Golden Dragon Tincture Question- Cold method

He could have shortened that by at least half. He didn't say how long to keep it in your mouth. Tinctures are interesting but I've let tincture sit in my mouth for a long time, like an hour and my mouth was full of spit. I used Everclear and after soaking my mouth in it for so long the lining of my mouth started sloughing away, I was sore for a few days. IMO tinctures don't work sublingual any better than oral but they will start working a smidge faster.

 

I hope you try it and report here how it works. There sure are a lot of people who like it so there must be something to it.

 

In this very forum in the Incredible Edibles section is PsychedelicSam's Another Tincture Thread. There is an index in the first post. The thread is very long so feel free to ask questions. I'm not watching your guys video as I've learned here from the master, PSam, who has lab tests to back up his recipes. Tinctures are very versatile and can be used to make any kind of edible.

 

Sam for the win!

Remember quality in, quality out!

Oh what a day. What a lovely day!

 

I'm for quality for sure but sometimes life doesn't give the proper choices. A few days ago my grandson and I were at the dump and he kept asking if I smelled pot. I finally got a whiff so we investigated and found 2 large garbage bags of leaves and sticks from someone's grow. It looks like it had been shaken for kief so we're making oil with it now, it'll be over half an ounce of wax when we're done. Free Shit. My grandson lives in another state so this is an excellent bonding experience, I get to show him how to make wax my way, and he gets lots of free wax. The quality of the leaves sucked but the wax is potent if not pretty. At least it doesn't stick to the fingers and it's easy to pinch so we were pretty happy about our find. I haven't grown in about 3 years so this is the first opportunity I've had to tutor him.

Sorry about the thread jack, OP. Have you started making your tincture yet? Still planning to go by the video instructions?

 

I understand you wanting to follow the directions but 1-2 months is far longer than necessary. At least when you're done you'll know if that recipe works or not. And about the smell, you won't have the nice weed smell and taste, your vaporizer took that out first thing.

 

Since OP got me thinking about tinctures I made some. I have a little jar of ISO I clean my rig with. Only reclaim from my rig goes in that jar and the last couple of days I've been filtering and evaporating. Reclaim never gets back to being stable wax because it was decarbed when the wax was vaporized in the rig and I don't like messing with that sticky mess so after I evaporated all the ISO I mixed in a mini of Everclear, filtered, and returned the Everclear to it's bottle. Instant tincture. I haven't' tasted but it smells ok.

 

It's greatly embarrassing to me that I don't know how to post pics here. But imagine a clear mini liquor bottle full of a clear amber liquid and that's all it is. I started trying to find my ideal dose last evening. I'm afraid to do too much because of the way THC affects my heart rhythm (not rate, I'm in atrial fibrillation) so I started with 0.1ml. I felt it but it was an extremely small affect. This evening I'm going for 0.3ml. I quit smoking a few months ago because of my rhythm but lately have been taking small doses of dronabinol where the dose is known and guaranteed. As long as I can keep my dose low or until I get my tolerance back my heart rhythm is fine. Why don't you try some of your tincture? Just for experimental purposes, of course.

 

Everclear isn't dangerous unless you drink too much of it, that's how people get into trouble with that stuff. You need to try your concoction before you smoke, that's the only way you'll find your dose. Last evening I tried 0.3ml of my instant tincture and it worked but I still need more. This evening I'll try 0.5cc and see how that works. It should be close judging by how 0.3ml worked. You need to measure your dose to find your ideal amount, otherwise sometimes it'll be too little or maybe too much. The taste of my reclaim isn't bad at all, it taste like hash, nothing like pipe resin, probably because it's not and has never been combusted. When you strain your tincture you'll find a lot of brown powder from the ABV. It doesn't have any goodness in it so just toss it. You're using a paper coffee filter, eh?

 

I didn't say it wouldn't be good to use again but it won't be. Your alcohol is going to extract almost all the cannabinoids. What I was saying is that for some reason vaping makes a brown powder that'll come out into your tincture. Filtering gets most of it out but not all. I haven't used a cheesecloth so I couldn't tell you how much it'll filter out but whatever it does filter out is useless to get high with. Practically all of the THC will be dissolved by your long soak. But shit, try smoking some and see, I did.