HippyDippy
Rising Star
OK, so my first extraction didnt go as well as it could have. I did extract about a gram total of pure white goodness, though I started with 500g of MHRB. So my yield was abysmal to say the least. I also lost product by trying to filter out the sediment that came from my powdered root bark. It was just overall a whole mess, and I was learning along the way.
I realize now that I should never have made my very first extraction with 500g of root bark. This was the biggest mistake that I made, because if anything went wrong I would be losing a lot of product... which I'm pretty sure I did.
My second extraction was made with 100g root bark. I did a version of any A/B tek, salted, and used naptha as my NPS.
I ran my vinegar soak/cook 3 times, cooking each batch for 2 hours. Approx 600ml water with 200ml 5% white vinegar for each batch.
Cooking juice was strained and collected, totaling over 2L.
60g non-iodized sea salt was added to 200ml boiling water, then this solution was added to the 2L of juice.
Juice was reduced in volume by boiling to about 1.4L.
After juice was reduced to 1.4L, it was left in fridge for 4-6 hours to let sediment fall to the bottom.
Clearish purple juice was then decanted into erlynmeyer flask
A lye solution was made using 200ml water and 60g sodium hydroxide.
Lye solution was slowly added to the flask to minimize reaction.
Flask is placed in a pot of 70C water and temp is maintained.
Flask was topped up with water to make harvesting the naptha easier
50ml room temp naptha was added. Naptha and Solution are inverted 30 times every 10 minutes, totaling 5 reps.
Naptha is pipetted off the top after clearing, into a sodium carbonate wash.
50ml more naptha is added to the solution, and the process is repeated.
In total 7 naptha pulls were done. The first 6 were combined into the same jar, to be evaporated by half before freezer precipitation. The 7th pull was fan evaporated to see how much material was pulled on the last run. The last pull was such a small amount that I would not waste my time continuing to extract smaller and smaller returns.
Once the first 6 pulls had been given enough time to precipitate in the freezer, I removed the naptha and saved it for another day. The remaining crystals that are still wet with naptha were then placed into my vacuum chamber to remove any remaining naptha. I will post them once they come out of the chamber
Cheers!
I realize now that I should never have made my very first extraction with 500g of root bark. This was the biggest mistake that I made, because if anything went wrong I would be losing a lot of product... which I'm pretty sure I did.
My second extraction was made with 100g root bark. I did a version of any A/B tek, salted, and used naptha as my NPS.
I ran my vinegar soak/cook 3 times, cooking each batch for 2 hours. Approx 600ml water with 200ml 5% white vinegar for each batch.
Cooking juice was strained and collected, totaling over 2L.
60g non-iodized sea salt was added to 200ml boiling water, then this solution was added to the 2L of juice.
Juice was reduced in volume by boiling to about 1.4L.
After juice was reduced to 1.4L, it was left in fridge for 4-6 hours to let sediment fall to the bottom.
Clearish purple juice was then decanted into erlynmeyer flask
A lye solution was made using 200ml water and 60g sodium hydroxide.
Lye solution was slowly added to the flask to minimize reaction.
Flask is placed in a pot of 70C water and temp is maintained.
Flask was topped up with water to make harvesting the naptha easier
50ml room temp naptha was added. Naptha and Solution are inverted 30 times every 10 minutes, totaling 5 reps.
Naptha is pipetted off the top after clearing, into a sodium carbonate wash.
50ml more naptha is added to the solution, and the process is repeated.
In total 7 naptha pulls were done. The first 6 were combined into the same jar, to be evaporated by half before freezer precipitation. The 7th pull was fan evaporated to see how much material was pulled on the last run. The last pull was such a small amount that I would not waste my time continuing to extract smaller and smaller returns.
Once the first 6 pulls had been given enough time to precipitate in the freezer, I removed the naptha and saved it for another day. The remaining crystals that are still wet with naptha were then placed into my vacuum chamber to remove any remaining naptha. I will post them once they come out of the chamber
Cheers!
