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Originally Posted by golly  Cool ....So is there much difference in the smoke between a 2 min extract and say an 8 hr extract..? |
night and day.
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Directions..
take your pot, grind it up as much as possible.
then put the weed into a air tight container, film cansiters work good for smaller amounts, perscription pill bottels work good too, just anything that you can put a liquid in, shake it, and not have any of the liquid come out.
fill the canister with rubbing alcohol just up to the top of the weed, so that the buds are floating in the alcohol.
shake violently for ONLY UP TO TWO MINUTES, any longer will expose the sugars in the plant to the alcohol. which would make your hash that much more impure.
after shaking, strain the plant materail from the alcohol with your sieve onto your plate.
you could probably wash your plant material again after it dried.
once you have the alcohol seperated from the plant material on the plate you can let the alcohol evaporate, leaving the resin glands that dissolved into the rubbing alcohol.
scrape the hash off of the plate once ALL of the alcohol has evaporated and smoke at your leasure.
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tips:
dont grind your buds up, this decreases the end-quality.
a coffee filter is fine for the filtration step
(foaf uses a single, brown/unbleached 'basket' filter sitting in a small stainless collander)
avoid plastic! glass is always best when working with ANY solvent.
if you must use plastic make sure it is 'HDPE' like what rubbing alch. is sold in.
use a hot water bath to evap.
use as little amount of solvent as possible, just be sure to fully saturate the material.
a half pint packed with material can be washed with a half pint of 91% isopropyl alch.
dont use 70%. if this is all you can get try the baked/nuked epsom salt tek
before use, to pull some of the excess water out of the stuff,
otherwise it will take forever to evap and quality of the end-product will suffer.
note:
using mexibrick/schwagg is cool,
but remember the concentrate will only be as good as what u started with >
shit in,
shit out.
be well