Really lazy-ass extraction?

Ok, let me preface this post by saying I do not give a shit about the weed that I want to turn into an extract. It’s either this, or throwing it on the burn pile. I had a few branches break off an already shitty plant in the rain, the flowers are super immature and I basically hung the branches up in the garage and forgot about them. I smoked a big joint of it, just for science, and it did get me high, so I know there’s THC in there but I basically don’t care about the weed because I got better flower on the way already drying.

That said, I want to try a really lazy-ass method for extracting oil that I think might work without much effort:

1) Pick off the buds and sugar leaves, throw them in a bucket, grind them up and pour everclear over it, mash the hell out of the whole thing, and strain the biomass out.

2) Pour the THC-infused everclear into a big glass mason jar with the lid open, let the alcohol evaporate. Smoke whatever oil is left.

All I want to know is, will this work or not? I don’t care about making the highest quality oil, I don’t care about doing it quickly, I’d just rather do something with this dirtweed than throw it away. I definitely don’t want to buy a rice cooker or spend time watching shit boil. I want to stick it in a corner and forget about it.

So, will this work at all or am I missing some kind of crucial step?

I think theres a decarb needed in there somewhere...or it basically stays THC-A which won't get you high...I think, don't quote me on that...lol
Good luck though...I want to try this someday too.

I bought the Slug33 Fat Mac for precisely this reason. Here's some of some chopped out undergrowth that would normally be binned. But I left it lying around to dry and it was still a little damp when I stuffed it into the slug. The result what some dark but deliciously piney rosin. it returned about 40% of what I'd get from top quality bud.

There's no micron bags involved in this so it's perfect for no fuss rosin extract from larf, and it's fun too.

Mak'er Grow said:

I think theres a decarb needed in there somewhere...or it basically stays THC-A which won't get you high...I think, don't quote me on that...lol
Good luck though...I want to try this someday too.

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Thanks for the reply, but wouldn’t it get decarbed when I smoke the oil?

yummy fur said:

I bought the Slug33 Fat Mac for precisely this reason. Here's some of some chopped out undergrowth that would normally be binned. But I left it lying around to dry and it was still a little damp when I stuffed it into the slug. The result what some dark but deliciously piney rosin. it returned about 40% of what I'd get from top quality bud.

There's no micron bags involved in this so it's perfect for no fuss rosin extract from larf, and it's fun too.

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That looks cool but I looked up that device and it costs way more than I want to spend. I’m more of a flower guy so it’s unlikely I’m going to be doing any more extracting. The price of the everclear is basically all I’m willing to spend on this project.

Mrs. Weedstein said:

Thanks for the reply, but wouldn’t it get decarbed when I smoke the oil?

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What do you mean?

Regarding your OP yes, drying the weed, crumbling it by hand, then shaking and straining with ever clear will work. However you'll get a stringy nasty oil. *But* if you purchase some activated charcoal and grind it into a powder and put some in with the herb and ever clear, then that will clean up your oil considerably.

Mrs. Weedstein said:

That looks cool but I looked up that device and it costs way more than I want to spend. I’m more of a flower guy so it’s unlikely I’m going to be doing any more extracting. The price of the everclear is basically all I’m willing to spend on this project.

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Sure but you can buy the 1g slug for not much more than the price of a couple of litres of ever clear, that one only requires a small vice which you might already have. And you'll need a distiller unless you want to throw the ever clear away every time, you'll definitely want the charcoal and you'll need filter paper. Also with the alcohol you'll need to do a lot at once, and so forth. I've done both so I'm talking from experience.

yummy fur said:

What do you mean?

Regarding your OP yes, drying the weed, crumbling it by hand, then shaking and straining with ever clear will work. However you'll get a stringy nasty oil. *But* if you purchase some activated charcoal and grind it into a powder and put some in with the herb and ever clear, then that will clean up your oil considerably.



Sure but you can buy the 1g slug for not much more than the price of a couple of litres of ever clear, that one only requires a small vice which you might already have.

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Thanks, I’ll think about it but I just want to get rid of this shit quick without buying any more equipment for now. As for the decarb, I figured that if I extract the THC from the plant into oil, then smoke the oil, that will take care of the decarb process just like it does with regular flower. I mean, we don’t have to slow roast every nug before smoking it, right? Wouldn’t the oil be the same as a bud? By the same token, couldn’t I just use the oil in a brownie or whatever and then it will get decarbed?

If not, can’t I just slow roast this ditcj weed first to decarb it, then do the extraction by evaporating alcohol at room temp?

Mrs. Weedstein said:

Thanks, I’ll think about it but I just want to get rid of this shit quick without buying any more equipment for now. As for the decarb, I figured that if I extract the THC from the plant into oil, then smoke the oil, that will take care of the decarb process just like it does with regular flower. I mean, we don’t have to slow roast every nug before smoking it, right? Wouldn’t the oil be the same as a bud? By the same token, couldn’t I just use the oil in a brownie or whatever and then it will get decarbed?

If not, can’t I just slow roast this ditcj weed first to decarb it, then do the extraction by evaporating alcohol at room temp?

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Sorry if I added confusion, I was going by memory from a few youtube videos I've seen and reading a few journals, but the old memory isn't what it used to be, so I'm not sure about decarb happening when you smoke it or even when cooked with, but its something to do with time and temp.
If cooking with it you have to cook for 45 mins @ 220 (going by memory again and best to look it up yourself) and if you go higher it can burn and bunch of things like that come into factor...just saved a few links to get me going when I get around to trying this out myself.
Hope that helps some and doesn't confuse anything further...lol
Can anyone else chime in on the specifics on this to help ?

Mak'er Grow said:

Sorry if I added confusion, I was going by memory from a few youtube videos I've seen and reading a few journals, but the old memory isn't what it used to be, so I'm not sure about decarb happening when you smoke it or even when cooked with, but its something to do with time and temp.
If cooking with it you have to cook for 45 mins @ 220 (going by memory again and best to look it up yourself) and if you go higher it can burn and bunch of things like that come into factor...just saved a few links to get me going when I get around to trying this out myself.
Hope that helps some and doesn't confuse anything further...lol
Can anyone else chime in on the specifics on this to help ?

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I realize that reusing the everclear and all that would be less wasteful, but I doubt I will be doing any more extracts in the near future, if ever. So from what you wrote, it sounds like I can just decarb first, then use my lazy-ass extraction method?

Also, i was under the impression I could dip some bud or tobacco in the oil and smoke it. Is this incorrect? I really hate edibles and don’t want to go down that route, would rather just chuck the weed. Just my experience but it seems like you wait 3 hours to get high and then you’re way too high for like 6. I’m sure that’s ignorant but I’m done with edibles. My wife is OK with them so I figure if I could use the oil for both, it might be worth it, but if not, I’d rather just chuck this weed.

Mrs. Weedstein said:

I realize that reusing the everclear and all that would be less wasteful, but I doubt I will be doing any more extracts in the near future, if ever. So from what you wrote, it sounds like I can just decarb first, then use my lazy-ass extraction method?

Also, i was under the impression I could dip some bud or tobacco in the oil and smoke it. Is this incorrect? I really hate edibles and don’t want to go down that route, would rather just chuck the weed. Just my experience but it seems like you wait 3 hours to get high and then you’re way too high for like 6. I’m sure that’s ignorant but I’m done with edibles. My wife is OK with them so I figure if I could use the oil for both, it might be worth it, but if not, I’d rather just chuck this weed.

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Yes I think you got it exactly...went to look quick at a link and decarb first helps hold terps and flavors and after you could loose them if you heat cure it...helps evap quicker...lots of vids on that too I believe.
I used to cover my rolling paper with a bit of oil and wrap up the joint like always...tobacco or what ever you want.
You can even do "knives" with it...or drip a few drop on a smoke heater...kinda like old days hash tokes...tons of ways to consume it...lol

The oil is nothing more than the trichomes minus most of the plant, so decarbing rosin or oil, like herb, is only necessary if you are not going to smoke it.

Mrs Weedstein, while it is possible to do what you're thinking about the results will be FAR from smokable. Unless you either use some type of cryo-extraction(dry ice) with the everclear to limit the amount of chlorophyll the ethanol will strip from the plant material or use activated charcoal and diatomaceous earth to remove the chlorophyll from the tincture. Evaporation of the alcohol from the tincture will give you some nice oil to work with.

It will work fine, but do the extraction quickly and don't mash the buds. Freeze the buds and everclear ahead of time, then add them together in a jar, lid it and shake for a minute (only a minute). Then quickly strain the everclear from the buds with a strainer, and then filter with a coffe filter. Finally pour everclear in a low lipped glass pyrex and let it evap. You can place in a warm water bath to speed up evap. Then use a razor blade to scrape off the oil.

So, is this your male plant that you're gonna do it to, or did you eat all of that already???


(Lol. J/K....)

yeah homie if you're not gonna eat it no need to decarb it will still smoke just fine.

Dougnsalem said:

So, is this your male plant that you're gonna do it to, or did you eat all of that already???


(Lol. J/K....)

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Nah, I’m done with my experiments with male flowers. In the name of science, I’ve decided it’s more trouble than it’s worth!

Thanks to everyone for all the advice — I’m gonna try to incorporate these suggestions while still keeping this as lazy as possible!

Mak'er Grow said:

Yes I think you got it exactly...went to look quick at a link and decarb first helps hold terps and flavors and after you could loose them if you heat cure it...helps evap quicker...lots of vids on that too I believe.
I used to cover my rolling paper with a bit of oil and wrap up the joint like always...tobacco or what ever you want.
You can even do "knives" with it...or drip a few drop on a smoke heater...kinda like old days hash tokes...tons of ways to consume it...lol

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Fuck knives what a blast back to my teenage years

So shit, anyway, I might as well preface this by admitting I didn’t use up all the everclear in this extraction project and so “saved” the rest for “another project” that’s now been completed and turned out quite successfully. (Drunk).

I decided against following the advice of some of our more learned friends and mushed this ditchweed shit up with the everclear pretty well — despite freezing it first — just cuz I figured a lot of the THC was locked up in the immature buds and sugar leaves.

I did follow our learned friends advice by freezing the biomass and adding activated charcoal. Not sure if I did it at the right time but it’s in there. I drank the everclear while conducting the experiment, obviously, so I wasn’t super detail-oriented.

The good news is my hands are sticky AF after mushing this shit up, so there’s got to be THC in there. The bad news is I have no idea what I am doing.

Also, the wife told me at the last moment that we didn’t have coffee filters so I am gonna let this tar evaporate until I can buy some filters tomorrow and strain it again.

Fuck it, you live and you learn. And if worse comes to worse, I’ll just drink that shit for science and report on the effects. Not tonight, though, cuz I might need a nap.