The Hounds' Cannabis Capsule Guide with Flame-On's Recipe

It's about 30% brown leaf. The leaves were hanging from the plant during the drying process, which causes some of the green ones to brown on the ends of the leaf. Also during the flowering process some of the leaves turn color from green to yellow to brown.

The brown ones look like kief after being ground, and I can attest from experience that they still work. After grinding all the leaf and small stem together in a coffee grinder the mixture is a light green color.

I have a few friends who when hurting for a bowl have broken open a capsule and smoked it. They reported great effect, which surprises me because I know it was only made from trim :rastasmoke:

One more note, I haven't noticed any change in potency due to duration of cooking time. When I have wet leaf which doesn't cut well I will put it in the oven for 15-20 min at 225 degrees to dry it, grind it further with the coffee grinder, and then bake it again for 15 min. I've been stoned a few times doing this and lost track of time. Came back after about 45 min and the batch was still good. You can tell by the little burp you get after swallowing them :)

I've been told to cook things as long as overnight.......but have only gone as far as 8 hours myself and found no improvement after about 4 hours of cooking. I DID find four to work better than 3 hours but not five to work better than 4. :D

Wow it's been awhile since I've posted and the only reason I am is because I now disagree with the last statement I made there......after trying several times I find that the longer the cooking time the more potent things DO get. I believe the longest we have let things cook is about 15 hours......resulting potency was GREAT!!

I'm gonna try this stuff. I have caps already, just need the coconut oil. Only problem is the ol hates the smell of pot cooking (and she can yell) so I'll do the crock pot thing in the garage or something.

Shov,
good to see u man.
hey, i made my first batch last weekend.
as to odors...
when i had it on 'low' it was about 220-225, and did NOT smell, and i even had the cover venting to keep the temps down.

i will also say this, once, i opened to stir and temp dropped below 200, i switched to "hi" because i was worried about the temp, then i forgot and came back to 250 and an odor. i immediately lowered settign, opened crock and fanned to cool faster.

i think thats 1 possible cause for the mild effects of my cannacaps.
also, i had the ratio wrong, (couldnt remember) but i used 1 TBSP instead of 1.5 teaspoons, with 1.8g of ground powder.
took 3 the other night and had a 'mild' effect.
i will likely try to make them again,,,soon.:pimp:

-edit-
i also plan on 'upping' the weed/butter ratio.
i may try to double it, or close to double, and i will increase simmer time.

well i've been trying to make these pills about 5-6 times now, and i think i've got it. the first time i used my crockpot, and it ran just too hot, even on low the whole house smelled like vaped weed, and the potency was zero.
i then switched to my trusty toaster oven, but now i was gun shy and afraid to get it up to a proper temp, and while the pills had an effect they were still weak. (temps were between 180-200F). last night i reread this entire post, and decided to kick up the heat a bit to about the 220-230F range, trying this with about 1.5g of mid grade regs baked for 5 hours, and made 8 pills. i took all 8, and with in a couple of hours i was cross eyed. success at last! next time though i think i'll only take 4 of them, because 8 put me out, although when i woke up i was still pretty high, and i slept for 4 hours. WOW!
Thanx WH and Flame your guide and a little trail and error has lead me to a new clean way to enjoy my buzz.

You know what's interesting is my personal thought of it all is that everyone is a little bit different and so it doesn't surprise me that something that works for one person doesn't work for someone else. I FIRMLY believe that SOMEWHERE between 200 and 350 is the right temp for everyone. I've spoken to a few few folks that like the results better when cooked about about 325 so I wouldln't hesitate to try hotter temps IF the lower ones don't seem to do it for you.

I've made these a few times and have always been successful. I use a crocpot that has a keepwarm, low and high setting. In the past I have always gone back and forth between low and high every 2 or 3 hours for about 12 hours. When on high I get a strong cooking smell, but the pills have never been weak. This time I am keeping it on low. I had it on high for about 5 minutes and noticed the smell so I switched it back. Also when on low I see just a few simmer bubbles coming up through the mix. When on high there are more but it doesn't look like it is boiling or anything. Do you want a good little simmer going? or are just a few sporadic bubbles ok? When on low I can only smell the cooking smell when I am close to the pot. Do most people keep their crocpots on low or high setting? I'm doing this as a little trial and error but I don't really want to waste an 1/8 if I don't need to. Any feedback would be awesome. Thanks.

Also, from what I have seen keeping the pills in the freezer degrades the quality quickly. After a month or two in the freezer mine always seem to not get me high, just stupid, and I get a horrible headache. I'm going to keep these in the fridge and see if that is better for them. I have decided against any sort of long term storage.