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Loveall, not sure if your post 560 is in response to my 558.

558 is in reference to the following:

After the crystals have formed, the contents of the crystallization jar are emptied into a filter to drain the EA and wash the filtrate with fresh EA. However, crystals adhered to the walls and bottom of jar, as well as loose crystals that are difficult to drain into the filter, remain in the jar, along with some amount of EA.

After the jar dries (EA volatilizes), whatever was in solution (cactus and non-cactus solids) remains in the jar, only to be water washed into evap dish with crystals. The non-cactus residues are what i’m talking about. I would put money on there being citric in this, I’m thinking there may be lime, too.

For me, not a big deal since i’m only getting about 15% of total yield from residue. Since I’m only doing extraction for my infrequent personal use; worst case, I can just dump the residue (though I’ll play around with trying to purify this for grins). May be diff situation for others, especially if much of their yield is brown and sticky.

Just trying to provide complete info, may not really matter to some/most people.

<blockquote data-quote="Cheelin" data-source="post: 3888015" data-attributes="member: 51712">Loveall, not sure if your post 560 is in response to my 558.558 is in reference to the following:After the crystals have formed, the contents of the crystallization jar are emptied into a filter to drain the EA and wash the filtrate with fresh EA.&nbsp; However, crystals adhered to the walls and bottom of jar, as well as loose crystals that are difficult to drain into the filter, remain in the jar, along with some amount of EA.&nbsp; After the jar dries (EA volatilizes), whatever was in solution (cactus and non-cactus solids) remains in the jar, only to be water washed into evap dish with crystals.&nbsp; The non-cactus residues are what i’m talking about.&nbsp; I would put money on there being citric in this, I’m thinking there may be lime, too.For me, not a big deal since i’m only getting about 15% of total yield from residue.&nbsp; Since I’m only doing extraction for my infrequent personal use; worst case, I can just dump the residue (though I’ll play around with trying to purify this for grins).&nbsp; May be diff situation for others, especially if much of their yield is brown and sticky. Just trying to provide complete info, may not really matter to some/most people.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cheelin, post: 3888015, member: 51712"] Loveall, not sure if your post 560 is in response to my 558. 558 is in reference to the following: After the crystals have formed, the contents of the crystallization jar are emptied into a filter to drain the EA and wash the filtrate with fresh EA. However, crystals adhered to the walls and bottom of jar, as well as loose crystals that are difficult to drain into the filter, remain in the jar, along with some amount of EA. After the jar dries (EA volatilizes), whatever was in solution (cactus and non-cactus solids) remains in the jar, only to be water washed into evap dish with crystals. The non-cactus residues are what i’m talking about. I would put money on there being citric in this, I’m thinking there may be lime, too. For me, not a big deal since i’m only getting about 15% of total yield from residue. Since I’m only doing extraction for my infrequent personal use; worst case, I can just dump the residue (though I’ll play around with trying to purify this for grins). May be diff situation for others, especially if much of their yield is brown and sticky. Just trying to provide complete info, may not really matter to some/most people. [/QUOTE]