Extraction dosage portions mg and stuff

[bad dragon bzzz]

ahh yes i see you last post in green dragon thread,sorry i dont know much about it just saw a few utube vids thats about it.
good luck

 

[budelee]

ahh yes i see you last post in green dragon thread,sorry i dont know much about it just saw a few utube vids thats about it.
good luck

Hey archie, are you looking for alternative ways than eth/iso for tinctures??? I have a VG recipe in the beyind buds book by Ed Rosenthal, if you want i can post it

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

cheers budelee @KonopCh seems to be struggling with tinctures,maybe they would like the recipe.

 

[Aunty Edna]

@archie gemmill ahhh, I know green dragon. That orange color just confused me, because I get dark green one everytime.

Me too. Something strange is going on with your coconut oil there Archie.
It looks like vegetable oil, I'm not sure how you made coconut oil look like that.

 

[Hippy_BiotabsF70]

i only made edibles once,coconut oil and 20g decarbed bud.
i saw someone on youtube eat some canna coconut oil raw,i cant get it close my nose.i tried a spoonfull in some hot chocolate,never again.
so thought of caps,but never got round to getting them.
in the meantime i got a thinking,in the legal states edidbles are measured in mg but we cant test to know what mg are in our edibles.
a bit of homework tells me 1g is 1000mg and if the weed i used was guesstimated at 12%thc
so the 20g of bud contains 2400mg of thc.but the bud is gone now so the 200g of coconut oil now has a total 2400mg of thc.
is this bumf information,or maybe only usefull as a baseline or starting point to further experiments in the kitchen.

Hey mate, I believe your figures are way off. The 12% THC content is not by weight or volume of the product. Its the percentage of active ingredients. So with weed that is 12% THC, 12% of the active ingredients in it are THC. Not 12% of the weight of the piece of weed.

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

thats it solid.it has been through 150/75/25 micron filters so it wont be as cloudy as other oils.
i made the cock up of converting to the oil not the weed at the start and confused myself.
i understand the thc% but i was trying to convert it to a rough MG measurement.
if i was in usa and had 1g of weed tested at 12.5% thc that 1g has 12.5mg of thc in it...no? thats how the weed shop is able to sell a 50mg cookie,by putting 4g of that weed tested at 12.5%thc in it...am i way off the mark?

 

[Hippy_BiotabsF70]

Yes mate you're way off. THC percentage is NOT by weight. Thats a fact. You are gonna struggle to work out mg's of THC full stop.

The weed shop isn't able to sell a 50mg cookie with any confidence or accuracy at all IMO. I have seen many instances of edibles being tested and the results can be out by a magnitude of 10, either high or low. So a 50mg cookie had anything from 5mg to potentially 500mg. I think in most instances the doses are low though. It's a total lottery mate. But the strength of edibles (% THC) is far from being scientific thats for sure.

THC % is the percentage of active ingredients that are THC.

An example: If you make bubble hash with some 20% THC weed you MIGHT if you're VERY LUCKY get a 20% return. So 10g of weed could on a good day give you 2g of bubble hash, which is fairly close to being just trichomes. So that would appear to be 20% weed = 20% THC right? But its not, because trichomes aren't made of THC. THC is just one of the many constituents of trichomes and only make up a certain percentage by weight.

Hope that helps mate, but I'm no good at explaining things sorry. @Dr. Babnik would probably be able to explain better. I believe trichs are made up of all sorts of things like amino acids etc, but I have no idea what percentage by weight of the trichomes is actually THC.

 

[Hippy_BiotabsF70]

If you can get weed thats 12.5% THC by weight, buy as much as you can because it will literally blow your head off!

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

ahh haa i think ive got you now.so even if there is a lab report/printout/label on an edible package,that report actually relates to the raw material used,not the end result.as you say the end result can be +/- a guesstimate at best.
waxes,lipeds the shell coating would all have a certain weight to.so even in the shops the mg measurements are a rough conversion not a true lab report as i thought.
they should really highlight that.
an extract or concentrate of that same bud would have to be tested again in order to give an true reading.
i think i have my head round it now,cheers hippy.

 

[Hippy_BiotabsF70]

I saw a film where they tested loads of edibles bought in CA mate and the results were mental!

Don't suppose you've seen the Joe Rogan sketch about THC jelly babies I think it is? Very funny. He goes on about how eating a candy shouldn't mess with your soul! A jibe at the unknown strengths on offer.