Oils Suggestions on oil

[Lank72]

I always kept oils in the fridge going back years mate

Ok thanks for that. Just wondering what the problem is with it being out the fridge

I dont want to leave mine in the fridge with a young one in the house, everything is all locked away.

Will it go bad do you think?

 

[GreenRed]

AFAIK oil goes "bad" over the course of many months, on room temperature. If you drink your little bottle in 1-2 months, don't overthink it. I never put mine in the fridge but I do finish 10ml of T50 in less than a month, and I do keep it in a dark cupboard.

 

[Lank72]

Thanks, I've been reading about it too and apparently it's just a degradation of terpenes etc over time if it's exposed to air, heat or light, not going to go mouldy and make you ill or anything so I'm fine with it, it's a 10ml bottle and I expect it to also be gone within the month so I'm not going to bother with the fridge

 

[eeze95]

Can we talk about making our own oils @GrownHealth

 

[GrownHealth]

Can we talk about making our own oils @GrownHealth

Yes mate and one or two here are right at the point of documenting how they do it so feel free to share your experience of it
I know @Dooby Doo and a couple of others just bought machines for it for about £60 and have already had success .

 

[Lank72]

I'd love to know a good clean method to make my own

The MC oil I've tried tastes wonderful, if I could use flower that's not too clever to vape and turn into a nice oil instead that would be magic

 

[eeze95]

Yes mate and one or two here are right at the point of documenting how they do it so feel free to share your experience of it
I know @Dooby Doo and a couple of others just bought machines for it for about £60 and have already had success .

Great. I just made some a couple weeks ago for the first time. Very basic method I found on google. I used about 12g of flower roughly. Ground it up and put it on a baking tray in the oven on low heat for like 30-40 mins. I put the flower in about a cup of olive oil. I have a cous cous pot that i used to then heat the oil on low for around 3 hours. Strained as much as I could and was left with a nice amount of oil.

Probably the most basic and crude method lol but it came out great. Really like the oil effects as well. A lot longer lasting with none of the negatives I get from smoking flower. I can feel it through my body a lot more and the effects last all day.

I was looking at the price of the oils and I think it might be cheaper to just make my own with the flower.

 

[GrownHealth]

Great. I just made some a couple weeks ago for the first time. Very basic method I found on google. I used about 12g of flower roughly. Ground it up and put it on a baking tray in the oven on low heat for like 30-40 mins. I put the flower in about a cup of olive oil. I have a cous cous pot that i used to then heat the oil on low for around 3 hours. Strained as much as I could and was left with a nice amount of oil.

Probably the most basic and crude method lol but it came out great. Really like the oil effects as well. A lot longer lasting with none of the negatives I get from smoking flower. I can feel it through my body a lot more and the effects last all day.

I was looking at the price of the oils and I think it might be cheaper to just make my own with the flower.

Probably the sort crude way I'd go about it starting out again and when it gets good results I wouldn't even be bothered about the taste or anything like that and the amount of THC/£1 doing it this way compared to buying it as oil will be pretty staggering .

 

[Lank72]

Great. I just made some a couple weeks ago for the first time. Very basic method I found on google. I used about 12g of flower roughly. Ground it up and put it on a baking tray in the oven on low heat for like 30-40 mins. I put the flower in about a cup of olive oil. I have a cous cous pot that i used to then heat the oil on low for around 3 hours. Strained as much as I could and was left with a nice amount of oil.

Probably the most basic and crude method lol but it came out great. Really like the oil effects as well. A lot longer lasting with none of the negatives I get from smoking flower. I can feel it through my body a lot more and the effects last all day.

I was looking at the price of the oils and I think it might be cheaper to just make my own with the flower.

Thanks for sharing, I have turned soft pollen hash into oil before using a very similar approach. I used those vegetable-based capsules to put it in so I didn't have to taste it

 

[eeze95]

Probably the sort crude way I'd go about it starting out again and when it gets good results I wouldn't even be bothered about the taste or anything like that and the amount of THC/£1 doing it this way compared to buying it as oil will be pretty staggering .

I ended up roughly between 250 -300 ml of oil and a layer of like edible flower that slipped through the strainer (need to get a better sieve or cheesecloth next time). Maybe used £80 of flower and a cup of olive oil. It defintely carried well. I had maybe a half of a teaspoon last night at 8 and I woke up this morning full of energy. No THC groggy hangover that I get with smoking.

Most of the flower I used was actually the balanced blue dream at only 8%THC with a few grams of the sitka legends haze cant remember what its called now for the life of me. Still was very potent tho.

 

[GrownHealth]

I ended up roughly between 250 -300 ml of oil and a layer of like edible flower that slipped through the strainer (need to get a better sieve or cheesecloth next time). Maybe used £80 of flower and a cup of olive oil. It defintely carried well. I had maybe a half of a teaspoon last night at 8 and I woke up this morning full of energy. No THC groggy hangover that I get with smoking.

Most of the flower I used was actually the balanced blue dream at only 8%THC with a few grams of the sitka legends haze cant remember what its called now for the life of me. Still was very potent tho.

Funk Petals or Kims Sweet Diesel I'd imagine but the main thing is the result and it sounds like an improvement on just smoking so It's just working out how many doses you have in total but I reckon compared to MC oil your absolutely quids in as with £80 worth of oil there ain't much THC in comparison.

 

[eeze95]

Thanks for sharing, I have turned soft pollen hash into oil before using a very similar approach. I used those vegetable-based capsules to put it in so I didn't have to taste it

Nice. Yeah the taste was a bit strong. And the bathroom stinks of weed everytime I need a shit.

 

[eeze95]

Funk Petals or Kims Sweet Diesel I'd imagine but the main thing is the result and it sounds like an improvement on just smoking so It's just working out how many doses you have in total but I reckon compared to MC oil your absolutely quids in as with £80 worth of oil there ain't much THC in comparison.

Yes it was the kims sweet diesel. Yes I might try one if the cheaper oils to see how it compares and to get one of the prescription droppers I can put my oil in. But going forward I think Ill just keep an eye out for some nice reduced flower and make my own oils.

 

[Bayo]

I’m going to make some this evening.

I have MCT oil, 1000mg/ml CBD oil, flower, AliExpress debarb / infusion machine.

I figure to make 100ml of 25t/ 5c I need:

95ml MCT oil, 5 ml CBD oil, 10g flower (approx 25%)



Run to decarb at 45 mins, infuse for 90 mins? Is that long enough.

Is 100ml viable or do I need more for the machine to work properly?

All input welcome. I’m at work until 8:30 then will have a bash when i get home.

 

[Lank72]

I think you need to strain it after perhaps through a muslin as well as the strainer in the machine, so some oil will likely get lost in the muslin, so might need a bit extra to account for that if you want to end up with 100ml

 

[Bayo]

The machine has a metal strainer that the bud sits in so hopefully none lost in muslin. Some will stick in the flower though won’t it. Maybe an extra 5ml to account for it?

 

[Bayo]

When I next talk to my MC doctor for review, I want to say how effective the oil has been, but it will look odd that I’ve stopped ordering it.

What is the legal status of working with the flower? Is it still all legal if the oil / food is kept / consumed at home?

Could talking to the doctor about processing the flower cause me any problems?

 

[Lank72]

The machine has a metal strainer that the bud sits in so hopefully none lost in muslin. Some will stick in the flower though won’t it. Maybe an extra 5ml to account for it?

Yeah that's a good shout too - let us know how you get on, and whether you think you need the muslin or not

I've just had one of the machines delivered and am just waiting for some hemp oil to arrive

 

[Lank72]

When I next talk to my MC doctor for review, I want to say how effective the oil has been, but it will look odd that I’ve stopped ordering it.

What is the legal status of working with the flower? Is it still all legal if the oil / food is kept / consumed at home?

Could talking to the doctor about processing the flower cause me any problems?

I'm going to tell my doctor if this works and I end up using it regularly, I bet they will tell me they can't recommend it for various reasons, and then ask me if it's any good

I heard that you are fine to change the format of your medication, the tricky bit might be if you take it out the house and it doesn't look like the container says, I would keep these things at home

 

[Bayo]

Ok, so I got some results!

100 ml of MCT oil, 8g of Gorilla Glue, 2g Liberation Lemon Cake and…



About 70 ml in the end and this is just using gravity, care and time as a filter rather than a muslin.

It’s tastes waaaay fresher and nicer than the bottles on prescription.

I’ve yet to add the CBD as I need to recalculate the balance, but let’s just say it is very effective too! I took it late last night and slept right through. At the weekend I might take a ml in the afternoon to try and get a feel for it’s strength.

I figure this has cost me £65 in materials, £127 including the decarb / infuser V £200 for medical equivalent.

It was quite fun too!