norcalmopar
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Iv made ISO oils, wax, shatter, etc for years. Stopped because it seemed to be a foreign concept, intimidate, or be too potent for most people I mostly stopped making it except as personal joint lube. Now that dabbing seems to be the fad of the decade, figured might as well throw my hat in the ring with everyone smoking poorly made butane waxes, not to bash, if you know what your doing. my first batch really surprised me, I took my GC and half my GDP rinsed and purged it and it looked good, I was short on time and didn't chill anything so I wasn't expecting anything solid, but it turned out it was a robust and translucent purple with an emerald and gold undertone and looked\tasted fantastic. I never had any oil leave any kind of gnarly residue when dabbed, until now. Temp and only a few minor things where different.. Iv read this is common, but why now? What's going on?
Differences--
I started using 95% self distilled grain alcohol. Could this be stripping too many fats, oils, chlor, lipids? I usually get some milky coloration near the end of the last low heat purge I assume are just fats and lipids and usually ignore as it is never permanent and seems to completely evaporated off(or, does it?) never had ISO pull extra crap in a quick rinse before, ethanol is supposed to be less damaging to the plant matter and the walls of cells which contain chlorophyll right?
I am using 35gal canvas and polyester bubble bags of 160-73-25 micron. The instructions state that you can clean the bags with ISO, so I assumed they would be safe to use, and highly doubt anything from the bags was pulled from the rinses from the color, flavor, overall quality of the oil. 25 micron should be fine especially if most plant particles get caught in the 73. And the 160 is the rinse bad
Other than that, all I can think of is my bud is to good, too many terps and fats? Something used in my hydro set up? Its all organic,
Thanks to all the feedback in advance
Differences--
I started using 95% self distilled grain alcohol. Could this be stripping too many fats, oils, chlor, lipids? I usually get some milky coloration near the end of the last low heat purge I assume are just fats and lipids and usually ignore as it is never permanent and seems to completely evaporated off(or, does it?) never had ISO pull extra crap in a quick rinse before, ethanol is supposed to be less damaging to the plant matter and the walls of cells which contain chlorophyll right?
I am using 35gal canvas and polyester bubble bags of 160-73-25 micron. The instructions state that you can clean the bags with ISO, so I assumed they would be safe to use, and highly doubt anything from the bags was pulled from the rinses from the color, flavor, overall quality of the oil. 25 micron should be fine especially if most plant particles get caught in the 73. And the 160 is the rinse bad
Other than that, all I can think of is my bud is to good, too many terps and fats? Something used in my hydro set up? Its all organic,
Thanks to all the feedback in advance
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