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[Agemon]

I aim for a perfect extraction every time. I got pretty close with my last attempt! 1 ounce flower to one cup of oil, 1200 mgs, for me that is pretty strong.

Have I mentioned my brownies kick ass!?!?!?!?!?!

 

[Archiweedies]

I use the MB machine and One ounce per cup of coconut oil wasn’t very strong for me. Two cup minimum so I dumped a couple ounces into that project and never made decent medicine. Maybe I made a mistake? Decarb was done with Magic Butters decarb box as well and a laser temp gun to ensure accuracy.
Last harvest was paltry, hopefully my current grow will give me more to play with for edibles and hash.

 

[Agemon]

I use the MB machine and One ounce per cup of coconut oil wasn’t very strong for me. Two cup minimum so I dumped a couple ounces into that project and never made decent medicine. Maybe I made a mistake? Decarb was done with Magic Butters decarb box as well and a laser temp gun to ensure accuracy.

Last harvest was paltry, hopefully my current grow will give me more to play with for edibles and hash.

@Preston9mm made an extraction by recombining the same oil with fresh weed, but you should be careful, you can end up wasting buds/ trim. There is only so much phat in one cup of oil...

I don't use a machine, I just grind, soak, boil, baked and get baked.


BTW: you got a high tolerance...


Here's a link to the cooking journal, not sure if you've been in there.

 

[InTheShed]

I have it my notes - referencing DocBud - that 20ºC is perfect soil temp during growing. That’s 68ºF .

I figure clones and seedlings must need higher temps or there wouldn't be a market for seedling mats!

Top of the morning to ya mr.Shed hope you don't mind if I jump in and follow from here again as your journal is one of those if you miss a couple days well the bus will come round type of thing....haha
I see the Candida's are coming along nicely though, I've considered getting it but I ended up going with a bubba Kush which I quite enjoyed as it was a very mild euphoria only just noticeable but it put me right at ease and I was more at peace and a over all sense of well being I found.

Sounds like a great strain for you Smeegol! I'm growing the Candida because I need something I can make straight CBD oil from so I don't have to keep buying it online.

I love the shape of that plant it is so nice. I want to learn how to make edibles also, you do a lot of that on this thread. And that was some impressive math you were doing back there made me think for a minute. Good luck on the transplant today.

Thanks Mushie! Head on over to the Chronic thread and get cooking!

I'll play guinnea pig. I bought the ingredients to do it "Martha's way" and also your recipe (although I'll be doing both ways with the same batch of coconut oil). I don't know that I'll get them all done today since the daughter is playing in a concert I am going to this afternoon. A gummy "test off" would make for a good Saturday night though.

Tell your daughter good luck from us and enjoy! Let us know how it went .

InTheShed is our Einstein

Thanks AB! But I'm just a guy with Oldbear's spreadsheet. He did most of the heavy lifting.

Hey Shed! Finally caught up - for the moment. I made some MB machine butter. If you’d be so kind to help me on the math portion? I used 16g in 2 cups of clarified butter. The THC was listed as THCa 25% (it drives me crazy they break it down this way now) but total cannabanoids was listed at 27%. Final product is in 2Tbs cubes with a total of 25Tbs. Can you approximate how much per Tbs for me?

Using 25% as the THC
16 grams buds
473.18 ml butter
85% efficiency
Gives you butter at 7.19mg THC/ml butter
1 tablespoon = 14.7868 ml, so 1 tablespoon = 106.3 mg THC (7.19 * 14.7868)

I found this although it does not reference THC specifically it is a 1/2 cup to 1 ounce break down.
Hope this helps!

That gives you grams of weed per liquid ounce, I use mg of THC per ml to do dosing.


Back later! Enjoy your Saturday .

 

[farside05]

Hey Shed! Finally caught up - for the moment. I made some MB machine butter. If you’d be so kind to help me on the math portion? I used 16g in 2 cups of clarified butter. The THC was listed as THCa 25% (it drives me crazy they break it down this way now) but total cannabanoids was listed at 27%. Final product is in 2Tbs cubes with a total of 25Tbs. Can you approximate how much per Tbs for me?

My Excel Spreadsheet over HERE has a calculator tab for edibles, if you have Excel.

 

[farside05]

Tell your daughter good luck from us and enjoy! Let us know how it went .

Martha's recipe makes more Jello mix than I had molds for, so I got a lasagna pan too that i'll try to cut into cubes. The extra volume from the extra juice also dilutes them a lot. Since its not all in molds, I have to rough guess on how many little bears the extra would have made. I'm guessing my 176 bear molds only used half the mixture. In that case, it takes about 15 bears to have a 10mg dose. I may be low balling the amount of THC in the bud in those calculations. Breeder says 19% and I only used 12% in my calculations.

 

[Heavenly Hybrid]

Using 25% as the THC
16 grams buds
473.18 ml butter
85% efficiency
Gives you butter at 7.19mg THC/ml butter
1 tablespoon = 14.7868 ml, so 1 tablespoon = 106.3 mg THC (7.19 * 14.7868

Thanks Shed! That’s seems so high! I thought I made some weak butter since I only used 16g/2 cups. Might have to mellow it down some more when I bake it.

 

[TheMadDabber]

Happy weekend to ya uncle shed! That peyote critical is looking really sharp. Cant wait to see her bloom out soon. Hope you get a few good naps in this weekend. Have a great day

 

[InTheShed]

My Excel Spreadsheet over HERE has a calculator tab for edibles, if you have Excel.

Looks like great work farside! Is the solvent table related to saturation points of the oils? And is there a reason you don't use those numbers in the final calculations?

I'll have a detailed look later this afternoon but right now I have a ton of up-potting to do!

Thanks Shed! That’s seems so high! I thought I made some weak butter since I only used 16g/2 cups. Might have to mellow it down some more when I bake it.

Weak or strong depends on what you're making. If you're spreading a cup of butter across a batch of cookies it's different than using the same cup in 9 brownies (not that a brownie mix calls for a cup of butter but you get the idea!). Also, 25%THC is high so that accounts for a lot of that strength.

Happy weekend to ya uncle shed! That peyote critical is looking really sharp. Cant wait to see her bloom out soon. Hope you get a few good naps in this weekend. Have a great day

Thanks Them! Come back tonight and see all the transplanting I get done today . Then I can nap...

 

[farside05]

Looks like great work farside! Is the solvent table related to saturation points of the oils? And is there a reason you don't use those numbers in the final calculations?

I'll have a detailed look later this afternoon but right now I have a ton of up-potting to do!

The solvent table is a reference chart for use in the calculations. You input the value for the solvent in 3rd line down in the Data Inputs section, so it is being used in the calculations.

The values in the solvent table came from a study I came across. The company used the same strength weed (all lab tested) and infused several different types of oils/fats. Then they had all the infusions tested to see how efficient each type of oil/fat was at extracting the THC from the weed. Avacado and butter pull out about 10% more THC than the other oils/fats.

Here is a link to the study.

 

[BeezLuiz]

Yep, that's the same place where I get my reference percentages from. Also, they claim that if you decarb in an oven at 240F for 40 minutes, you're gonna get approx 85% decarb efficiency. A toaster oven at 220F for 60 minutes is more like 70%, and of course if you buy their unit you get a 98% decarb efficiency.

 

[Amy Gardner]

figure clones and seedlings must need higher temps or there wouldn't be a market for seedling mats!

do you leave the heat mat on all the time?

 

[BeezLuiz]

The solvent table is a reference chart for use in the calculations. You input the value for the solvent in 3rd line down in the Data Inputs section, so it is being used in the calculations.

The values in the solvent table came from a study I came across. The company used the same strength weed (all lab tested) and infused several different types of oils/fats. Then they had all the infusions tested to see how efficient each type of oil/fat was at extracting the THC from the weed. Avacado and butter pull out about 10% more THC than the other oils/fats.

Here is a link to the study.

Looking at your spreadsheet, I see you use 83% for EVOO. Keep in mind that during the study, they wanted to see the efficiency if they had crammed as much herb as possible into just one ounce of oil. So... when they infused 4 grams of weed into 1 oz of EVOO they got 83% infusion efficiency. However, when they only added 2 grams of weed into 1 oz of oil, they got 96% infusion.

 

[Amy Gardner]

Looking at your spreadsheet, I see you use 83% for EVOO. Keep in mind that during the study, they wanted to see the efficiency if you crammed as much herb as possible into just one ounce of oil. So... if you infuse 4 grams of weed into 1 oz of EVOO you will get 83% infusion efficiency. However, if you only add 2 grams of weed into 1 oz of oil, you will get 96% infusion.

Great info beezluiz - I have always used 1g per ounce of oil to keep it easy to remember. I’m making medicinal dosing oils so don’t need it super strong. It’s good to know that even if I double it, which I’m considering doing, my infusion ratio will still be good

 

[BeezLuiz]

Yes, it seems if you add one or two grams per ounce you get the best infusion rates. Any more than that = diminishing returns.

 

[InTheShed]

The solvent table is a reference chart for use in the calculations. You input the value for the solvent in 3rd line down in the Data Inputs section, so it is being used in the calculations.
The values in the solvent table came from a study I came across. The company used the same strength weed (all lab tested) and infused several different types of oils/fats. Then they had all the infusions tested to see how efficient each type of oil/fat was at extracting the THC from the weed. Avacado and butter pull out about 10% more THC than the other oils/fats.
Here is a link to the study.

Sorry I missed where that data went...like I said, I'll really go over it later tonight. It looks like a great spreadsheet for edibles. I would still have to use Oldbear's for capsules because I'm dealing in ml there, or I could add a line to yours that converts teaspoons into ml. I'd love to ask a ton of questions about the other sheets though, like where the info on the AN Study sheet came from, what "Change in Demand" means, and what the difference is between "Average Plant" and "Optimal Fertilizer" is. But I'll PM that to you so the rest of the folks here don't wonder that the heck we're talking about!

I posted that link a few weeks ago in SweetSue's oil thread so we're all reading the same thing!

Yep, that's the same place where I get my reference percentages from. Also, they claim that if you decarb in an oven at 240F for 40 minutes, you're gonna get approx 85% decarb efficiency. A toaster oven at 220F for 60 minutes is more like 70%, and of course if you buy their unit you get a 98% decarb efficiency.

I had loads of problems with that part of their data. I appreciated the oil efficiency ratings but once they start telling me how bad my oven decarb is (even though they only tested one temp and time per method) they lost credibility.

do you leave the heat mat on all the time?

I do, but it's on a thermostat set for 80º F, and that's right at the bottom of the cups where they touch the mat. Also, it's almost never 68º in my house until May or June.

Looking at your spreadsheet, I see you use 83% for EVOO. Keep in mind that during the study, they wanted to see the efficiency if they had crammed as much herb as possible into just one ounce of oil. So... when they infused 4 grams of weed into 1 oz of EVOO they got 83% infusion efficiency. However, when they only added 2 grams of weed into 1 oz of oil, they got 96% infusion.

Wait, so they're efficiency numbers are bogus too?

 

[TheMadDabber]

Have you all ever heard of sous vide? Probably a dumb question but I was watching that cooking with cannabis show on hulu and one of the chefs usedit as a method of decarb. Grind up herbs into a vacuum sealed pouch and decarbed in water. It's supposed to retain more flavor of the product while allowing for a more even and precise decarb... I totally forgot to pass that info along but someone should try it!

 

[InTheShed]

I did watch a video on a guy who decarbed in vac-sealed pouches in a sous vide cooker thing. I think he set it at 200º just to mess with the folks who wanted to try in boiling water without springing for one of those cookers! What's the time/temp combo they use and do they give the efficiency of their method? If you're going to tout a decarb method on a TV show I want lab tests to show it works. I'm sure it's in the budget!

 

[TheMadDabber]

Lab results. And proof that 1 hour 40 mins at 200 is 100% decarb

 

[Pennywise]

Nice tutorial Dabber, less waste of materials now.