How to bind/make THC honey with BHO?

Whenever I mix in RSO with honey, it usually dissolves instantly, with no heat involved. Just have to stir a little. If I want some heat, I just microwave 5 - 10 seconds and then mix in the RSO.

 

Damn - that one big pot of honey and bho there Pooh!  If its still not dispersing, unplug, cool and add ~4 oz (based on the amount of material there) of EC and stir it well.  Cover it to prevent evap and let it sit, stirring occasionally until its dispersed.  Then turn crock on low and evap off the EC.  Probably easiest in the long run rather than waiting for just the heat...

 

BTW - heres PSams Green Dragon thread --- lots to read, but there is good info strewn though out - kinda cool to see the evolution of his techniques.  There is an index at the bottom of the first post to take you to specific topics.
 
http://forum.grasscity.com/incredible-edible-herb/1102315-another-tincture-thread-try-youll-like.html
 
and his shorter thread....
http://forum.grasscity.com/incredible-edible-herb/1217451-dragon-liteanother-tincture-thread.html

 

How did the honey turn out? How was the potency? 

 

Oh, and in case you're interested here's a link to my very first thread here and it was about making honey. You can really tell I'm a real yokel and noob. I didn't know anything about anything except that this was the way to make honey. The response to this thread almost caused me to give up and question my sanity. I think that you'll be interested in the thoughts about infusing honey then and the complete 180 now. That honey was the gateway to my "career" and I'm very fond of it.    
 
http://forum.grasscity.com/incredible-edible-herb/1040560-sounds-pretentious-but-here-goes-psychedelicsams-magic-honey-elixir.html

 

 
At nearly a gram per tablespoon, even at the general scale, it should do a pretty good job of medicating. I'm glad it turned out well for you. 
 
Someday I hope to find someone who doesn't ask about glycerin but that may never happen. I'll be truthful with you and anyone else who asks and tell you that I don't care a lot for glycerin and I believe you'll hear that from most people who try. Few glycerin threads end with happy campers and it's not because it doesn't work, because it does very effectively. Instead it's because it doesn't work the way stoners want it to. And I'm one of those. I use it. I make it but I don't like it. It has it's uses for medical issues mainly. It's all body and no head. It will work great on pain, insomnia, even boost your energy in the morning if a Sativa....but no real head. And the vape pen version needs to be very concentrated to act as a maintenance tool while mobile. 
 
Having said that, the success to a good glycerin tincture, vape or edible, is patience. It is not a great solvent, very limited and slow to infuse. BHO and other oils do not break down very well in it. I'm hearing now that a pg/vg mix is better at that but I couldn't tell you for sure. The way that I do it on my thread is just like you did the honey except I didn't take it to oil first before reconstituting it. You would do the same thing, dissolve the BHO into a small amount of alcohol the add it to the glycerin and heat until the alcohol is gone.
 
For it to be good for a vape pen it should have a minimum potency of 3g/oz unless you want to inhale a whole tank. You would figure that just like the formula I gave you for the honey. But here's the trick...once the alcohol is evaporated it is not ready for use. You'll see that your oil has become a dark suspension hanging in the vg. You may even see some tarry residue stick to the side of the jar and anything you use to touch it. That is nothing to concern yourself with and let it stick to the sides. That stuff is the plant waxes and tars that the glycerin won't absorb. If your BHO is winterized then you won't have that issue much. When you pour off the final product, that tar will just stay behind clinging to whatever it was clinging to. 
 
After you've evaporated all the alcohol your infused glycerin will need to cure for about 2 weeks. Remember I mentioned it was a slow solvent? Well, that's what that's about. Over the course of that 2 weeks you'll see that dark suspension hanging in the solvent to an opaque amber bonded solution. It will look like a whole other animal and act like it, too. You'll shake your jar every day and you'll begin to see the action as it bonds. For vaping you won't have to decarb the oil but for edibles you will. 
 
I hope this helped just a little bit. For the vape pen I prefer to just soak some material in the vg for a few months. I have used glycerin in edibles I was going to use medically and it seemed to work well in every medium I've tried so far. 

 

 
No, no. The equivalent of 3g of whole material, just like in the honey formula. If it's the same ratio, everything else will the the same. But you will still need to let it cure to bond. It can be pretty powerful as a tincture if you make it strong enough. I've seen it buckle knees when taken sublingually but still mainly body intensive.   

 

 
That looks pretty good. You won't need an equal amount of alcohol to match the glycerin, just enough to easily dissolve the BHO but enough to make it a liquid without being viscous. You can turn it on high if you want, at least for a while. It doesn't get hot enough to do damage. 
 
You may want to weigh your glycerin before you add the alcohol and BHO then check the weight when you're finished. You should have the weight of the glycerin and the weight of the BHO when the alcohol is all gone. Sometimes you'll get a little additional due to the alcohol and glycerin combining to make a little pg but it doesn't make any difference, just a chemical reaction. 
 
You only need to let it cure for 2 weeks usually, especially if you agitate it daily. After a few days you'll be able to tell a difference in the way it looks. If you're making that much, it may take a little longer but shaking it daily should compensate.   

 

 
I would actually recommend using it as a sublingual. You'll find all the high CBD tinctures and things are made with glycerin although most are pretty weak and need about a teaspoon to work. Yours should drop you to your knees with less than a dropper but the actual amount will be determined when you try it. Again, it's body intensive. You should feel no pain. 
 
You can start sampling as soon as you finish with the transfer and I recommend that you do so that you can actually understand fully why BKS and I both say to let it cure. I don't want you to do it just because I said to do it. Try a dropper at that time and then every few days do the same amount. This goes along the same lines as watching the suspension turn into the cured infusion. It's for your own education as much as anything so that if anyone asks you in the future, you'll know the answer and get the credit instead of saying "P'Sam or BKS said that's what needs to be done." I imagine you'll be an expert at this before long.   

 

Hey RaJay....It stands for Rick Simpson Oil. He popularized the extraction of cannabis oil so that's become a generic term. If you take your GD all the way down that's what you have left. RSO, or as it's termed around here, PSam's oil  cause of Sam's work with it, which you can also find in the index if you haven't already.
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When I use a crockpot I turn it up to high for the first hour or two just to get things going then turn it down. It's going to be real similar to the honey, RaJay. You'll get all those bubbles from the alcohol just bubbling away until they don't. There shouldn't be any froth from the glycerin like with the honey. When the bubbles are gone it should be finished. Weigh it. Even if a few grams over the original weight plus BHO, you can take it off as long as the bubbles have stopped. Any residual alcohol will evaporate during the curing phase. 
 
It will look dirty when you first jar it up, like a suspension usually will since it blocks the light, but by the time it's finished it should be opaque and syrupy.