Stunning Rebecca what a descriptive well narrated post well done. Two questions and I should know this what are sweet leaves, and I didn't see the name of that alcohol? Isopropyl? Keep up the great work. Cheer$:)
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The sugar leaves are the leaves that you will enventually be trimming away from your buds after you dry them. They contain a lot of trichomes too and are great for using in a second wash when you make an oil concentrate. (So just the leaves around the buds.) The alcohol that I used is an actual alcohol that you can buy in a liquor store. The brand is called Global but it is special in that it's what's called an over-proof alcohol and I had to apply for a special license to buy it. It's 94% where as iso is 99.7%. A personal decision on my part for quality because it's medicine that I will be ingesting.
Wow that's amazing very well done. Thanks for answering my questions. I am South Africa based so not sure bottle stores will sell that here. Prolly need to get at a Chemical company Rick Simpson in on of his videos said you can use benzyne or isopropyl? He also suggest that when you are reducing to add small drops of water as this takes out all the residual chems and what that doesnt the goodness of the THC kind of mitigates all the rest, his words literally, your thoughts on that? Cheer$:)
Many different kinds of solvents can be used. When Rick made many of his videos, it was before people were really openly discussing extraction procedures for cannabis and it was tough to find any information about it on the internet that wasn't cryptic in nature. Rick uses iso, (I think) because it is readily available and it's relatively inexpensive. Getting solvents and impurities out is an issue. You want to use the healthiest substance that you can obtain, that will get the job done. I was able to pull 84% alcohol out of some mead that I made. My plan is to try to make a few different batches of alcohol to see if I can hit in the 90's somewhere. (I wasn't trying for this when I originally made the mead.) I had racked it for 2 years and when I bought the Green Oil Machine, it was the first distillation that I made using it. I just did it on a whim to get to learn how the machine worked before I filled it with precious cannabis and costly alcohol. This was also one of the reasons that I bought this particular machine. Rick Simpson teaches everyone to use rice cookers because they are inexpensive and readily available but they can't distill which let's you capture the alcohol in whatever it is that you are distilling.
Thanks a ton for all your insights Rebecca :)