2012 Research Blog

What deep dark alchemist lair is complete without a rotary evaporator, but how many of us'n poor brothers or sisters can afford one? How nice a Rotovape looks, but hard to clean, ...

Here is one of next years back logged designs, intended to purge alcohol from shallow dishes, using rapid air exchange, with or without heat. The attached design doesn't include s ...

Those of ya'll who have been following our progress with the Mk I and II Terpenators, as well as the Lil Terp passive extractor and Enabler compound fractioning still, will be interested in ...

In the course of providing oil potions to OMMP patients with various diseases, we've had some notable successes reported that we would like to share with you in the patients own words. ...

Until 2007 there were no published reports of highly successful methods for culturing Cannabis sativa. Hemp was successfully cultured in China but at a success rate of a mere 85%. Then Ole Miss ...

I have been having a discussion on another forum, on how it is possible for water to pickup chlorophyll in an extraction, when chlorophyll is basically a hydrocarbon, which is mostly insoluble i ...

The Enabler Alcohol Fractionating Still While messing around with passive butane essential oils e ...

As ventilation is an important part of indoor growing, here are a few principles to consider in your designs. When you move air through a duct, ...

 Ever want to miticide dip a healthy sized vegging lady, planted in a 10 gallon pot prior to flower? An associate wanted to, because she has a compromise ...

 Passive Butane Extractor and Reclaimer What if you want to make your own BHO and reclaim your but ...

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I don't know about ya'll, but I have been watching CO2 Super Critical Fluid (SFE) with interest and have wanted to sample some cannabis essential oils extracted by that method, but the cost ...

Anna and Alzheimer’s A dog’s dignified demise using cannabis ...

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The question whether mold material is safe to use, regularly comes up on multiple forums, and there is no more a yes or no answer to the question, than th ...

As many of ya'll know, burning cannabis may be damn tasty, but sadly it produces some of the same free radicals as burning tobacco. To its ...

Polar /Non Polar Extraction. Some of our readers have shown interest in isolating the acidic from the neutral cannabinoids. So I set out to nail down a DIY capable procedure for the m ...

Ever asked yourself exactly what are the Alkanes, Alcohols, and Ethers commonly used for cannabis extraction and alchemy made of?  Fortunately, one doesn't have to be an Organic Chemist ...

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Ever thought of using N-Hexane for extraction or alchemy? At the Skunk Pharm we use an HPLC reagent grade hexane, which we acquire from the local scientific supply store, for a number of things. ...

Quick Wash Isopropyl, also know as QWISO is one of the techniques that skunk pharm uses to extract oil from mixed leaf for topicals and sometimes buds or trim for vaporization.   Here ...

Stems are also blessed with trichomes, though not as many as on the buds and leaves, and they tend to be more mature than those elsewhere, thereby producing a sedative extract. Stem o ...

Wow, Granny Storm Crow is a little like taking a sip from a fire hose! Here is her 2012 list of cannabis information and resources, with her ...

Ever wonder how much kif your favorite song would produce if it was shaking a dry siever?  Hee, hee, hee, here is our quest to find out. ...

Kosher vegetable glycerin is an effective method for extracting cannabis concentrates directly from the plant material and produces a tasty medication that is easily ingested directly orally, or ...

Holy Anointing Oil and Holy Shit. Hi ya’ll, please doooo try this at home because the results are beyond impressive! They are startling. Not only does it provide psyc ...

MORE TERPENES Our friends over at Green Camp have offered to share a new article with all of our SPR readers and we were more than happy to ...

Here is a little DIY project for harvesting high quality dry sieve kif rapidly. I got the idea for the conceptual, after seeing a Resin Reaper, but we built this out of junk parts and Roger, ret ...

Cannabis produces phyto cannabinoids in a carboxylic acid form that are not orally active at least at the CB-1 receptor sites, because they don't read ...

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Hi ya'll! Have ya'll been watching the folks blowing themselves and their homes up using butane extraction techniques, thus leading you to believe that such an attempt is suicidal? ...

Butane Honey Oil, or BHO, is the essential oil from the cannabis plant, extracted using Butane as a solvent.  It can be extracted from fresh material or from cured material as a Concrete or ...

We usually eschew making medibles that are super tasty, as it encourages  large doses, which can become uncomfortable, but here is our cinnamon Cannapop recipe that we developed for a patie ...

I was in my first semester of Organic chemistry and had recently synthesized aspirin when Graywolf brought THC-O-Acetate to my attention.Our research into Acetate s ...

Quick Wash Ethanol, also know as QWET is one of the techniques commonly employed to extract oil from cannabis. Here is skunk pharm’s QWET formula to produce an absolute using a ...

We developed Cannabuttons as a way to produce super potent smokable MMJ from scrap and trim, during the annual period right before outdoor harvest, when numerous new patients were ...

I'm sure those of ya'll whom have purchased high purity Ethanol have noticed that it isn't cheap with all the taxes heaped upon it, so here is how we recover and continue to use the ...

The Terpenator Essential Oil Extractor Our main project and the one closest to completion is our volatile gas (butane) essential oil extraction apparatus. This project started when we ...