Green Dragon Tincture

Hi again, I wanted to pass some info. I made some rso caps and took the leftover weed and double boiled it for 3 hrs. I put berry and chamiolle tea with it to boil. When done, strained in cheese cloth and in fridge . It didnt taste great, so I added oj and it's really good! Cheers!

 

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You know that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth
She's got a pad down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
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I told her that I was a flop with chics
I've been this way since 1956
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Lol? I gotta start reading the lyrics!

 

Love that song! Whole family sings along with it whenever we hear it!

 

Hmm, I don’t want to bring any confusion, but reading some of the previous posts, I ask my self if I am preparing my tincture correctly.

I decarb 1g of weed (240F for 40mins), grind it to powder to reduce the volume of the buds, pour 5ml of 191 proof alcohol in a shot glass and stir the powdered buds in it for 5 mins. I separate and squeeze the bud powder with a spoon (a little bit tricky and not optimal straining, but it works), then doing a second wash of the powdered bud with additional 3ml of alcohol. The final product is 5ml dropper - some of the alcohol gets absorbed by the powdered bud and some maybe evaporates while processing, I am not sure. The 5ml bottle equals 10 full droppers - 1 full dropper gets me very well baked.



As I don’t evaporate any alcohol, but I powder the bud to reduce the volume, use very small quantities of alcohol and don’t use any filters at all to prevent absorbing (resulting in less final product), is that a good way to approach or do I leave lots of the good stuff behind?

PS: I don’t try to be a smart a**, but the grain alcohol here costs more than 20 grams of good quality shake, so I try to reduce the alcohol costs as much as possible.


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The best way to my knowledge to get more of what you left behind would be to use oil instead of alcohol, not filter, and make a sludge that you can use as is, in food, or better yet in capsules.

 

Capsules are indeed my main weapon but from time to time I need a fast acting medication and tinctures are probably the solution.


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My mct oil infusion, using liquid lecithin, and feco is as quick as tinctures I've made. Other than taste, and the overall cost, (most mct oil is cheaper and easier to source for a lot of us) the process is pretty much the same.

If you filter the sludge you could probably cap the left over plant material.

 

You're not leaving anything behind because you consume the sediment, too, just like you do with the oil capsules. No need to change anything.

 

A quick tip on not leaving things behind...I do filter my tincture...initially I just press it through a potato ricer...then after my second wash, I take and put the whole thing through a coffee filter.

However, I do take the remnants along with any of the gunk from the coffee filter, put 'em in a cereal bowl, and let all residual alcohol evaporate over about a week or so.

Go through and try to pick out as much of the stems and seeds as you can, then put all that remains in a jar.

I factor a standard ethanol tincture extraction at about 75% efficient...just guessing...have no real data to back that up...but that said...if I'm leaving 25% behind in my "gunk"...then it stands to reason, if I quadruple my standard run (14g x 4 = 56g) and make a depletion run using 56g of depleted material...I find I get a pretty nice bottle that tastes terrible...but gets the job done all the same. I'll warn you the 56g soaks the ethanol like it's its job, think pouring water on a pile of sawdust...the dust is going to absorb a lot. You'll squeeze out a lot too, but the loss rate of ethanol on this one is higher than a standard run.

Think of it as buy 4 get one free...and I think we all can agree free is good here!

Now with what's left over *after* my depletion run...I put that in potting soil...so I'm truly using the whole buffalo