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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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  • 9. DIY CannaMed Production
  • 9.4 Extraction
  • 9.4.15 Pentane/Hexane/Heptane

9.4.15.2 Recovery

Posted on January 10, 2023March 21, 2023 1 min

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  • 9.4.15 Pentane/Hexane/Heptane

9.4.15.1 Extraction

Posted on January 10, 2023March 21, 2023 1 min

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  • 9.5 Formulation and Application

9.5.9 Yet another way to vape without using e-pen carts

Posted on January 10, 2023March 21, 2023 2 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.5 Formulation and Application

9.5.8 Adabadoya snowballs

Posted on January 10, 2023April 5, 2023 1 min

 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 […]

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  • 9.5 Formulation and Application

9.5.7 Royal Jelly

Posted on January 10, 2023April 5, 2023 2 mins

  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 […]

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  • 9.5 Formulation and Application

9.5.6 Cannapops

Posted on January 10, 2023April 5, 2023 6 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.5 Formulation and Application

9.5.5 Cannabuttons

Posted on January 10, 2023April 5, 2023 5 mins

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, […]

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  • 9.5 Formulation and Application

9.5.4 Dab and Vaporizations Sytems:

Posted on January 10, 2023April 5, 2023 8 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.5 Formulation and Application

9.5.3 Suppositories

Posted on January 10, 2023April 5, 2023 2 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.5 Formulation and Application

9.5.2 Graywolf’s EZ CBD Topical

Posted on January 10, 2023April 8, 2023 6 mins

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, […]

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  • 9.5 Formulation and Application

9.5.1 Holy Anointing Oil

Posted on January 10, 2023March 21, 2023 4 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.4.15 Pentane/Hexane/Heptane

9.4.14.4 The Cotton Candy Extraction Technique

Posted on January 10, 2023April 6, 2023 7 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.4.15 Pentane/Hexane/Heptane

9.4.17 Extracting oil from fan leaves and stems

Posted on January 10, 2023March 21, 2023 4 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.4.15 Pentane/Hexane/Heptane

9.4.16 Vacuum Purging

Posted on January 10, 2023April 6, 2023 6 mins

 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 […]

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  • 9.4.14 Active Closed Loop

9.4.14.3 The History of BHO

Posted on January 10, 2023March 21, 2023 6 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.4.14 Active Closed Loop

9.4.14.2 Unloading Columns With Air

Posted on January 10, 2023April 5, 2023 1 min

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 […]

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  • 9.4.14 Active Closed Loop

9.4.14.1 Vapor boost for cold injections

Posted on January 10, 2023April 5, 2023 3 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.4.9 Alkane extraction

9.4.13 Lil Terp Passive Extractor

Posted on January 10, 2023April 5, 2023 4 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.4.9 Alkane extraction

9.4.12 Thermos extraction

Posted on January 10, 2023April 5, 2023 3 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.4.9 Alkane extraction

9.4.11 BHO Open Blast

Posted on January 10, 2023April 5, 2023 17 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.4.9 Alkane extraction

9.4.10 n-Butane, Isobutane, and Propane Rated GRAS by FDA

Posted on January 10, 2023March 21, 2023 4 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.4.9.2 Propane/Butane extractions

9.4.9.3 Absolute Amber from Banana Silver Ladyboys by Jump117

Posted on January 10, 2023March 21, 2023 0 mins
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  • 9.4.9.2 Propane/Butane extractions

9.4.9.2.6 Mystery oil content by lighter fuel brand

Posted on January 10, 2023March 21, 2023 21 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.4.9.2 Propane/Butane extractions

9.4.9.2.3 Butane Mystery Oil Removal using a Terpenator

Posted on January 10, 2023April 5, 2023 6 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.4.9.2 Propane/Butane extractions

9.4.9.2.2 Overview of BHO extraction

Posted on January 10, 2023April 5, 2023 13 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.4.9.2 Propane/Butane extractions

9.4.9.2.1 Butane Safety and social responsibility

Posted on January 10, 2023March 21, 2023 8 mins

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, […]

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  • 9.4.9 Alkane extraction

9.4.9.1 Pentane, Hexane, and Heptane simple Alkanes

Posted on January 10, 2023March 21, 2023 7 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.4.8 Isopropyl extraction

9.4.8.1 QWISO

Posted on January 10, 2023January 9, 2024 11 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.4.7 Ethanol extraction

9.4.7.5 Recovery stills

Posted on January 10, 2023April 4, 2023 7 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.4.7 Ethanol extraction

9.4.7.4 Alcohol Extraction Overview

Posted on January 10, 2023April 5, 2023 8 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.4.7 Ethanol extraction

9.4.7.3 Giant Tea ball extraction

Posted on January 10, 2023March 21, 2023 1 min

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 […]

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  • 9.4.7 Ethanol extraction

9.4.7.2 Subzero extraction

Posted on January 10, 2023April 4, 2023 2 mins

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, […]

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  • 9.4.7 Ethanol extraction

9.4.7.1 QWET

Posted on January 10, 2023April 4, 2023 11 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.4 Extraction

9.4.6 Glycerol Extraction

Posted on January 10, 2023April 5, 2023 11 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.4 Extraction

9.4.5 Vegetable and Nut Oil Extraction

Posted on January 10, 2023May 21, 2023 13 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.4 Extraction

9.4.4 Rosin Extraction

Posted on January 10, 2023April 5, 2023 4 mins

 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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  • 9.4 Extraction

9.4.3 Bubble

Posted on January 10, 2023March 21, 2023 1 min

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  • 9.4.2 Dry sieve

9.4.2.2 Refining to full melt using electrostatic charges

Posted on January 10, 2023March 21, 2023 2 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.4 Extraction

9.4.2 Dry sieve

Posted on January 10, 2023April 5, 2023 15 mins

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 […]

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  • 9.4 Extraction

9.4.1 Hand rub Charas

Posted on January 10, 2023April 4, 2023 2 mins

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 […]

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