Cannabis Tincture Extraction (Recommendations?)

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visceraplaster

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Hey guys,
I have a question about a cannabis tincture extraction.
I followed directions from a couple sites so this is what I did.

1 quarter bud (grinded) mixed with twice the amt. of bacardi rum 151 (highest alcohol content i could find in a small bottle).
Mixed together and let sit for 2 weeks. I shook and swished the bottle up every day.
The extraction was pretty week and now have added about a gram more bud and it has been sitting for an additional 3 days now.
I am willing to let it sit for longer. Is this what it takes? The longer the stronger?
I was reading up a little more about heating it up and doing some heat extraction on the stove.

Does anyone know if what I can do at this point to make this extraction more potent?

Please help!
 
Beazy88

Beazy88

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http://hightimes.com/grow/subcool/6668
I was just gonna tell you to google this but it was easy as hell to get to so here you go,This is what i plan to do eventually,whenver I finaly find some glycerine,I have made multiple batches of it made with vodks but wheew its rough though,I use quality smooth vodka but Im a jackdaniels and budlight person so I just DONT like it lol,I even got a little spray bottle so I could just squirt it under my tongue,it wasnt to bad I could totaly feel the buzz,sitting there smoing and squirting playing xbox and shit before you know it your fuckin stoned! lol.But hope That helps you man,If not just google cannabis glycerine tincture,Your bound to find Something....
goodluck man.
 
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visceraplaster

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Thats cool, but I am already involved in an alcohol extraction and this link is specifically for a glycerin based extraction.
I will try a heat method somehow and hopefully make it more concentrated, just have to figure out how the hell i do this before i waste my time and money that ive spent already.
Any ideas in regards to further extracting from an alcohol based mixture is welcomed. Thanks!
 
Beazy88

Beazy88

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ohh alcohol my bad, I do that method from time to time but im wanting to get into the glycerine base for taste purposes. I make it mostly to use while im smoking and what not,I like it but I couldnt imagine using it alone! So you used 1 quarter of bud or a 1/4 measuring wise. I didnt measure myn but i put around 2oz of dank ass trim in a regular mason jar and filled it up pretty damn high,then use Svedka vodka* something like that. which is strong and pretty smooth for a vodka anyways...but I filled the jar up to maybe a inch from the top and i shook it and sat it in a dark place,and just shook it every day or two after that for I dont know...3-4weeks then i drained it.It was dark a fuck in the right light you could tell it was green but overall t looked black liek super dark tea.I meen it was good man I can tell theres cannabis in there but I dunno man...Id rather save my extra bud for making butter or hash. Thats why I wanna try the glycerine base just to see if I like it any more then the other,I know its harder to get a full yield from it though.
 
Texas(THC)

Texas(THC)

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2 weeks doesn't sound like enough time for natural decarboxylation.
60 days is more like it for that method

too make it stronger you can consider adding kif, bubble or bho
or re run the alcohol with a fresh batch of bud

the preferred way to make a alcohol tincture is to do the cold method aka QWET extraction
http://skunkpharmresearch.com/qwet-extraction/

this will give you a tasty potent tincture
 
qwizoking

qwizoking

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I didn't read the comments so this might have been said....

But this is all wrong...
Tincture in the cannabis community specifically refers to a glycerine (sugar alcohol) extraction thats readily absorbed sublingually. This is because of its increased polarity helping to cross the mucous membranes..this extraction is applied with a dropper and held in the mouth..it has certain advantages over medibles(I won't get into right now) but because of the increased polarity and the thick less aggressive nature of glycerine it must sit in the weed for an extended period of time.. you have combined tincture and green dragon recipes..ethanol will extract all the goodies within a few minutes .

Yea that's not enough time for a natural decarb (which is most efficient) whatever route you go about it, make sure you get it decarbed
 
qwizoking

qwizoking

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Well.. technically tincture means alcohol based extract..but when WE talk about tincture we mean sublingual drops under the tongue using the sugar alcohol glycerine.. an ethanol based tincture is usually known as green dragon. Its really all stupid names to differentiate like wax shatter and pressed hashish. But I think the names are important because the techniques used for each method are so different ..I think that's what happened here, was he going for green dragon type ethanol based extract or was he trying to make a sublingual extract....imo it seems he mixed the 2 possibly out of confusion, who knows.. I just realized its a pretty old thread
 
frizzlegooch

frizzlegooch

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does seem that way , or at least he made only a very small amount of green dragon.
anyways, cool stuff i'd like to try a glycerine tincture one of these days..
 
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alwaysvaped

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I like glycerine tinctures and mine is super easy to make. I use 1/4 cup of glycerine and 1/8 cup of good bud, ground and decarbed and pressed to measure. I put the 2 into a half pint canning jar and seal it. I then put it into a crockpot with the appropriate amount of water, not to float the jar. I leave the crockpot on low for atleast 8 hours, shaking the crap out of it whenever I remember. The tincture amount pressed out fills my blue eyedropper bottle up over half way so I top it off with good scotch or rum to thin out the thick and sweet mixture. It tastes better and I think gets into your system faster with the alcohol. The key is to hold it under your tongue for several minutes, if you dont, its more like an edible.
 
a9ymous

a9ymous

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alwaysvaped said:
I like glycerine tinctures and mine is super easy to make. I use 1/4 cup of glycerine and 1/8 cup of good bud, ground and decarbed and pressed to measure. I put the 2 into a half pint canning jar and seal it. I then put it into a crockpot with the appropriate amount of water, not to float the jar. I leave the crockpot on low for atleast 8 hours, shaking the crap out of it whenever I remember. The tincture amount pressed out fills my blue eyedropper bottle up over half way so I top it off with good scotch or rum to thin out the thick and sweet mixture. It tastes better and I think gets into your system faster with the alcohol. The key is to hold it under your tongue for several minutes, if you dont, its more like an edible.
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That sounds similar to something I tried a couple of years ago called Mars Drops (posted by a nurse who went by MarsRN or something like that). I didn't know about decarbing then so the results weren't very effective but they were definitely tasty (used rum & a little vanilla extract). Want to try doing a glycerine/alcohol experiment again when I have enough to play with, perhaps soon.
 
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