using leaf to make cannabutter?

SHOTGUN420

SHOTGUN420

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I was watching a video called cooking with cannabis and they said you would use a cup of leafs to make the butter but they didn't go into detail as to how?

so Would I need to first dry the leaves? Should they be whole or ground? How much butter should I use with it?
 
Don't people use there weed leaf trimmings for butter and hash? I'm fairly new to doing anything with weed outside of smoking it.
 
[video=youtube;tmK7lwcUmw4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmK7lwcUmw4[/video]

Around the 55 second mark he says you can use leaf or bud.
 
Yea I don't know if this is clear but he's saying you gotta use leaves that are right by the buds and look sugary. I haven't made butter yet so I can't answer your questions, sorry. Thanks for the video, I'm going to check it out. A friend makes it with "about $15 worth of weed." But I haven't paid for it in so long I'm not sure how much $15 would be, and the prices have had tripled last time I bought it. What I got for $50 as a kid is now $150. Prices got stupid. I want to make the butter so I can nibble on brownies at work.
 
SHOTGUN420 said:
[video=youtube;tmK7lwcUmw4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmK7lwcUmw4[/video]

Around the 55 second mark he says you can use leaf or bud.
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leaves have very little to no thc content in them so i dont know why you would use them
 
got some leaf thought it was useless but I heard of people using it for hash then seen that vid and thought maybe I could make a little butter with it. I asked here and found out thanks for the replies I understand now.
 
The dispensary down the road says they use leaves. They call it trim. I read in High Times people use trim. Maybe enough of those sugary leaves add up to a decent thc content.

And yea you're right they do use leaves for hash, so it's not possible that they don't have enough thc to get you high.
 
oh my goodness why would you not listen to sunni do you see she has like 7k posts? I have eaten fan leaves like they were spinach or a salad, no effect.............the trim you are talking about is sugar leaf, not fan leaves....when you say "leaves" it means fan/water leaves and they will not make very good hash.......please look up what keif is....ya'll I am not hating.
 
After you trim dried buds or let what you wet trimmed dry minus the fan or water leaves is what you use......personally I clip "leaves" off at the base of the stem including in the bud, allow the remaining bud leaf to form a cocoon around the bud while drying, then trim that when branches snap. Good Luck!
 
hellraizer30 said:
I use leaf trim all the time to cook and bho and that shit will blast you into another relm!
so leaf trim is very usefull
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she said leaves and you said trim, no conflict........just call it trim from now on lol

OP SHOTGUN I'm outie later good luck with your trim butter!!
 
sunni said:
were talking about two totally different things my dear
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I use fan leaves quite a bit. I also use sugar trim quite a bit. I get both from my grower and usually get a lot at harvest. I have a fan leaf guide on another site but it sounds like I need to post it here, too, to educate a few people on getting the most from your crop. If you're getting fan leaf then in this day and age it is highly likely that it came from modern strains which are high in THC. These leaves, at least by harvest time, have quite a bit of thc in them and if concentrated enough it can produce butt-kicking edibles. The leaves taken off early won't have much, but some. I use all of what I take off my plants. You'll have a lot more chlorophyll from the fan leaves than sugar leaf, unless they've been allowed to yellow after flushing before harvest. I make a Green Dragon extraction and then use that to make my butter or oil for recipes. Out of an ounce of fan leaves, I get about 6 fluid ounces of concentrated Green Dragon and 12oz out of sugar trim or bud. I get a minimum 20 servings of potent edibles with each fluid ounce. :eyesmoke:
 
PsychedelicSam said:
I use fan leaves quite a bit. I also use sugar trim quite a bit. I get both from my grower and usually get a lot at harvest. I have a fan leaf guide on another site but it sounds like I need to post it here, too, to educate a few people on getting the most from your crop. If you're getting fan leaf then in this day and age it is highly likely that it came from modern strains which are high in THC. These leaves, at least by harvest time, have quite a bit of thc in them and if concentrated enough it can produce butt-kicking edibles. The leaves taken off early won't have much, but some. I use all of what I take off my plants. You'll have a lot more chlorophyll from the fan leaves than sugar leaf, unless they've been allowed to yellow after flushing before harvest. I make a Green Dragon extraction and then use that to make my butter or oil for recipes. Out of an ounce of fan leaves, I get about 6 fluid ounces of concentrated Green Dragon and 12oz out of sugar trim or bud. I get a minimum 20 servings of potent edibles with each fluid ounce. :eyesmoke:
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read the bolded. that is what i ment. i know what i know i know what youre saying why is everyone jumping down my throat?
you can certainly "educate" me. but you cannot teach old dogs new tricks lol
 
sunni said:
read the bolded. that is what i ment. i know what i know i know what youre saying why is everyone jumping down my throat?
you can certainly "educate" me. but you cannot teach old dogs new tricks lol
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I'm an old stoner and we never would think about tossing the fan leaves, even the early ones, and the quality of the seeds and lack of growing knowledge in those days was always questionable. I wasn't knocking you. You're correct about the terminology, trim and leaf being separate animals and your quote is just a springboard to give an example of that yet show there is a use for it in edibles. The education I was referring to was those who say it's useless. It's not the first time I've run into that. Don't get me wrong, if I had a choice between sugar trim and fan leaf, I would definitely take the trim. I'll post a guide for those who might be interested. Sorry for any misunderstanding. I happen to be one of those old dogs.:peace:
 
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