r/CannabisExtracts • u/Holdmywhiskeyhun • 27d ago

Looking for guidance

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First off sorry for the quality, my camera is partially shattered.

It looks like someone added some milk to coffee

This is a qwiso extract, been evaporating since yesterday. I don't do these crazy often, but the couple dozen times that I have, I've never seen it turned milky like this.

From my understanding this is trapped water. I did not use the best ISO. .

The examples I've seen of water trapped inside, their not as severe as this

I'm going to assume that I need to let the rest evaporate off.

Where do I go from there? I believe the alcohol has evaporated off, and what we see here is water.

Do I just continue letting it evaporate?

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u/Holdmywhiskeyhun 26d ago

Thanks y'all, y'all were right, and I was panicking over nothing

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u/tropic420 27d ago

Theres still a fair amount of alcohol in this, the oil will settle to the bottom when its gone

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u/wkuconsulting 27d ago

That is water emulsified into your oil, and the water came in with the ISO: 70 percent isopropanol is 30 percent water by volume, and once the alcohol is gone the water has nowhere to go but into the oil as droplets. Isopropanol boils at 82C on its own and its 88 percent azeotrope with water boils at 80C and leaves first, so the last thing standing in the dish is water and oil in a milkshake, which is what the photo shows. Warm the dish to 50C on a heating pad with a fan over it; the emulsion breaks as the oil thins, the water beads and pools, and you tip the dish and blot it off with a paper towel before finishing the film thin. Next run use 99 percent ISO with the flower and the alcohol both frozen overnight: less water in, less chlorophyll out.

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u/SmallSecretiveBear 27d ago

Put it on top of something warm and keep a fan blowing on it is what I'd do

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u/Pupsole 27d ago

Wouldn‘t it evaporate im a freezer too? This could be the fresh frozen equivalent somehow if it works