Its next on my list of shit I need to buy when I get some spare cash.
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Harbor freight or northern tool bro. I left mine on a crane for 36 hrs and it didn’t kill it and that’s way worse than a few short runs a couple times a month maybe
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For sure! Thats awesome that it held out that long. On a side note, I usually use a Pyrex baking dish for blasting into, I don’t have any of the ptfe but do have a silicone pan for baking/extractions that i was debating on trying. Had seen mixed reviews on it being able to be used for it back when I got it but that was like 3 to 4 years ago now.
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For serious medical use I always recommend using food grade ethanol aka everclear as the solvent.
For recreational use or medical use by someone who is not seriously ill, bho is probably fine 
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OK, now you have my full attention… How exactly do you do that with Everclear??
Cheers
G
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It’s kind of a different process, but it’s much simpler and easier.
Most of the honey oil in the old california medical cannabis (prop 420 prop 215) medical collectives was made with food grade alcohol. People would usually smoke it with flower or roll joints with it mixed in. Ice water hash and dry ice keef were also common at that time.
bho only became common in the california medical community when dabbing really started to get popular around 2013.
I’ll post again tomorrow with my method for everclear honey oil.
In the meantime here’s a couple photos to show how it comes out:
https://forum.grasscity.com/attachments/hash-jpg.2166896/
(this one is an old photo I have posted on another forum)
apparently this method has been around for a very long time. an old san francisco dealer told me that in the 60’s and 70’s they would make an alcohol extract this way, but instead of using it for hash, they would dip joints in the alcohol extract and then hang them up with clothespins to dry. He said they called them dipped joints or golden joints.
If I ever try that, I would probably just dip the rolling paper, not the whole joint.
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I use the qwiso/qwet method, quick wash isopropyl rubbing alcohol or ethanol grain alcohol. It doesn’t come out as green, I’ve made golden honey shatter just like BHO. The qwet is more forgiving as it can sit longer without pulling out the chlorophyll, while keeping more terps, and can be used for edible and tincture. If you use iso then let it dry and purge completely and only use it for smoking.
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Well thanks guys, that was an educational trip down the ‘bunny hole’!
This looks like a great answer to “what to do with plants after a seed run”.
Cheers
G
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I found to make honey oil a quick rinse and shake till it turns gold then strain and evaporate like a total wash of 5 min tops gets it golden .
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I found a lot of the time it will turn red also depending on the strain I guess.
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Only time I had it turn red on me was when I left it in the sun (covered with white towel) during the summer. Came out like red brittle shatter. Everything is done with the alcohol, jars, and plant matter as cold as you can get it, I leave it in the freezer for a day. With iso alcohol, I do no more than 2 min for the first wash, I did it with just the stems and leaves I manicured off the buds I’ve been buying. I get a decent return out of a quart of broken stems and the leafy shake from the bottom of bags. The few times I did it with grain alcohol (hard to get in Maine, I was ordering everclear online) I let it soak a min or two longer, but still avoiding the green tint. I want to get a small lab distillation set (cause I’m a geek) to reclaim (or make) the alcohol, or just get the source turbo later down the line.
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Are you running it through charcoal ?
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Never have, but I’ve read that’s a step you can take to make it clearer or pull some of the green if you soaked it too long. But it’ll also trap some thc just by nature of the charcoal.
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I’ve been seeing acetone mentioned a lot. Supposedly kills mold and fungus.
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Problem isn’t just the live spores causing infection, the chemicals they contain and produce when growing can be toxic/allergen, and those can be extracted and concentrated right along with the thc.
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So I should just trash all this? I don’t want to make myself or friends sick.
I would never recommend using moldy material. If you wouldn’t smoke it, don’t concentrate it.
But it’s your stuff and your looking at it, some say small amounts of white mold is ok, black or green mold toss for sure. I just wouldn’t use it, sad but safer. Or do a water cure or wash and hope it doesn’t actually activate the spores and get it to grow.
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I would cut the obvious mold out before doing anything. Some would smoke what was left but I’m not that guy.
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Why don’t you guys make bubble hash… then wrap it in a coffee filter or rosin filter bag and put in hair straightener or press. Blam. Soventless… no Acetone! That shit is bad! My bro got it on his skin and ran around the house screaming for hours saying his skin was melting to the car door! Then went in a ambulance to the hospital! Oops. Yeah not good. Qwiso hash- you can get 99% isopropyl alcohol. They might call it anhydrous alcohol. Keep your trim/ material in the freezer and alcohol for like a day to make sure it’s really cold. Then do your first wash. I like to take a bunch of glass cups and put coffee filters with Wire, the more the better cuz the waxes in the extract clog the filters… let it all strain. Collect it in one cup and put in freezer over night. Run through a filter again. I used a crockpot on low to evaporate the alcohol in Pyrex. I only do this for edibles. The stuff needs to sit for a few days after it’s collected to Finnish the purge. You can mess with it to help speed it up. I suggest the rosin. Way simple. Way better tasting.
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Oops. If you do a second wash do it quickly right after you strain the first. Be careful with this one( as it’s not hard to pull the chlorophyll out off the plant matter…) maybe 130 2 mins top. If it’s not green tinged I will add it to the first batch. If it’s green., put it in the freezer and filter it again.