Alcohol Tincture

well by no means was i faceplanting on my keyboard, although i had a cup of coffee minutes after taking the tincture. i experienced a great body high that seemed to last from 10:30 am to 3:30 pm (about 5 hours) in this period of time i had absolutely no urge to smoke AT ALL!! when i felt the urge to smoke around 3:45 i assumed that the tincture was wearing off.

i think dosage is the main factor here. i dont believe that i have had a "failed" tincture, so it would be difficult for me to determine the differences in potency between methods at this point in time. i will have to do some testing to see weather 7 sprays from my atomizer is equal to, less ,or greater than one dropper full. then ill be able to determine which tincture is more potent to me.

Just a remider to dose small at first. One of the first times I was trying to figure out a good dose, I took 5 teaspoons which is 5 timmes more than a good 3 hour high. Anyway, ended up puking 2 hours later from nausea

purplehazin said:

Just a remider to dose small at first. One of the first times I was trying to figure out a good dose, I took 5 teaspoons which is 5 timmes more than a good 3 hour high. Anyway, ended up puking 2 hours later from nausea

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ah thanks for letting me know I have a feeling mines gonna be easily that strong... I put in about 2.5 oz of small buds from 4 strains, then about 2 grams of hash on top of that... letting it sit in a warm space that is producing equivalant heat to the sun on a brown paper bag... exposed to no light, sealed in a mason jar... shooken every day..

I'm pretty stoked though, hah.

poplars said:

ah thanks for letting me know I have a feeling mines gonna be easily that strong... I put in about 2.5 oz of small buds from 4 strains, then about 2 grams of hash on top of that... letting it sit in a warm space that is producing equivalant heat to the sun on a brown paper bag... exposed to no light, sealed in a mason jar... shooken every day..

I'm pretty stoked though, hah.

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Yeah that's going to be very strong, lol.

I also have a mason jar on day 25 or something using the regular method.

purplehazin said:

Yeah that's going to be very strong, lol.

I also have a mason jar on day 25 or something using the regular method.

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I'm just wondering wtf I can mix it with to effectively make it tolerable to drink. I don't think the sublingual method is gonna be best... likely best to just make a good mixed drink. I've heard cranberry juice is good but idk. any other suggestions?

poplars said:

I'm just wondering wtf I can mix it with to effectively make it tolerable to drink. I don't think the sublingual method is gonna be best... likely best to just make a good mixed drink. I've heard cranberry juice is good but idk. any other suggestions?

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Honestly I just mix 1 teaspoon in with any drink (even water). The ethanol destroys most of the taste anyway... Cranberry juice would be fine; you won't taste a thing.

ive put about 20 drops into a beer today and im feelin pretty nice! all i can taste is weed! its a great flavor, comparable to edibles made with canna butter.

Poplars, if you like coffee. put it in you cup with some good real milk creamer and sweeten to taste. I think the coffee mixture binds to the tincture and gets it into the system faster. I like about a 10ml shot under the tongue and and an equal amount in the coffee drink good for 7-8 hours.

i can confidently state that the tincture i made takes no where even close to 10 ml or if you put the same amount into your coffee 20 ml ?!?!?! for effect. if i remember right there is a little over 28 ml in one ounce, and one ounce in one shot. so you are basically taking 2/3 of a shot of 75%+ alcohol (possibly 98%), be careful, and dont drive when you do that LOL... my tincture takes around 1 ml for me to feel a VERY INTENSE BODY HIGH.

i guess personal tolerances and tincture potency play a factor any way you look at it.

(P.S) it does go very well with coffee

poplars said:

I'm just wondering wtf I can mix it with to effectively make it tolerable to drink. I don't think the sublingual method is gonna be best... likely best to just make a good mixed drink. I've heard cranberry juice is good but idk. any other suggestions?

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when i make a mixed drink with it, i add it to orange juice or acai berry or pomegranate juice... anything strong flavored is good... but not fizzy stuff, it just wreaks havoc on my stomach... welchs' grape, and or grape juice is another good option...

What can I say Steven. I did say that I do get off on it real good I can't say that I've tried to drive on it. I mostly sit around and read/listen to music.
A friend of mine took the same amount and it started affecting her within thirty minutes. It takes between 90-120 minutes for it to start hitting me.

OK, so I made my first attempt! I made the hot extracted tincture described on page 1 of this post. I did it exactly as described with a couple of exceptions... I used 1/4 of decent Mexi brick weed, ground fine. Baked at 325F for 5mins - very aromatic! Cooked in 4oz Everclear at 150 -165F for 20 minutes. Strained and squeezed through cheesecloth. End result was 2oz DARK GREEN, STRONG SMELLING stuff.

Now, I'm afraid to try it out... Not sure of a good initial dose. I know in the first thread he said one dropper would do, but I don't have a dropper and I don't know how big his dropper was...

OK, so 2oz is equal to 60ml right? If I was to smoke a quarter oz., I'd get at least 30 bong hits from it. So I guess using that twisted logic, I should start with an initial dose of 2ml. What do y'all think?

Oh, and the alcohol content is 128pf 64%. I make it myself

Alright, so 2ml was a light dose. I mean, I could feel it, but not really very high... I think next time I'll try 4ml. I put it in a couple of oz of cran-raspberry and drank it right down. Had an herbal flavor, kinda like strong raspberry tea.

rockfish, you get out of it what you put in... if you use schwag its never gonna be stronger than if someone used headstash or unpressed trichs... but if you cold extract w/ glycerine or alcohol, you will get a stronger product (as long as you are willing to wait for it)... if you water cure or blanch the buds you will have a less strong aromatic flavor but the same potency as if you didn't... did you happen to heat it up to decarboxylate (aka activate) the thc before you cooked it? sometimes that effects the strength as well...

nl3004.kind said:

rockfish, you get out of it what you put in... if you use schwag its never gonna be stronger than if someone used headstash or unpressed trichs... but if you cold extract w/ glycerine or alcohol, you will get a stronger product (as long as you are willing to wait for it)... if you water cure or blanch the buds you will have a less strong aromatic flavor but the same potency as if you didn't... did you happen to heat it up to decarboxylate (aka activate) the thc before you cooked it? sometimes that effects the strength as well...

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I don't understand why cold extraction makes it more effective... doesn't that require you to decarb the bud before you put it in? it seems that the warm method is the most efficient for strength.

it has everything to do with the amount of time: if you soak *ANYTHING* in a solvent for a short period of time it will extract a certain amount, if you soak it longer, it will extract more than that... the cold method takes approx 2 months (i've let it go as long a four, but i didn't like how long it took, and the flavor was very very strong)... one should decarb the bud for the short method, one should decarb it for the long method... i've tried it both ways and found that the effects seems stronger for the ones that i decarbed regardless of the methods used (either short or long)...

ah well I think the warm method is best for me..simple and ridiculously effective.

Yeah I get it, schwag in - schwag out. I wasn't trying to make it into something better than it was to start. I was hoping to get a similar number of doses from the tincture as I would from Vaping. It doesn't look like it will make that mark. It will work for a dose on the go or for times when vaping is not practical or undesirable. Overall, I think the experiment was successful for me even if the final product wasn't all I had hoped. I'd like to get a little personal grow going soon and improve the quality of the starting product Then, I would just need to improve the extraction technique and I'll be golden!

P.S. I baked the ground bud for 5 minutes at 325F as described in the initial post. I had believed that this step was to decarb the product, is that not correct?

~rock~

nope, that would do it...
since you're gonna grow for yourself, you may want to consider using your own hash, it will dramatically increase the quality of the end product...

water hash, ice hash, iso hash, alk tink reduced to oil, bho: anything will work...