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good luck with a mold and bug free chopping les.
Mahalo! I am really impressed right now. She's gonna love the next 6 hours of dry ocean breezes and pure Sunlight coming down on her buds. This is what I call the "putting the icing on the cake" stage. She's being dried out so that she is forced to use her stored up water/nutes in the stems, and so mold chances may be minimized (as compared to having unlimited root zone where you have excess water in these stages, can lead to mold growth! So, is that a perk of a having a small pot? I think so.)
QWISO Extraction
Ok so this is a very basic extraction that is affordable (can be dangerous so perform at your own risk in a well ventilated area with the proper equipment). It yields a clear amber oil that when concentrated appears very dark. This particular batch came out nice and potent, it makes your vape bowls last forever and it gets you where you need to go! The idea is to use ice cold alcohol (I use 99% Iso) to rinse/extract the trichomes off of your sugar leaf trim / unwanted buds. You only let the alcohol be in contact with the plant matter for about 30-45 seconds, the longer you let in contact, the more unwanted chlorophyll pigments you will extract (since this is a polar extraction!). If performed correctly you will have a semi-clear liquid (after straining the plant matter from the 30 second wash). As it heats, it reduces and concentrates, rendering the liquid to get continually darker as it reduces to the amber oil. Once it's there and all the solvent bubbles have evaporated, it's just scraped up with a razor and put onto parchment paper (this step is important), and then it's done. Meds on the fly, did not take me very long and it was prolly from about 7-10 grams of trim/mixed unwanted poprcorns