Making hash, Oil, Tincture, THC Pills and Butter

I am an idiot. Yesterday I made the two batches for the experiment, plus another for me to use this weekend.

To make a long story short, I ended up mixing up one of my experimental batches with my batch for this weekend.

The batch that wasn't going to get any heat is fine. It's put away in the back of a closet to soak. But I screwed up the one that was getting the stove treatment and the long soak.

I'll report on the effects of the batch I didn't screw up. I really wanted to be able to give a head to head comparison of the two methods.

Since I'm all out of the bud I was using for the experiment, there will be a delay before I can do it again. The bud I have right now smokes too well for me to want to experiment with it. I have another plant finishing up that looks like a good candidate for experimentation. I think it will be ready for harvest next week.

Sorry for the delay. I'll try to be less stoned next time I try to continue my experiments.

what about bhang?

bhang,maybe ive got the wrong word for what im talkin about lol,it wasnt pronounced bhang,more like bong,with an o sound like born,if that makes any sense, i have never made it myself but have watched someone else do it,pretty easy to do, the guy got a bottle of full cream milk,put it in a big pot, added about a oz oz1/2 dry as bud,and then simmered it on a very low heat,like bathwater temp, for about half an hour with a lid on it,them stuck it back in the milk bottle,he didnt filter it just poured it in and stuffed some of the bud from the pot into it till the milk made it upto the top,them stuck it in the fridge,i had a glass of it with him 2 days later and i remember wishing i only had half a glass,was very strong body stone,abit like taking morphine,it was was alot stronger than any cookies ive ever had and i usually eat 2, it looked kindof like a lime milkshake,and smelt like a bud and a glass of milk would if you smelt em at the same time lol,im not sure if he shook it or turned it upside down between watchin him make it and drinkin it,i wouldve thought the milk would vseparate from the fat in the milk but it hadnt,he just put a tea towel over the neck of the bottle to filter it

i have made a tea out of ground fresh roots,tasted like earl grey,sort of felt a bit of body there but it was probably just psychosomatic lol,did taste nice tho

jimisimmortal said:

what about bhang?

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I posted a couple of 'bhang' recipes on page 2 of this thread jimi.
Check it out - https://www.rollitup.org/cooking-cannabis/166882-making-hash-oil-tincture-thc-2.html

thanks mammath i woulda repd ya but yeah gotta spred some love lol

Jester88 said:

thanks mammath i woulda repd ya but yeah gotta spred some love lol

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Cool mate.
Hey what's up with this country of ours?
My buds going to be dry soon and I want to make a tincture but the only Vodka I can find is only 37.5% alcohol?
Don't we get the really strong shit down under?
Do you think that's strong enough to use as an extractor?

theres blue label smirnoff that either 40 or 43 some shit like that
theres also a few stronger ones out there absinth for one.. lol thats part of the reason i used to just make oil and use metho lol.

theres always essences too but i dont really want them either. if you can get strong homebrew or pure alcohol make it with that and dilute it i dunno it may work lol.

but yeah it will work in vodka but its more just the drink (green dragon) best left to sit for a while and agitated. and i think its done with absinth if ya wanna do it propperly.. im not really sure

the more alcohol percentage the more it can extract and saturate itself with...

Great Post Man - alot of new and exciting things to try

no probs glad ya like it

Last saturday night I used the batch that had been soaking. I think it had soaked about a week and a half to that point.

I normally take my tinctures in the morning, without smoking so I can try and judge the effects. This time I took it in the evening, when I was already high. And I continued to smoke. I don't think it really adds much to my original experiment, but I was HIGH. Higher than I've been in quite a while. Much higher than I would get from smoking w/o taking the tincture. Every time I got up and left the room I would forget why I got up to begin with. I got so high that I actually got a little paranoid. That hasn't happened to me in many years. Overall it was pleasant, but I'd say I was almost on the verge of being too stoned.

Since I screwed up the heat vs no heat comparison I intended this to be, I will redo that test as soon as I can. At this point I can't say if it was better or worse than the stovetop batches, but it is certainly worth more testing.

I'm going camping this weekend, so I'll need to make a large batch of tincture to get me through a couple days of no smoking at all. If I have enough bud left after that I will get started redoing my intended heat & a weeklong soak vs. no heat & a weeklong soak test.

Hey HWC, what are your mix ratios you are using again - bud to essence?
Also, how much of the tincture do you consume in a dose?

For my tests I have been using a gram of bud per oz of liquid. I have been taking the whole dose at once. That was with some pretty shitty bud though.

With mids quality bud, a half gram of bud is plenty for a dose. So if I use two grams of bud, I expect to get about 4 doses of tincture. An average dose has me feeling pretty good for about 6 hours. And if I smoke after taking it, I get much higher than normal.

I normally don't measure out the amount of alcohol, I just use enough to cover the bud.

HowardWCampbell said:

For my tests I have been using a gram of bud per oz of liquid. I have been taking the whole dose at once. That was with some pretty shitty bud though.

With mids quality bud, a half gram of bud is plenty for a dose. So if I use two grams of bud, I expect to get about 4 doses of tincture. An average dose has me feeling pretty good for about 6 hours. And if I smoke after taking it, I get much higher than normal.

I normally don't measure out the amount of alcohol, I just use enough to cover the bud.

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Thanks mate. I'm gonna do a few different batches on the weekend myself based on your experiments. I'm just using some single malt whisky I have so don't know if it will be strong enough to extract, it's only 44%, we'll see.

it will still work just not as good as something higher in alcohol percentage.

the problem with normal alcohol for me wold be consumption rate.. drinks and shotties. id say the whole bottle may last about two hours lol. plus id use a bit more than a gram of bud..

i smoke on average 6 grams a day if not more. but i still reckon id pass out a few hours afgter consumption where as normally we'd be drinkin till the morning.

my ratios would be something like this for weak alcohol and tincture.
around 1/3 bottle buds and almost two thirds full of alcohol.(if your making hash oil use the highest you can get ie metho if all else fails... then go around the 50/50 markish)

i wouldnt use trim for a small batch of tincture.. hmmm maybe i would if it was really crystaline coated actually

thanks for all the help again by the way howard ill see if i can rep ya

this is for you

peace out
j88

gottta spread some love
remind me later

Good luck and let us know how it goes. Your whisky should work, but it may take a little longer to extract the thc.

Jester88 said:

i smoke on average 6 grams a day if not more.

thanks for all the help again by the way howard ill see if i can rep ya

this is for you

peace out
j88

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Forget the rep, just let me hang out with you for a day. j/k

Thanks for all the feedback with my little project.