PeeJay's Neophyte Breeding Adventure

2 pts good rye whisky. 1 pt cannabis glycerin tincture. Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a Morello cherry. If you don't have a Morrelo cherry I suppose one of those bright red Maraschino's will do. It will still be tasty after it marinates in the beverage. A good slow-steeped for a couple of months glycerin tincture made from sweet buds and sugary trim has similar sweet herbal notes as the sweet vermouth in a classic Manhattan Cocktail. Decarb after the steep. As posted above the cocktail is the invention of a dude who has carcinoma in his hip area. He started making them on a whim after I gave him tincture to try it out. Been brutal in the pain department. He roughs it out all day and then settles in for a Cannhatten and a little couch time. Dude is pretty tough. He doesn't suck Cannhattens down like they are water. He likes the results much more than a dilaudid. No constipation.
 
Definitely. Narcotics stop hitting the pain way too early and leave you constipated. We traded the oxy for cannabis. Had a friend who really got results from oxy, but Dale got next to nothing except constipation. Mix that with dialysis and it's a killer, literally. The cannabis took him beyond the pain so he could feel normal and participate with life.

Thanks PeeJay. I'll blog it so I don't forget where to find it. Need to make some tinctures, I can see.
 
PeeJay said:
2 pts good rye whisky. 1 pt cannabis glycerin tincture. Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a Morello cherry. If you don't have a Morrelo cherry I suppose one of those bright red Maraschino's will do. It will still be tasty after it marinates in the beverage. A good slow-steeped for a couple of months glycerin tincture made from sweet buds and sugary trim has similar sweet herbal notes as the sweet vermouth in a classic Manhattan Cocktail. Decarb after the steep. As posted above the cocktail is the invention of a dude who has carcinoma in his hip area. He started making them on a whim after I gave him tincture to try it out. Been brutal in the pain department. He roughs it out all day and then settles in for a Cannhatten and a little couch time. Dude is pretty tough. He doesn't suck Cannhattens down like they are water. He likes the results much more than a dilaudid. No constipation.
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SO you aren't using sweet vermouth at all or bitters in your cannhatten and you think the taste is similar? Interesting.
 
SweetSue said:
Definitely. Narcotics stop hitting the pain way too early and leave you constipated. We traded the oxy for cannabis. Had a friend who really got results from oxy, but Dale got next to nothing except constipation. Mix that with dialysis and it's a killer, literally. The cannabis took him beyond the pain so he could feel normal and participate with life.

Thanks PeeJay. I'll blog it so I don't forget where to find it. Need to make some tinctures, I can see.
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Yep, Oxy and constipation go hand in hand. Elderly folks and constipation is a terrible thing and it can be an emergency room visit or hospital stay
. I wish the doc's that prescribe that crap would have just one bad episode of that side effect, WHILE they are suffering the pain it's prescribed for, so they know what they're dishing out to these poor folks and properly forewarn them.

Yeah, and cannabis is a dangerous drug...........right...uh huh....:hmmmm:
 
Been inspecting the indoor DarkStar for mold daily. I can actually get in the tent with it, something that wasn't even concievable when the Cheese was in there too. The plant is starting to look pretty ratty - forgot to take a whole-plant pic. The buds look great. Rock hard they feel like pine cones. Getting close...

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Danged straight they look great!
Wish my pine trees would grow those kinds of pine cones. :tokin:
 
Not much room in there, Denise, You'd have to get rid of your pets...

Last night I tried a sample nug that was cut from the DarkStar last Wednesday. It is REALLY good producing the sleepy narcotic high I value it for. One thing I noticed because I was drying Cheese at the same time is that it never lost it's powerful pine/fuel aroma as it dried. The Cheese faded hard in the aroma department to the point of getting grassy and is only now starting to bring on the cheese funk after a few days in jar - despite the fact that it reeked to high heaven when it was chopped. The DarkStar didn't do that.

The trichomes do not show much in the way of amber, but there is nothing clear anywhere. The plant started setting flowers on July 6th so 11weeks under 12/12 and ten weeks of flower today. There is a little minor foxtailing going on but really not much else. She is screaming, "chop me daddy! chop me now!"

I have some time today... Mulling over a cup of coffee. She may come down presently.

I did grab a couple of whole plant pics but they are crap.

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Oh my gooeyness! Chop her daddy! :laugh:
 
I did. I whacked her down good. Didn't take any pictures because I had to work quick and didn't want to get resin all over the phone. Sadly, I found two rotten collas... Other than that it looks good. I want to make a ton of tincture with this so I was throwing lots of good stuff into the tincture collection but there should be a similar amount of well trimmed smokables as I got from the cheese. Pictures eventually...

The rot thing has me a little worried. Arguably it is more humid inside here in the summer with swamp coolers being effective in dry climates but still...

If it hadn't been so packed in the tent it probably wouldn't have happened. Gotta remember ordering the 4x4 was a whim and those two got crammed in there after vegging outdoors for 12 weeks.

The greenhouse is awful crowded. I should get in there and open things up. I think I'll wait another week and let the material that gets removed make more viable resin. A seven weeks material removed will be decent for extract or something. I don't think I have much choice but to remove whole branches.

In the mean time, the climate out there is pretty good. 10:00 am headed for a high in the low 80's with humidity dropping to about 30%. Supposed to be like this all week.

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PJ, I'm curious your tincture recipe and process if you don't mind sharing.

A good amount of what's growing in my greenhouse will go to that, I've experimented but would love to hear how you do it.

Sorry about the rot, that's a bummer when you open a big one up and find mush.

I'm sure I'll lose a couple.... Reason for the quantity ;)

Enjoy your harvest! Thank you!
 
Hey PJ, just a little follow up from my previous post. I think I'll be harvesting a few plants, perhaps just branches a bit early. Due to many reasons.

I'm wondering if I'm making tincture or oil, if I should freeze those buds right away. Or, go through a normal dry/cure.

Thanks, PeeJay!! :Namaste:
 
Medman, I use dry high quality trim and small buds and fill pint sized jars about 3/4 full. Vegetable glycerine is added and mixed in to make a sludge. Let the jars settle for a day or so after mixing and check them. When they settle there should be a 1/2" or so layer of glycerin on top with little material in it. Add more glycerine or weed as needed.

After that I leave the jars in a cool dark place for at least two months giving them a good shake a few times a week.

For decarb I put the jars into a pressure cooker/ caner. It gets up to 238 degrees. Full pressure for about 40 minutes works great.

After decarb I let the jars sit for another week or two and then strain the tincture through several layers of cheesecloth squeezing as much glycerine out of the mix as possible and put it into dropper bottles.

The tincture has a strong complex sweet flavor that most people find pleasant but I have given some to one person who said it tastes like cough medicine.

I get glycerin from an herb store - not a cannabis dispensary, a store that sells all kinds of healing herbs and whatnot. They sell it in bulk from a huge container and it is cheap. They also sell dropper bottles in many different sizes.

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PJ I know this is a stupid question but since I don't know the answer I gotta ask...:confused: What is the difference in the tinture and the RSO... I have everything in the house now to make the RSO... honestly just trying to get the nerve up to do it... but what you do is a hell of a lot easier looking to me... it takes a lot longer your way but not near the odds of mucking it up... I think I am going to try my first batch with the last of the harvested girls from under the Spider16.... If I throw all that is left from that grow... (it has been in freezer) there will be a couple of zips I think and if I totally muck it up I won't freak... If I muck up my Jack Herer, Mataro Blue or NLxBB... that would be tragic...:thedoubletake:.....:circle-of-love:
 
Denise, RSO is a stronger extraction. With RSO alcohol is the solvent that removes the good stuff from the plant matter. The alcohol is then evaporated off so all that is left is the oil from the plant. With a glycerin tincture there is still lots of glycerin mixed in with the plant oils. It takes a much larger volume of tincture to get the desired effect than RSO.

I've never made RSO but I've watched online tutorials about it. It doesn't look that scary. Give it a go.
 
oh, I missed the second part of your question Mass. I use dried material that hasn't been cured... I load trim into the freezer fresh. I remove the trim from the freezer and let it dry before making the tincture. It sort of cures over the time it is in the VG. It's fun to watch it gradually change color and the aroma develops over time.
 
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