I have a decent amount of cactus material (but not necessarily of actives) and want an IPA-extracted full spectrum resin (following @doubledog's tek) as the end result.
So far, I've been boiling the cacti, evaporating the liquid until resin combining several boils (with freeze-thaw cycles for the cacti), and cleaning that crude resin with IPA.
This works well, however it is extremely time consuming, as the cacti stay noticeably bitter in their greener surface areas even after four or five boils. So I'm looking for more efficient ways.
An option that I have thought of is squeezing the fresh cacti and collecting their dry juice, and then evaporating it intto a very crude resin that would be cleaned with IPA. I would also let the pulp dry (it should be much faster after it having been squeezed, and can maybe heat it up in a hot water bath) and extract that with IPA too.
Anyone has done anything similar, or has any comments or ideas?
So far, I've been boiling the cacti, evaporating the liquid until resin combining several boils (with freeze-thaw cycles for the cacti), and cleaning that crude resin with IPA.
This works well, however it is extremely time consuming, as the cacti stay noticeably bitter in their greener surface areas even after four or five boils. So I'm looking for more efficient ways.
An option that I have thought of is squeezing the fresh cacti and collecting their dry juice, and then evaporating it intto a very crude resin that would be cleaned with IPA. I would also let the pulp dry (it should be much faster after it having been squeezed, and can maybe heat it up in a hot water bath) and extract that with IPA too.
Anyone has done anything similar, or has any comments or ideas?
