I've been experimenting with extracting some weed using butane, with a glass extracting tube rated for 7g (but in reality, it holds ~4g, if I don't pack it tightly, which I understand I'm not supposed to do), and the nice purpose made screens.
I've gotten several very different products from the same weed though!
1) Trim, and a few popcorn buds: 10g in 2 runs, scraped, dried at ~150F yielded 200-250mg clear yellow product that snaps easily and is minimally sticky.
2) Trim as above, run again: 100mg of darker, stickier product.
3) Stems, unweighed - 50mg of product like 2).
4) 3.5g small popcorn buds with traces of trim, with fancy butane. 200mg clear brownish yellow product that is less brown than 2) but more brown than 1).
5) 4g chopped popcorn buds with traces of trim, with fancy butane. Scraped up and allowed to sit overnight before drying at 125F. Brownish-yellow, opaque (not translucent like most other runs) product with very different consistency - doesn't behave like an oil as the others do, even above room temperature. Further drying at 150F like the others did not change the properties of the product.
Why am I getting such different results with the same weed and same butane and near identical process?
I've gotten several very different products from the same weed though!
1) Trim, and a few popcorn buds: 10g in 2 runs, scraped, dried at ~150F yielded 200-250mg clear yellow product that snaps easily and is minimally sticky.
2) Trim as above, run again: 100mg of darker, stickier product.
3) Stems, unweighed - 50mg of product like 2).
4) 3.5g small popcorn buds with traces of trim, with fancy butane. 200mg clear brownish yellow product that is less brown than 2) but more brown than 1).
5) 4g chopped popcorn buds with traces of trim, with fancy butane. Scraped up and allowed to sit overnight before drying at 125F. Brownish-yellow, opaque (not translucent like most other runs) product with very different consistency - doesn't behave like an oil as the others do, even above room temperature. Further drying at 150F like the others did not change the properties of the product.
Why am I getting such different results with the same weed and same butane and near identical process?