BHO with Vacuum oil/wax tutorial

Fadedawg said:

TW is one of my staples, but I suggest that you try Cheese for an aromatic and tasty vaporization extract.

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SAY CHEESE! Ya i'm def going to look into some cheese strains, thanks for the suggestion and info on tasty vapes! You're approaching your 420th post...choose wisely sir. I have been in love with TW ever since the first time lol...just the overall shot to the head with that climbing tingling body high and when my tolerance was low it seemed like every hit just got me higher and higher. I would love to get a TWxLCOG cross of some sort.

650baquet said:

Just tired of having either winter or cold weather 7months out of the yr.

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youre telling me. we got snow middle of october. tomorrow makes it 6 months of cold/snow weve got and there is STILL 3 feet of snow on the ground and we got 1 more inch this weekend. so much for spring starting 8 months of snow. 10 months of cold. 2 months of a half assed summer

Didn't get around to soaking last night...got tired and i don't like pushing through the sleepy eyes cause i'm bound to do something dumb as my depth perception fades. So i'm ready this morning and it snowed last night, gonna be 40's today so no problem keeping m thermos cool. With the IRT it reads -1F taking a quick shot inside the thermos. I'm still wondering how accurate the guns are cause after sticking it in the thermos and taking the temp i shot the ceiling and it read 59.0F and slowly climbed to 70F as the gun itself warmed back up. Wish i would have spent more money on a gun that came with a probe attachment to get more accurate temps.
Just an experiment, since i couldn't find a ss baster i grabbed the largest downstem from the shop and not sure exactly how much it ended up holding but the whole pile of trim was around 11 grams and there's a decent amount left on the paper(forgot to weight the ds before and after). After blasting the material weighed 5gs and my product weighed .45gs, i used approx 3/4can of Vector and blasted til clear. So i didn't use the cap you see in the pic, i used a cap from a bottle of Seagrams 7 Dark Honey lol, it fit perfectly with an o-ring in it and i hose clamped it snug. I used my 28micron bubble bag screen that i cut out and clamped it over the diffuser end. I was worried about the diffuser breaking but it would be tied up in the screen so no mess. I packed it pretty tight, used a long skinny drill bit to un pack it after removing the cap. Kinda fun experiment since the downstem cost me 5 bucks...was sitting around for a yr at least. I have found a glass baster though that i will probably buy for other small runs, it's the FoxRun brand baster and ACE had it.
Thermos - $8 16ozJust drilled a hole to blast into and going to open the "drinking" hole for exhaust. Totally going to make a ss cap to use with this. But i'm not sure if i reallt need to worry much about butane absorbing anything bad from the hard plastic cap anyways. Going to perform the soak here in a wee bit since the pups just passed out.
Result from the downstem is very light in color compared to my soak with the same strain same harvest time. way smoother at this point too, but i'm saving all the rest and going to combine a bunch of random wax i have when i winterize.

can a mason jar handle the pressure from soaking? good shit!!^^ how long did you soak in the thermos?

well you have holes in the lid so no pressure. but if you replace the lid with a "hole-less" one you'd better have the jar chilled to minimize the pressure build up. Not sure if it would handle the pressure if the butane is boils rather fast. Thanks i am surprised how well the downstem worked but the glass baster will work better. Since this is all just trim i'm only going to perform one soak around 1.5-2hrs long then dump material into SS strainer that is sitting on my 28micron screen. I'm debating not using the screen since i am going to winterize the product but might as well keep as much plant out as possible. I'm going to let the butane boil off at outside temp in a pyrex measuring cup, then i'll add the ethanol after the oil is warmed to room temp...or i'll add it right away and just let it sit for a while longer, but I'm not sure if i should even worry about vacuuming at all, seems like no.

I wouldnt vacuum till the end.

Gonna give 'er a try, feels thicker than the FoxRun brand.
Top of Chocolope, decided to bend the top few inches. Lookin great so far, 10days flower. Waiting for the clusters to get a wee bit bigger before i give it the Canna PK 13/14. Haven't purchased the Canna Boost but i hear it's good and it better be at $50 per 0.25Liters. What do you guys use to sweeten your plants? I'm currently using Sugaree by Cutting Edge Dev.
60cmx60cm. The 400w(chocolope is under this one) and one of my 150watters. This hood is good for up to 1000w it says, so i'm just saving up so i can get one finally. I'm not sure if i would bother going to a 600w but maybe it would be good enough. My biggest issue is height, only 5ft to the glass on the 400w...but this Choco is perfect, about 3.5ft to the tip of the main cola and by the end of flower the rest of the canopy will stretch a bit and fill out to just under 4ft. The bush is about 2.5x2.5ft, i like most of mine about that size or 2x2 depending how many i feel like packing into the flower room.
This plant has been under the 150 mainly and i'm going to get twice off it that i did under my 432w LED this last go around. I feel this plant here was slightly larger going into flower but not by much. it has the 400w to it's side also but as you can see only that very right side gets coverage and it seems a little intense for the leafs.

WOW! 2hrs later and the level of liquid butane in the thermos appears to be the same/unchanged since i checked right after blasting. Def worth it. I'm about to go strain at 2.5hrs then winterize. Should be a pretty good end product. Stay tuned.

chocolope is fire! mine ame out so canteloupey yummmyumyum

My first go with the choco it was heavy on the skunky side. But it wasn't nearly as healthy of a plant last go around. She's very healthy this time and i hope to keep it that way.

oh man. I ran out of winterized oil. had to smoke some normal stuff. I cant even fuckin breathe. this shit sucks. its been like 10 minutes and it still hurts to inhale fully and causes a major coughing fit..thats coming from someone who is fairly fit and only smokes green! (well gold to be technical).. youre gonna love that winterized stuff. I wish I had more shake to make more and a better way of filtering it and not having my filter absorb it all and waste a bunch... im curious to see how you do it.

My nylon filters are good, better at not absorbing stuff that paper filters. and SUCCESS! the parchment paper didn't leak this time! might have been this new brand that's better idk. Now i'm going to collect it and winterize it after i go get some u-swirl and everclear...u-swirl not necessary for the winterizing process but it sure tastes good

vacpurge said:

oh man. I ran out of winterized oil. had to smoke some normal stuff. I cant even fuckin breathe. this shit sucks. its been like 10 minutes and it still hurts to inhale fully and causes a major coughing fit..thats coming from someone who is fairly fit and only smokes green! (well gold to be technical).. youre gonna love that winterized stuff. I wish I had more shake to make more and a better way of filtering it and not having my filter absorb it all and waste a bunch... im curious to see how you do it.

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I'm kinda tired of smoking the oil i make cause it's not exactly easy on the lungs, been throwing it in the vape on top of some herb...pretty dang good that way, i usually crank up the temp and throw the whip into the bong.
This will be my normal draining setup if i plan on winterizing. Drain the butane into the measuring cup and i'll add ethanol to that after butane boils off.
my result from the 2.5hr soak, accidentally flicked some herb into it but it's getting strained again so big whoop.

looks good! i was gonna do the same thing, just filter thru one of the bubble bags i dont use. looks like it works good.

i love using them for my screens then soak in alcohol to clean filters, eventually i will re-screen the collected alcohol from soaked screens and evap and smoke

I ended up with just under a gram on oil, from 30grams of material...BUT 20gs had already been soaked once and the other 10 wasn't great material either. So i'm happy with the result. I'm soaking in everclear as i type and have been taking pics i'll post in a bit. I also threw about 0.15-0.2g of some wax i had sitting around...crumbs really. I'll be using my 28micron screen after the winterizing to remove the waxes and crap.

i was just wondering if the screen would remove the waxes or did you need a coffee filter for that process

I'll find out tomorrow

Just slightly warmed the shot glass...maybe i should have used more Everclear but i really don't have much oil at all and i feel like it's pretty close to a 10:1 volume ratio. I'll probably be filtering it about the same time tomorrow night. I'm just curious...parchment paper work for butane...i'm not sure if i want tot try with the everclear, it doesn't work well with 91% iso i know that for sure. Or am i going to have to resort to scraping a pan?

yup theres those waxes!!

the everclear drained through my parchment paper. and when I came back, there was oil at the bottom of a cheap cereal bowl. not cool. I had to re wash it and re evap it.

I wouldnt even deal with parchment paper after the everclear. maybe just put it in real real thin splashes onto a heated dish, cook it off. then scrape when warm. not that hard and you should be able to recover 99.9%.

even if you can find a large piece of glass to do it on works great too... broken mirror or something.

I'm totally going to use a large piece of glass...maybe a mirror, my pyrex pans have this weird bevel/impression all around the inside perimeter and the oil pools up all around the edge making it really annoying to scrape up. I had already considered pouring very small amounts, evap, and scrape-repeat process. Just seems kinda annoying also lol...but not like it's strenuous. The Everclear/oil mixture is very cloudy this morning and a lot has precipitated to the bottom, workin like a charm. I might have to buy a large piece of glass just for evaporating on...or buy a better pyrex dish.

When my lights are off i could totally take the glass panel out of my HPS hood and use that, it's like 60cmx60cm and needs to be cleaned anyways.