Hi nice people.
this idea has come up before to bag whole syrian rue seeds in advance and keep them there until discarding. Aim: minimal fuss. Used old nicely washed handkerchiefs, the yellow one was used before on rue hence that color. Lower left is a very fine textile which would burst later. It's the middle of the 2nd photo, you can almost see the seeds dark color trough it.
5 x 20 gr of seeds was weighted.
Cable ties close the bags. Someone (was it Sakkadelic?) tried making a knot in the ends to close the textile but the knots came loose, so binding the bag with a fine rope or cable tie is easier & secure.
First boil 1.5 liter for 1.5 hours, all next boils 1 liter of water for 30 minutes. Like 10 drops of phosphoric acid made 1 liter of the regional tap water into pH just below 3. Use any acid of choice or none if you want.
Another idea of this workflow is to reduce minimal water and boiling times and filtering times. The bags are immediately a filter stage on their own. Boiling times are meant to get the water in the seeds. To get the water + the actives out, the bags are squeezed in your hands as hard as possible. That's why the 20 gr seeds choice, once they are swollen they fit perfectly in your hands to squeeze. If you have a press of a kind you might customize the bag size to the press you have. But I think manual squeezing is fine enough on 20 gr seeds each. Pressing or wringing boiled seeds has led to success here at nexus before, getting it all out 'manu militari' turns out to be effective.
this idea has come up before to bag whole syrian rue seeds in advance and keep them there until discarding. Aim: minimal fuss. Used old nicely washed handkerchiefs, the yellow one was used before on rue hence that color. Lower left is a very fine textile which would burst later. It's the middle of the 2nd photo, you can almost see the seeds dark color trough it.
5 x 20 gr of seeds was weighted.
Cable ties close the bags. Someone (was it Sakkadelic?) tried making a knot in the ends to close the textile but the knots came loose, so binding the bag with a fine rope or cable tie is easier & secure.
First boil 1.5 liter for 1.5 hours, all next boils 1 liter of water for 30 minutes. Like 10 drops of phosphoric acid made 1 liter of the regional tap water into pH just below 3. Use any acid of choice or none if you want.
Another idea of this workflow is to reduce minimal water and boiling times and filtering times. The bags are immediately a filter stage on their own. Boiling times are meant to get the water in the seeds. To get the water + the actives out, the bags are squeezed in your hands as hard as possible. That's why the 20 gr seeds choice, once they are swollen they fit perfectly in your hands to squeeze. If you have a press of a kind you might customize the bag size to the press you have. But I think manual squeezing is fine enough on 20 gr seeds each. Pressing or wringing boiled seeds has led to success here at nexus before, getting it all out 'manu militari' turns out to be effective.
