Shatter

Steele_GreenMan

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Some of it i strain dependent, some user error I'm sure. I don't know if all high CBD strains are tough but I find a strain that is 10% CBD 6% THC is almost always pull and snap at 75 degree or above when I run it, some strains like to sap, got a strain fucking 3 times in a row can't get shatter. This is just a hypotenuse but I find with the higher THC strains I get way better shatter, could just be me I don't know. I've made every mistake I could getting to where I am.
I've made sooo many mistakes. I've blown bho prob like seven or eight times, never turned out good until my last run which is myavatar.

Until I got a vac purge, I was lost, but now I have to learn the ins and outs of that so it's a a learning process for sure

So much can go wrong.
 

Bublonichronic

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Edit: the patty was about the thickness of a fruit to go.

Tbh dude I'm happy with what I got, but in no way am I
I only got a 6 percent return so it's not exactly something to be proud off.

That's right, about a pound, of bud at that.

Make fun of me if you want, I just am here to learn and have fun so don't shit on my parade!

I'm just looking to improve my skills, looking for help from more knowlegable people, not assholes who rip on people for no reason.
I feel like some people exaggerate how much they pull per lb....but I'm sure most of us are still learning man ;)
 

tharoomman

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Lmao check the pic next to my hand, looks a little more accurate.but I honestly dgaf what you think bud, I have no reason to lie.

Edit: the patty was about the thickness of a fruit to go.

Tbh dude I'm happy with what I got, but in no way am I lying/showing off. I need to learn still.

I only got a 6 percent return so it's not exactly something to be proud off.

That's right, about a pound, of bud at that.

Make fun of me if you want, I just am here to learn and have fun so don't shit on my parade!

I'm just looking to improve my skills, looking for help from more knowlegable people, not assholes who rip on people for no reason.
I'm only getting about 5/6% as well.
 

phishtank

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Yeild is all relative to quaility of product. The trim I'm running now pulls 10-11% (around 45-48 grams per lb of trim).

Some folks have pulled as high as 20% from super frosty sugar leaf. No one is going to sell that to you though.

You're not going to get shatter without de-waxing. Get your starting material and butane cold as shit.

It does seem like the fats and lipids you lose from winterizing take some of the flavor with it though. I semi-winterize my material before starting and end up with a really stable pull n snap at room temp but everyone loves the flavor.
 

Jozikins

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Blast into a large measuring cup instead of a pan and winterize in an ice chest with at least 10lbs of dry ice for 48 hours, de-wax with a Buchner funnel or a fry basket with a coffee filter in it, evaporate your bho pool into a very thick syrup, when the syrup stops bubbling in Luke warm tap water it's time to pour your slab onto parchment. Start your purge at around 90 degrees, achieve vacuum and maintain pull until muffin collapses (10 minutes to 6 hours depending on stability, you can collapse it after an hour if you get impatient) your first pull should be continuous for hours, after checking it out raise temp depending on stability (90 to 105 does most quality trim) and purge again, burping is optional in my opinion and I do it based on slab thickness. After about 2 days it's time to flip. Put on your gloves, peel up the slab, and put it upside down on a fresh piece of parchment and vacuum 2 more days. Flip one more time and vacuum 2 days and you should have insanely beautiful shatter depending on the trim quality and age. If your slab is too sticky to flip, put a baking sheet in the freezer and use it as a cooling table, this way the product will be easy to handle and flip without getting product wet, move quickly because the cold pan will condensate moisture after a few minutes of being in the warm air.

Pouring a slab instead of scraping greatly reduces agitation and even at higher temps you are less likely to budder. I just scrape my measuring cups afterwards for personal, it usually makes good shatter or pull snap, sometimes it makes super tasty low temp budder from the agitation of scraping, but it's usually about 3 or 4 grams and that's fine for personal smoke. You can scrape the de-wax from your winterizing cup too for edibles, but it's kinda gross (but effective enough). But yeah, pour your slab and you'll have much higher success with sensitive extracts.

Edit: keep electricity away until vacuum time! Don't use a hot plate to evaporate bho pool, use a dish with hot sink water, when the water gets cold, change it. Even a new hot plate will spark, I came home once to my old grow partner putting out a blaze in my kitchen because he was blasting in a kitchen with a hot plate. Never do any of those things! Lol.
 
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Tman20

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Blast into a large measuring cup instead of a pan and winterize in an ice chest with at least 10lbs of dry ice for 48 hours, de-wax with a Buchner funnel or a fry basket with a coffee filter in it, evaporate your bho pool into a very thick syrup, when the syrup stops bubbling in Luke warm tap water it's time to pour your slab onto parchment. Start your purge at around 90 degrees, achieve vacuum and maintain pull until muffin collapses (10 minutes to 6 hours depending on stability, you can collapse it after an hour if you get impatient) your first pull should be continuous for hours, after checking it out raise temp depending on stability (90 to 105 does most quality trim) and purge again, burping is optional in my opinion and I do it based on slab thickness. After about 2 days it's time to flip. Put on your gloves, peel up the slab, and put it upside down on a fresh piece of parchment and vacuum 2 more days. Flip one more time and vacuum 2 days and you should have insanely beautiful shatter depending on the trim quality and age. If your slab is too sticky to flip, put a baking sheet in the freezer and use it as a cooling table, this way the product will be easy to handle and flip without getting product wet, move quickly because the cold pan will condensate moisture after a few minutes of being in the warm air.

Pouring a slab instead of scraping greatly reduces agitation and even at higher temps you are less likely to budder. I just scrape my measuring cups afterwards for personal, it usually makes good shatter or pull snap, sometimes it makes super tasty low temp budder from the agitation of scraping, but it's usually about 3 or 4 grams and that's fine for personal smoke. You can scrape the de-wax from your winterizing cup too for edibles, but it's kinda gross (but effective enough). But yeah, pour your slab and you'll have much higher success with sensitive extracts.

Edit: keep electricity away until vacuum time! Don't use a hot plate to evaporate bho pool, use a dish with hot sink water, when the water gets cold, change it. Even a new hot plate will spark, I came home once to my old grow partner putting out a blaze in my kitchen because he was blasting in a kitchen with a hot plate. Never do any of those things! Lol.
 
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