*How To Make THC DROPS.
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SlowcalaToker
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Not just you fdd, you're the only one feeding our need to see! I thought we had a few others giving this a try too, and they are denying our need!they keep asking for pics. i took pics yesterday and posted them.
Thanks fdd, and that shit is REALLY starting to look good! You thinking 'bout giving some of that a crockpot boil to increase potentcy? Maybe half of it so you have a "control" mixture to compare it to?
sometimes my intelligence amazes me......
1 seedling heating pad.........
insert temp probe into jar and close lid partway. i'd clamp it but i don't want to smash me cord.......
wrap heating pad around jar and secure with rubber bands........
close the box...................
1 seedling heating pad.........
insert temp probe into jar and close lid partway. i'd clamp it but i don't want to smash me cord.......
wrap heating pad around jar and secure with rubber bands........
close the box...................
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SlowcalaToker
Active Member
All hail the master fdd! I'm pretty smart, but you are one ingenious sombitch!!!!!
hustlers7Ambition
Well-Known Member
maybe u can put a screen at the end of a pipe or something and just get a poker with a rubber something at the end and mash it all throug into a bowl? a couple times? just for all the cheaps out therr. im making no sens
KaliHustla
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ya hes a stand up guy to thats for sure
tahoe58
Well-Known Member
cool...cool idea for sure...I 'll watching to see where we're at in a few days! good luck fdd~!
see ya in three days.
sometimes my intelligence amazes me......
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SlowcalaToker
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I found another recipe for an alcohol tincture. This one I will try today if my connection ever calls back 
. One more reason I'm growing my own with all you fine people helping me out...
Anyway, here you are:
This is a simple and efficient 4 Step process.
Ingredients:
1/8oz high quality cannabis
2 oz Bacardi Rum, 151 proof
Process Summary:
1. Chop cannabis very fine (coffee grinder works great)
2. Place in a shallow pan (pie pan with aluminum foil works great) and bake at 325 degF for 4-5 minutes.
3. Remove from oven and place cannabis and place in 2 oz of rum (use a small wide mouth mason jar)
4. Simmer in a water bath for 20 minutes. Maintain temperature of the rum/cannabis mixture between 150 degF to 165 degF.
5. Strain the mixture and store.
Dosage:
One eyedropper is very nice. Two puts you in space. But you should self-titrate. Effects take about 1.5 hours to begin (at least in myself) and lasted for 5 hours (1 dropper) to 7-8 hours (2 droppers).
Process details, references and rationalizations:
1. Chop the cannabis, more surface area gives means a faster and more efficient extraction.
2. Bake the cannabis.
Notice also that there is considerable misinformation regarding heating the cannabis. It is true that you don't have to heat it to extract both THC and THCA, but the amount of THC in whole plant preparations is relatively small compared to after decarboxylation of the THCA. So if you want to maximize the strength of your tincture you must heat the cannabis prior to extraction.
3. Use the highest proof alcohol available. In my area this was Bacardi 151. The more alcohol the more efficient the extraction will be.
4. Simmer the mixture.
This is one of the areas that seems to be most debated. Many recipes call for placing the cannabis (unbaked of course) into the alcohol and waiting 2 - 6 weeks. The main concern with heating the alcohol is that it is "explosive" (not exactly true...it is however flammable).
The purpose of the simmering is to heat the alcohol mixture to improve extraction rates and efficiencies. Heating during extraction increases the motion of the molecules (basic physics/chemistry) and drastically decreases extraction times. The boiling point of pure ethanol is 173 degF (78 degC). We will use the water bath to heat the rum/cannabis mixture to just below the boiling point of ethanol.
Heating the alcohol mixture can be done very safely using a hot water bath. You will need an accurate candy or quick read thermometer. Place about 1 inch of water in a wide, vertical-edged pan (9" wide x 3" high). Bring the water to a low simmer. The rum/cannabis mixture should be in a small (1 pint) mason jar. Do NOT cover the jar.
Put the thermometer into the mason jar and place into the simmering water bath. Bring the temperature of the rum/cannabis mixture to about 165 degF (I maintain it between 150 degF and 165 degF). You want the alcohol mixture to be just barely moving (not boiling, but showing active convection within the mixture). If the mixture starts to bubble too much, just turn down the water bath.
You should have the oven fan on high. You will notice that any alcohol fumes are mixed with water vapor from the water bath and vented out the fan. This combined with the fact that you are trying not to boil the ethanol makes the process quite safe.
5. Strain, titrate, and store.
When you are finished with the extraction you will be left with about 1oz of green dragon tincture. Note that one ounce of the alcohol has evaporated.
Now you should test your eyedropper. In my test 34 full droppers equaled one ounce of liquid (this is a little less than one gram of liquid per dropperful as 29g equals 1ounce).
The liquid should be dark green and smell like cannabis.
6. Dosage.
Everybody is probably different. It takes me 1.5 hours to feel the effects of eating cannabis. Similarly this tincture also takes 1.5 hours to take effect.
I had tried a tincture someone had made using the cold extraction method with the same amount of cannabis and found that 5 droppers did pretty much nothing.
Using my Green Dragon technique I find that one dropper will bring effects on in 1.5 hours and last 5 hours with 1.5 hours of lingering aftereffects.
Two droppers gave me a "spiritual dose" (as strong as any brownie I ever had). Effects lasted 7-8 hours with lingering effects for 2 more hours.
. One more reason I'm growing my own with all you fine people helping me out...Anyway, here you are:
This is a simple and efficient 4 Step process.
Ingredients:
1/8oz high quality cannabis
2 oz Bacardi Rum, 151 proof
Process Summary:
1. Chop cannabis very fine (coffee grinder works great)
2. Place in a shallow pan (pie pan with aluminum foil works great) and bake at 325 degF for 4-5 minutes.
3. Remove from oven and place cannabis and place in 2 oz of rum (use a small wide mouth mason jar)
4. Simmer in a water bath for 20 minutes. Maintain temperature of the rum/cannabis mixture between 150 degF to 165 degF.
5. Strain the mixture and store.
Dosage:
One eyedropper is very nice. Two puts you in space. But you should self-titrate. Effects take about 1.5 hours to begin (at least in myself) and lasted for 5 hours (1 dropper) to 7-8 hours (2 droppers).
Process details, references and rationalizations:
1. Chop the cannabis, more surface area gives means a faster and more efficient extraction.
2. Bake the cannabis.
In whole-plant cannabis, THC content is expressed as THCA (tetrahydrocannabolic acid) prior to decarboxylation into THC, which takes place when cannabis is heated during cooking, and smoked or vaporized ingestion. THCA is a mild analgesic and anti-inflammatory but does not have good affinity with our CB1 receptors, so in order to make a THC-rich tincture that has many of the same therapeutic effects as smoked ingestion (including rapid absorption, quick relief and ease of self-titration), we must convert the THCA in the plant matter into THC prior to extracting it through an alcohol soak. (from Vancouver Island Compassion Society http://thevics.com/cannamist.htm)
THC vaporizes at about 380 degF. We want to heat the cannabis to convert THCA to THC, but keep the temperature under 380 degF. That is why 325 degF is used. Between four and five minutes your oven (and house) will start to smell very strong. This is the time to remove the cannabis from the oven. Notice also that there is considerable misinformation regarding heating the cannabis. It is true that you don't have to heat it to extract both THC and THCA, but the amount of THC in whole plant preparations is relatively small compared to after decarboxylation of the THCA. So if you want to maximize the strength of your tincture you must heat the cannabis prior to extraction.
3. Use the highest proof alcohol available. In my area this was Bacardi 151. The more alcohol the more efficient the extraction will be.
4. Simmer the mixture.
This is one of the areas that seems to be most debated. Many recipes call for placing the cannabis (unbaked of course) into the alcohol and waiting 2 - 6 weeks. The main concern with heating the alcohol is that it is "explosive" (not exactly true...it is however flammable).
The purpose of the simmering is to heat the alcohol mixture to improve extraction rates and efficiencies. Heating during extraction increases the motion of the molecules (basic physics/chemistry) and drastically decreases extraction times. The boiling point of pure ethanol is 173 degF (78 degC). We will use the water bath to heat the rum/cannabis mixture to just below the boiling point of ethanol.
Heating the alcohol mixture can be done very safely using a hot water bath. You will need an accurate candy or quick read thermometer. Place about 1 inch of water in a wide, vertical-edged pan (9" wide x 3" high). Bring the water to a low simmer. The rum/cannabis mixture should be in a small (1 pint) mason jar. Do NOT cover the jar.
Put the thermometer into the mason jar and place into the simmering water bath. Bring the temperature of the rum/cannabis mixture to about 165 degF (I maintain it between 150 degF and 165 degF). You want the alcohol mixture to be just barely moving (not boiling, but showing active convection within the mixture). If the mixture starts to bubble too much, just turn down the water bath.
You should have the oven fan on high. You will notice that any alcohol fumes are mixed with water vapor from the water bath and vented out the fan. This combined with the fact that you are trying not to boil the ethanol makes the process quite safe.
5. Strain, titrate, and store.
When you are finished with the extraction you will be left with about 1oz of green dragon tincture. Note that one ounce of the alcohol has evaporated.
Now you should test your eyedropper. In my test 34 full droppers equaled one ounce of liquid (this is a little less than one gram of liquid per dropperful as 29g equals 1ounce).
The liquid should be dark green and smell like cannabis.
6. Dosage.
Everybody is probably different. It takes me 1.5 hours to feel the effects of eating cannabis. Similarly this tincture also takes 1.5 hours to take effect.
I had tried a tincture someone had made using the cold extraction method with the same amount of cannabis and found that 5 droppers did pretty much nothing.
Using my Green Dragon technique I find that one dropper will bring effects on in 1.5 hours and last 5 hours with 1.5 hours of lingering aftereffects.
Two droppers gave me a "spiritual dose" (as strong as any brownie I ever had). Effects lasted 7-8 hours with lingering effects for 2 more hours.
hustlers7Ambition
Well-Known Member
that sounds nice... so u heat just the weed in a pan in the oven first? then add alc and heat on the stove?. say my stove has only 1-10 settings idk the temperature....
tahoe58
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SlowcalaToker
Stranger
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thanks man....'preciate this info....have to give it a try....cheers!
Stranger
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thanks man....'preciate this info....have to give it a try....cheers!
Heruk
Well-Known Member
funny shit
i had some weed sitting in glycerin for about half a year now
some homade hookah shisha
i never heated and shook it though
i used glycerin
weed
2 drops theraputic grade wintergreen essential oil
2 drops theraputic grade lemon essential oil
smokes great but i gotta fix my hookah
bought a cheap one for 55 bux and the stem broke
i dont think a blunt would be a gook way to smoke hookah shisha
I hate blunts anyway
Chalise baby
heavenly water
i had some weed sitting in glycerin for about half a year now
some homade hookah shisha
i never heated and shook it though
i used glycerin
weed
2 drops theraputic grade wintergreen essential oil
2 drops theraputic grade lemon essential oil
smokes great but i gotta fix my hookah
bought a cheap one for 55 bux and the stem broke
i dont think a blunt would be a gook way to smoke hookah shisha
I hate blunts anyway
Chalise baby
heavenly water
apasunee
Well-Known Member
alright fdd,,, Im sorry if Im off on the time, but I was wondering if its been 3 or 2 days,,, I know Im being a little pushy,, and believe me I cant stand people that are, but Im not,,,, just high as ten muthafrs,,, you know how it is,, remember Im the one who got you your bunny slippers,lollollol,, have you tryed any yet,,,, Its all good,, sorry everybody targets you,,, but,,you know what they say,,, Its lonely at the top......this site rocks..........
i checked my temp after 12 hours. it was 127 degrees. it reeks of canna and has turned dark brown. i lowered the heat and gave it another 36 hours. so it had 48 on heat. i think i may try some tomorrow. it will separate enough to get a few drops out if i let it sit awhile. i'm going shopping tomorrow so i will try to find some type of press.