Quote Originally Posted by Purple Banana
SHIT! I just forgot to bake my cannabis/kief in the oven for the THCA-THC thing... Will it convert if I water bath it?

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Actually, I think you can still save it. Master Wu did an experiment in which he used the 200F for 20 mins decarb process in the oven and compared it to his usual process where he used 325F for 5 mins. He didn't feel that 200F for 20 mins worked as well, so afterwards he cooked his GD for an hour or two and it got better. I've had GD lose potency over time, and after I heated it for an hour or so, it seemed like the high got better. I think the same thing will work for you.

My suggestion would be that you cook the whole mixture, weed and Everclear together, in the double boiler water bath setup for at least an hour, maybe two. I think that should decarboxylize it and maybe isomerize it a bit too.

  1. I use a pyrex cup. Put the weed and Everclear in the pyrex cup.
  2. Put an inch or two of water in a saucepan and bring it up to a gentle boil.
  3. Set the pyrex cup inside the saucepan so that the hot water comes up the side part way, but does not spill into the cup.
  4. Cover the saucepan with a lid. Or you could use Coelho's method of just covering the cup with a dish (or maybe aluminum foil) so that the alcohol returns to the liquid. I use the lid to keep the heat in and I just replenish the Everclear as it boils away. If you use a lid, be sure that the boil does not get too high inside the pan --- you just want a very gentle simmer.
  5. Keep the simmer going for an hour or two. Because you skipped the decarboxylization step, I would lean towards 2 hours.
  6. Monitor the simmer and the alcohol level in the cup. Do not let it overboil. And if the alcohol level drops, add more. As Coelho mentioned, if there is an oily ring, be sure to wash that with alcohol to keep it dissolved.
  7. After the two hours, strain out the good green dragon into another cup and save it.
  8. I like to do a second extraction by adding the strained out solids back into the original cup and adding some more fresh Everclear. Bring it up to temperature, but it is not necessary to boil it for so long, maybe just 10 or 15 minutes. Then stain that out and add the second extraction to the first.
  9. Figure out your dosing. Mix it into a drink. Chug it on down. And say Hi to Shamanic Hippie from us!
  10. Then post back and tell us how it was!


Good luck and have fun!