Making alcohol tincture first time~

So I ground up about my last 10 plants worth of popcorn buds and ended up with about 35g of decent product... Decarbed it as suggested on many of the tutorials I have read. It's been sitting in the freezer submerged in a pint of Everclear grain alcohol for 2 days. Now for the waiting game.
Out of curiosity I dipped my pinky in tonight and just coated the tip and put it in my mouth... It was so cold I couldn't really tell what it tasted like but it wasn't offensive. I am DEF feeling some effects... but not overwhelming... just kind of a mellow warmth throughout my head and extremities.
So I guess my question is... if a trace amount on my pinky is having slight effects... is it safe to say I'm on my way to a successful batch?? I dont know how much I tried but I'm thinking it has to be substantially less than a few drops from an eye dropper right??
anyway... any and all input always welcomed and appreciated
ty guys!!!

hmmm... kinda figured I'd get one response anyway...lol~

You are soaking buds in grain alcohol?
What will this accomplish?
Do you have a link to an article that you got this idea?

here is one of many that I read... the idea ultimately was to use this tincture to make hard candies~
http://patients4medicalmarijuana.wordpress.com/medical-use-of-cannabis-video/marijuana-tincture/

you can just search cannabis alcohol tincture and find MANY more articles... long story short, if done properly, you can just put a drop or two under your tongue to absorb arterially .... riding a cloud minutes later

i don't know about a few drops but a shot in a mixed drink should do the trick.

faller200 said:

i don't know about a few drops but a shot in a mixed drink should do the trick.

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lol... I've got 35+ grams of bud steeping in 16oz of Everclear... I think I'll start slowly with the eyedropper... a 2oz shot might put me in a coma if it comes out right!!! lol~

it's all good. So many ways to extract the goodness i have never done the grain alcohol method. I want the oil for smoking or ingesting. I have done the cooking oil extraction for baking brownies and cakes and such.

I've made the oil and butter with mixed results... probably because I was using inferior product... My hopes are "high" for this experiment because I used pretty decent bud... fluffy and not very pretty but should be leaps and bounds above what I've used in the past... fingers crossed

chewberto said:

Tinctures need to be decarboxylated to be effective.

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I had it all on a sheetpan @240 degrees for 45 minutes.... hopefully that did the trick

Sorry for some reason I didn't see that before. That works... That should be fine then

O wow, I never heard of this. I usually make hash with my trim and popcorn.. but I may have to give this a try once.

chewberto said:

Sorry for some reason I didn't see that before. That works... That should be fine then

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no worries and thank you for making the point in case I had missed it!!! I have read and read on the topic so I'm just hoping I get decent results... the little bit on my pinky made me think I'm definitely on the right track... will probably move up to the eyedropper in a week or so... the REAL test...lol~

ProHuman said:

O wow, I never heard of this. I usually make hash with my trim and popcorn.. but I may have to give this a try once.

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Kind of new to me too... My GF got some "jolly ranchers" from a dispensary and they were absolute fire... so I started looking into how to make my own

You going to filter it?

chewberto said:

You going to filter it?

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absolutely... supposedly after about 2 weeks the plant matter is completely stripped and is just useless waste in the jar... colorless, cannabinoid-less, crap...lol~

Sounds like you're doing just fine. if you can filter while it's still in the freezer would be best, if you didn't know.

chewberto said:

Sounds like you're doing just fine. if you can filter while it's still in the freezer would be best, if you didn't know.

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Its in a mason jar... the plan is to strap a couple of coffee filters around the top with a rubber band and transfer it into a new clean jar and then back into the freeze for storage

sounds like my first batch of tincture when I first came to the site, this will definitely work but there are better ways to make a more pristine tincture that will have no taste of chlorophyll, and will be a beautiful amber color

my best results from an alcohol tincture came from a frozen QWET wash that I evaporated into a piece of shatter like my avatar
from there I decarboxylate the extract, using a hot oil bath at 250F until the bubbles stop forming
at this point I dissolve the activated oil to my desired amount of alcohol..
then it is ready to go, always start small with does this way

http://skunkpharmresearch.com/qwet-extraction/

I made two batches of tincture for the first time yesterday. I read a variety of techniques and opinions (and are there a lot of them!), and this is what I did:

-chopped up my bud in my cuisinart
-decarbed it
-put it into a mason jar
-poured Everclear 181 over the top of it, covering it plus 1/2 inch over top
-stored in my closet to do its thing

Additional notes:
-There was tons o' kief clinging inside Cuisinart, so I scraped that as clean as I could - waste not want not.
-I read that if you were using fresh bud that the tincture would be stronger, so instead of 1/4" Everclear over top
of leaf/bud, I poured 1/2" . I will find out if this was a good idea in a few weeks.
-I scraped "a little" of the kief into each jar before adding the Everclear.
-One Jar was made w/ Agent Orange, the other Blueberry.

I can hardly wait until it's done!