Making Butter and Tincture

First off I'm not sure where to put this I didn't see a cooking section but if there is feel free to move this Admins lol but anyway. I harvested a couple plants the other day, ive been saving up all the leaves and stems from this and the last two I harvested, keeping sugary trim in one lot and fan leaves/sugarless trim/stalks separate in another bag. My plan is once they dry and I finish trimming off the rest of the sugartrim, ill decarb that, stick it in high-proof alcohol (unfortunately in Aus finding higher than 80 proof is very bloody hard, ive been to about 5 bottle-os but ive used 80-proof vodka before with proper bud and it seemed to work) and let it soak for a few weeks, meanwhile grind up all the fans,stems etc decarb those and then slowcook some butter with them. Does anyone think this is a good/bad idea, got any ways I could tweak/improve it etc, and also if anyone can give me a rough idea of how much of the sugarless stuff I need thatd be appreciated, one friend reckons you need a pound of leaf to get a good batch but THAT seems excessive.

Stems have zero trichomes, fan leaves have next to none either.

I make both all the time!

I use the frozen Green Dragon method for tinctures using 180 proof Everclear. 1.5 oz of my trim ( which dispensaries call bud buddies) and 1/5 bottle of 180 proof.
Make sure you decarb your trim.
Then I put the trim into a large mason jar and the bottle of Everclear in the freezer overnight.
Combine the two in the AM.. shake the holy living shit out if it for 3-5 minutes and place back in the freezer for a few hours.
Remove and repeat shaking, the strain through cheese cloth and squeeze the remaining goodness from your trim.
Your result will be a golden colored liquid because the green water soluable ( crap bitter tasting) green matter never gets a chance to thaw and leach into the tincture.
I then reduce by 1/2 and it POTENT!

I got Sister to make some oil for me this week. She decarbed 2 3/4 ounces of bud. {break up bud, remove stems and seeds. Bake at 225F for 55 minutes} Mostly CP1, but some CPDA and Peach mixed in. {all from 2016 full seasons} She cooked down the decarbed bud into 8 ounces of coconut oil in a crockpot. I use it baking.

But there are some sections on RIU that deal with this sort of question. You might get more responses there.

https://www.rollitup.org/f/cooking-with-cannabis.56/
https://www.rollitup.org/f/concentrates-and-extracts.130/

BlazinDucks said:

Stems have zero trichomes, fan leaves have next to none either.

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yeah but theres definitely SOME thc in there, ive read that from multiple sources. But that's the main reason I kept them separate, figured the trim WITH trikes is way more potent

petert said:

I make both all the time!

I use the frozen Green Dragon method for tinctures using 180 proof Everclear. 1.5 oz of my trim ( which dispensaries call bud buddies) and 1/5 bottle of 180 proof.
Make sure you decarb your trim.
Then I put the trim into a large mason jar and the bottle of Everclear in the freezer overnight.
Combine the two in the AM.. shake the holy living shit out if it for 3-5 minutes and place back in the freezer for a few hours.
Remove and repeat shaking, the strain through cheese cloth and squeeze the remaining goodness from your trim.
Your result will be a golden colored liquid because the green water soluable ( crap bitter tasting) green matter never gets a chance to thaw and leach into the tincture.
I then reduce by 1/2 and it POTENT!

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Is this with the sugar trim I take it

i make dry ice hash all the time, i don't bother to keep anything i don't see any sugar on. out of a gallon jug of sugar leaves and popcorn buds, i'll get 8-10 grams of hash, which is usually a little more than enough to last me till i get enough trim to make more,

https://www.rollitup.org/f/cooking-with-cannabis.56/

https://www.rollitup.org/f/concentrates-and-extracts.130/

I water cure then do a qwiso, strain and filter then evaporate in a pyrex and de carb the oil in the pyrex. Then I infuse whatever I want infused in that Pyrex. Clean, tasty and potent

TheGrassIsGreenerInAus said:

yeah but theres definitely SOME thc in there, ive read that from multiple sources. But that's the main reason I kept them separate, figured the trim WITH trikes is way more potent

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If you look into Rick Simpsons method, he talked about the other chemicals in MJ like chlorophyl, which he believed were beneficial in addition to CBD, for pro-immuno reception.

I have reused vaporizer grindings in the past with great results. I let them simmer in CLARIFIED butter for up to 4 hours! The longer the better. The key to great tasting cana-butter is clarification or "desalting".