Extraction - how dark does your AVB get?

[CANtalk]

Here's a range of AVB extraction from a desktop vape recently. On the left it's very dark roasty brown and getting near pulverized. This plugs up screens very quickly. For the middle AVB pile, let's call it medium brown, and that's what I typically vape to. On the right, the AVB pile is light brown. It still has green bits visible and is still quite intact as well.

The pile of dark AVB on the left is not from me fwiw, rather it's from a combuster friend who'll use my desktop vape when they visit. Any they seem to enjoy roasting the AVB that much.

All this gets me wondering how much extraction other vapers aim for. May as well put up an anonymous poll and see where vapers reside on this scale.

Cheers

 

[dman28]

I generally aim to roast it like your center pile. When I hit an indica or hybrid at night definitely the darker.

 

[Madtater]

Honestly, it depends on the flower…but for the majority, i try to keep it close to the middle pile. It also depends if i am using any glass with my roffu or just without it. I find i am a bit on the dark side when i use glass because if how smooth the draw and vapor is…so i draw a bit more.

 

[Haze Mister]

I have settled on "getting dark", but how you get there makes a difference. Rapid convection vaporisation with a ball vape does not degrade the flavour much at all compared to slower roasting.

Also, testing with a Titianium tip Dynavap, going for "dark dark" through a bubbler is much tastier than without...

Will sometimes go to dark dark when it's time to couch lock.

 

[Perfect_Speed4069]

I was genuinely taken aback at how dark it got in the Tasty Tube

 

[FlyingLow]

Black as coffee. Full extraction.

 

[Skropi]

Yeah, I am aiming for as dark as possible, without combusting. No need to waste perfectly good weed now, right?

 

[CANtalk]

Yeah, I am aiming for as dark as possible, without combusting. No need to waste perfectly good weed now, right?

That's not for me. I like to vape dry for full spectrum doses & the high heat dark stuff is too hard on my lungs.

And less than full extraction need not be wasteful. Collect the AVB and make edibles, cheers!

 

[Skropi]

That's not for me. I like to vape dry for full spectrum doses & the high heat dark stuff is too hard on my lungs.

And less than full extraction need not be wasteful. Collect the AVB and make edibles, cheers!

I do vape dry with the Runt, and you are right, it does become harsher when the plant material becomes darker, but I just vape with a lower temperature when it becomes harsher. Controlling the heat with the SB Runt is not hard.
I do collect the avb though, but till now I made some resin out of it, by putting it in ISO, and then passing it through a coffee filter and letting the ISO evaporate. Do you think that making edibles would be better? How much grams of avb would be enough for a single edible dose? Too many variables, I know, I just need a ballpark figure.

 

[666Honeybadger]

I do collect the avb though, but till now I made some resin out of it, by putting it in ISO, and then passing it through a coffee filter and letting the ISO evaporate

Don't use ISO for things like that. Use ethanol, ISO isn't pure enough for applications like this. Just use that for cleaning stuff (and rinse afterwards!).

 

[CANtalk]

I do vape dry with the Runt, and you are right, it does become harsher when the plant material becomes darker, but I just vape with a lower temperature when it becomes harsher. Controlling the heat with the SB Runt is not hard.
I do collect the avb though, but till now I made some resin out of it, by putting it in ISO, and then passing it through a coffee filter and letting the ISO evaporate. Do you think that making edibles would be better? How much grams of avb would be enough for a single edible dose? Too many variables, I know, I just need a ballpark figure.

I don't know about edibles vs resin, but such choices are typically personal preference. Converting AVB to edibles will bring lots of interesting options. FC has lots of good edible suggestions & information. Check out the FC threads in the cooking with cannabis subforum and post any questions up, I'm no expert but FC has lots of info & many helpful members. There are many recipes on the internet too. Check out water curing too as part of doing edibles. Cheers.

I don't know how to estimate AVB dosing with edibles. Other members may have some good feedback. I've been collecting lots of AVB which I'll use for to make a batch of edible at some point, and from there I'll see how much it takes to get me feeling high. And one can always pick up some edibles with a known dose for comparison day to day or so.

Hope that helps, vape on & enjoy.

 

[criticalpoint]

Don't use ISO for things like that. Use ethanol, ISO isn't pure enough for applications like this. Just use that for cleaning stuff (and rinse afterwards!).

This. I used to make concentrates with ISO but stopped with that, even if that means I can’t make any more since I haven’t found any high percentage alcohol in my country.

 

[hardlawjockey]

My POTV one always ends up like the first pile when I finish it off on the highest temperature (430).

FF2+ could also get that dark if I kept stirring the bowl and extracted everything I could get. Airizer EQ and PAX3 almost always ended up like the second pile no matter what I did.

Downside of POTV one might be that ABV is too far spent for making edibles.. Made some good brownies with the lighter stuff but haven't tried it with the darker stuff yet.