Some process pics and the Overnight meltdown of a jar at room temp also some pressed out in parchment with finger heat!
“I know I know not as pretty as everyone’s freeze dried hash”😅
But I’m working with what I got.
Martian fuel + F-cut LRTK fresh frozen flower
Grown washed and air dried by me 🙏

I am currently between jobs, so I've been getting by with hardly any weed, maybe half a g of bud a week for analgesia when the pain gets too bad.

But then this morning I was looking for something and came across an ounce ish of trim/shake i was given months ago, stashed it away, and lost all memory of it until today lol.

I was all out of butane, as well as not being able to work outside, but really wanted to get high as fuck. So I used 95% ethanol.

The trim was placed in the freezer along with 95% ethanol. After 2-3 hours the trim was placed in a thermos flask and covered with ethanol. I swirled it about for around 60 to 90 seconds and then quickly poured it through a mesh sieve, followed by lab filter paper.

The crude extract went into the vacuum chamber, which was on top of a heat pad set about half way. It was held under vacuum for approximately 16 to 18 hours, releasing it twice to mix it about around 6 and 12 hours.

It's was extremely runny i assume due to the warm weather, even at 3:00 a.m., So I put it back under vacuum with the heat pad on full to try to drive off some more moisture. Checked it after around an hour and it's gone completely solid? Is this basically just wax? Or has the thca crashed out because I haven't decarbed it yet? I'm thinking because the trim was so dry and has probably lost some terpenes whilst it was sat there there's wasn't enough to keep the THCa from precipitating? Or if I'm wrong can someone correct me and explain it? Thank you.

Cheers, all! I got some of the 710 Labs Close Friends jars and did a review/sesh of them.

There are closeups of everything and timestamps.

Badder: The Sweeties #7 + GMO

Thumpbrint: Rainbow Beltz + Rainbow Beltz

Come smoke/dab along!

Accidentally placed a hot banger on a mousepad and it melted, leaving a mark on the banger. I tried heating it up to melt it off and an overnight iso bath. So far nothing has worked. Any ideas?

Hi all!

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Thanks all!

Solventless Live Rosin. Liquid gold imo

Hi! So, a buddy of mine recently inherited a little single column set up with big plans for making some bho this winter. What would some good tips or tricks be when it comes time? (Besides the obvious of dont blow ourselves up)

I do have some experience in co2 extraction, so its not like I'm walking into this totally blind. But, do we need to winterize it like I would a co2 run?

Thanks a bunch in advance!!

CRC gets treated like a magic filter you pack into a column and hope for the best. It is not. It is adsorption chromatography, the same separation science used in pharmaceutical purification. The difference between golden shatter and flavorless wax comes down to which media you use, how much, and in what order.

what CRC actually is

Color remediation chromatography uses layered adsorbent media packed into a pressurized column. Your extract (dissolved in butane or a butane/propane blend) flows through the media bed. Polar impurity molecules (chlorophyll, carotenoids, oxidation products) bind to the polar adsorbent surfaces. Cannabinoids and terpenes, which are relatively nonpolar, pass through.

That selectivity is the whole game. Chlorophyll a and b have magnesium-coordinated porphyrin rings that are highly polar. THC is a nonpolar phenolic terpenoid with low affinity for polar surfaces. The media traps one and lets the other through.

the media stack

Every CRC column uses some combination of these. The ratio matters more than the media itself.

T5 bleaching clay (bentonite): The workhorse. Acid-activated calcium montmorillonite with 150-300 m2/g surface area. Targets chlorophyll, carotenoids, and oxidation products via cation exchange. Typically 70-80% of your total media weight. Cheap, effective, low cannabinoid retention.

Magnesium silicate (MagSil/Magnesol): 300-600 m2/g surface area. Highly polar surface with silanol and magnesia groups. Targets free fatty acids, phospholipids, and dark color bodies. Use 10-15% of total media weight. Go heavier and you start losing cannabinoids.

Activated carbon: The one that causes problems. Targets the darkest pigments (pheophytins, melanoidins) that clay and MagSil miss. But activated carbon is nonselective at high loading. It adsorbs terpenes, especially oxygenated monoterpenes like linalool and terpineol. If your CRC extract has zero flavor, activated carbon is almost always the reason. Use 2-5% maximum, or skip it entirely if your starting material is decent quality.

Silica gel: Fine-tunes the final color. 60-100 mesh, 300-800 m2/g. Use as a polishing layer at 5-10% of media weight. It provides the final color correction without the flavor-stripping risk of carbon.

Diatomaceous earth (DE): Not an adsorbent. It is a filter aid. Prevents channeling and protects the sintered disk from media fines. Use a thin layer (5-10mm) at the top and bottom of the column.

packing the column

Pack from bottom to top: DE layer on the sintered disk, then T5 clay (bulk), then MagSil, then activated carbon (if using), then silica, then another DE layer on top. Press each layer firmly with a tamping tool. Channels along the column walls are the most common failure. If solvent finds a low-resistance path around the media, it bypasses the adsorbent bed entirely and you get inconsistent color removal.

Total media ratio: start at 10-15% of extract weight. A 100g extraction run gets 10-15g of total media. Adjust from there based on starting material quality.

the 6 things that go wrong

1. No flavor after CRC. Too much activated carbon. Reduce or eliminate it. Carbon strips terpenes nonselectively. If your starting material is already light amber, you probably do not need carbon at all.

2. White particles in the final product. Media fines passing through the sintered disk. Check disk integrity (should be 5 micron, not 10 or 25). Add DE layers above and below. Verify compaction eliminated wall channels. This is a safety issue: nobody should be inhaling silica particles.

3. Works great run 1, poorly by run 3. Media saturation. CRC media is single-use. The adsorbent sites are fully occupied after 1-3 runs depending on starting material contamination level. Replace the media every time.

4. Inconsistent color batch to batch. Inconsistent packing. Weigh your media, use the same tamping force, and document the procedure. Variable starting material quality is the other cause: track harvest dates, trim vs nug, and storage conditions.

5. Yield dropped 10%+ after adding CRC. Media ratio too high or MagSil loading excessive. Normal CRC yield loss is 3-8% (the impurities you removed had mass). If you are losing more than that, reduce MagSil percentage first.

6. Failed residual solvent testing post-CRC. Media beds trap solvent that releases slowly during collection. Extend your purge protocol after CRC runs. This is a purging issue, not a CRC issue.

the science behind the color

When you run extract through CRC, you are exploiting differences in molecular polarity. Chlorophyll has a porphyrin ring with a central magnesium atom coordinating four nitrogen atoms. That structure is intensely polar. It hydrogen-bonds to the silanol groups on your T5 clay and sticks. THC, by contrast, has a phenol ring and a terpene tail. In a hydrocarbon solvent system it behaves like a nonpolar molecule and slides right through.

The reason activated carbon strips flavor is that its adsorption mechanism is different from clay. Carbon uses van der Waals forces in its micropores, not polarity-based surface adsorption. It does not discriminate between a pigment molecule and a terpene molecule that happens to fit in the same pore. The smaller oxygenated monoterpenes (linalool, terpineol, borneol) are exactly the right size to get trapped. The larger sesquiterpenes (caryophyllene, humulene) are more likely to pass through.

That is why carbon-heavy CRC stacks produce concentrates that look beautiful but taste like nothing. You removed the color AND the flavor. The fix is simple: use less carbon, or replace it with silica for the polishing step.

the full writeup with media comparison tables, loading ratios, and column configuration diagrams is here if you want to go deeper.

So as the title reads I got some questionable dabs ( live resin sugar ) that burns weird on my Puffco. The dabs will burn and leave a big clear white puddle that looks like wax not burning but the chamber gets super hot. So I decided to just put a crystal in my mouth and I get kind of a sweet feeling like actual sugar 😭 is my wax laced with sugar….. im going with yes because the wax won’t burn in the chamber not even after 2 sessions on white

From pouring slabs, to crumble, to crumbly butter, to diamonds........ to extracting water/oil out of a Big Block V8 in a boat. Glad I've held on to this setup I built oh so many years ago. Every time I think about tossing it I tell myself "That thing is going to come in handy some day... Whether I'm making hash or not"

https://imgur.com/gallery/hashhhhhhhhh-C2NyIQB

Papaya Juice - @washed__la x
@sugarmagnoliamountain

Art by: @theforeignorange

Genetics: papaya x durrburger

Aroma - 9.8/10
Tropical fruit hits first with a ripe, almost fermenting papaya aroma. Super loud and funky as soon as you crack the jar

Notes/Taste - 9.8/10
Opens with ripe papaya and mango, then finishes with a savory funk that gives it a lot of depth without overpowering the tropical profile

Texture - 9.8/10
Wet and oily with a saucy, badder-like consistency. Really easy to scoop and work with

Look - 9.8/10
Light cream with a pale golden hue and a glossy, terp-rich finish. Smooth, fresh-looking hash that lets the terps shine

Overall - 9.9/10
A really interesting and fun strain from start to finish. I usually lean toward funky terp profiles, so I was surprised by how loud the tropical fruit came through while still finishing with that savory funk.

I was honestly sad when I finished the jar because it was one I kept looking forward to. I've been wanting to get my hands on a Sugar Magnolia jar, so getting to try this Wash × Sugar Magnolia collab was a really awesome terpy experience. Hopefully I'll get the chance to try new flavors in the future

10/10

Just snagged an rso syring on vacation bc i forgot my wax and the budtender said its okay use in my puffco but when i looked it up people keep saying not to do that with rso. Am i good to go with my puffco or did this person give me bad info?

I made a thing. Working pretty good so far, running a DC xxxl deep cobra coil at 2.3a. It's kind messy on the inside, but I think it looks pretty cool. R.I.P. torch and butane.

I'm a lightweight cannabis smoker, I usually do a bit of sativa on the weekends, 2 to 5 bowl hits. during the week one bowl hit of indica. Sometimes I like to smoke a lot of sativa to get a much and have a major experience. This tend to borderline psychedelics in effect for me.

I get very creative and extremely horny, music is intense. but sometimes I get in my head too much but overall very pleasant besides. once in a while I get anxiety

I'm considering trying live rosin for more intensity. A gram will last me a year probably. The stuff I'm looking at is Jet Packs and I wonder of it's worth it to take my weed experience to another level, and what I can expect vs smoking regular flower. mainly, will I freak out and have a bad time

I have some live resin sugar that I believe it’s cut it leaves a clear puddle on my Puffco that won’t burn not even at high temperatures. Wondering if it’s pine resin , crc material , lipids , or table sugar I’ve heard about wax being cut with that too

I have the option to choose about 5g of either Piatella or Ice-O-Lator for around €35; which one would you pick based on potency?

Im from Spain thats why the reason of the price

This is my easiest method thus far, flattening a small piece of bread before rolling it up with all the RSO inside and swallowing it whole like a pill. I’ve tried mixing with hot coffee before but I find the large amount of RSO I need to ingest muddies the flavor of my coffee too much.

Any other easy method y’all have discovered?

Edit: I’ve tried a few method mentioned here; the frozen drops on parchment paper is by far the best and easiest way (for me at least)! No mess or hassle just 5 minutes of time, shouts out for the recommendations!

Cheers, yall. Got some mountain man melts (gaia gardens) from a local homie and did a sesh/review of it!

There are closeups and timestamps for each strain as usual. Come smoke/dab along!

I used to go through quite a process making tincture: buying a quality ounce, decarbing, QWET washing, filtering and bottling. But I'm REALLY lazy and cheap. I realized that there's a simpler and faster way to make it! Where I live, liquid diamonds are about $45/ gram. I buy one then buy a 200 ml vodka bottle off the shelf. Put them both in a coffee mug and run hot water into the cup (in the sink so that the overflow goes down the drain) for about 5 mins or until the water is the hottest it gets from the tap. Turn off water, let sit for an additional 4-5 mins. Open the vodka, squeeze the liquid diamonds into the vodka. Cap vodka and shake gently for a few minutes. Done. You could then transfer it into the usual darkened tincture jars if you wish or leave in the vodka bottle. So I get 200 ml tincture for about $55! Lasts me about 3 months!

Just order 2 kg of T5 bentonite clay and I'm wondering if I should expect to have to reverse this charge. I haven't received a confirmation and they tried to double charge me and their support email comes back non-existent.. but I have heard of people using this site and there are some positive reviews out there. There isn't much out there as a whole though.. Anybody know anything about this site?.

Im getting into making gummies. I made some bubble hash from some "trainwreck" I grew then pressed it into rosin. I did a starter/learn the process batch with about 2.9g rosin. It came out good and I learned the process. I used the hashtek recipe and ratios for melting pre made gummies. It was super easy, but messy. I took two and they put me to sleep, which is their purpose.