SweetSue's Cannabis Oil Study Hall-Sweet Sue's Candy Cane Cannaoil Capsules

SweetSue;3323581 said:

I harvested two mite-infested plants yesterday. Although I hit the plants with spinosad before harvest, rubbing alcohol spray following harvest and then finished with a bud washing, I'm not confident that some egg wouldn't survive that treatment. I determined to process it into an infused oil, adapting from PsyCro's olive oil extraction process. I have no qualms about ingesting mite remains or eggs. They'll simply become additional nutrients. I let the plants hang to dry from the bud wash overnight and clipped all the blossoms off the branches this morning.

Today I got the Candy Cane processed. I read through the process a couple more times and decided that I could make some adaptations. I started out with 140 grams wet of the Candy Cane, all buds.

I melted 12 ounces of organic coconut oil and used the immersion blender to whirl it all together into a thick paste. Before beginning the cooking I stirred in 2 Tablespoons of liquid sunflower lecithin.

The smaller pot sits in a larger pot filled about halfway with Canola oil. The oil bath heats to a temperature that will decarb, where water won't.

The first thing that needs to happen is to boil off the water contained in the plant material. It won't get up to the temperature necessary for decarb until most of the water is removed. Using a low fire I carefully raised the temperature, shooting for 220 F. It takes continuious attention, stirring every five minutes or so.

It's a good idea to only fill the cook pot halfway, so it won't boil over when it gets to this point. I used a thermometer to keep the temperature between 220 and 230 for two hours. This is a labor-intensive oil. It has a satisfying, savory odor as it stews.

I'll admit, it got to this point and my stomach went into a knot, remembering the tragedy of my lost Dark Devil Auto harvest that boiled over and took me days to clean up.

There are times when the temperature would spike unexpectedly and I had to remove the small pot from the hot oil. In those instances I placed the small pot on some paper towels set on the trivet you can see behind the pot. The pot's sitting in oil, so this has to be done carefully.

By the time the two hours is over the water has boiled off and you're left with this beautiful oil. It'll sit in the fridge overnight.

I'll be processing the second plant tomorrow.

PsyCro takes a couple steps I didn't, and I refrigerate mine to get the anticipated benefit of the lecithin encapsulating the cannabinoids. I used coconut oil since I'll be using the oil for brownies.

My daughter will run out of her CBD meds before my next harvest. She's already out of capsules. I was generous with sharing some a few months ago, never expecting that I was running her short, running us short. It's been almost two months since my last CBD capsules. We'd attempted having her vape the small amount of Med GOM 1.0 she keeps on hand for breakthrough anxiety, but we've discovered that vaping doesn't give her the depth of relief capsules do. It makes me curious that there are clinicians suggesting you can control anxiety with vaping.

Having her run out is a worst-case scenario. She's started having panic attacks again, two within the past two days. She puts on this brave face and says "I've lived with this all my life Mom" but her mother watched her have that second attack in Walmart today, and the pain is deep. I swear I won't let this happen again.

I'm going to make her a pan of brownies with this Candy Cane oil and see if they can offer her any workable relief. Candy Cane is 80% indica with a THC load around 10-15% and CBD at approx. 0.30%. Her sensitivity to THC makes capsules too tricky at this point, so my plan is to cut the brownies into bite-sized bits and work out a dosing schedule that relieves the anxiety without getting her too high. She's pretty much a lightweight and a pan of brownies that would last me a week will last her a month.

Sometimes the weight of being a caregiver is a little painful, isn't it?

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