Dragon Lite.....another Tincture Thread

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You posed a challenging scenario and I want to think on it a bit to be sure I give you the best advice that I can. It will be before the end of the day.

 

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Easy BHO​

Decarb & Tincture​

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We haven't had a new guide over here in a while so I guess it's about time. I'll let the video speak for itself. I'll take The tincture down tomorrow to the lab for the decarb testing and post the results when I get them. I didn't want to wait because this was kind of fun and I wanted to share. Not fun in a ha, ha kind of way but in an even more fun thing, learning and gaining experience.

 

Someday I'll get a guide up here that works for you and I figured the BHO might be the best bet for you. It's so easy. I'll post the lab results.


No, I haven't gotten around to the roaches yet but it's just like the normal guide except that you'll do a quick water wash of the material to rinse off the carbon and ash to make it taste better. It still needs to be decarbed. I'm out of cash so my roaches are slowly being devoured one by one in my bong.

 

Cannabis roaches. They don't have legs so you don't have to worry about them running away.

 

BHO Honeycomb
Decarb Results


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I definitely consider this a success, considering it is my first time. As you can see, we had a little unconverted THCA remaining but not enough to make much difference, about 11%. That's better than an oven decarb of buds from 225/30, 225/50 and 240/30 temps and times. We have a good array of cannabinoids and a full infusion with moderate CBN.

This sample shows 40mg/ml for approximately 15ml of tincture. If you do the math for this you'll come to an answer of 600mg/0.5oz or 1200mg per ounce which means that the BHO was 1200mg/g. Not quite possible, is it? Well, this is where one of the vagaries of lab testing comes into play. On these tincture results that use mg/ml as a measure, the density is lighter than that of water. The real results would take the density of the tincture and figure the exact amount by multiplying the density by the percentage of the compound but the labs just use the 1g/ml standard.

In this case the density of the tincture is 0.789mg/ml instead of the 1g/ml weight of water. To get the actual count we will convert the numbers on the test into percentages by moving the decimal point to the left 1 place. That gives us 3.97% cannabinoids, 39.7mg. We then multiply that by the density of 0.789 to get the total cannabinoids per mg or ounce. For this sample that is 3.13% or 31.3mg/ml or 939mg/oz which is more in the realm of possibility. I believe there should only be about 800mg and the discrepancy is due to my lack of accurate ml measurement. I made what looked like 15ml but the bottle had a dropper and that usually takes a couple of ml away.

I mention this correction in case anyone happened to do the math and then smelled something fishy. In most of the tests the difference isn't enough to risk confusing people about since we're usually looking at the big picture but with this, it's just difficult trying to justify something that goes against physics. No matter how hard you push, and without a cyclotron, only 1000mg will go into 1 gram.

The strain for the BHO is Purple Berry which is a 50/50 hybrid. I have done some of it twice now and have been very pleased. The effects follow the strain profile to a T. The ease of this operation has caused me to modify some of my personal preferences. This is so much easier than making GD from scratch and is maybe more cost effective for smaller batches. I still want all the terpenes and will continue the full extractions but I mainly use GD for edibles now and to make it efficient, I have to use an ounce of material and I just don't have the budget for that anymore. If I get a gram of BHO to make some edibles, it's the equivalent of 2oz of my GD so I can make a batch of great brownies without having to invest a few hundred dollars to do it, even though it lasts a while.

I'm still not a fan of BHO for inhalation but I'd be a fool not to consider the efficiency in making small batch edibles.

 

Yeah, the same guide. The CBN count is a lot higher so it should be a good evening product, especially if it's Indica dominant. It still needs decarbing, too.


If you're going to cut the ends off first then you don't need to rinse it. Otherwise you'd get a lot of that yucky carbon taste and nobody wants that if it can be avoided. Since the cannabinoids aren't affected by water, a quick rinse in water then dried will get rid of that.

 

Yes, ma'am. That should do it but maybe we should start a raffle to see how many roaches it will take.

 

If you've used 2 ounces of bud and only have 6-8fl oz of GD then you've already got a ratio of 8g/oz, using 7fl oz as your volume. That's already extremely strong, depending on the buds of course. If using it as a tincture you may want to consider leaving it as it is but if using for edibles, concentrate as much as you want.


If it were me, I would reduce it first but only because I like to get all the work completed before I set something aside otherwise I have a tendency to lose track of it. It's really six of one and half a dozen of the other, like Stiggy. There's no best answer of the two. Whatever works into your world better.