Red Hash Oil

1) completely dry and grind material to a powder. soak material in

petroleum ether for several hours, but less than 24 hours. strain,

saving the pet ether/oil mixture... pressing out the material

thoroughly to get as much solvent/oil out of the material as possible.

filter the solvent/oil mixture through a coffee filter.

2) extract pet ether/oil mixture w/ an ~ 4% sodium hydroxide (NaOH) in

alcohol solution three times.

3) acidify the NaOH/oil mixture w/ HCl (diluted 2:1 or 3:1 with

distilled water) to pH 3. filter the acidified mixture through a

coffee filter.

4) extract acidified mixture w/ pet ether three times. evaporate off

pet ether to yield red honey oil!

NOTES:

* this recipe works well w/ small quantities of material. when

dealing w/ large material quantities, replace 1) w/ ->

- dry, grind and soak material in 91% isopropyl alcohol for three

days.

- strain and filter, saving alcohol/oil mixture.

- evaporate off alcohol down to ~ 250 - 300 ml of alcohol/oil

mixture.

- extract alcohol/oil mixture w/ pet ether three times.

* extract = placing two solutions in a seperatory funnel, mixing

thoroughly, and allowing the two phases to seperate...

given alcohol & pet ether >> pet ether = top, alcohol = bottom

pet ether & NaOH soln >> pet ether = top, NaOH soln = bottom

(same for pet ether and acidified NaOH solution)

* to make the NaOH solution - mix 40 mg of pure NaOH pellets into 500

ml of distilled water until dissolved thoroughly. then add 500 ml of

absolute grain alcohol (everclear), yielding ~ 1 liter of the sodium

hydroxide solution.

* white gas can be substituted for pet ether (verified)

muriatic acid (swimming pools) can be substituted for HCl (verified)

lye can be substituted for NaOH (verified)

* when dealing with leaf material, soak the material in cold water six

times, for four hours each time (24 hours total), discarding the water

after each soak. the material should be completely dried after the

water soakings before extracting with alcohol or pet ether.

* material material in:oil out

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leaves 100g:1g

commercial 30g:1g

flowers/trim 10g:1g

A+++ flowers ????? have not been there yet as far as measurable

quantities, but should be better than 8:1

therefore, starting with less than 1/4 lb. of leaves yields less than

1g of oil... when the return is smaller than 1/2 gram, it usually

sticks to whatever it is evaporated in, making storage a mess at best.

the following is recommeded:

- leaf runs of 1 to 2 lbs w/ 1st extraction into alcohol

- flower runs of 1 to 2 oz. w/ 1st extraction into pet ether

* pet ether 1st extractions yield a cleaner/clearer goo.

* especially with leaves extracted with alcohol... when extracting an

alcohol/oil mixture with pet ether, the phase seperation can be very

difficult if not impossible to visually identify. in such cases,

measurent of fluid volumes going into and coming out of the sep funnel

is about the only way to accurately make the seperation... and even

then, there may be a need to extract more than three times and/or

backwashing the pet ether/oil extract with alcohol to clean it up.

Quick n easy Oil

>> Quick and easy from scratch (the better the input material, the

[~1/4 lb. material] better the resulting oil will be!)

- Grind material to a powder using a blender, then place in a one

quart mason jar.

- Place 500 ml of pet. ether in jar, seal firmly, and GENTLY

shake once or twice. Unscrew lid to release pressure. Repeat

the shaking and pressure releasing a few more times until little

or no pressure is heard when the lid is unscrewed.

- Now shake the tightly sealed jar vigorously for 5 minutes, then

seperate liquid from plant material using a coffee filter. Save

the liquid in a seperate container, and place the plant material

back into mason jar.

- Repeat with 150 ml of pet. ether - shaking for 5 minutes, then

saving liquid, then repeat one more time with another 150 ml of

pet. ether for a total of 3 extraction of the plant material.

On the last extraction of the material, manually squeeze out as

much liquid from the material as possible.

- Place all of the collected liquid (pet.ether & oil) in a shallow

pyrex baking dish, and place dish in front of fan positioned to

exhaust the pet.ether fumes outdoors. Before too long, what will

be left in the pan will be 2 to 6 grams of a sticky resinous

substance varying in color from green to brown... the basic goo.