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RE: How To Make Fully Extracted Cannabis Oil Or RSO (Chapter 3: The First Wash)
I tell ya @rebeccaryan I watched the entire video and read your full article and I'm blown away by your knowledge and experience with anything related to cannabis!
I really hope that as people come and go from steemit, YouTube or wherever, that they realize and appreciate what kind of pioneer you are to the evolution of the cannabis plant and it's uses. For common folks like me, I never in a million years would have known where to start in the process to making edibles or oils. But here you are giving step by step instructions and even videos here on steemit for free. Rock on, sister!
Thank you Sir!
I have 10 chapters in total, so far.
Today I networked with a Dispensary Owner and his Lab Tech who I'd never met before today. I knew they had a high-end spectrometer from California. (A pharmaceutical company called Sage Analytics.
http://sageanalytics.com/about/our-story/#our-works)
I chatted them up and asked them if they would tested the dried herb that I grew and this concentrate that I made.
I paid for the tests. The equipment isn't mickey mouse (worth over $20,000 US) so it's highly calibrated and accurate. (Right up my alley and I now want my own testing gear. LOL! Isn't that how it goes?) I learned so much and my stuff was the highest FECO that they have tested to date! Mine was the only decarbed FECO they have tested because most people don't know or understand that they should or need to do this.
Numbers don't lie. Decarb or Die is all I can say, especially when it comes to making a concentrate that you want to use to turn a disease around.
Thanks for watching that long ass technical video and reading this long post.
Thank you as well for all your kind words. They mean more to mean than you'll ever know. :)
Stunning Rebecca what a descriptive well narrated post well done. Two questions and I should know this what are sweet leaves, and I didn't see the name of that alcohol? Isopropyl? Keep up the great work. Cheer$:)
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The sugar leaves are the leaves that you will enventually be trimming away from your buds after you dry them. They contain a lot of trichomes too and are great for using in a second wash when you make an oil concentrate. (So just the leaves around the buds.) The alcohol that I used is an actual alcohol that you can buy in a liquor store. The brand is called Global but it is special in that it's what's called an over-proof alcohol and I had to apply for a special license to buy it. It's 94% where as iso is 99.7%. A personal decision on my part for quality because it's medicine that I will be ingesting.
Wow that's amazing very well done. Thanks for answering my questions. I am South Africa based so not sure bottle stores will sell that here. Prolly need to get at a Chemical company Rick Simpson in on of his videos said you can use benzyne or isopropyl? He also suggest that when you are reducing to add small drops of water as this takes out all the residual chems and what that doesnt the goodness of the THC kind of mitigates all the rest, his words literally, your thoughts on that? Cheer$:)
Many different kinds of solvents can be used. When Rick made many of his videos, it was before people were really openly discussing extraction procedures for cannabis and it was tough to find any information about it on the internet that wasn't cryptic in nature. Rick uses iso, (I think) because it is readily available and it's relatively inexpensive. Getting solvents and impurities out is an issue. You want to use the healthiest substance that you can obtain, that will get the job done. I was able to pull 84% alcohol out of some mead that I made. My plan is to try to make a few different batches of alcohol to see if I can hit in the 90's somewhere. (I wasn't trying for this when I originally made the mead.) I had racked it for 2 years and when I bought the Green Oil Machine, it was the first distillation that I made using it. I just did it on a whim to get to learn how the machine worked before I filled it with precious cannabis and costly alcohol. This was also one of the reasons that I bought this particular machine. Rick Simpson teaches everyone to use rice cookers because they are inexpensive and readily available but they can't distill which let's you capture the alcohol in whatever it is that you are distilling.
Thanks a ton for all your insights Rebecca :)