Cannabis Capsules â?? A step-by-step guide.

[Opie Yutts]

Sometimes.

[vileoxidation]

Hello there, everyone. First, thank you to Flameon and Weedhound for your continued assistance with this recipe!

Second, I have a few questions, mainly about the frothing. Is this a necessary part of the process? If I am not seeing any frothing, I assume that I need to increase the temp - is that assumption correct?

We made a batch yesterday, which brought on a slight body-stone, but not much else. We didn't know it was supposed to froth, and we didn't see any of that. We also didn't grind it as finely, but it wasn't a huge change today with the coffee grinder.

So we are trying again today, with about 1.5 g's of pretty high-grade buds, ground up with a coffee grinder, and cooked in a crockpot. We are using a coffee cup and coconut oil, about 3-3.5 tsp. Right now, we have been cooking it for about an hour and a half, and still have not seen any froth.

Is there anything that we could be doing entirely wrong? Is froth important?

Again, thanks for this recipe and your continued help with it!

[Weedhound]

I don't know about froth.....but what are your temps? Usually i've found that if the pills take FOREVER to kick in and are more of a body stone that hangs on for HOURS plus a lack of potency then usually I didn't get enough heat to the mixture.

PS....For me......signs of overheating: Kicks in fast but high doesn't last, lack of potency, wears off very quickly.

[vileoxidation]

Have you ever had froth, Weedhound? I hadn't seen anything about it in the thread that you started, so I was also wondering about that.

Right now, it is at 266, but that is the highest that it has gotten yet. It has been sitting around 225-240 for most of the time, which is about two hours now.

[Weedhound]

Are you cooking alot or just a gram or so? If you have extra maybe scoop a touch out and try it (AFTER it cools) if you want to let the rest cook longer. That will give you a test one.

In talking with Opie I'm leaning more towards temps between 225-275 but I agree with Flame that it's an individual thing for most people.

Almost forgot.....sometimes a little froth at higher temps but not always and I myself don't consider froth something important to the recipe.

[vileoxidation]

We are only cooking about a two grams right now. It is pretty much liquid, with hardly any residue at the bottom (at least that we can feel when we sitr it). It's got a nice dark green color right now, pretty inky looking, and when we checked the temp it was at 244. We turned it up to high, from low (only two settings), and are planning on letting it sit for another forty minutes or so.

My boyfriend has a question that he wants me to ask you. We smoke about 3.5-4 grams a day between the two of us, throughout the whole day about evenly spread out. He was wondering, in comparison to your average use, how much you think we should feel from an average dose.

On that note, we are using single '0' capsules, so we realize that we need to increase the dosage due to the size difference. We tried three last night and then four this morning (of the first batch, obviously). We are pretty sure no less then three will be required.

[Weedhound]

Thats about how much I was using before going to the capsules (eating in cookies.) I'd go for 2-3 of the 00 sized capsules but I couldn't say of the straight 0 size.

PS...don't drive! :wtf:

[Weedhound]

You saying its mostly liquid...hmm.....should be more along a 50/50 split....otherwise you'll need more caps to make up for the extra oil.

[vileoxidation]

PS...don't drive! :wtf:

Heh, I hope they turn out that good... :stoned:

He has another question...I hope its not too many!

Since they take about an hour and a half to kick in, we have been smoking 2-3 bowls right after taking them. Do you think we should stop doing that to notice their effectiveness? For both of us, our high has usually worn off an hour or two later anyway, so we didn't know how much it would matter.

Thanks for all your help!!

[Weedhound]

I'm not really sure what to tell you about that. I honestly have never had a problem telling between an "eating" high and a "smoking" high. To me they are pretty different so I smoke while waiting for the high to kick in but I'm not sure I would if you are trying to test the effectiveness of the capsules. Otherwise.....heck yeah! That's what its for right?

Also....once the pills kick into effect....I tend to simply forget to take a toke or two because I'm already where I want to be so I end up not smoking after awhile anyway. Does that make sense? :stoned: