yet another way to vape without using e-pen carts
  • 10. The Alchemist Resource
    • 10.1 Decarboxylation
      • 10.1.1 Decarboxylation of Tetrahydrocannabinolic acid (THCA) to active THC
      • 10.1.2 Decarboxylating Ethanol Tinctures In Situ
      • 10.1.3 Closed Wash Decarb by Ichiban Crafter
      • 10.1.4 Decarboxylation 101
    • 10.2 Winterizing
    • 10.3 Pentane/Hexane/Heptane and brine wash
    • 10.4 Isomerizing
    • 10.5 THC-O-A Acetate
    • 10.6 Sweet Mary’s Charms III
    • 10.7 CRC
      • 10.7.1 First Column Chromatography experiment
      • 10.7.2 CRC Murphy Murri style
      • 10.7.3 CRC 101, Intro to CRC and packing a poor man’s CRC
      • 10.7.4 ADSORBENT CLAYS, THEIR DISTRIBUTION, PROPERTIES PRODUCTION, AND USES
      • 10.7.5 Multicomponent Adsorption of Volatile Organic Compounds in the Liquid Phase: Predictive, Engineering Models, Molecular Simulations and Experiments.
      • 10.7.6 Opalene Silica Grandular Absorbent by Erich Berkovitz
    • 10.8 Short Path
      • 10.8.1 Introduction to Short Path Distillation, by Erich Berkovitz
    • 10.9 THC-a Diamond Mining General Overview
      • 10.9.1 Diamond Mining by Erich Berkovitz
    • 10.10 Alkanes and Alkane alcohols as solvents
    • 10.11 Isolation of D9-THC from Hemp and analytical aspects
    • 10.12 Sustainable Production of Cannabinoids with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Technologies
    • 10.13 Rate of THC Decomposition to CBN, et al
    • 10.14 Plant Waxes
    • 10.15 Identifying cannabis strains by terpene profile
    • 10.16 What are Anthocyanins
    • 10.17 Phytocanabinoids: a Unified Critical Inventory,
    • 10.18 Carbon Scrubbing & Diatomaceous Earth (DE) Filtering, by Ichiban Crafters
    • 10.19 190 Proof Ethanol from scratch
  • 11. Commercial Processes
  • 12. Extraction Booth and Ventilation
    • 12.1 Extraction Booth and Ventilation System Design
  • 13. Certification
    • 13.1 Certification
  • 14. Resources
    • 14.0 Resources
  • 15. DIY Equipment
    • 15.1 The History of the Terpenator According to Gospel
    • 15.2 Lil Terp
    • 15.3 Heat exchangers
      • 15.3.1 Ethanol recovery heat exchanger
      • 15.3.2 Counter flow heat exchangers
      • 15.3.3 Tri Coil Heat Exchanger Design
    • 15.4 The Evapanator DIY Rotary Thin Film Evaporator
    • 15.5 The DIY Rotary Evaporator by Siskiyou Sam
    • 15.6 ASME Pressure pots
    • 15.7 Pot still
    • 15.8 Ethanol fractionating still
      • 15.8.1 Refluxing columns for producing 190 proof Ethanol
    • 15.9 Sanitary Clamp Pressure Ratings
    • 15.10 DIY Seed Separator
    • 15.11 Convert EXT-420 to selectable single or double stage operation
    • 15.12 Refurbishing a used Napco Vacuum Oven and Controls
    • 15.13 Ethanol Subzero
    • 15.14 DIY Vacuum chamber
    • 15.15 Distilling and Polishing LPG
    • 15.16 Plant turnover and dipping fixture
    • 15.17 Induction heated nails
    • 15.18 Electric nails
    • 15.19 Tumbling
    • 15.20 The Grinning Reaper
    • 15.21 How to make DIY Dry sieving frames
    • 15.22 Material choice for extractor systems
    • 15.23 Mk VIII Inline Dewaxing
    • 15.24 DIY SCFE CO2
    • 15.25 Hot vapor assist
    • 15.26 Acoustical Extraction
    • 15.27 Automating the Extraction Process
    • 15.28 Extractor Column Design
    • 15.29 Remediating spent BHO extraction material for residual solvent
    • 15.30 Behold the Mk III Evolution and ancillaries
    • 15.31 Let’s discuss universal pump laws!
    • 15.32 Cannabis Extraction Thermodynamics 101
  • 16. Commercial Equipment
    • 16.1 Producers columns
      • 16.1.1 ABM Equipment bulk cannabis drying system
      • 16.1.2 Lab Baths – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly
      • 16.1.3 DIRTY PURGE – Contamination Threats In Vacuum Purging
    • 16.2 Equipment tests
      • 16.2.1 Extract Craft Source Turbo
      • 16.2.2 Testing D Gold’s ISO-3
      • 16.2.3 HMI Titanium Skillet
      • 16.2.4 Evaluation of Heidolph Instruments Hei-VAP Precision ML G3
      • 16.2.5 Testing the CAT Scientific MCX-66 Stirring Hotplate
      • 16.2.6 Testing the Extract Craft EtOH Pro
      • 16.2.7 Field testing the Medxtract Essential
    • 16.3 Plant tours
      • 16.3.1 Subzero Scientific
  • 17.0 Used facilities and equipment for sale:
    • 17.1 An $8M industrial-scale, USDA-Certified CBD/THC distillate-making facility for $3.75M.
    • 17.2 Miscellaneous Processing Equipment
    • 17.3 More misc equipment from Sam
    • 17.4 More from Sam
    • 17.5 New stuff from Sam
    • 17.7 New stuff from Sam
    • 17.8 More goodies from Sam
    • 17.8 Used flash chromatography unit from Subzero Scientific
  • 18.0 The vacuum cooking and aluminum bead sous vide test sled
    • 18.0.1 The Vacuum Cooking and Aluminum Bead Sous Vide Test Sled, Chapter 2
    • 18.1 Sous Vide cooking with aluminum beads
      • 18.1.1 Aluminum Bead Crème Brulee Sous Vide
      • 18.1.2 Egg Bites
    • 18.3 Produce food concentrates extracting and boiling at low temperatures under vacuum
      • 18.3.1 Test 13 F-Extracting wild blackberry concentrates from spent pulp

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8.14 Please do not immolate yourselves extracting BHO Indoors

Posted on January 9, 2023April 5, 2023 2 mins

I continue to see brothers posting that they are extracting both open blast and closed loop indoors without an engineered ventilation system.  Some arguing that […]

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8.13 How much LPG mixture can I safely load in my tank?

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 2 mins

The question of how much LPG can I safely put in my tank continues to arise. You are of course limited to an 80% fill […]

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  • 8. Essential Oil Safety

8.12 Butane/Propane Mystery oil

Posted on January 9, 2023June 7, 2023 9 mins

In August of 2013, a brother posted on Facebook that he had discovered residuals left behind after evaporating away butane, that he described as “smelling […]

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8.11 Dr Justin Fischedick On Plant Terpenes

Posted on January 9, 2023April 4, 2023 4 mins

Perhaps the best opening question to start the article on sweet Mary’s charms, would be why are we so interested in these volatile compounds.  Our […]

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  • 8. Essential Oil Safety

8.10 FDA Residual Solvent Standards

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 1 min

Follow this link for the current FDA residual solvent standards for food and pharmaceuticals: https://www.fda.gov/media/71737/download

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  • 8. Essential Oil Safety

8.9 Guide to buying Delta-8-THC, by Erich Berkovitz

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 7 mins

For what feels like the last few weeks, the federally legal US hemp market seems to have had a huge spike in demand for Delta-8-THC, […]

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  • 8. Essential Oil Safety

8.8 Characterizing the smell of Marijuana by odor impact of volatile compounds

Posted on January 9, 2023May 14, 2023 52 mins

Here is an interest LEO study on the impact of volatile constituents on the odor detection of marijuana by humans and drug sniffing dogs.  It […]

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8.7 Vaping illnesses and deaths

Posted on January 9, 2023May 14, 2023 11 mins

Old news, amidst the current Corvid-19 pandemic, but a rash of pneumonia like vaping related illnesses and deaths drew international attention in 2019 and resulted […]

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8.6 Where does all the color come from?

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 4 mins

In my research for articles included in our TAR blog site launch, I found errors in my previous understanding of what was being extracted in […]

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  • 8. Essential Oil Safety

8.5 Oh Sweet Mary, What is that perfume you’re wearing?

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 7 mins

When discussing either cannabis flowers or concentrates in detail, the subject of odor comes up, leading to a discussion of the entourage effect of Sweet […]

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  • 8. Essential Oil Safety

8.4 Sweet Mary’s Charms II

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 11 mins

A summary of the extensive work done  on the paper Constituents of Cannabis Sativa L XVII, A Review of the Natural Constituents, by Turner, Elsohly, and […]

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8.3 Salvaging Moldy Material

Posted on January 9, 2023May 14, 2023 5 mins

Sometimes things go poorly and you end with moldy material and wonder what you can do with it.  The answer is it depends on what […]

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  • 8. Essential Oil Safety

8.2 Plant Waxes

Posted on January 9, 2023May 14, 2023 3 mins

Plant waxes are the protective cover between the plant cells and their environment, by which they regulate their water loss, and protect themselves from the […]

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  • 8. Essential Oil Safety

8.1 Sweet Mary’s Charms

Posted on January 9, 2023March 23, 2023 93 mins

 Sweet Mary’s Charms by JD Ellis and Rob Brown  Wowza!  Because of the rapidly growing popularity for vaporizing cannabis concentrates, as well adding additional terpenes […]

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