I'm waiting for a ceramic IR bulb and cheapo temp regulator to arrive. Thanks again Cheelin. I think if the bulb fits in my oven socket I'm just gonna use that since I have so many racks in there already. I had a cactus fall and break apart since last posting so I blended up skins and tried super low temp oven drying ~100-120F; it came out very noticeably darker this way but took ~48hrs and my apartment smelled like a sweaty athlete's foot :/
I finally filtered and dried out the crystals I originally showed here, and it was around 0.075% yield. Still an improvement for me, enough to make me think I can move on to more potent powder with CIELO.
I googled a bit about chlorophyll thinking that might be the only reason my powder and EA pulls were yellow:
chlorophyll thermal degradation in olives and broccoli:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20426424/ >123.8F
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10794643/ >140 F
I don't know if the powdering method and color is really going to affect my CIELO yields of this PC variety, but I'll see after first doing a lower temp powdered bridgesii Lee 20g batch.
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