herbivore21
Well-Known Member
I have been doing a lot of experimentation with various phenomena I have observed in a test locale, where there are very high relative humidity and temps. RH's in excess of 80% are a regular occurrence. Temps in excess of 105f are also regular stuff.
I am starting to compile information on my results and will not be able to share all of them nor explicate averages due to privacy and security reasons - however, I believe I have already seen consistent enough replication to report back and confirm what many have thought for some time now.
Autobuddering of rosin is definitely correlated with exposure to high relative humidity/ambient moisture.
The starkest example of each of the tests that I have done so far (measuring with the same lab calibrated hygrometer in multiple sites, not too geographically distant from one another with practically identical local barometry, temp and RH) explains just how quickly a humid room will turn your rosin into full blown budder.
In the first location, the rosin (which had been squished a week or so prior and stored at this location from soon after until this experiment a week later) has been consistently stored at around 75f in both locations during testing (to control for variation on the basis of heat - for the same reason, barometry was the same at both locations during all tests) a maximum relative humidity of 65%, with an average RH of 56% and a minimum of 40% RH. It was the most beautiful, pale yellow clear as glass rosin (pics to come of before and after budder).
When taken to the second location, with the same average temp of 75f but a maximum RH of 77%, minimum of 73% and average 76% RH (much more humid location, felt SO MUCH HOTTER despite the same temps!): The rosin was left for 4 or 5 hours in folded up parchment (oil slick slick wrap). At 3 hours 50 mins into the second location test, the rosin had a noticable budderiness to it. After 5 hours, it was complete budder. I will be providing pics later on to illustrate the difference.
I have replicated this result perhaps 13 times now.
Some notes:
- My results were only carried out with the one variety of indoor grown hybrid. These results cannot be extrapolated to all varieties because different terpene profiles will directly influence the polarity and hygroscopy/lack thereof of the resin in a given plant.
- This is not the only possible way to get a budder consistency - many of you who whipped BHO will know this already. In fact, I would hypothesise based on anecdotal observation (not systematic testing!) that lower terpene containing extracts (even rosins) will not budder this way at all, nor will some with different, less hygroscopic terp profiles as described above.
- With this variety, the autobuddered material is noticeably sweeter (in the most literal sense of the word) than the non-buddered version. This has been a consistent finding with the variety in question - sometimes, somehow, autobudder makes dabs better!
Future directions: I think we need to see an investigation of terpene/cannabinoid isolates, as well as existing literature to better understand the hygroscopy of cannabis extracts. With this understanding, we can begin to find out exactly which compounds, or combinations of compounds are required to create the conditions for autobuddering in humid environments like where my test took place. This knowledge will more importantly allow us to tease apart whether it is indeed simply a combination of hygroscopic compounds and ambient moisture that creates autobuddering, or if some other interceding (or perhaps even completely extraneous) variable is required.
Hope you all enjoy reading, happy dabbing!
I am starting to compile information on my results and will not be able to share all of them nor explicate averages due to privacy and security reasons - however, I believe I have already seen consistent enough replication to report back and confirm what many have thought for some time now.
Autobuddering of rosin is definitely correlated with exposure to high relative humidity/ambient moisture.
The starkest example of each of the tests that I have done so far (measuring with the same lab calibrated hygrometer in multiple sites, not too geographically distant from one another with practically identical local barometry, temp and RH) explains just how quickly a humid room will turn your rosin into full blown budder.
In the first location, the rosin (which had been squished a week or so prior and stored at this location from soon after until this experiment a week later) has been consistently stored at around 75f in both locations during testing (to control for variation on the basis of heat - for the same reason, barometry was the same at both locations during all tests) a maximum relative humidity of 65%, with an average RH of 56% and a minimum of 40% RH. It was the most beautiful, pale yellow clear as glass rosin (pics to come of before and after budder).
When taken to the second location, with the same average temp of 75f but a maximum RH of 77%, minimum of 73% and average 76% RH (much more humid location, felt SO MUCH HOTTER despite the same temps!): The rosin was left for 4 or 5 hours in folded up parchment (oil slick slick wrap). At 3 hours 50 mins into the second location test, the rosin had a noticable budderiness to it. After 5 hours, it was complete budder. I will be providing pics later on to illustrate the difference.
I have replicated this result perhaps 13 times now.
Some notes:
- My results were only carried out with the one variety of indoor grown hybrid. These results cannot be extrapolated to all varieties because different terpene profiles will directly influence the polarity and hygroscopy/lack thereof of the resin in a given plant.
- This is not the only possible way to get a budder consistency - many of you who whipped BHO will know this already. In fact, I would hypothesise based on anecdotal observation (not systematic testing!) that lower terpene containing extracts (even rosins) will not budder this way at all, nor will some with different, less hygroscopic terp profiles as described above.
- With this variety, the autobuddered material is noticeably sweeter (in the most literal sense of the word) than the non-buddered version. This has been a consistent finding with the variety in question - sometimes, somehow, autobudder makes dabs better!
Future directions: I think we need to see an investigation of terpene/cannabinoid isolates, as well as existing literature to better understand the hygroscopy of cannabis extracts. With this understanding, we can begin to find out exactly which compounds, or combinations of compounds are required to create the conditions for autobuddering in humid environments like where my test took place. This knowledge will more importantly allow us to tease apart whether it is indeed simply a combination of hygroscopic compounds and ambient moisture that creates autobuddering, or if some other interceding (or perhaps even completely extraneous) variable is required.
Hope you all enjoy reading, happy dabbing!
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