A new dawn.

[Chemistry]

Great to see a mate over helping you out..ask him can he help me with building a tree house .
I reckon it will b the last time he’s over at your joint once he has the coconut butter lol

He's a good lad, been buds since we were kids, he is a qualified joiner and arborist.

 

[Scotty 420]

Good morning tokers and growers, how are you all on this dull misty February morning, hope your all well. Nothing productive to show you this week, but I'm getting set up for a go at some Canna Coconut today, had to order some Beef Gelatine from the net due to our country shops not having any in stock, still cheaper and easier than driving to a bigger town just to buy some, I want this to make jelly babies at a later date, the price you pay for living on the outskirts of civilisation. Had a buddie pick me up some coconut oil on his way here, was expecting a kilo or some thing like that, but a 300ml jar will do just to experiment with, I only need 250ml, cheers bud. He is staying the weekend with his wife and kids to help me with some building work I'm well behind with, that should get the mrs off my back, if we don't end up battered on the canna butter, or green dragon, he reckons that it can't be a strong a hit as a joint or a pipe, boy has he got a shock coming. Due the success of the three jar in the slow cooker method with the canna butter, I going to repeat the same method with the canna coconut too. The recipe I'm going to use is the same as the canna butter, just a substitution of butter for coconut oil. So its back into the shed, as I'm banned from making a mess in the house kitchen (beer making, the hops stink).

1 quarter of good bud, rough ground, not powdered.
250ml of coconut oil, the solid virgin stuff.
1 x 5ml teaspoon of Lecithin.

I'm using the same sunflower lecithin from the canna butter.
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The coconut oil, I gather this is a good brand.
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Can't show you the bud, as its in the oven decarbing as I write this. So later on I'll get the slow cooker fired up and get cooking, and we'll see what happens. Good news on my cuttings, I've chosen two strains, a Pineapple and a Do Si Do to get my cuttings from, so as soon as they're ready I'll let you know, with pics, can't wait, seems a life time since I dabbled with a grow. And there you are, another half update for you. I've got things to do, to keep the mrs off my back, I'll get the coconut experiment sorted later, and let you know how it goes. so until then, just keep tokin folks.

I've used a similar recipe multiple times with very good results. I got it from a lady from a message board who went by "bad kitty smiles" she recommends a process of freezing & reheating the oil during extraction. Like cook it for several hours then freeze for like 8 hours, rethaw & bake again. You can apparently repeat this process multiple times if desired, I've never done it more that twice, but it could be something cool to experiment with.

Here's her website if you want to check it out it's loaded with all kinds of recipes, definitely worth a look especially if you limited to only using edibles.

https://www.badkatscannapharm.com/photo-tutorials

 

[stonemason]

I've used a similar recipe multiple times with very good results. I got it from a lady from a message board who went by "bad kitty smiles" she recommends a process of freezing & reheating the oil during extraction. Like cook it for several hours then freeze for like 8 hours, rethaw & bake again. You can apparently repeat this process multiple times if desired, I've never done it more that twice, but it could be something cool to experiment with.

Here's her website if you want to check it out it's loaded with all kinds of recipes, definitely worth a look especially if you limited to only using edibles.

https://www.badkatscannapharm.com/photo-tutorials

I learned alot from bad kity smiles.i love her recipes.

 

[Skinnypuppy80]

Good morning tokers and growers, how are you all on this sunny, but chilly morning, hope your all well. As some of you folk know, its now a struggle to have a toke for me these days, so if I'm going to remain a stoner, then I'll have to change my path. Edibles are the way forward, that way I can carry on growing and getting high, but I'll have to modify my intake methods to suit my no smoke stance. I've decided to take the Green Dragon route, as this is as easy as it gets, I already have a stack of cannabis to get going, and I can scam all the bits I need from Santa for Christmas, making it a cheap start up for a change. The Everclear is here, so I can start by drowning some weed in jam jars and experiment a little.
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I like the Green Dragon approach, as I can use it on its own, or drop it into some thing else, the spice of life and all that. I had a good swallow of the Everclear, and I have to say, it is fiery stuff, just like the poitin made in Ireland that we consumed as kids, which is a potato whisky, very different taste to the corn moonshine that everclear is, I can see why they use everclear to sterilise things in laboratories, because if you were a bug, you wouldn't stand a chance. I've started out with 9 grams of weed to 200ml of everclear, but this seems a lot of alcohol for that amount of weed, so I can see that being reduced in the future. The weed and alcohol are placed into a pound honey jar, this seems a good amount of space to shake the weed around in. Been advised by my buddy and now mentor for this project, that the jars need a good shake twice a day for a week, no great hardship. So the weed was scaled up to the required amount.
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Five jars were filled, four were marked up with week 1 to week 4, this is how long they will be left until they are tested. One jar, which is just a tester to see if there is any difference between them all, and whether a couple of days or weeks makes any difference at all, because everyone you speak to has a different idea, and the net is awash with info, some fairly conflicting. So we'll see what how it goes.
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The weed that was used in this project was some good weed I grew a while ago called The Church. Nice weed, but made me cough, so it was kicked to the side for other strains that didn't.
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I was going to skip the weed prep part, but maybe this topic might help anther member walking the same path, so here's what I did. First off you have to bake the weed in the oven, I'll skip the science as you can look it up if you feel the need. I have a gas oven, so I warmed it up to gas mark one and a half, this is 250f or 121c for other types of ovens. The baking times will vary depending on your weed, mine was good and dry already, so ten minutes sorted mine just fine.

Before baking, you can see its green.
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After baking, you can see its golden.
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Golden is the aim of the game, then I just jar it up, mark the lids with the date, and that's it, let it get on with it, giving the jars a shake a couple of times a day.
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I've made up four jars, which I aim to test one a week, then see which I think is the best for the length of time its in the jar. And that is where I am at the minute, later on today I'll be sticking my finger in the tester jar, purely for scientific reasons. I'll update you as the other four jars mature, and hopefully I'll have a propper result. So there you are, now you know what I'm up to. There was some other boring stuff I could have added, like washing the jars, but I've spared you that. So all that's left is to wish you all well for the coming week, until the next update, just keep toking folks.

U had me at everclear! First time I got sick off drinking was w 190 proof and mountain dew, I wouldn't advise doing such lol
They can b expensive, but u can buy devices where u can just push a button to decarbonize herb. U probably know this already. I paid like 280 for mine if I remember correctly.

 

[Chemistry]

I've used a similar recipe multiple times with very good results. I got it from a lady from a message board who went by "bad kitty smiles" she recommends a process of freezing & reheating the oil during extraction. Like cook it for several hours then freeze for like 8 hours, rethaw & bake again. You can apparently repeat this process multiple times if desired, I've never done it more that twice, but it could be something cool to experiment with.

Here's her website if you want to check it out it's loaded with all kinds of recipes, definitely worth a look especially if you limited to only using edibles.

https://www.badkatscannapharm.com/photo-tutorials

Thanks for the link, I'll check her out.

 

[Chemistry]

U had me at everclear! First time I got sick off drinking was w 190 proof and mountain dew, I wouldn't advise doing such lol
They can b expensive, but u can buy devices where u can just push a button to decarbonize herb. U probably know this already. I paid like 280 for mine if I remember correctly.

I've looked at a good few weird and wonderful machines when I set off on this quest, but I'm old school, so I'm told by younger generations, so I just whack everything in the oven. Pure alcohol is a thing and a half, no wonder I can't understand a lot of what popcorn says. Do you have any pix of your decarb machine.

 

[Skinnypuppy80]

I've looked at a good few weird and wonderful machines when I set off on this quest, but I'm old school, so I'm told by younger generations, so I just whack everything in the oven. Pure alcohol is a thing and a half, no wonder I can't understand a lot of what popcorn says. Do you have any pix of your decarb machine.

I forgot to mention it also infuses the decarb flower w the medium of ur choice of oil or butter. It's not really that big so u can do like 7-14 grams at a time? It's been a few yrs since I've used it so am unsure of quantities, just know u plug it in, push a button for either process, and wait

 

[Chemistry]

I forgot to mention it also infuses the decarb flower w the medium of ur choice of oil or butter. It's not really that big so u can do like 7-14 grams at a time? It's been a few yrs since I've used it so am unsure of quantities, just know u plug it in, push a button for either process, and wait
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This size would suit most people as it does up to half an ounce, currently I'm only dealing in quarter ounces to suit my self, so plenty big enough. I've eaten tonnes of the breakfast serial in the top left corner, good munchie food.