flytier
Well-Known Member
Hey Everybody! I've just finished doing a concentrate and I'd like to pass on my experience at it. Earlier the week I was telling Bignstrange about the leaves that I was smoking and he said I should make some ISO hash with them. So I looked up how to do it on a bunch of different websites and forums and they all said about the same thing, so I figured what the hell, it seems easy enough.
Here's pretty much the materials and equipment I used (but not for the vise in the background):
Materials
* Leaves - I used White Widow;
* 99% Isopropanol - lower percentages take longer to evaporate. Place in the freezer a day before.
Equipment
* Glass jar;
* Casserole dish - white allows good view of what's happening;
* Coffee filters - I used about a half dozen or so;
* Glass to catch the filtered solution;
* Razor blade or hobby knife blade.
I took the leaves and cut them into salad-sized pieces to get them sloshing around in the bottle, rather than just packing in the full leaves. I didn't bother to chop them down to coleslaw
I poured the alcohol in the bottle with the leaves and shook it vigorously for 30 seconds to get the cannabinoids and terpenes but not long enough to dissolve much chlorophyll
I then strained the solution and leaves through the coffee filters. While waiting for this, you have time to do things like go look for the damn cat that bolted out the door
(SMOKE BREAK)
So I put the filtered solution into the casserole dish and I had to apply a little heat to it. This was started in a cold porch, and I could see that was not going to satisfy my lack of patience so I moved the works of it into the kitchen. I'm not advocating doing that without precautions. You're working with alcohol fumes so make sure you're in a ventilated area. My stove is next to a window which I had opened fully (in mid-November in Canada) and had a fan blowing toward the window. I had the temperature set to low, and I gave it a couple hours to evaporate.
When the alcohol was gone I took a hobby knife blade and scraped the oil into a little blob. That, needless to say, is what you're after.
Trying it
Now I used to smoke oil in a joint with a bit of tobacco, but I was never a cigarette smoker and the wife quit smoking, so I was out of luck there. All I had to smoke it with was some dried leaf. Not really optimum conditions for a trial run, but hey, whatever works, right?
When I spread it onto the paper it had some plant debris in it, but that was just a bit that got past during the filtering. Not a big worry there. Rolling it was the usual messy pain in the ass that rolling oil always is. With the crispy dried leaves for mix I was expecting the usual searing discomfort scraping its way down my protesting bronchial tract after raping every one of my taste buds first, but it was actually quite smooth. Would have been a little better with baccy, but whaddaya do?
So I still have a bunch of CBDream leaves in the freezer, probably enough to make another blob of oil. I'll do that some night when the wife's working again so I won't have to listen to her going on about alcohol fumes right through the house. Some people. I gotta go close the kitchen window.
Here's pretty much the materials and equipment I used (but not for the vise in the background):
Materials
* Leaves - I used White Widow;
* 99% Isopropanol - lower percentages take longer to evaporate. Place in the freezer a day before.
Equipment
* Glass jar;
* Casserole dish - white allows good view of what's happening;
* Coffee filters - I used about a half dozen or so;
* Glass to catch the filtered solution;
* Razor blade or hobby knife blade.
I took the leaves and cut them into salad-sized pieces to get them sloshing around in the bottle, rather than just packing in the full leaves. I didn't bother to chop them down to coleslaw
I poured the alcohol in the bottle with the leaves and shook it vigorously for 30 seconds to get the cannabinoids and terpenes but not long enough to dissolve much chlorophyll
I then strained the solution and leaves through the coffee filters. While waiting for this, you have time to do things like go look for the damn cat that bolted out the door
(SMOKE BREAK)
So I put the filtered solution into the casserole dish and I had to apply a little heat to it. This was started in a cold porch, and I could see that was not going to satisfy my lack of patience so I moved the works of it into the kitchen. I'm not advocating doing that without precautions. You're working with alcohol fumes so make sure you're in a ventilated area. My stove is next to a window which I had opened fully (in mid-November in Canada) and had a fan blowing toward the window. I had the temperature set to low, and I gave it a couple hours to evaporate.
When the alcohol was gone I took a hobby knife blade and scraped the oil into a little blob. That, needless to say, is what you're after.
Trying it
Now I used to smoke oil in a joint with a bit of tobacco, but I was never a cigarette smoker and the wife quit smoking, so I was out of luck there. All I had to smoke it with was some dried leaf. Not really optimum conditions for a trial run, but hey, whatever works, right?
When I spread it onto the paper it had some plant debris in it, but that was just a bit that got past during the filtering. Not a big worry there. Rolling it was the usual messy pain in the ass that rolling oil always is. With the crispy dried leaves for mix I was expecting the usual searing discomfort scraping its way down my protesting bronchial tract after raping every one of my taste buds first, but it was actually quite smooth. Would have been a little better with baccy, but whaddaya do?
So I still have a bunch of CBDream leaves in the freezer, probably enough to make another blob of oil. I'll do that some night when the wife's working again so I won't have to listen to her going on about alcohol fumes right through the house. Some people. I gotta go close the kitchen window.
