Just Learned a Hard Lesson

So, I was trying to make some hash oil out of a couple of male plants that I had growing outside and I had a terrible run in with lady misfortune.

To start out, I was planning on putting this oil in some PB to makes some less weed tasting firecrackers tonight. I began by drying the plants out in my oven for a few minutes. After that I tossed it all in a blender and ground it into a fine powder. Next I put all of the ground plant matter into a small mason jar and poured a just enough 99% rubbing alcohol over to cover everything. I shook it all up for a few minutes and then I placed the jar in a pan full of semi hot water for a few minutes after that. Then of course I strained all of the crap out and ran it through coffee filter back into the mason jar.

This is were the story goes south...

At this point I noticed that the fume from the alcohol were starting to bug me and I placed the jar outside. I wanted to get this done in a short amount of time, and I also didn't want to burn my house down, so I went ahead and boiled some water in a pan to place the jar in so that the alcohol would evaporate faster.

Sounds like a good idea right? Alcohol boils at a pretty low temperature, so some hot water would make it evaporate a hell of a lot faster than letting it sit around for a week. Well it sounded like a good idea, but I overlooked the fact that it is only about 25f outside, and before I placed the jar in the hot water I had let it sit outside for a good ten or twenty minutes.

Well, to make a long story short...

...when I put the jar in the hot water out in my back yard I heard a sicking crack and I knew I was fucked. The funny thing is while the jar cracked, the alcohol didn't start to leak out so I figured it was a minor crack and I was still good. I let it sit for a few minutes and then I decided it would be a good idea to put the alcohol in another jar just to be safe. When I pulled the jar out of the pan of water, the bottom of the jar stayed in the pan, and all of my weed enriched alcohol drained into the water, instantly making it worthless (it was a lot of water).

So, ya, never put a cold jar in hot water, it will break. I should have known this, I worked as a heat treater for some time, but I didn't think about it, and now I have paid the price. I suppose this should be a cautionary tale to anyone who attempts to make hash oil in the winter.

Sorry if this was kind of a long post, but I figure the story is worth sharing.

I try not to live in the past, but I just wasted an hour of my life and a small quantity of hash oil...I kind of want to cry right now.

I was only thinking this the other night and i said the same hot water and then i thought no ,Know i was thinking of doing BHO which would make the jar freezing , and thought the best idea would be tepid water first then add hot water to the pan.
Sorry about your oil man , was it much

Fortunately no, however, there would have been enough to make some pretty good firecrackers with. Lets put it this way there wasn't a whole lot, and it was oil from males, so it was bound to be less potent, however the effort that went into was enough to justify being upset about it.

I'm feeling a bit better now though.

I just realized that I made a typo on the poll, complete is spelled compete...damn.

damn.. that sucks man.. i was wayyy tooo nervous of starting a fireball with me in the middle of it, so when i made my qwiso, i just poured it into a flat pan and sat it on the porch, but it was high summer at the time.. took about three or so days to evaporate off that way, but much better than blowing myself up..
i think this is a good cautionary tale for others who are thinking of making qwiso ... be carefull, even if you don't catch on fire, you can still f it up and end up losing it all like you did... man, i'll say it again, that sucks.. i feel bad for you... atleast you didn't get hurt.. i try to look on the brightside, lol..

If you had enough free time on your hands to go through all the steps to get oil from a few lousy males then why bum out when it goes sour,it isnt like you were going to end up with a fat wad of oil anyways.

racerboy71 said:

damn.. that sucks man.. i was wayyy tooo nervous of starting a fireball with me in the middle of it, so when i made my qwiso, i just poured it into a flat pan and sat it on the porch, but it was high summer at the time.. took about three or so days to evaporate off that way, but much better than blowing myself up..
i think this is a good cautionary tale for others who are thinking of making qwiso ... be carefull, even if you don't catch on fire, you can still f it up and end up losing it all like you did... man, i'll say it again, that sucks.. i feel bad for you... atleast you didn't get hurt.. i try to look on the brightside, lol..

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Haha, well actually I wasn't really at risk of blowing up as I boiled the water inside with a teapot and poured it into a pan out side, then I placed the jar of alcohol in the hot water. I know about the risk of doing it on the stove, which is why I thought that just using hot water outside might do the trick.

Ya, I would never put nearly pure alcohol over a heat source like a stove burner, that would be retarded...trust me I have watched way too many flaming shots got wrong on youtube to try something that risky.

My plan would have been perfect if not for the fact that I left the jar of alcohol sitting outside in the cold. Had I not done that everything would have worked out.

By the way if you have never watched the flaming shots disaster vids on youtube I highly recommend them, they are hilarious high. I always kind of feel bad for laughing, but the ones I have seen didn't really appear to have ended in someone getting seriously hurt, just a little burnt.

panhead said:

If you had enough free time on your hands to go through all the steps to get oil from a few lousy males then why bum out when it goes sour,it isnt like you were going to end up with a fat wad of oil anyways.

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It was a lot of water, and I would have had to boil it all off on the stove. With the alcohol in there it seemed too risky at that point. Like I said, I didn't actually have the alcohol in the pan on the stove, I boiled the water and took it outside to were the alcohol was an the heat source wasn't. I did think about trying to salvage for a second, but it didn't seem worth it. Had it been the summer time, I would have just let that water sit out for a week or two, but in the winter the stove was the only option.

what are the steps to making this oil you're speaking of?

Hahahah man, flaming shot mishaps are fucking hilarious just like you said.

Some of those guys get FUCKED up, like daym.... this one kid did one... his face caught on fire... i laughed... and afterwards his face looked like melted plastic!!!

lol

idiots

Almost a flaming Moe....or Homer

CdnBud said:

Almost a flaming Moe....or Homer

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