If it worked it would constitute a much cheaper process to isolate THC for medicinal use.
This suggests that THCa is soluble in water at a PH of 13, if this is true then it makes the purification of THC significantly easier for the hobby chemist.
Of course I don't even know if THCa is able to...
This post is really directed at Fadedawg, who has been a major help in compiling a lot of the information pertaining to the chemistry involved with cannabis. I'd like to formally thank Fadedawg, the rest of the great people at skunkpharm and "the contributors" of the concentrates and extracts...
Mixing strains wont foul up anything, but i like to run them separately in case one makes a lighter extract.
Also that plant you posted a picture of looked beautiful, no doubt its gonna make some great concentrate!
Vac it to your pump's maximum vacuum and close the valve. Temperature and time are relative to each other, more heat less purge time is required its pretty straight forward. The consensus seems to be 115 F degrees and 29.5+ inhg. in other words if you can pull a vacuum past 10,000 microns then...
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This looks like it would make a good rosin press for a good price.
Well if u watch their videos you can see their process, the first thing they do is fraction off the most of the terpenes. The cold trap is just to capture anything that could possibly be sucked through the vacuum pump into the oil reservoir, i assume its just a pleasant coincidence if a...
I made a little diagram illustrating a simple glassware setup that could be used for distilling THC, i made this diagram based on Open Source Steel's short path distillation setup just for the purposes of clarification.
I want to discuss the pro's and con's of this method of...