Maximum potency of canna-oil?

Lambagabriel, how much TCH can the oil absorb is the $64,000 question. These things require testing which for individuals can get expensive. I don't know the best method for using avb, vaped kief and hash. Check out Another Tincture Thread by PsychedelicSam. It's a daunting thread- quite long, but there is an index in the beginning. The testing conclusions come
further down In
the last twenty pages or less. I would suggest making a tincture with all your material (recipe in PSam's thread) and then doing a solvent transfer. Basically you put your green dragon into your oil and then cook the alcohol off. That is the best way I know to get around physical saturation points, i.e., you have more material than you can cover with the amount of oil you want to use and the best way to increase the concentration of your starting materials. Good luck, keep us posted, please.
Also, in Sam's thread, since it is so long people don't mind answering questions.

 

Lambgabriel, you're not listening. No one knows. Do you have the money to do testing? Have you bothered to Google the matter for other opinions? All they will be is opinions. No one knows the maximum capacity of oil to absorb thc. You can do the legwork and tell the rest of us.

 

Now the big question everyone wants to know is how much THC can be absorbed before coconut oil is fully saturated. Nobody seems to have any clue as to a scientific formula to figure this out. People say 1:3, 1:4, etc ratios of bud to oil (oz to lbs). I've thought long and hard about this and was thinking that if you know the THC and CBD percentage of the bud your using you could have a general idea of the weight of THC and CBD's in the bud. Example: 1 oz of bud with a 15% THC content and a 5% CBD content would mean that you have 4.2g THC and 1.4g CBD's. With this theory we have a total of 5.6g of goodness to absorb into our coconut oil. Assuming that 1g of coconut oil's saturated fat will hold 1g of THC evenly and coconut oil has around 13g of saturated fat per serving you could use a half serving (maybe a little more give or take sense I know there's more then just the THC and CBDs in weed) and be able to get the most potent oil possible no mater the bud your using. I specifically want to know about using coconut oil with buds. I plan to infuse using about an oz and want to use as little oil as possible to get the strongest potency I can. I'm hoping this will be a good place to start in figuring out a formula that can be used to accurately control how potent our canna oil will be without using to much bud and wasting any THC or CBD's. I can't wait to hear what everyone has to say in regards to this topic and as a newbie I thank you all in advance.
So....hmmm..well I'm not really sure how I should go about this...coconut oil will take about 30% on first pass and if you run that oil on fresh herb you could get 50% at 160 or so...
http://janetcoonce.com/2013/01/02/fatty-acid-struc...
A nice link breaking down the structure of saturated fats, triglycerides..

I wanted to get exact and technical with it...but there are just too many variables I will do the best I can to explain...
Shorter triglycerides are considered more polar. The longer the hydrocarbon tail, the less polar the molecule.....thc is relatively non polar and like oil has a hydrophobic tail and somewhat polar head....and thca (before decarboxylation) is somewhat more polar

Now then a tri(3) glyceride is a glycerol(relatively polar sugar alcohol) backbone and three (different) fatty acids
Food Lauric acid Myristic acid Palmitic acid Stearic acid
Coconut oil 47% 18% 9% 3%
Palm oil 0.1% 1% 44% 5%
Butter 3% 11% 29% 13%
Ground beef 0% 4% 26% 15%
Dark chocolate 0% 1% 34% 43%
Soybean oil 0% 0% 11% 4%

They differ in chain length..remember more= non polar
Butyric acid with 4 carbon atoms
Lauric acid with 12 carbon atoms
Myristic acid with 14 carbon atoms
Palmitic acid with 16 carbon atoms
Stearic acid with 18 carbon atoms

But that's not all that is in the oil

Saturated Mono-unsaturated Poly-unsaturated...As weight percent (%) of total fat in Cooking oils
Canola oil 8 64 28
Olive oil 7 78 15
Sunflower oil [3] 11 78 11
Soybean oil 15 24 58
Peanut oil 11 71 18
Coconut oil 86 13 1

Now Medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) are medium-chain (8 to 10 carbons)

In the digestive system MCTs are broken down into individual fatty acids (MCFA). Unlike other fatty acids, MCFA are absorbed directly from the intestines into the portal vein and sent straight to the liver where they are, for the most part, burned as fuel much like a carbohydrate. In this respect they act more like carbohydrates than like fats.

Other fats require pancreatic enzymes to break them into smaller units. They are then absorbed into the intestinal wall and packaged into bundles of fat (lipid) and protein called lipoproteins. These lipoproteins are carried by the lymphatic system, bypassing the liver, and then dumped into the bloodstream, where they are circulated throughout the body. As they circulate in the blood, their fatty components are distributed to all the tissues of the body. The lipoproteins get smaller and smaller, until there is little left of them. At this time they are picked up by the liver, broken apart, and used to produce energy
MCTs do not require bile salts for digestion and therefore, passively absorbed by the intestinal tract into the blood stream where they are used for energy
Rich sources of MCTs include palm kernel oil, coconut oil and camphor tree drupes.

No that doesn't have to do with saturation per say ......




Now the saturated fat content differs minimally between butter and coconut..a couple grams ... ...so how much difference does all this make?

Not much.... because temp is such a factor with the marginal differences it will still be 30-50% no matter what you use....now hopefully though you can be better informed on the absorption of the fat and know coconut will be absorbed faster and be more potent...

Note that Wikipedia played a role in numbers..thank you wiki

If that didn't satisfy...let me know what I could add for you

If you had say 100ml (15 in a tbsp) I would expect around 50ml of hash to dissolve into it...I wish I could give you an extremely exact number using a fancy program that calculates how much thc can be held onto 1 mole of each...
qwizoking, Nov 27, 2013


There's a lot more where this came from on a Google search. As you can see it's amazingly complicated. Lambgabriel.