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Yep, it's kind of a pain but you do need to test your oven. Fortunately, oven thermometers are pretty cheap. A pizza stone or something like that helps with temp spikes too.
Another couple of causes of vaping out weed during decarboxylation are grinding the herb too fine &/or spreading it out too thin on the foil.
Hmm just occurred to me - heavy cast iron skillets & such could serve the same purpose as a pizza stone/tiles...
I'd suggest getting the thermometer, and also maybe trying a lower temp as well. I usually stick with 200F and longer than 5 minutes (check earlier posts to see how long --- it's been awhile and I don't remember!). I've always had great results with this.
Also, be sure your oven is fully preheated. If the oven is not preheated, then you can have very very hot spots next to the heating elements as the oven comes up to temp.
- Select your temp.
- Put in an oven thermometer.
- Get the oven preheated for a good long time
- Make sure the thermometer matches what you selected.
- Put the weed in the oven quickly, without leaving the door hanging open too long. (You don't have to rush, just don't let the oven cool so much that it has to kick on the elements again to get back up to temp.)
- Keep an eye on the time, and pull it out when ready.
You should be OK.
The fact that your weed seemed a bit over-toasted leads me to think this is where they problem occured. My weed usually loses a tiny bit of green and takes on a very light brown hue, but the color change is not dramatic.
Well... i dont remember if i already posted this in this same thread, anyway i will post again.
The "cooking weed" step can be replaced by microwaving the weed. Instead to put it in the oven at 325F for some (dont remember how long) time, put the weed (whole, and NOT ground) in a dish, add some water (do not soak it... add only enough for make it wet) and microwave it until the water evaporates completly and the weed turn completly dry, crunchy, and somewhat darker.
The time it takes depends on the amount of weed, water, and the microwaves potency, but it varies between 1-5 minutes.
Doing this in the microwave prevents any loss of THC by evaporation, as the microwave (supposedly) cant reach temperatures far higher than 212F (waters boiling point).
You can also smoke this "activated" (microwaved) weed... sometimes it becomes WAY stronger than it was... :stoned:
does anyone have any confirmation of the last post? if so, it would great advancement in perfecting this procedure.
I have not tried it myself but I have heard of microwaving weed, and it the logic of the explanation makes sense to me. Also, Coelho is knowledgable about this stuff, so I think you can trust he is not steering you wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Otusb12
Personally, I am definitely going to try this method the next time I make GD --- I'm pretty sure that the times I have been unhappy with a batch, it was either because I vaped out some good stuff, or didn't carboxylize enough. So if this method is more foolproof, and less risky, I think it is worth a try.
I tried the microwave method with good success. To reduce the possibility of over cooking (and flames)I ran the microwave for one minute intervals and stirred the herb before restarting the microwave. Did this 3 times then reduced the time to 30 seconds. It took 4 or 4.5 minutes to dry out about 1.5 grams of herb but it was very wet. It smoked better and seemed to have some new dynamics, but it is a little hard to judge since I was stoned at the end of my experiment.
In an attempt to enhance my results I cleaned a joints worth of herb, placed it in a measuring cup (Pyrex to deal with heating), but instead of putting water on it I added half of an eyedropper of some very strong tincture. Just enough to make it quite moist, but not sitting in a puddle like I had done with water on my first batch.
Because of the small quantity involved I ran the microwave at 10 second intervals, stirring between each restart. After 30 seconds (3-10 second cooking periods) I switched to 5 seconds intervals for a total of 45 seconds total.
The effects were impressive, got nothing done for the next 3-4 hours,with residual effects for about 2 more hours after that. Certainly worth trying again when I have the time to be that immobilized.
The tincture I used has been made the old fashioned way of soaking in alcohol for a month, what made this tincture particularly potent is that I have used the same alcohol (1.5oz vodka) to soak about 2 grams at a time, 3 different times. That is that this 1.5oz of vodka has been used marinate 6 grams of reefer over the past 90 days.:thumbsup
Isomerization
so anyone have any opinions on this method?
Well... i did read it long ago, but never tried it, because it needs some stong acid, and i have none.Quote:
Originally Posted by wolfgar
Anyway there are easier ways to isomerize the cannabinoids... this methods may not be so efficient, but they work well enough... look at:
http://boards.cannabis.com/recipes/1...en-dragon.html
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hey im trying to make my bf a bottle of green dragon. i want to use a fifth of belvedere or a nice bottle of whatever alcohol works best. my question is can i take the 2 oz. that this recipe will yield me and simply combine it with the fifth and if so what would be the dosage of that concoction? i was thinking like one shot? also will stems give me the same potency as just regular weed? im not a big smoker so kinda out of my element with this. thanks!
MY question is what is the saturation point of how much thc can defuse into how much alcohol (Y). I realize with different potency in every ones pot this can't have a perfect answer but I wondered if someone who knows the chemistry involved could offer a dumbed down explanation of how much pot an ounce of everclear could absorb/bond with before it is supersaturated?
I have had success using the same alcohol to soak up to six grams of pot, 2grams at a time, by the end of the third soaking the liquid had lost most of it's alcohol flavor and I got really high smoking the residual pot( but that may have been tincture that dried on the weed.)
Is there a concentration point where diffusion no longer occurs?