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

[Bloooo]

Finally tried this process last night for the first time. First of all, I'd like to extend a world of big, squishy hugs to Flameon (<3) for providing the awesome instructions! THANK YOU!

This was so much fun, you guys. I think they turned out great. Probably not as potent as Flame's, but maybe. I didn't print the measurements and ended up with about 4 teaspoons of powdered bud to about 3/4 c of clarified butter. (Don't make me do conversion math after 20 hours of partying, please.) Also, the butter clarification could have been more thorough, but it wasn't too bad. We strained it through a paper towel.

One capsule seems to give a lighter buzz than I wanted, but lasted for hours. We ended up making about 50 capsules total. I gave 12 to my friend who has fibromyalgia. The rest I divvied up between all of us (about 5 each for them and keeping a huge, selfish number for myself since I masterminded the whole thing and since it was my weed, haha). Nicole helped me like we were lab partners and had an awesome time playing mad scientist, so she got 12 also.

I took another 1.5 capsules today (one was only half-filled for some reason) and I've had a sort of middle-grade, even buzz all day. It's really nice. Next batch, I plan to stick closer to Flameon's measurements for more potency, but all in all, I think my first batch is a great success. I am so excited and pleased with the whole process and the resulting capsules.

Here's a few pics:
2.5 hrs @ 175-200 degrees F

Filling up the capsules

Decided to start a jar of dragon juice. The stems and some leaf were ground up and mixed in. Brandy was all I had for this. Next time I'll use something with a higher alcohol content. I'm going to let that soak for a few weeks and see what happens.

Part of the THC butter was used for brownies

Again, big, big thanks to Flameon! :hippy::jointsmile::thumbsup::smokin:

[ehokid]

What is your process for decarbing? Just part of that time in the oven at 325? Or did you actually do a decarbing process?

Oh, and when you said that you had yours at 325 the whole time - how long was that?

To decarb it, I just broke it up as fine as possible and spread it out on a sheet of tinfoil and then put that into the oven at 325 for 20 minutes. Then I took it out and dumped it into clarified butter and then put that back into the oven at 325 for around 2 and a half hours.

[Bloooo]

I wanted to mention that if you have trouble finding the empty capsules, just go to Walmart and buy the cheapest herbal supplement in the size caps you want, making sure they're gelatine, and then just empty the capsules out by hand. Not ideal, but a good workaround. Make sure it's something like echinacea, something that won't hurt anyone if traces are left in the caps.

[wingedson]

I haven't hit the Ganja in 5 years, I got to a point in smoking where I just wasn't getting high and enjoying myself, it was more of a "I have to have it" kind of thing. My birthday is coming up in 9 days, so I thought I would celebrate with an eighter of some purple nugs a friend of mine grows. I am making some FlameOn style caps as we speak, the oil and herb is cookin away. Pan and bowl method, keep it at a real low simmer for about 2 and a half hours. I am tempted to take a toke while I cook. I am going to be ridiculously high if I do. I think it would be good to do before I take one of these caps though! Anyway I will let u know how it works. I don't want to smoke really, I am a singer, my voice is my instrument.:thumbsup:

[massivewhite]

So i got three questions that I hope anyone will feel free to answer.

My first question is how long do these capsules keep (should they be kept in the fridge or can you leave them out in room tempuratre), I assume they last a long time but i might be wrong, second is do they smell of weed, and third is what do you guys to with your steams and leaves?

The third one is more like a poll, personally I use them to make Green Dragon.

[AstronomyDomine]

Flameon, great recipe. This is the only one I've been using

[slightlystoopid27]

ya definately an awesome recipe. i tried it with about a half a gram of good quality weed and i stoned all day. no joke it started to hit me at 9 am and i was feeling it pretty good when i went to sleep wich was at 1130pm.

[Bloooo]

So i got three questions that I hope anyone will feel free to answer.

My first question is how long do these capsules keep (should they be kept in the fridge or can you leave them out in room tempuratre), I assume they last a long time but i might be wrong, second is do they smell of weed, and third is what do you guys to with your steams and leaves?

The third one is more like a poll, personally I use them to make Green Dragon.

I don't know how long they'll keep. I imagine it would be quite a while.

They can be kept at room temperature if you use gelatin capsules.

I use my stems and some leaf for dragon juice and smoke or vaporize some of the leaf.

[BurnhardLonger]

Wondering if the temp. goes up when u ad the bud to oil and HOW MUCH?!?!THANKS!!!
I had thought of the heat gun .Good to hear it works.Got a jig to hold a mason jar (small) .First time making caps. ,get ready now.

[Bizarz]

So seeing this thread made me join the website and try this out.

I know this is my first post so also Hello to all.

I modified the recipe a bit.

I used a tablespoon of ground up Ganja and a table spoon of coconut oil.

We used the slowcooker to get to 230 it took half an hour (that included melting the coconut oil and bring it up to temperature. I did this with the slow cooker on high.

We then put the dope in the oil and stirred it. I watched the temperature and on high it was a bit above 250. So I moved it to low and it sat at around 240 for the whole process.

We let it sit for 3 hours in toatal and stirred it on the hour.

After it was complete we transefered the oil into a teacup that we covered with aluminium foil. We then put it in the freezer.

We didn't have capsuls so the Foil allowed us to pull out the frozen oil and cut it into 8 even peices. We then had two each.

The results were quite nice, I was blasted until around 12 the next day. We took the oil around 6pm and it hit us about an hour and a half afterwards.

It was quite a pleasent experience, but we had smoked, drank and ate a bunch as well.

I will try it completly sober and update. Overall though it was excellent!