Grow Room Maria's Micro Meds: CBD strains from Dutch Passion, Sweet & Dinafem

[Exotic Flower]

If you freeze the buds and alcohol first you get much less chlorophyll

Thanks for this little nugget of wisdom.
Will try on the next cook!!!

 

[Eclectic Elle]

Interested to hear more about tinctures that others have made!

I did Green Dragon, Maria. I didn't document it but my experience is over on a tincture thread: https://www.autoflower.org/threads/tincture-thread.65453/

There was some left over that wouldn't fit in the 30ml bottle, probably 3ml or so, which I took. I was rather unwell for a number of hours LOL. I've tried adding it into hubby's morning milky coffee. 1ml doesn't work, 2ml he can taste it. I need to find something to do with the rest...

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

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[trailanimal]

First RSO* cook successfully completed.
Did the 7g of Sweet Skunk flowers.
Yesterday decarbed at 115 C for 30 min.
(* I'm using the term RSO, though it's not 100% by Rick Simpson's method...)

Used 95% ethanol, food grade.
First wash was 200 ml, mixed for 5 min.
Second wash was 200 ml, mixed for 5 ml.
Into a thin based stainless steel pot.
Strained through cheesecloth.
(Next time I shall add a strain through coffee filter.)

Into the rice cooker, double boiler type approach (not straight in).
Very quickly the ethanol / cannabinoid mix heated and started to boil.
By 40 min or so, the ethanol level was very low.
The last steps move fast, the ethanol quickly boiled off.
Extracted from the pot using a small 5 ml syringe.
Due to sediment (not strained well enough) added maybe 1.5 ml of olive oil.
This should also facilitate ease of application from the syringe.

Total extraction was about 2.5 ml.
I'm figuring strength at: 7 g x 12% to 15%* = 840 mg to 1000 mg THC.
(* That little Sweet Skunk looked really quite potent, minus losses.)
1000 mg THC in 2500 mg total oil, is 40%.
For single minimum dose of, say, 20 mg, should need 50 mg oil.

Testing soon. Was tempted to "lick the spoon", but...
it's late, still have work to do, with busy week of work and social engagements.

Next cook -- either the Honey Peach CBD or the Industrial Plant CBD.
Will be bigger quantity either way. Will add another strain, with coffee filter.
But still prob add oil at the end, to put into 10 ml dropper bottle, rather than syringe.

Love y'all!
MJS

 

[trailanimal]

I am really against solvents remaining in my meds but I cannot get rosin thin enough for using in a vape cartridge. So I have gone to QWET as the least offensive solvent extract. Then I thin it with terpenes. I bought a distiller to recapture the ethanol and make 190 proof ethanol from cheap vodka $8.99 for 1.75 Liters = ~ .7 Liters of 190 proof. I use dry ice to chill the frozen broken up bud and ethanol separately and then process it together for 30 minutes in dry ice shaking every 5 minutes then filter it into the distiller. Then as the ethanol is finished distilling out at 98°C; I open the unit turn it down to about 70°C and stir with a silicone spatula until it is free of water and ethanol. Fresh frozen bud has worked the best for this so far to produce a light golden product. Older cured bud comes out a little dark. It is still good for vaping.

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cool, using distiller to boost regular vodka

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

I can imagine, hahahaaaa!! I still had some work to do that night...
We've kept the pot unwashed for the next cook.
Because I'm using alchohol, it's pretty bitter with the chlorophyll and plant stuff.
I'm sure your chocolate is much tastier!!

My rosin chocolate is surprisingly tasty. I am also working on QWET for vaping. I watched the Dinafem video and I think the missing part to the puzzle is the way they are filtering. I am trying to find out what micron they use?

Maria please don't use Isopropyl alcohol accept to clean up. It is very poisonous to humans.

 

[Exotic Flower]

I did Green Dragon, Maria. I didn't document it but my experience is over on a tincture thread: https://www.autoflower.org/threads/tincture-thread.65453/

There was some left over that wouldn't fit in the 30ml bottle, probably 3ml or so, which I took. I was rather unwell for a number of hours LOL. I've tried adding it into hubby's morning milky coffee. 1ml doesn't work, 2ml he can taste it. I need to find something to do with the rest...

Green Dragon tincture was another thought...
But I don't drink alcohol at all. We used to have a not very good relationship.... ;-)

I tried a tiny amount of my RSO yesterday.
Literally a scrape of the run off goo on the side of the syringe.
Tiny amount.
Could definitely feel it yesterday afternoon.
Not as much as 5 g of my coconut oil.
But this was maybe ... 50 mg.

I'm going to have to be careful with the quantity when I properly test this!!!

 

[Exotic Flower]

My rosin chocolate is surprisingly tasty. I am also working on QWET for vaping. I watched the Dinafem video and I think the missing part to the puzzle is the way they are filtering. I am trying to find out what micron they use?

Maria please don't use Isopropyl alcohol accept to clean up. It is very poisonous to humans.

That's the reason why we went with the ethanol, not the isopropyl, in the end.
The Dinafem Iso vid isn't really a "how to".
But I did see another DIY vid by some lady on YouTube.
She compares ethanol with isopropyl, and the iso looked much clearer.
I think just doing a better strain will help me a lot.
First the cheese cloth, then I use a paper coffee strainer.
Actually, around here, it's a "soy milk strainer cloth" and "paper tea bag".
The paper tea bag is quite large, it's just a big bag that you put tea into, for making tea.

 

[Exotic Flower]

cool, using distiller to boost regular vodka

It's hash oil on buds. ;-)

 

[Exotic Flower]

great lil band so i just had to