This shows the difference between my 160 and 120 sift after going through the flour sifter. I wish the pic showed it better but the leaves on the deep chunk had a purple hue, and the sift looks blue with the purple mixed in.
To answer your question on my schedule, yeah between breeding and managing a licensed production lab (scheduling, METRC, quality control, HPLC, product development)
I regularly “work” 10 - 12 hours a day, but you do what you love, you never work a day in your life
Did about 9 rounds of 2 minute shakes for a proof of concept. Our parent company has rigorous processes for product development, I have to start with very little investment. I used 30$ Amazon bubble bags and dry ice, attempting to swirl the material in the bag rather than shake it. I Took samples for hplc analysis right away, and put them in a vacuum oven overnight at 66 F. Pic is immediately after shaking ended.
I’m mixing most of this in for an infused pre roll, I set aside 15g to press some rosin for a small proof of concept there, and show them the 80%+ hash to rosin yield. On this day depending on micron size my yields were around 15-30% at 1-2 minute shakes.
^120 um - 120 seconds
Next I smashed up 160 g of flower and added 80g of hash back in. Took fifteen tiny 50mg samples from the bag for Hplc analysis. If all 15 samples are similar in cannabinoid%, I’ll know it’s homogenous.
To mix this, all I did was weigh the flower/hash and put them in this bag, froze it at -30C, then smashed the bag with a rubber mallet. This subtly powderizes the mix, but not too much. When you tap the bag you can see a decent amount of flower material and stems still intact. This will have to be sifted for its stems before getting into pre roll cones.
The next step is spinning the flower mixture into our cones on the KungTech centrifuge.
I’m using small 3mm Kevlar rods (like slightly thicker toothpicks) to create a gap of air in the cones, we can spin around 1000 cones at a time.
Next we will inject .1 to .2g of distillate/CDT terpenes into the cone. The cdt’s are same strain as the hash, which in this case is platinum jelly.
Collecting CDT’s is a process I’ve been working on for over a year, it involves a lot of thermodynamics.
I’m currently working on Live resin and Rosin carts as well. Looking at all kinds of ways to liquify and stabilize these matrices in cart form and plan experiments accordingly.
The goal is to put rosin or live resin in a cart while retaining its original flavor. I’m definitely excited to smoke these sometime this week.