Bluefloyd

Ive noticed whenever I come across what im told is regular hash oil, I see different colors. Black, clear, and black/green. Ive heard a couple of different reasons for this. One being just different methods in being made, but I heard color also reflects potency, is this true?. For instance, the darker the worse, more clear-better?... Hopefully someone can shed some light on this..

raeky

Pure THC is a golden clear amber color. So a good extraction will be that. The more impurities the darker, thicker and more opaque the oil is...

kosmo

yes some really nice oil is golden. but i have also seen some really amazing red hash that got me more stoned. also clear hash too. i think there are many things to look at. like your trim/bud u started with. how u prepared the trim/bud before. whats the solvent and how clean is it. and the method used and the time it took (because sometimes the color can do with how long u let it sit for) and that brings up another point how it was evaporated that can have a different color or even a different texture (harder hash instead of oil). but for the most part shoot for golden oil IMO.

bobbooty

i thought 99% thc is clear. no amber.

but, at consumer level, with basic chemistry knowledge, with what tools we have to make it with, we might be able to get the almost clear, light to very light amberish color oil.

this is information i got from the book, Cannabis Alchemy: The Art of Modern Hashmaking : Methods for Preparation of Extremely Potent Cannabis Products

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raeky

ahh.. ya probably.. ;-) thought i remembered reading amber colored... regardless without analitical means of purifing it your going to get a mixture of the non-polar compounds in your extraction... and the less clear the more impurities..

downtownsmoker

I usually have more oil around than bud, so I have seen a lot of different colors of oil. Black,green,honey,red,lavender. I literally I had a vial of oil one time that color was a soft pink with a hint of honey in it, it was the best stone of my life. I ate four globs one day before going hiking, I ended up taking a long nap in a field somewhere, it was an awesome day. The usual hash oil I have is a light color kind of light bright wheat with a dark tint if that makes any sense. I wanted to reply to kosmo also, I have been getting this red/amber colored hash oil lately that just gets me stoned as hell. I get it from a friend I go visit sometimes and he told me before I can that the oil was perfect, after I sampled I couldnt entirely disagree. He told me he didn't know how it was made. The only way I can imagine it being made, and this is just a bs guess is that they take a shitload of trichs and use as little of solvent as possible with a very slow evap rate, and than that process is reapeated many times until they have a very potent mixture that differs in color because of the longer exposure to temperatures and higher thc concentration? I was just thinking of this idea because sometimes when you have alot of keif in one spot, it looks completely yellow, definitely a different color. Mayby it causes the same effect with the solvent in greater quantities? Who knows though, im a stoner. Hash oil extraction is impossible to obtain 99% oil, thats why it is not clear, but I agree with bobbooty that 99% thc would look clear.

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raeky

my guess would be to use a very polar solvent, like say Hexane, to extract VERY potent buds and then possibly doing something like recrystalization to futher purify... not sure if you can do that with THC.. but the better the quality the stuff you start with the more concentrated the bud will be...

theres also some other THC analoges that can be made that are more potent then delta-9-thc...

the speed of evaporation wouldn't make any difference to the potency, most likely would be made with very potent starting material and a very polar solvent.. and POSSIBLY some futher proccessing to purify... but that would be unlikely.

old_greg

I personally think that a butane extraction of a plant in it's prime (Mostly cloudy/few amber Triches) would yield a light honey colored oil.

But you have to take the stage of harvest into consideration. Lots of Amber triches(late harvest) a deeper golden color and a real Couchlock stone.

Mostly cloudy (more head some body Stone), A lighter golden color.

Harvest too early and almost clear with a faint golden hue, you screwed the pooch. (Semi head stone)>

So bottom line is, it depends on when the plants are harvested and cured..

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pearl

I don't really have much experience in Hash Oil's.
Remembering back a few years (I do mean a few) I remember it being
a light to very light amberish color oil.
That was my first experiences with it...had to be late 60's early 70's.

I have also seen it greens, brown and really all the colors already mentioned. I always thought it was because of the chemicals used and also the strain of mj used.
In reality I never saw it being make professionally in large amounts.
I know I have a few pics of amber trichomes that looks exactly like I remember it.
Like I said...its really a guess on my part


I guess I agree with buzzzd, How can you argue with someone named buzzzd ?

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kosmo

when i was young and my dad made his oil. we would use our plants that we grow. sometimes my dad was to inpatient for harvest, so he would cut some down when they were still in veg (keep in mind i didnt let him do this often) ,then sometimes he would take the nicest plant in the harvest and sometimes when it was time to harvest the plants and cut them down he could leave them in there pots in the dark for Weeks. and turn it into oil... ok so he took some veg plants produced nice golden oil not much tho.
then the best plant in the harvest produced some really Stinky oil but still had the name color.
now his crop that was over harvest and over dried. the oil stank so good and it was even more golden. Note> some hash oil recipes ask for you to dry your trim/bud to get that golden color. but with my experience the yield is whats effected. if you look at your trim/bud. sometimes it can depend on whats kind of strain it is. like 3 days ago i made some butane oil using some ever THC heavy plant (Williams wonder) very sativa, my yield was effected. keep on thinking, peace....