Another Tincture Thread - Try it, You'll like it

 
Let's clear it up a little for you.
 
Decarb
freeze cannabis and alcohol for 24 hours separately
After 24 hours, mix the two and shake for 5 minutes.
Place the mix back into the freezer for 2 hours then shake for 5 minutes
Strain the alcohol and place the drained material back into the freezer for 24 hours.
Filter your first run with a paper coffee filter and set aside in a cabinet. 
After 24 hours again, you will do exactly the same as the previous run.
Mix, shake and back in the freezer for 2 hours.
After 2 hours, shake it for 5 minutes and strain it.
Filter the 2nd run and add to the results of the first one. 
Reduce by half or until the potency is to your liking. 
 
You can use natural evaporation. It just takes a little longer.  

 

 
It's pretty easy answering your questions, You6, since you wind up answering them yourself as you write it out. 
 
If I told you exactly, within reason, how little it takes in terms of cannabinoids with a GD, you'd think I was buggy so instead I'll give you something a little easier to figure that will also be a familiar scale like you used there. Your estimate is on the right track but a little off track. 
 
Your early calculations are correct except it's .058g/ml or 58mg/ml. That doesn't sound like a lot but it will knock you out of the park. Your dosage is much lower because there are 39-40 real drops in a ml. There are 20 "USP", or pharmaceutical, drops used for official measure like "caret" is for jewelry. So instead of dividing that by 20, you would use 40 (easier than 39) and your end result would be .0014g per drop or 14mcg and I would recommend 8-10 drops to begin just to give you an idea first. Then you can titrate up or down to find your minimum optimal dosage
 
See, a ridiculously low number but the alcohol is supremely bioavailable and doesn't mess around. If I gave you the numbers for actual cannabinoids instead of whole plant, you'd be shaking your head. It's amazing stuff.
 
However, I recommend that since you are using Blue Dream, you should reduce it to 1.5oz/45ml for a more effective result. Reduction to 2oz gives a potency of 1.75g/oz since it's not quite halfway but a reduction to 1.5oz gives you 2.33g/oz and that can make a difference in an average GD and one that will make you sit up and take notice, especially in a high percentage Sativa. 
 
It will last for several hours although it's shorter lived than if it's ingested. It starts almost immediately using a sublingual/buccal administration so it ends a bit sooner than if ingested.  

 

 

 
Your math is correct but it your dosage will increase as your tolerance increases. It's important to use GD judiciously to keep from jacking your tolerance so high that nothing works anymore, like a lot of dabbers I know. It makes a huge difference in yield if you're only getting one dose per ml instead of 4-5. Your titrated level will be your minimum, not the max. I use my minimum for most occasions but occasionally I want to get stoned, too, so I use a few drops more but not many. Because of that your total number of doses will vary.
 
Strains also make a big difference in dosing. I recommend higher doses of Sativas like Blue Dream because of the nature of the BD's properties. It will make you feel like a million bucks. You'll be be-bopping around and the sun will be shining whether it is outside or not. It will feel like the way you'd like to feel everyday, physically and mentally. Many folks don't realize they're so stoned until a little later. It just feels so natural that you'll never want it to end and it feels so right that you just can't believe it's the GD. 
 
The effects of all strains in GD form are much more three dimensional than other applications and you'll experience cannabis like never before as long as you learn to respect it's power and are receptive to the nuances that set it apart.  

 

 
I sent you the link to Dragon Lite. Read it and follow the instructions. It's not that long and you'll find the references for all those questions about the freezing in there but you can do it however you want. No one here is going to twist your arm and say "do it this way only!" Also, I'm not going to recommend anything other than what my guide says. If you can't do that freezer time then you just have to take a chance that what you can manage will be sufficient. What else are you going to do? It will probably work since it's not rocket science.
 
Having that first 24 hour period is more important than the second one if you can manage it but whatever you do, don't let it sit out after putting it in the freezer. If you can only manage 12 hours then process immediately from the freezer each time. Cold is very important and it inhibits the extraction of chlorophyll. The freezing of the initial dry material causes the trichomes to become brittle and fall off for better extraction. The longer you freeze, the better.  

 

 
Alcohol is the best solvent for rapid absorption into the system which is why the dosing can be so small. With other dosing methods such as edibles or capsules, the material has to work it's way through the digestive system until it hits the liver area for more rapid onset but it has been absorbing slowly as it makes its way to that area so that the full impact of the cannabinoids has been reduced leading to the need for higher dosing. 
 
Don't use a hair dryer. It has a red hot coil that can set off a flash. Put your GD in a small jar with a wide mouth and let a fan blow over it for a few hours on the heating pad or blanket. Mark the level you want to reach on the side of the jar and just keep an eye on it. It will reduce quicker than you think.  

 

Natural Decarb Project Update
 
 
As I mentioned in a previous post, I have added another point of reference to our natural decarb project that is nearing it's first anniversary. That "point of reference" is a very important key to our continuing research and while it's not a completely surprising event, the extent of the difference in expectations and actual results is interesting and opens a bunch of new points of study. 
 
First, a brief history of the sample. It is a bud from a harvest in March '14 and another bud from that same harvest was tested in April after drying. It's unknown if the buds are from the same plant but there were only 6 plants in the harvest. I mention this point because you will see a noticeable difference in cannabinoid content between the two samples but that isn't important for this study. Conversion from the acid to the cannabinoid forms is the main interest. This bud has been kept in a sealed jar with the humidity controlled by a Boveda humidipak @ 62%. It was seldom opened so there was basically no air exchange during that year. 
 
This particular result will redefine how I look at decarb in some cases and will definitely alter some advice I have been giving, but not as much as you might think. This was a very controlled experiment and is the point at which we begin to work our way to actuality. It opens the door to several interesting scenarios which I will discuss at too much length later more than likely. 
 
As I often do, I'm going to post these results here accompanied by the original and let you look at them. I'll be back in a bit to discuss any questions or comments as well as provide my analysis. Questions and other comments can also be addressed through the Project thread once I get it posted.  
 
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Nothing has changed as far as the scope of the project is concerned. It has always been a multi-year, multi-test format that needed at least a year before any conclusive results were in for certain elements of which this is one. Whether it had shown all decarb or no decarb or partial decarb, there was always going to be further tests aimed at quantifying and calibrating in order to achieve a fully decarbed product under various environments.
 
Because of this test I now have a better understanding of the areas that need more focus and will be able to channel resources better towards those goals. The GD testing is still ongoing and we should have more results within a couple of weeks for the third installment of that phase.