I have heard that it is true that it is possible to extract THC from the whole marijuana plant, is this true? The reason I ask is because I recently chopped down a hermie plant that I have been letting dry, and I was planning to make some cannabutter using the leaves and stems.

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as far as i know you can might not be a lot but im sure the are some trich definitely on a really sticky strain.

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I have made canna butter with a MALE plant! So yes you can do it.

You must use a method that uses water and oil. The water is critical because unless you want to eat 30 brownies to get high you must concentrate the stuff. Basically you do not have a lot of THC but you do have some. The water/oil method allows you to soak a lot of leaves in a little oil.

Your potency = total THC
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total oil


if you use a lot of oil you will have week butter.

make sense?

No stems or seeds everything else is good

why wouldn't you be able to use stem??? a lot of strains have trichome the whole way up stems.

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i think he means dont put stems in the brownies

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oh well i thought they were still talking about making butter and oil....

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If you use the water/butter method (which is required for potent butter from weak weed) then you will need to put the wet weed/butter sludge in to a cheese cloth and squeeze really hard to separate the oil from the weed. If there re stems in it they will rip the cheese cloth. Also the stems being more stiff will soak up oil and be really hard to strain. If you use a steel press then the stems will make fibers that jam things up.

I think for stems you would need to use all stems, or maybe make hash oil with a solvent like alcohol.

Long story short, you may be able to use them, but it will be a big hassle for a little bit of TCH, and you may end up with less butter than with no stems at all. If I had not smoked weed in months and had no chance of getting more good weed, and I had a huge pile stems, I would try a big batch of stem butter.

disgusting. I am thinking a lot of string in my teeth.

Would be a great cheech and chong movie. Maybe they get so many stems in there teeth that they can not talk and get mistaken for foreigners. The movie could be called afgan cheech.

i have some female plants that i stressed like a motherfucker with light leaks high temps over-under watering. so i have some burned up plants with buds that didnt really fill out. so i want to chop everything off the main stem and use it for butter. do you think this stuff will make good butter? what ratio do i use. i want strong butter. what about grinding up all the leaf and stem so no poking the cheesecloth. just powder? will i lose thc during grinding? i saw a lady on youtube who puts the leaf in the oven for 10 minutes to bring the thc out then grinds it.

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