A new dawn.

[stonemason]

Yes it all makes sense. Like the lady, I don't want to ingest the Everclear, and find the hot coffee evaporates most of it. I have looked into reclaiming the alcohol, but for the small amount I need, its one machine less to buy and store. And if the Ethanol works it will quarter the cost. I currently evaporate on the house radiators.

Nice I bet those radiators work perfect.nice and slow

 

[Chemistry]

Nice I bet those radiators work perfect.nice and slow

Yes, works just fine, just got to remember you put them on there, or you end end up with a black dot in the middle of the jar.

 

[Chemistry]

Good morning tokers and growers, how are you all on this dark and very rainy morning, hope your all well. The results on the two alcohols are in, both tested by a group of fearless buddies over the past week. ( guinea pigs )

The Jars. Both jars were made up at the same time, and both spent a month in the fridge part of the fridge freezer, the part you keep your milk, that way when ever you open and close the door the jars get a shake, saves having to stir them, easy life or what.


First up is the Ethanol jar. Still using the Muslin cloth as a filter as I think its streets ahead of the coffee filters, the coffee filters seem to soak up the stuff we want to keep, where as the Muslin doesn't soak up as much of the alcohol when first pored into the filter, my thinking is that the stuff we want to keep is in that first pour as its been released from the bud, and is heavier than the alcohol, so is sat at the bottom of the jar rather than floating around suspended in the alcohol. And I've also had a better hit from the Muslin strained jars. I came to this conclusion after straining two identical jars, one strained through a coffee filter and the other through the Muslin.



One difference between the two jars, was the greenness of the Ethanol compared to the Everclear. You would think that the Ethanol being a higher octane, that it would be a darker brown liquid like the Everclear straight from the jar, but as you can see from the pics, it came out filtered a more green colour, this as it was evaporated down to the four dropper bottles I use to store and meter out my chosen dose, became the brown coloured liquid I'm accustomed too.



Next up, the Everclear jar. You can see the browner colour in the filter jar compared to the Ethanol based liquid.


I wasn't put off by the colour, as I drop my green dragon into a cup of hot coffee, which cooks every thing and evaporates a fair bit of the alcohol off, if not all. Feed back from the guinea pigs said there was no difference in hit, and that the Ethanol had a cleaner less harsh taste when added to a good quality coffee, which I agree with. From an evaporating point, the Ethanol evaporated twice as fast as the Everclear, which is a handy thing to know, don't know if it will help anyone, but if it speeds up the evaporating process, then its a good thing, Further experimentation has been asked for by the guinea pigs, with the two jar experiment being run with the Do Si Do I grew with the Pineapple just to see if there is any difference. I like folk that are keen. So I'll set up a couple of jars with the Do Si Do, jeeze I pamper my guinea pigs. I won't put it up on here as I think you have had enough of alcohol jars by now. I don't know if these posts will help anyone other than the guinea pigs getting battered for free, or myself, but if it helps just one person who is on the edge of having to give up our beloved cannabis due to lung problems, then it is worth posting, and its an easy method with little or no out lay if you have jars laying about, and if you race cars, then you most likely have gallons of Ethanol sat in your garage. So it looks like the Do Si Do is getting the dragon treatment next, and we'll see what the testers think of that. I'm hoping to get a grow going soon, havn't a clue when. Cleaned out the grow room, got the seeds chosen, just need the time to fire it up. And that's where the cannabis world of Chemistry is at the moment, so until next time, just keep tokin folks.

 

[Zen_seeker]

Good morning tokers and growers, how are you all on this dark and very rainy morning, hope your all well. The results on the two alcohols are in, both tested by a group of fearless buddies over the past week. ( guinea pigs )

The Jars. Both jars were made up at the same time, and both spent a month in the fridge part of the fridge freezer, the part you keep your milk, that way when ever you open and close the door the jars get a shake, saves having to stir them, easy life or what.
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First up is the Ethanol jar. Still using the Muslin cloth as a filter as I think its streets ahead of the coffee filters, the coffee filters seem to soak up the stuff we want to keep, where as the Muslin doesn't soak up as much of the alcohol when first pored into the filter, my thinking is that the stuff we want to keep is in that first pour as its been released from the bud, and is heavier than the alcohol, so is sat at the bottom of the jar rather than floating around suspended in the alcohol. And I've also had a better hit from the Muslin strained jars. I came to this conclusion after straining two identical jars, one strained through a coffee filter and the other through the Muslin.

View attachment 118319

One difference between the two jars, was the greenness of the Ethanol compared to the Everclear. You would think that the Ethanol being a higher octane, that it would be a darker brown liquid like the Everclear straight from the jar, but as you can see from the pics, it came out filtered a more green colour, this as it was evaporated down to the four dropper bottles I use to store and meter out my chosen dose, became the brown coloured liquid I'm accustomed too.

View attachment 118320

Next up, the Everclear jar. You can see the browner colour in the filter jar compared to the Ethanol based liquid.
View attachment 118321

I wasn't put off by the colour, as I drop my green dragon into a cup of hot coffee, which cooks every thing and evaporates a fair bit of the alcohol off, if not all. Feed back from the guinea pigs said there was no difference in hit, and that the Ethanol had a cleaner less harsh taste when added to a good quality coffee, which I agree with. From an evaporating point, the Ethanol evaporated twice as fast as the Everclear, which is a handy thing to know, don't know if it will help anyone, but if it speeds up the evaporating process, then its a good thing, Further experimentation has been asked for by the guinea pigs, with the two jar experiment being run with the Do Si Do I grew with the Pineapple just to see if there is any difference. I like folk that are keen. So I'll set up a couple of jars with the Do Si Do, jeeze I pamper my guinea pigs. I won't put it up on here as I think you have had enough of alcohol jars by now. I don't know if these posts will help anyone other than the guinea pigs getting battered for free, or myself, but if it helps just one person who is on the edge of having to give up our beloved cannabis due to lung problems, then it is worth posting, and its an easy method with little or no out lay if you have jars laying about, and if you race cars, then you most likely have gallons of Ethanol sat in your garage. So it looks like the Do Si Do is getting the dragon treatment next, and we'll see what the testers think of that. I'm hoping to get a grow going soon, havn't a clue when. Cleaned out the grow room, got the seeds chosen, just need the time to fire it up. And that's where the cannabis world of Chemistry is at the moment, so until next time, just keep tokin folks.

I follow along weekly. As I don’t have the fancy equipment some do pressing and dabs are out for me but new tumbler and your posts have offered new possibilities for me.

 

[Chemistry]

I follow along weekly. As I don’t have the fancy equipment some do pressing and dabs are out for me but new tumbler and your posts have offered new possibilities for me.

I built a keif tumbler from bits knocking around in my shed, used an old Mercades Benz windscreen motor to power it, I loved the hash I could produce from it, I even grew six old style indicas so I could make some really nice black hash. Thank you for taking the time to read my ramblings.

 

[Max]

No seeds, length of time it took to flower was a stoner mistake on my part, while cleaning my fan I knocked in four segments of my light timer right in the middle of twelve off, so this added a mass of time onto my flowering stage and confused the plants. Smells lovely, I think you'll enjoy it.

You will know nxt time when you see foxtailing and new growth happening.i hate those peg timers .love the look of the do si dos .just beautiful mate..some nice coneheads too Chem what you gonna run nxt…

 

[Chemistry]

You will know nxt time when you see foxtailing and new growth happening.i hate those peg timers .love the look of the do si dos .just beautiful mate..some nice coneheads too Chem what you gonna run nxt…

Don't know what to run next Max, I want to run a Chocolate Skunk by zero zero, but its a really old seed, and there is only one left, so will it pop, the other three I keep changing my mind. Aurora Indica I want to pop, so just got to make my mind about the other two and I'm off.

 

[Max]

I grew out aura indica on my very first grow and that got huuge..vegged it 8 weeks but.was a beautiful looking plant and great morphology and she wasn’t a light hugger . Bandits growing the chocolate skunk I think..

 

[Chemistry]

I grew out aura indica on my very first grow and that got huuge..vegged it 8 weeks but.was a beautiful looking plant and great morphology and she wasn’t a light hugger . Bandits growing the chocolate skunk I think..

The Aurora was the first plant I grew in a tent before I built the grow room, hoping this plant will be as good as that one. The choc skunk seed I have is over six years old, so may not pop, or my grow freaky, fingers crossed. Could do with out another light hugger.