Cooking with fan leaves?

[fear.loathingSF]

I did do a bunch of searches but found nothing...

I am about to harvest my first crop and I am unsure if the fan leaves are good for anything. Most of the active goodies are stored in the trichomes, but are there any cannabinoids in fan leaves that have no trichomes? What is the verdict; toss the fan leaves or use them for butter? Thanks!

 

[Gilles&Cheryl]

If the fan leaves do not have any visible trichomes, I toss them out.

 

[fylthevoyd]

Make canna butter...it is a worth while effort instead of pitching them...makes great brownies

 

[Gray Wolf]

Its all good from a medical standpoint!

As long as the plant is flower, even the stems have cannabinoids that can be harvested, just not as much as the sugar leaves or buds. That means it takes more to do the same thing so I use them for an extraction process like BHO or ethanol.

I have also cooked them along with the stems in a cannola oil and used it as a topical for joint pain. The cannabinoids are trans dermal and go right to the pain.

You can also cook with them, but the larger amount required may add too much greeeeeen flavor if you just use it as flour. If you will cook the leaf in oil or butter and then use that in your recipe, it will reduce that problem.

I have also left them mixed with all the other leaves and popcorn, powdered them and pressed them into cannabuttons at 12,000 psi. You would be floored by how smooth they smoke and how much medicinal effect they have.

GW

 

[Onepunchko]

What do you press them with? Ive used them for cooking oil and they work great as long as I have good trim in there too. There is THC in there no doubt.

Its all good from a medical standpoint!

As long as the plant is flower, even the stems have cannabinoids that can be harvested, just not as much as the sugar leaves or buds. That means it takes more to do the same thing so I use them for an extraction process like BHO or ethanol.

I have also cooked them along with the stems in a cannola oil and used it as a topical for joint pain. The cannabinoids are trans dermal and go right to the pain.

You can also cook with them, but the larger amount required may add too much greeeeeen flavor if you just use it as flour. If you will cook the leaf in oil or butter and then use that in your recipe, it will reduce that problem.

I have also left them mixed with all the other leaves and popcorn, powdered them and pressed them into cannabuttons at 12,000 psi. You would be floored by how smooth they smoke and how much medicinal effect they have.

GW

 

[fear.loathingSF]

Thanks for the advice guys. I will try a batch of cannabutter with just fan leaves and see how it turns out. I think I am going to use my frosty trim for hash of some sort if I have enough.

The cannabutton idea sounds interesting, Im gonna look into that; but I doubt I have anything that can press them at 12,000 psi

 

[Gray Wolf]

Thanks for the advice guys. I will try a batch of cannabutter with just fan leaves and see how it turns out. I think I am going to use my frosty trim for hash of some sort if I have enough.

The cannabutton idea sounds interesting, Im gonna look into that; but I doubt I have anything that can press them at 12,000 psi

Easy enough to make out of of a 6 ton hydraulic bottle jack and some scrap metal. You can make the die out of pipe fittings and metal dowel.

 

[kingjames488]

Thanks for the advice guys. I will try a batch of cannabutter with just fan leaves and see how it turns out.

any word on that?

 

[kingjames488]

If the fan leaves do not have any visible trichomes, I toss them out.

just because the leaves arent white and covered with trichs doesnt mean theres none there, and there should still be at least some THC in there somewhere.



"I have also cooked them along with the stems in a cannola oil and used it as a topical for joint pain. The cannabinoids are trans dermal and go right to the pain."

does that work well? what do you do exactly, just fill a pot of oil with leaves and heat it for a bit?

 

[Gray Wolf]

Fill a Crock pot with cannola oil and just toss the reject material in it when you process the rest.

I heat cycle it by turning it on and off as I notice it over the next few months. The last time about six, but that is not magic.

Strain the oil and use as is as a topical. A little messy, but it will relieve some types of pain within a few moments.

GW

 

[fear.loathingSF]

any word on that?

I just made 3 sticks of butter with about 3 ozs of fan leaf, no trim or popcorn buds at all. I used all of that butter to make about 16 brownies and I was very pleasantly surprised with potency. They turned out better than any edible I have had from any dispensary.