Okay so to be clear I used
350g mhrb
800 ml vinegar
400 ml water + 200 g NaOH
1.3litrea of water
So far I have put in 200 ml of limonene Dextro.
And yes my mixture is definitely liquidy.
So you reckon I could add what amount of lime and is that referring to calcium oxide (CaO)?
Oops, sorry - saw "limonene" and had a brain fart! (I have a rotten cold today
) You may have to disregard the bits about lime and consistency.
Often
limonene gets used with lime (slaked/pickling lime, calcium hydroxide) - perhaps because the smaller volume of basic material reduces solvent losses. Calcium oxide is known as burnt lime, and reacts vigorously with water to form the aforementioned hydroxide (hence, "slaked").
Looking at your ingredients, that seems like you've used rather a lot of vinegar, as well as having committed an awful lot of bark to a first extraction with this method,
except that's less than what the actual
BLAB document suggests and you've scaled it all just fine for the amount of bark you put in. Hm.
*The
BLAB page on the old wiki actually has a more detailed ingredients list which seems to have been omitted from the migrated version, above. Which version did you work from? Here is the list, just to be sure:
| Materials Required |  |
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Source Material:
- 450g(one pound) MHRB (powdered)
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Solvents:
- 473ml(16fl oz) bottle of 99% IPA. If one cant get IPA, there are alternative ways described below
- 2.5 liters of water
- 500ml of D-limonene (100ml per pull)
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Reagents/Desiccants:
- 5g of Fumaric acid (probably way more than enough). If one can't get fumaric acid, there are alternative ways described below
- 250g Sodium hydroxide
- 100g Sodium carbonate (only needed if you want a smokable product. For oral ingestion, no need)
- 1 liter of 5% Vinegar. If one doesn't have fumaric acid, needs another 500ml of vinegar.
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Equipment:
- Pipette or Turkey Baster
- 1 US Gallon (3.8L) Milk Jug(HDPE #2 plastic) or big glass container (e.g. a 4.5L demijohn)
- Two 800ml(as close as you can) glass jars
- One 100ml(also as close as you can get) glass jar
- Safety goggles and gloves
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Does this also align with the rest of your method so far?
I'm still wondering if there's something up with your limonene - some products are mixed with ethanol or detergents: did you
definitely use something that really only contains limonene and no further additives?
I'm puzzled, tbh - as well as kind of being left thinking that the BLAB tek could be a poor method, especially for a beginner.
It would be prudent to
search the forum for other threads discussing BLAB and its troubleshooting. I'm a bit short of time rn.
