The Hounds' Cannabis Capsule Guide with Flame-On's Recipe
That's interesting......I've never heard of freezing trichomes causing harm to their potency; I've made hash with ice water and weed so maybe the problem is in the coconut oil (or clarified butter)and the freezing. I've always kept mine in the fridge until use, but have heard of people freezing them with no ill effect. Just can't comment as I've never tried it myself.
Jebus, I do get some minor bubbling after a few hours but once I get the temp where I want it (about 225F) mine will pretty much stay there alll night so I couldn't really tell you how much it bubbles.......but nothing like a furious boiling or anything. And the room does smell a bit by morning after so many hours of cooking.
Right now we are working on a green dragon recipe that uses glycerine instead of alcohol (vegetable glycerine) The problem is a two month project so it will be awhile before we'll know if that recipe works.
The Hounds' Cannabis Capsule Guide with Flame-On's Recipe
One last thing. In the past the plant materials has always ended up blackish. With the oil a brownish green. This time it appears to be more green in color for both the oil and plant material. I'm hoping this is a good sign. Not that it isn't hot enough. I think I also put in too much oil this time. There is a good layer of oil over the plant matter. I've always had that before but never like this. I think I ended up with 6 tsp to 3.5g I know it is heavy but I like the feel of them like this. One is very mellow and has a nice calming effect. 2 get me high and any more than that get me blazed for hours. I took 5 when I went to see the Dark Knight and was good the whole movie. Even though they kicked in about 45 minutes before it started. When I watched it again a week later it was like watching it for the first time. I was so blazed the first time I didn't follow the movie too well.
The Hounds' Cannabis Capsule Guide with Flame-On's Recipe
ha ha, I LOVE my capsules!! There seems to be some folks out there though, for whom it doesn't seem to work but I love being able to pack a few capsules and go STONE where I couldn't before. :D
The Hounds' Cannabis Capsule Guide with Flame-On's Recipe
Well I tried them and I think they turned out ok. I took a full one and one half filled with the last few drops. I was feeling it at about an hour and a half. Took 2 small hits at 2 hours and I'm stoned. Might be a little weak but I did get 27.5 from 3.5g so they are kind of diluted. Two full ones would probably be good or a few more to be ripped. I'm going to say keeping my crockpot on low was a success, but next time I will make 2 different batches and test both temp settings to see which is the best.
So I just read what I wrote and deleted 3 paragraphs from this. Trust me you didn't want to bother reading it. Yeah, these things are working.
The Hounds' Cannabis Capsule Guide with Flame-On's Recipe
Anyone else tried just heating the material to 225 in an oven and putting it in capsules? I have only had one bad batch of capsules ever, and that was because the temp didn't get high enough, but I have never used oil to make them.
The Hounds' Cannabis Capsule Guide with Flame-On's Recipe
I've never thought about doing that grey, but if anyone else tries it, let us know how it worked for you.
Jebus.....lol, glad they're working for you.
The Hounds' Cannabis Capsule Guide with Flame-On's Recipe
I guess this should be in a raw weed thread, but so many of the descriptions in this thread match my own experiences that this seems like the place to post them.
My experiments have worked best with the following similar conditions-
weed as dry as it can get,
I usually do this in the morning about an hour after eating a breakfast of an egg cooked in real butter and a slice of "real"buttered toast.
I also usually mix my weed in a cup of Activia yogurt, the kind that contains active bacterias and contains fat, and my usual dosage is a slightly rounded 1/2 teaspoon of weed. I have never experimented with heating it in oil but I can appreciate how the fat is more easily absorbed. Unscientifically I believe that by eating my weed with fat an hour after breakfast, that my digestive juices very active and go right to work when the yogurt and weed hit my stomach. The first effects I feel are a relaxing sensation behind my eyes hat usually begins about 15min. after ingesting. Then as others described it take 1-2hrs for the full effects to be felt. Then it last 3-4hrs at full strength with lingering effects for twice that long.
The Hounds' Cannabis Capsule Guide with Flame-On's Recipe
Ever try cooking it? I'm not saying your way is wrong but most people (myself included) just dont get very buzzed from raw weed unless you smoke or vape it. If it works for you, that's great. I ate a couple of grams one day (long ago grasshopper) and got a mild buzz but the high wasn't worth the work. That fat part may help though. No stomach upset or do you generally have a tough stomach?
The Hounds' Cannabis Capsule Guide with Flame-On's Recipe
I do cook with it and have become a big tincture fan in last year. Yes, I too have always had a cast iron stomach. No major tummy ache, a few times a little indigestion but I've had worse from beer and brats.
If I were going for the big buzz I would use some cooking method for my delivery system, or a big dose of tincture. At this point in my life I am not a very heavy smoker so perhaps my low tolerance is a factor. And you can't beat the simplicity of preparation. As stated I usually eat this in the AM and I use this method more as a sedative continuous buzz, then a Friday night (or Tuesday morning) let's explore the inner realms, type of experience. Smoking with eating raw weed amplifies the high of each delivery method. And like many first time smokers I wasn't sure what to expect and only felt a little buzz my first time, but it seemed worth experimenting with.
The discovery of the very dry pot has seemed to be the big key for me.
I have also discovered that smoking the first half of a joint, then eating the second half will give me the dual high of smoking and eating, as the smoke levels off and mellows, you started getting that heavy head and body buzz that comes from oral consumption. I know it sounds gross, but it works for me.
I have enjoyed your thread and flameon's and hope to do some experimenting soon. I'll post my results.
The Hounds' Cannabis Capsule Guide with Flame-On's Recipe
Please do.......is there a chance we could get you to share your tincture recipe with us? We recently have started trying tinctures as well but as the hubby and I are both old time alkies we had to find a recipe without alcohol extraction so she suggested vegetable glycerine.
How do you make yours?