Category: 9. DIY CannaMed Production

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Some of us whose lungs are approaching their expiration date and who now rely on vaping or dabbing, are left wanting when traveling, so covet […]

 Royal Jelly certainly has smoothness and potency sorted out, but how about us’ns brothers and sisters that crave more monoterpene flavors?    For ya’ll I have […]

  I mixed some of Pharmer Joe’s center fraction Clear distillate and his THC-a crystals to make a delightful mix that we decided to call […]

I originally developed the Cannapop lollypops for Granny, a patient with jaw damage that left her with limited movement and constant pain.  The lollypop allowed […]

Here’s a tale from the hoary days of yore, but one that still has brothers and sisters swearing by the product.   In the olden days, […]

Most of us’ns first experience with cannabis was smoking it, but once its medical properties began to be better documented and medical cannabis came of […]

Aside from intravenous injections, the portals into the human body are oral, respiratory, transdermal, and rectal.  For some applications like nausea and colon/rectal cancer, it […]

Lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu!!!!!!!!!!  Now that’s pain relief from a Topical! This amazingly effective pain relieving topical is just too, […]

Our Holy Anointing Oil oral/topical was formulated by Carla, aka Eloquentsolution, and was based on a recipe for Holy Anointing Oil give to Moses by the Lord […]

9.4.14.4 The Cotton Candy Extraction Technique We bumped into the Cotton Candy extraction technique by accident, while shaking out the original Mk III Terpenator.  We […]

Sweet Mary not only has trichomes on her very special succulent parts, she has trichomes on both her fan leaves and her stems.  Even her roots […]

 Heating a concentrate to its melting point in a vacuum oven or chamber, so as to reduce surface tension enough for bubbles to escape, and […]

Success has many fathers, but failure is most often a bastard child.  Lawrd knows who first conceived it, but who was the first to publish […]

Unloading columns can be tedious and we experimented with various methods ranging from an auger and battery operated electric drill, but loved this one the […]

As the temperature of LPG drops, so does its pressure.  The Engineering Tool Box offers a handy reference showing the pressure of different mixes at […]

During the time frame that I introduced the Mk III, I introduced the Lil Terp Passive extractor, which was based on the Mk III design, but […]

Jump117 shared an extraction technique with us on IC Mag forum, that used a stainless thermos to keep the LPG liquid longer, so as to […]

BHO is the acronym for Butane Honey Oil, which is cannabis essential oils extracted using LPG as a solvent.  That LPG typically contains n or […]

Flying in the face of the often espoused proffered opinion that any residual butane in your concentrate is “poison”, the Food and Drug Administration has […]

Here is a rating of lighter fuel brands best to worst with regard to Mystery Oil content, as compiled by Skyhighler and offered at https://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=6099306&postcount=28  Best […]

Closed loop systems like the Terpenator also have the ability to vacuum distill the LPG used in the process, so as to reduce the PPM […]

The target constituents in cannabis that we covet, are aromatic hydrocarbons soluble in the simple Alkanes n-Butane and n-Propane, as well as their isomers Isobutane […]

Before we discuss extraction techniques, lets discuss safety and social responsibility.  Butane and Propane are both high flammable and typically under pressure  in their containers, […]

Simple Alkane MSDS Sheets & Properties: The simple Alkanes most often involved in cannabis extraction are n-Propane, n-Butane, Isobutane, n-Pentane, n-Hexane. and n-Heptane. Their MSDS […]

Quick Wash Isopropyl (QWISO) is similar to a QWET extraction using Ethanol, but uses cheaper un liquor taxed, 99% purity Isopropanol, found in places like […]

Ethanol extraction is one of our favorite methods, especially when run size gets beyond practical size limits for LPG extraction, and high monoterpene retention isn’t […]

Ethanol is one of the oldest solvents used to extract cannabis concentrates and due to its heavily taxed cost and hit and miss availability around […]

Giant Tea Ball Extraction A fast low tech way to extract a large amount of mixed trim fast, with a low equipment investment.  Check out […]

9.4.7.2 Subzero Extraction For ya’ll brothers and sisters looking to process larger quantities at a time, we recommend that you consider the Subzero Ethanol process, […]

Quick Wash Ethanol is an extraction process by which we freeze the material and chill the Ethanol before extracting, so that we limit the pickup […]

Vegetable glycerin (glycerol) extraction is an easy effective way to extract cannabis concentrates, and within the capability of most folks to perform.  It can be […]

Sweet Mary’s terpenes, terpenoids, and cannabinoids dissolve readily in fats and oils, allowing us to use them (fats and oils) for both extraction, or simply […]

 So how about the new kid on the block Rosin!  No solvents or license required. My best suggestion is to try it and decide for […]

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Some of ya’ll are looking for a way to further refine heavily carded kif, and one way that works for small personal quantities, is electrostatic […]

Kif comes from the Arabic kayf, meaning pleasure.  While hand rubbed charas is ostensibly the oldest method of harvesting Kif, sieving does date back to […]

Hand rubbed Charas is thought to be the oldest form of cannabis concentrate, predating sieving by centuries, if not eons.  It is made by rubbing the […]

By Pete Tewes, Aka GrowGeek IoT Integration Engineer Pt3 Technical, LLC. ***Full disclosure***  While I do happily work for a controls manufacture and have my […]

Rule 1:  First, do no harm. Learning to grow, extract, and formulate your own cannabis medications includes learning how to do so safely, as to […]