BHO with Vacuum oil/wax tutorial

i put it at 130 degrees and vac purge the hell out of it

I've found you need to purge for a while 12+ hrs. Which leads me to my next question, got a large glob ~30g (im guessing, wasn't able to weigh), been purging for about 36hrs at 126-128. Still bubbling.

Im going to assume the larger the glob the longer you need to vac?!?! Is this correct? Can anyone confirm?

in most cases yes, how fresh was your material?

Not very fresh, about 6 weeks old, last 2 in freezer.

EvasiveGrower said:

I've found you need to purge for a while 12+ hrs. Which leads me to my next question, got a large glob ~30g (im guessing, wasn't able to weigh), been purging for about 36hrs at 126-128. Still bubbling.

Im going to assume the larger the glob the longer you need to vac?!?! Is this correct? Can anyone confirm?

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and in MOST cases, (but some rare ones wax fast) the bigger the glob, the longer the purge.. (from my experience, and the more heat you apply, the easier it is to goo-for-life)

you could approach it safely, take out the big glob, and scoop out about 2 grams, place that 2 grams back into your chamber, bump up the heat to about 132F.

see if it progresses, (grains up, then waxes) if it does, then do the same to the rest of your bigger batch.. if it doesnt, and just turns more into more sticky goo, I'd just leave it as is..

good luck!

good idea right there^^^

Twitch. said:

i put it at 130 degrees and vac purge the hell out of it

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Thank you twitch.

quick yield question: 70 grams of sour diesel trim and popcorn = 4.5 grams of wax/bho. 90 grams of OG trim and popcorn = 6.5 grams yield. I'm sure it take practice but how do I improve yield? it hardly seems worth all the trouble for those kinds of yields. What is common for you more experienced waxers?

Thanks

90 grams of trim and popcorn should yield 15%... so like 13grams.

you could have possibly tried chopping the material more, packing more loosely, and using more butane.

or the starting material could have been low... but you should be able to get 15% minimum if youre using any sort of buds.

how much do you recommend chopping VP? I'm not using tane, but am about to do an alcohol wash on some bud and figured the chop size should be similar for maximum extraction.

vacpurge said:

90 grams of trim and popcorn should yield 15%... so like 13grams.

you could have possibly tried chopping the material more, packing more loosely, and using more butane.

or the starting material could have been low... but you should be able to get 15% minimum if youre using any sort of buds.

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I was hoping for at least 10 %. The small bud was good. It was stuff Id sell in bags with bigger bud no problem. I was on the dry rack for a week then in paper bag. Not too dry, but a few weeks old nonetheless. Im gunna keep running as I have invested in quality euipment. will up quality of bud and see what happens.

Thanks for the tips.

Breaking down the material to the right consistency will greatly improve yields. Some people use blenders. And pulse it on chop mode.. I use a home made grinder I built with some 2x4s and chicken wire.. I get a pretty dang good grind out of it. It's just a bit more coarse than a herb grinder. Grinding down to 10 mesh Will be fade dawgs answer

I think packing a tube on the firmer side, rather than lighter side also helps improve flow, and yield.

im liking the soak method, im really trying to figure the best way to build closed system for best dollars...

Thx Guzias, im testing a small amount now. I just ran 450 dry grams of sugar trim few popcorn buds sprinkled in, 25g yield. 5.5% return.

you return was 4.5/70 = 6.4% and 6.5/90= 7.2% return. Those seem pretty acceptable in my book, but I'm not quite the expert some of the guys are. Thoughts?

I think material has alot to do with it. I did an alcohol run last week that I pulled around 20% from, but did one 2 days ago with completely different trim, and its looking like it will be under 10% from this material but that is yet to be determined its still evaping.

ughhh. i dont like working with material that is producing under 10%

special cases i will blast that.. but thats just me.

The OG Kush on left has about 15 hours of vac purge and the Sour Diesel on the right has about 12 hours. I heated them to 120 before putting under vac purge for the night. They both have areas where they are starting to soften up like the wax im looking for. Need to work on yields. Just like cultivating I guess ....Live and learn. Feed back would be awesome. Thanks folks.

yummy!


sour d be much lighter on the color, interesting..

my OG runs tend to be a shade dark, but still pretty..

soo..

did you continue the heat at 120F in the chamber? or was that only prior to chamber?

howd you go abouts doing this? you can explain in detail down to how early you harvested (if so) to how you dried.. all info helps us all out :]

would like to know from start to finish, then i'll throw in some feed back :]

View attachment 2776070 The OG Kush on left has about 15 hours of vac purge and the Sour Diesel on the right has about 12 hours. I heated them to 120 before putting under vac purge for the night. They both have areas where they are starting to soften up like the wax im looking for. Need to work on yields. Just like cultivating I guess ....Live and learn. Feed back would be awesome. Thanks folks.

ugh.. huh... mr double poster!