merkin
Rising Star
Hi, I'm starting a new thread for simplicity and clarity but this is an ongoing problem plaguing me (see this thread for other pix)
I currently have a tray in the freezer (photo attached) which is full of spice. Problem is this: it has always worked like this, get spice in freezer, as I decant etc, it either stays with the solvent or very soon the mushy crystal pile disappears back into liquid solvent. Sometimes I manage to keep some of it on filter paper - anything handy - and I get the crystals in the lower pic. They come out quite light and mushy like a pile of slush puppy (see that linked thread for pics) - but before they dry they dissolve back into liquid -- more than half is lost every time.
No ways I can dry it in glass or even put upside down in freezer - it always goes. What doesnt happen to stay on the filters is lost. If I evaporate the naphtha, every single time I get oil/goo.
How best can I get these lovely guys out of the naphtha? I know the naphtha is not ideal and I have other solvents now to try, but given all that beauty in there - is there a way to get it out mostly as crystals?
It is definitely a heavy naphtha (not sold under that name here in my country no-one has heard of naphtha) but it extracts like a champ - unfortunately takes ages in freezer to get to this and weeks to evaporate. I just can't seem to get at the spice in there. In the freezer it was clear for 3 solid days, then today (4.5 days) it is suddenly full of crystals.
The pic isn't that clear thanks to the shrinkwrap cover but there's all that suff, sorta coherent but swimming in the yellow naphtha.
How can I best get these crystals? Is there a process to somehow get them into something less "clingy" that will maybe precip better than this naphtha - but without losing what I got?
Would really appreciate advice cos this is where I am failing every time. Naphtha definitely seems to be the reason so its the area I need to work on. MHRB is excellent (that's pull 1-3 out of 6) - already got 400+mg out of 4-6 and lost a LOT of that in the same decant process. Too scared to touch this at the moment but it doesnt help just sitting in the freezer like that!
It feels soooo close...! Much frustration
I currently have a tray in the freezer (photo attached) which is full of spice. Problem is this: it has always worked like this, get spice in freezer, as I decant etc, it either stays with the solvent or very soon the mushy crystal pile disappears back into liquid solvent. Sometimes I manage to keep some of it on filter paper - anything handy - and I get the crystals in the lower pic. They come out quite light and mushy like a pile of slush puppy (see that linked thread for pics) - but before they dry they dissolve back into liquid -- more than half is lost every time.
No ways I can dry it in glass or even put upside down in freezer - it always goes. What doesnt happen to stay on the filters is lost. If I evaporate the naphtha, every single time I get oil/goo.
How best can I get these lovely guys out of the naphtha? I know the naphtha is not ideal and I have other solvents now to try, but given all that beauty in there - is there a way to get it out mostly as crystals?
It is definitely a heavy naphtha (not sold under that name here in my country no-one has heard of naphtha) but it extracts like a champ - unfortunately takes ages in freezer to get to this and weeks to evaporate. I just can't seem to get at the spice in there. In the freezer it was clear for 3 solid days, then today (4.5 days) it is suddenly full of crystals.
The pic isn't that clear thanks to the shrinkwrap cover but there's all that suff, sorta coherent but swimming in the yellow naphtha.
How can I best get these crystals? Is there a process to somehow get them into something less "clingy" that will maybe precip better than this naphtha - but without losing what I got?
Would really appreciate advice cos this is where I am failing every time. Naphtha definitely seems to be the reason so its the area I need to work on. MHRB is excellent (that's pull 1-3 out of 6) - already got 400+mg out of 4-6 and lost a LOT of that in the same decant process. Too scared to touch this at the moment but it doesnt help just sitting in the freezer like that!
It feels soooo close...! Much frustration
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