Ah, that makes perfect sense - thanks!
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I imagine those white fuzzies you get with the HPA will dry quick!
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I’ve been doing ethanol extraction using methods similar to yours for a long while now; I was curious - have you ever figured out using ethanol a post-process to separate the chlorophyll while retaining terpenes and cannabinoids?
I think we get into lab grade chemical territory with this - using hexane and otherwise, but wanted to check in here to see if anyone had any ideas.
I know cold extraction tends to come with less chlorophyll, but also less potency (I might be wrong on potency here).
Great thread.
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No, like you said it would require another Polar solvent like hexane to remove the chlorophyll.
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Probably too much for the average consumer to get into - I’m super grossed out by the idea of using any petroleum derivatives as an extraction method also.
I’ve got access to a rosin press so I think I’ll just start mass bubble bagging my harvests with dry ice and using that toaster oven method of decarb - great idea!
How do you generally get your decarb’d rosin out of the container it was in? Seems like it would be incredibly syrupy…
I just need a lot more plants to smash! 
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Generally I decarb the rosin then add some alcohol to make a green dragon tincture. Pretty easy to get out then.
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I found these slick 4oz masons, decarbed 1.9g of rosin @lefthandseeds and I smashed last weekend, then mixed just over an oz of everclear in.
I went on the lower side on alcohol so I could just make a batch straight up with that ounce, which might make it super potent, but I’m willing to test it out for science! 
Oh yeah, I meant to ask, how did you come to your ratio of 1g:1oz on the rosin:alcohol? Was that just personal experimentation?
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A little math, and a little experimentation led me to the 1:1 ratio. Mind you, these are all estimates, but…
7 grams of 20% bud yields roughly 2 oz. (60 ml) of tincture at a potency of 17.5 mg/ml.
1 gram of 60% rosin will yield 1 oz. of tincture at a potency of 20 mg/ml.
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Just so you know, the “cold extraction”, meaning freezer, doesn’t affect the potency of the tincture one bit. It just makes it cleaner. 
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Good to see you come through here @PSam 
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Great Thread Sam I created a new account over here and found you whats the luck.
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Hey I remember Stiggy! How’s going?
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HEEY Stiggy! Welcome to OG!!!
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I’m just an adviser here, though, Stiggy. It’s ReikoX’s baby. I got enough with my original thread on a different channel but I try to come through here daily and often learn something when I do. 
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Hi Guys
Glad to be here, I hope everyone is doing Good
PSam are you Admin?
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No, sir. Just a Joe Blow like everyone else. 
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I decided to make some edibles. First I remove the squished pucks from the bags and rinse the bags in ethanol.
Next I strain the mixture and set it in the freezer for 72 hours. This will cause all the waxes to precipitate out of the solution.
A few days later, the fats and waxes have precipitated out of the solution. The buchner funnel and flask were also chilled in the freezer.
Then I use a buchner funnel and filter with a fast quality lab filter.
The filtered tincture.
Finally, this was reduced using my source turbo. I reclaimed about a cup of alcohol.
After running it through the Source Turbo, I was left with about two ounces of tincture and eight ounces of reclaimed alcohol.
I evaporated the last of the alcohol on the stove. I filled the bottom pan with water and the pyrex pie pan fits perfectly on top.
Once the alcohol was evaporated, I decarbed the oil in the oven at 250°F for 30 minutes.
Finally this was collected with a razor blade so it can be weighed out and used in my recipes. I generally estimate this to have 600 mg per gram (60%). I ended up with 4.5 grams.
Finally, I weighed out three grams of oil and dissolved it in one ounce of ethanol. I used a cup warmer to help dissolve it fully. This gave me about 1800 mg and I make about 120 candies with the recipe, that gives me about 15 mg per candy.
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Are the bags you soaked in the beginning of the process clean enough afterward that
they can be used again in the press? Not having a press these questions weigh on the mind.
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What is the white strip laying in the oil?
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