Dried Leaf THC Content
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Hobbes
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Usually the smaller leaves for butter, oil, hash, tincture. The larger fan leaves can be used for butane honey oil or Iso oil, but they don't have as much THC in them as the leaves closer to the bud. If you have a vaporizer you can use the smaller leaves and get a great high, much easier than hashing them first.
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Hobbes
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Green Dragon is basically a warm extraction using alcohol. Here's a quick blurb and a link to a thread with 3 different alcohol and 1 glycerin extraction methods.
"Traditional or Warm Method
The old fashioned (and effective) way to make tincture from trim, leaf or "shake" is to grind the plant material to expose surface area. A fine grind is not needed and will just make the tincture cloudy. A rough chop will do. Most folks cant afford to use kief or bud for tincture but may have leaf handy. If so, this is the way to go. Use ethanol as described above in the same proportions. The key difference is that in this preparation the materials are kept warm (not hot). Light must be avoided.
Place the ethanol and chopped cannabis in a large glass Mason jar. Shake at least once a day. Place the jar in a brown paper bag or otherwise shield the jar from light. Leave in a warm spot (near a window) for 30-60 days. The mixture will turn a very dark green. Strain as previously described through cheesecloth. Save the "shake ball" for topical applications.
While this method produces a nasty tasting tincture, it is powerful. It may upset some fragile stomachs. It is recommended that Warm Tincture be used orally in cranberry juice or coffee with sugar. Keep the filtered tincture in light blocking glass jars or bottles in a cool dry place (refrigerator or freezer is fine). The shake ball should also be kept in the freezer. For topical applications, just take out the cold shake ball and apply a few drops of fresh tincture to the cloth then hold it on the affected area for a few minutes with gentle rubbing."
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Here's a post by bubbleinthebrain on making glycerin tincture with 7 grams of weed and 1/2 a pint of glycerin. Good if you have a small amount.
"Here's my follow-up from my recent extraction:
Used a half-pint of glycerin, and 7 grams of cheeba (ground super fine)
Let it sit for about 5 weeks under my couch.
Strained it.
Ate one tablespoon, waited 15 minutes, and was thoroughly baked.
A success!
It kinda tastes like cornsugar, that's been subjected to moldy weed for several weeks, but that's probably not far from the truth. Later, I poured another tblsp into a glass of apple cider, and it was mighty tasty.
Anyways, it's effective, and a hell of a lot better than choking down green drag.
I'd recommend it.. "
https://www.rollitup.org/cooking-cannabis/125137-alcohol-tincture.html
https://www.rollitup.org/cooking-cannabis/124769-glycerine-tincture-24-hours.html
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"Traditional or Warm Method
The old fashioned (and effective) way to make tincture from trim, leaf or "shake" is to grind the plant material to expose surface area. A fine grind is not needed and will just make the tincture cloudy. A rough chop will do. Most folks cant afford to use kief or bud for tincture but may have leaf handy. If so, this is the way to go. Use ethanol as described above in the same proportions. The key difference is that in this preparation the materials are kept warm (not hot). Light must be avoided.
Place the ethanol and chopped cannabis in a large glass Mason jar. Shake at least once a day. Place the jar in a brown paper bag or otherwise shield the jar from light. Leave in a warm spot (near a window) for 30-60 days. The mixture will turn a very dark green. Strain as previously described through cheesecloth. Save the "shake ball" for topical applications.
While this method produces a nasty tasting tincture, it is powerful. It may upset some fragile stomachs. It is recommended that Warm Tincture be used orally in cranberry juice or coffee with sugar. Keep the filtered tincture in light blocking glass jars or bottles in a cool dry place (refrigerator or freezer is fine). The shake ball should also be kept in the freezer. For topical applications, just take out the cold shake ball and apply a few drops of fresh tincture to the cloth then hold it on the affected area for a few minutes with gentle rubbing."
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Here's a post by bubbleinthebrain on making glycerin tincture with 7 grams of weed and 1/2 a pint of glycerin. Good if you have a small amount.
"Here's my follow-up from my recent extraction:
Used a half-pint of glycerin, and 7 grams of cheeba (ground super fine)
Let it sit for about 5 weeks under my couch.
Strained it.
Ate one tablespoon, waited 15 minutes, and was thoroughly baked.
A success!
It kinda tastes like cornsugar, that's been subjected to moldy weed for several weeks, but that's probably not far from the truth. Later, I poured another tblsp into a glass of apple cider, and it was mighty tasty.
Anyways, it's effective, and a hell of a lot better than choking down green drag.
I'd recommend it.. "
https://www.rollitup.org/cooking-cannabis/125137-alcohol-tincture.html
https://www.rollitup.org/cooking-cannabis/124769-glycerine-tincture-24-hours.html
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yea i just found out my plant is male. ive smoked the leaves a few times as my post earlier said, but i figure ima make BHO (butane honey oil). never done it before but it sounds like a very good investment. especially for my scrap. everyone remember to dry ur plants out untill they break under pressure. good way to kno when ready. i'll let you all kno how my oil come out. And green dragons are a great way to get a good buzz goin recipe i use is 1 gram per one ounce of everclear altho u can prob vary it a lil to ur taste an tools. it comes on faster then a brownie high but lasts longer then a smoking high its great
chazel
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i know it may seem like a good idea , but the better idea is surely saving cuttings n all the leftovers and firing them through bubble bags . . ( realise they can cost a bit , but shit still a third for what a volcano is wanting) wotever is left chuck it itno ur compost
baked from baked goods is always a nice1 though (Y)
baked from baked goods is always a nice1 though (Y)
OregonMeds
Well-Known Member
Yes hash is made from leaf just as often as it is from bud.
It's an old wives tale that leaves can't get you high or that the thc is weak or gives you a headache. True lightweights can smoke leaves and get high, just as high as smoking bud if they smoke enough.
For those of us with a tolerance, it's best to harvest the trichomes from the leaves to make hash, otherwise you'd have to smoke so much leaf that it'd be impractical.
It's an old wives tale that leaves can't get you high or that the thc is weak or gives you a headache. True lightweights can smoke leaves and get high, just as high as smoking bud if they smoke enough.
For those of us with a tolerance, it's best to harvest the trichomes from the leaves to make hash, otherwise you'd have to smoke so much leaf that it'd be impractical.
chazel
Well-Known Member
In much agreement Omeds! i can see in a decade reefer madness tales circulating again just as much . .
I find myself smoking an inpractical amount of bud due to my tolerence ( and fact its usually shit, wet, early harvest , n the occasional dutchie) hence arriving here!
tryin to save up for a vap , and then save up and move - actually the plan was to ur state , do u know much about green card seekers getting medical green cards?
SH*t head i am , ill stop jacking another mans thread and head over to medical section.
Cheers chaps , and chappettes
I find myself smoking an inpractical amount of bud due to my tolerence ( and fact its usually shit, wet, early harvest , n the occasional dutchie) hence arriving here!
tryin to save up for a vap , and then save up and move - actually the plan was to ur state , do u know much about green card seekers getting medical green cards?
SH*t head i am , ill stop jacking another mans thread and head over to medical section.
Cheers chaps , and chappettes
MARIJUANAMEDMAN
Active Member
Where's the head shop ya' got the pipe at? Cool photo.
Jelliott21
Member
You Take a pound of butter quarters and a ounce of your finest herb. Melt the butter down in a medium sauce pan and add a cup of water. then add your bud ground down to a fine fine fine powder and let simmer on medium heat for about thirty min dont let it get to hot or you will kill the thc after you have let it simmer you then filter the plant matter out the best thing to use is cheese cloth. then just put you final product in the freezer the water will freeze and seperate from the butter and all of your thc will have bonded with the butter. This will give you about a Gram of thc per tablespoon of butter.
Shadeslay
Active Member
I kind of prefer the leaf high more in the day time as it's often very mellow and short lived. My stronger stuff is almost like edibles, 1 hit is good for 5-6 hours, that's just to long sometimes. High CBD strains I find have a very similar high, very mild but they tend to last longer.
AWnox
Active Member
Ha , what do you know, another person who does the same thing as me. What I do is get all the trimmings, dry them, cure them and store them. During the week days, specially in my lunch break, I turn on the vaporizer and take a few hits of the cured crushed trimmings and it gives me a very light , pleasant yet not overpowering high that helps me get through the day. Take in mind though that these trimmings are mainly from white strains so they are covered in trichs, other strains might not have sufficient trichs on the trimmings to work the same way but you get the idea. Smoking these trimmings on the other hand for me is TERRIBLE, taste like crap but do work although a lot less than if they were vaporized; you would need to roll up a fatty to get a "decent" high.
Woofpad
Member
having nothing to smoke ive taken the leaves from the girls. ones that were being trimmed off anyway and dried them. crushed them in dust and used them instead of tobacco and yeah. the high was a nice mellow feeling. Well my kids wondered why i was so chilled in the morning getting the school run ready lol.....I like it.....why wouldnt i lol
denisrus1990
New Member
Hello from Russia my dear friends!
I’m sorry for necropost. If someone is wondering if he can smoke dry trim, my answer is yes. Just smoked couple bowls of dried fan leaves and I’ve got pretty nice high and it tastes not bad at all. My ladies are lovely Sativa strain.
I’m sorry for necropost. If someone is wondering if he can smoke dry trim, my answer is yes. Just smoked couple bowls of dried fan leaves and I’ve got pretty nice high and it tastes not bad at all. My ladies are lovely Sativa strain.