tincture help

[Drugcheese]

hello,

Ive acquired a qp of schwag and I want to make a concentrated tincture out of it. I grounded an oz in coffee grinder and put in a jar with everclear. I plan to let it soak for 6-7 hours then strain through a cheesecloth and evap most of the ethanol at low heat on the oven. Should I evap all the alcohol and scrape it into a ball and eat it or should i make a liquid? How long should I soak the weed? I don't want it to contain alot of chloyrphyl and other nasty shit but I want it to be potent enough.


thanks
-dc

 

[Drugcheese]

*bump*



can someone help please. can i dry the goo out and vape it or smoke it?

 

[big mike]

heres a link from the aamc..

http://64.112.232.75/aamc/recipes/tincture.htm

 

[Drugcheese]

has anyone tried the sublingual technique? id rather not swallow it will make a maggot puke.

 

[Drugcheese]

would it be best to scrape into a ball of goo after letting all the alcohol evaporate and making a peanut butter cracker or just drinking the liquid?

 

[-StashBastard-]

I have some very powerfull green dragon that was made with everclear.

It burns like hell under the tongue and tastes like cough syrup but it kicks in faster than just drinking it mixed with something.

Unless you really have a problem with the taste I say just keep it under your tongue as long as you can stand then take a drink of something. Repeat as necessary

 

[Guest]

I made some tinctures before ... I'll answere you asap

 

[cooked cook]

fun with tincture

fun with tincture

Hey DC. I'll relate my experiences making tincture.
First off, I use Everclear. When I do make it, I try to make it using good bud whenever possible. After all. It is goin in the mouth
But I understand you're tryin to use the discount bale o buds.

For a while I've been doing it by soaking the weed for a long time(days), but I found that it WILL definintely put a lot of the nasties in(like chlorophyl) that you don't want.
So lately, I've been shaking for only about 5 minutes, and then filtering. If you're using grain alcohol that'll be long enough to dissolve the THC. After all, the folks that swear by ISO extractions claim it comes out best with a quick rinse (qwiso), for the same reason. Less icky stuff.
If it were me, I'd say evaporate 75-90% of the alcohol, but keep it still fluid. I think the ball o goo might be really horrible, and might just kill ya
ok, maybe not... just my cook's opinion that it's easier to consume in liquid form.
As far as the sub-lingual method. I've done it(and stll keep some in a glass dropper bottle), it works, but it's pretty much like having a mouth full of jet fuel. *cough* So a quick chaser is in order.
What I typically do is put a does of tincture into a shot glass...we're talkin quarter shot max, and pour in something with a strong taste like orange or cranberry juice, and just down it. The funny thing is, this stuff is so loaded with trichs, that it doesn't really seem to mix well with cold liquids. It kinda bubbles for a second, and then stratifies into 2 layers . So again, just down it. And you'll STILL need that chaser. no matter how clean I try to make it, it still tastes pretty bad
Doesn't stop me from ingesting it
Happy extracting!
cc

 

[Guest]

Y0 da Drugcheese,

I posted yesterday evening a nice recipe for a cannabis tincture.
…and now I don’t see anything of a post anymore… O0o~Wee … think I smoked too much
Eh ahum …

Cooked cook was quicker and it seems to be he’s a good cook. Stick to his advice and you’ll get a nice THCextraction.

Have fun.


_ ° 0 _

 

[NKOTS]

any suggestions on how to evaporate the everclear/weeed solution?

somebody asked if this shall be done in an oven but everclear is extremely flammable so i doubt this is the safest way....

will letting it sit in an open jar for a few days in room temperature do the trick or do you guys have some other method?


secondly, is there any recommended ratio of buds (trim) to everclear? throwing too little will not make a potent solution and throwing too much will constitute a sheer waste of weed material?

stay cool and thx for answers in advance

 

[cooked cook]

more...

more...

My ammateur speculation tells me that their is only a certain ammount of THC that any one ammount of grain alcohol can dissolve. I'd rather be wasting Everclear than buds, so I want to make sure all the THC is dissolved off of those buds. I think once the alcohol is already filled with extracted goodies, it's solvent power may be lower. Which is to say I think that it's better to use too high an alcohol to weed ration than too low. I hope this makes sense, as I'm baked Having a week tincture won't be a problem once the evaporating happens. Then you'll have a lot of THC in a smaller volume of booze.
Generally I try to use twice as much alcohol by volume than weed. Give it 2-5 minute shake in a lidded jar, dump through a coffee filter, and into the evaporating dish.
As far as evaporating it, Like any evaporating solvent fun, I take ALL that outside for safety. Usually just bring out a pan of boiling water, and set your booze to be evaporated above that, preferably in a low wide pyrex dish. More surface area = faster evaporation.
If you don't care about how fast it evaporates, what I've done is have 1 main tincture jar, and 1 working jar. Every week I'd take 2 grams of bud, fold it into a piece of coffe filter, and evaporate it intpo a half cup of Everclear. Pull the weedy filter pouch, and puta clean coffee filter over the top of the mason jar (how many coffee filters do ya think we have cook?!??!) and sscrew on the band, but not the lid. This way it can evaporate, but dust n bugs n stuff won't fall in your tincture hehe. A half cup of Everclear will take a week or so to evaporate in this way.

Safety tip- have fun, but don't get blowed up. LOL
cc

 

[Drugcheese]

for evaporating i was thinking more of putting into a pan on a stove and evaporating it on a lowest heat until most of the ethanol is gone. i want to get least alcohol into the solution as possible. as i understand it alcohol is the carrier for thc and that's how it's absorbed through the GI tract. so if i scraped it into a ball of goo and ate it would it not work since most of the alcohol is gone?
for those of you who use the sublingual method how long do you leave it under your tounge before spitting it out?

 

[Drugcheese]

also what do you all think about letting the ball of goo dry out and smoke it ? would that work better than ingestion?

thanks

 

[cooked cook]

the main reason I recommend putting it in a pan of water and taking it outsideto evaporate, is that evaporating alcohol indoors will fill your home with flammable (and stinky)gas, and could be a potential fire hazard. Much safer to evaporate outdoors.
When I've tried sublingual tincture, I've let it roll around in my mouth for about a minute, which was about all I could stand (again...mouth full o jet fuel hehe), at which point I chased it down the hatch with another beverage.
Couldn't really give you advice on eating the goo ball, as it's not something I've tried. As far as smoking it, yes you could evaporate all of the alcohol and smoke the end product. Essentially, it's alcohol extracted hash oil.
Happy and SAFE extracting!
cc

 

[Drugcheese]

thanks cooked cook

im going to evaporate with a fan. i wonder if eating the goo ball would work?

 

[Drugcheese]

i just made some hash and let it dry under a fan for 2 days....it still had that gooy consistency.... i let it dry some more and smoked it in a j. nice clean high...this roach is gonna be killer

 

[Guest]

good idea man.