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starting to do some more extracts.
here's a kief glycerine run I'm doing with 8oz glycerine to 1oz dry sift kief; so 1/8th of kief per oz, for 7 half gram doses per oz of glycerine.
will show the end product later. likely a few weeks. will let this sit in a warm place..
this stuff was thick, and we keep it pretty cold in the house, so I am doing some double boiler type action in an open crock pot to be sure I'm getting a good extract. This is keeping it pretty hot without cooking it. figuring this out as I go (first kief glycerine experiment w/more than an oz of glycerin), this is an pretty potent/thick mix.
fyi- I use extracts for nerve pain - am a surgical candidate for multi fusions, severe arthritis in my spine, stenosis, etc. I would prefer to avoid this for as long as I can without living on opiates, and I can now w/good extracts.
the rest of the story....
I left this run for 4 days in the crockpot. At the end of the 4 days, filtered with one of those reusable coffee filters. I let that sit in warm water and drain for about a day, then pressed out the material.
the effect is amazing, but not really what I expected. I roll about a teaspoon around in my mouth and feel the effects begin within minutes and hit major pain relief stage at about 30 minutes. It's not a major "stone" and the most noticeable effect is pain relief and visual. I didn't find it to be as great for sleep as opposed to eating whole, ground cannabis in coconut oil caps or cooked in food but this may be because strains used leaned towards sativa. A tester disagrees with me on the sleep part, so ymmv.
please be careful with dosages if trying this yourself. I have a pretty high tolerance and eat lots of cannabis.
I am wondering what some time would do for it's qualities, so we'll put some away.
I'll try to update this thread as we do new batches.
round two was 65 grams of dry sifted kief to 2 cups of glycerine (yes, we are sure it works for us lol)
here a pic of the progress at 4 1/2 days. I just ate that unfiltered teaspoon in the pic and I think I'm going down! ;)
maybe I shouldn't filter the batch? just shake and bake?