Flower What to do with those strains that just don't "work"

[BudGuy]

Yes, you should pretty much always decarb cannabis flower before cooking or infusing it.

Sun sounds like a bad idea to me - it's heat that causes cannabis to decarboxylate (removing carboxyl groups from various compounds to convert them into their active therapeutic forms), not light. The Sun won't give you anywhere near enough heat, and different aspects of the light like UV can cause the compounds to break down and degrade in other ways.

Better to stick it in the oven to decarb, then mix it with alcohol (the higher proof the better, you may not get the best results with regular 40% spirits), and let it sit in a cool dark place for a few weeks, shaking it periodically, before filtering it through a cheese cloth and bottling it.

Although I have to say that mixing what is probably the world's safest and most therapeutic drug with the world's most dangerous and most damaging drug rubs me up the wrong way a little, generally goes against your prescription recommendation and it can be expensive to get a high proof alcohol.

I prefer infusing to MCT oil for cooking/baking/making gummies with, or if you make it potent enough you can use the oil as a tincture instead which is closer to what pharmacies sell in the form of their own oils.

But even that comes with the risks associated with saturated fat intake and excess calories. I think vaping is really the only risk-free way of consuming cannabis! Everything else has its pitfalls.

 

[Lank72]

I've made it many different ways over many years, in the sun / out of the sun, different cannabis products (flower, resin, keef, stalk, leaves, combinations), pre-heated in oil vs just straight in and have landed on this according to my needs and preferences based on the resulting products (and effects) of each method

I was asked to share my way and have done, If someone else knows better and wants to do it a different way then all power to them

 

[BudGuy]

I've made it many different ways over many years, in the sun / out of the sun, different cannabis products (flower, resin, keef, stalk, leaves, combinations), pre-heated in oil vs just straight in and have landed on this according to my needs and preferences based on the resulting products (and effects) of each method

I was asked to share my way and have done, If someone else knows better and wants to do it a different way then all power to them

Yeah it's like anything else with cannabis, there's all sorts of rules and methods you can follow to squeeze every last drop out of it, but most of it's not really necessary if all you want to do is get medicated with minimum fuss and a method like yours does that, especially if it's just waste weed and a spare half bottle of gin you were never getting around to anyway lol.

And decarbing in the oven does stink the house out for days and for that reason isn't even a possibility for many, so sticking it on the window ledge and letting time do what it can is probably the most pragmatic way for most people.

 

[Weedbie]

I personally don't activate it first, but if you want a full on high you probably need to as sun might not be enough

Maybe try two both ways and see what you prefer

Yeah a clear spirit and leave / shake every day is what I do

May look into this but like how much would you add to say 70cl bottle?

Or maybe I start small and till up a little 50ml

 

[Lank72]

Yeah it's like anything else with cannabis, there's all sorts of rules and methods you can follow to squeeze every last drop out of it, but most of it's not really necessary if all you want to do is get medicated with minimum fuss and a method like yours does that, especially if it's just waste weed and a spare half bottle of gin you were never getting around to anyway lol.

And decarbing in the oven does stink the house out for days and for that reason isn't even a possibility for many, so sticking it on the window ledge and letting time do what it can is probably the most pragmatic way for most people.

Definitely, it's only during MC where I both have a steady supply so don't have to treat it like treasure, and get duff / meh strains which you don't want to vape, that I've started using flower at anything greater than 1 small bud in the mix.

Always used to mainly be a way to reclaim anything from stalk, leaves, etc but now it's mostly the duff bud that goes in

 

[Lank72]

May look into this but like how much would you add to say 70cl bottle?

Or maybe I start small and till up a little 50ml

Unfortunately this old timer didn't keep a recipe book I'd personally grind up and bang whatever in, and take the approach of 'if it's strong don't have too much' - responsbile drinking advice there!

I'd supplement that by saying I drink very little alcohol these days, so I'd kind of prefer that I wouldn't have to have loads of it to get the effect

Based on the method I've described, it's less of a THC high and more an overall body glow and feeling of wellness (assuming you end up with a clear orangey tincture)

Maybe start off small as you say with a 50cl or something, and put like 2.5g in - if you don't like the results and want to abandon it in future you've not ventured much, and if you make some real potent stuff at least you'll only have made a little of it and can't get too carried away

 

[BudGuy]

May look into this but like how much would you add to say 70cl bottle?

Or maybe I start small and till up a little 50ml

Just decide what THC strength you want per ml and do the maths from there.

For example if you're using a 20% strength THC (200mg THC/g) and you want to make a tincture that's say 20mg/mL, then you're going to need a ratio of 1g bud:10ml alcohol.

 

[BudGuy]

Definitely, it's only during MC where I both have a steady supply so don't have to treat it like treasure, and get duff / meh strains which you don't want to vape, that I've started using flower at anything greater than 1 small bud in the mix.

Always used to mainly be a way to reclaim anything from stalk, leaves, etc but now it's mostly the duff bud that goes in

Yeah I'm still very much in the habit of collecting up my ABV from my black market days lol. Before MC I'd be revaping it in desperation and/or trying to cook with it, as well as getting myself into a total mess trying to get reclaim oils out of my vape, etc.

Now I've got 75 g of ABV stored up and I'm convincing myself I'll make gummies with it but yeah, with the constant supply of fresh herb it's difficult to getting around to caring about it lol. I'll perhaps just store it for a realll rainy day, however long it lasts in storage.

Maybe when the wife sees my medical cannabis bill next month I'll be forced to live off the ABV for the rest of the summer lol.

 

[Weedbie]

atm ive got a good little setup for making the homemade vicks from my abv in slow cooker. the good thing is, it also works as a decent pain relief/muscle balm
the eucalyptus helps mask the smell also

have done same method into butter for a betty crocker special (usually get about 2 packets of mix for 1 block of butter - cant remember measurements off top of my head, but i can grab them.
ps anything with melted butter for this last one, so im not being funny, but i once made a cowboy steak sauce with some abv and bathed the fillet during cooking in the butter also.

 

[Moon]

I have several strains i can not stand: GMO, Bubble Bath, Zour Apples, Modified Gas, Farm Gas, Frosted Lemon Angel, NYC Deisel. I pressed each one into a 'rosin' which made a couple more acceptable, then i got bored in the curing process and mushed them all together, left that lump to cure, and now i have a several gram lump that does not smell much, but tastes revolting, but it now works so wont be wasted now.

 

[Moon]

AVB, using it reminds me of scraping the oil from a hot knife bottle in the old days, fuck that, i pour it into the garden as fertiliser now. However when i hit the state pension next year i may be forced to make cookies with it!

 

[williemed]

I have several strains i could not stand: GMO, Bubble Bath, Zour Apples, Modified Gas, Farm Gas, Frosted Lemon Angel, NYC Deisel. I pressed each one into a 'rosin' which made a couple more acceptable, then i got bored in the curing process and mushed them all together, left that lump to cure, and now i have a several gram lump that does not smell much, but tastes revolting, but it now works so wont be wasted now.

“Tastes revolting” what about doing an open decarb to cook the terpenes off then add some you like back in? that’s where my minds gone recently. Mash everything down, do a long open decarb,then bang some back in

 

[Moon]

“Tastes revolting” what about doing an open decarb to cook the terpenes off then add some you like back in? that’s where my minds gone recently. Mash everything down, do a long open decarb,then bang some back in

That is an idea, i was thinking the press at 180c might have decarbed it, but possibly not, some nice tasty terpenes would make it perfectly okay.

 

[DJekt]

I chuck em in my tin and then reluctantly turn to them when I inevitably run out at the end of each month.
Things like grape whatever from Vasco, anything from grow, most curaley

 

[Lank72]

Fresh snowglobe

 

[williemed]

That is an idea, i was thinking the press at 180c might have decarbed it, but possibly not, some nice tasty terpenes would make it perfectly okay.

I think a press isn’t enough bro it need a fair while to decarb as far as I know even at high temps you’re looking at least an hour. Peace

 

[Lank72]

Day 6

 

[GrownHealth]

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Day 6

Looking good and I need to get myself up and running using my waste properly and I think my mission for the weekend is to get this sorted

 

[Weedbie]

im too scared to try this, but this is the 1st time ive realised im running really short this month. Even loaded up a dynavap with m y keif stash yesterday and blew my head off to be honest