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    Hot oil bath and decarbing

    No. Between then and now I decided to quit using cannabis completely for a while. The withdrawal was pretty fierce: much worse than the SSRI Withdrawal Syndrome I'm dealing with now. It just seemed time to clear as many chemicals as possible out of my body, esp. since I have a medicine journey...
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    Hot oil bath and decarbing

    I didn't realize that Costco butter wasn't "pure." No big deal--I've not experienced the degree of loss you did--but good to know. I'm liking coconut oil a lot better, anyway, and today I'm finally going to make some MCT oil-based edibles. As for IPA and mangoes, I'm not a fan of alcohol (can't...
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    Hot oil bath and decarbing

    Soon, possibly today, I'm going to try an extraction with MCT Oil, which consists entirely of Medium-Chain Triglycerides. These do not go through the main digestive process. but are small enough to pass directly into the bloodstream and thus to the liver, which does all sorts of wonderful things...
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    Hot oil bath and decarbing

    Not as long as many, but I majored in organic chemistry (no degree), so I approached this in the same spirit. I'm going to be working with adding various terpenes (using essential oils) to the finished oil to see if I can change the effect. I've already verified that lemongrass oil taken orally...
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    Hot oil bath and decarbing

    I decarboxylate and extract into coconut oil in one step. I use a mason jar (guaranteed heat proof, but only use a wooden stirrer!) inside a small stainless steel container with a perforated spacer at the bottom for the oil bath. (I found it at a thrift store for a couple of bucks.) I do NOT...
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    Using poly sheeting to prevent whitefly

    Has anyone here ever used non-UV transmissive poly sheeting (the ordinary stuff from a hardware store) as a whitefly and thrip preventative for outdoor grows? I was alerted to the possibility by an article on the does and don'ts of greenhouse construction that noted, as an aside, that such...
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