MCT and everclear question?

Choctaw

Choctaw

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So i want to make tincture. Is it better to decarb then use everclear to extract, let all the alcohol evaporate then add mct as a carrier or should i infuse mct with the decarbed flower, then strain the flower?

going to use 1/2 oz of flower and 1/2 oz of trim. Trying to get 12 potent 30ml bottles That are mct because they don’t burn like the alcohol.
 
DoubleAtotheRON

DoubleAtotheRON

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Here's my experience. I usually start with about 1/2 lb of ground up buds in a small food processor. Cover in Everclear and mix around for a few min. Then strain into another container with a clean (but ready to trash) T shirt. Then take that mix and strain again through a coffee filter. Then take that mix and put it into a rice cooker to boil off all the Everclear. Be careful towards the end of the burn!, start turning it down as it starts to get boiled off. When it gets a little thicker, Ill just put it on warm for a couple of hours while stirring it around occasionally till there are no more bubbles. This will yield about 15 ml of pure RSO. I like to cut it with MCT at 3:1 ... so I'll add 35 ml of MCT and keep it warm and stirred up for a few min. This will get me about 3.5 15 ml dropper bottles. Total of 50ml.

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Choctaw

Choctaw

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DoubleAtotheRON said:
Here's my experience. I usually start with about 1/2 lb of ground up buds in a small food processor. Cover in Everclear and mix around for a few min. Then strain into another container with a clean (but ready to trash) T shirt. Then take that mix and strain again through a coffee filter. Then take that mix and put it into a rice cooker to boil off all the Everclear. Be careful towards the end of the burn!, start turning it down as it starts to get boiled off. When it gets a little thicker, Ill just put it on warm for a couple of hours while stirring it around occasionally till there are no more bubbles. This will yield about 15 ml of pure RSO. I like to cut it with MCT at 3:1 ... so I'll add 35 ml of MCT and keep it warm and stirred up for a few min. This will get me about 3.5 15 ml dropper bottles. Total of 50ml.

Edited for correction of my math.
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so your somewhere around 500mg of thc per ml? Holy crap.
 
DoubleAtotheRON

DoubleAtotheRON

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Choctaw said:
Thanks for the reply, now you got me thinking….. at first i was going for a ml dose, but why not strengthen it to a few drops for a dose.
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Always done it that way. I've done 8:1 when introducing my dad to it for pain and sleep, but he got a tolerance built up, so now he's doing 3:1 and 8 drops per night. He's 76.
 
DoubleAtotheRON

DoubleAtotheRON

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Paddletail said:
If you are only getting a 6% return on making RSO something is off unless you are growing super weak flower
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It varies by what I use. I guess I should have clarified that. I do get better yields with A,B buds , but most of the time I use our lower C buds , trim, because it’s not worth testing anymore. It world cost me more to test it than sell it. This was our last round commercially, so I’m taking a little off the top for the next batch. This business has gone in the shitter. I could be off on my starting material as well... I just kinda eyeball it. I'll weigh it next time.
 
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Fadedawg

Fadedawg

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Choctaw said:
So i want to make tincture. Is it better to decarb then use everclear to extract, let all the alcohol evaporate then add mct as a carrier or should i infuse mct with the decarbed flower, then strain the flower?

going to use 1/2 oz of flower and 1/2 oz of trim. Trying to get 12 potent 30ml bottles That are mct because they don’t burn like the alcohol.
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It will work either way, but the concentration can be higher with the alcohol extraction subsequently mixed with MCT oil.
 
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