I switched from olive oil extracts to tinctures and I couldn't be happier. I never got a nice relaxing buzz with olive oil but with tinctures, it's like my old comfortable friend is back.Saturday night update time. Today, since my son has an awful cough for the last 4 days and can't smoke, I finally decided to try to make QWET for the first time, for capsules. I would like to preface this by saying that whatever I learned about QWET-making, I learned from @Grandpa Tokin in his thread here. Don't follow my directions if you are looking for guidance, follow his!
I need to give big thanks to @Preston9mm for sending me a bottle out of the blue!
Lots of pics so let's get to it:
First, I had ground up about 20g of last summer's IIP mixed with some AK-47 from last spring and stuck it in the freezer, along with the 200ml bottle of Everclear and a jar. It was time to dig them out from under the frozen chicken, steaks, ground beef, fish, and a loaf of sourdough:
I also heated up the hotplate for the water bath to around 140º F, and put in the pyrex dish on the nuts to keep it off the metal (this part was done outside because alcohol fumes are highly combustible):
And got out the rest of the things needed for the process:
200ml was perfect for the 20 grams (thanks for the recommendation Grandpa and @Pennywise):
I swirled the mix for about 2 minutes (longer than Grandpa recommends) and poured it through the strainer:
After using a spoon to push as much liquid out of the mash as I could, I ended up with about 150ml:
I then filtered it through a coffee filter:
Here is the first pass:
I ran it through another filter:
Grandpa wants his the color of good piss, but mine looks like someone is dehydrated:
Into the pyrex dish it goes:
And onto the nuts:
I saved the mash for the salve bin just for the heck of it.
It took about 30 minutes to get to this:
Which was probably a bit too log, because by the time I got it inside, it was getting pretty solid, like this:
Time to start scraping:
This stuff leaves everything so sticky it's like scissor hash on steroids! I don't have any silicone pads, so I used parchment paper:
And I folded it over and put it in the freezer. I think the next step is to take it out and leave it in a drawer for a few days for it to stabilize, so I'll do that in the morning. Then I'll pull it all together (I hope it comes off the paper okay!) and make capsules with coconut oil. I'll post that process when I get to it.
I hope your weekend is going well and you love your fellow humans enough to keep them safe with a mask outside. I'll get some summer grow pics in here tomorrow.
Since I first saw the freezer 3 to 5 minute soak method I have wondered how much extraction you are really getting so I have an experiment going right now comparing the amount of resin extracted using four different methods. The first is a five-minute soak using the freezer method, the second is one hour at room temperature, the second is one day at room temperature and the final one is a full week of soaking. I was curious because I read of several methods on other sites with very long soak times but here a brief soak in the freezer method seems to be preferred.
I'm just letting the alcohol evaporate at room temperature so I should have some initial results within the next couple days. I'll leave some results if you like or a link?
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Opened the Veg tent the other day to look for a plastic plate and immediately felt erg to start over again.
