do i dry my trimmings?

what do i do with my trimmed leaves? do i let them dry, then refrigerate, or refrigerate while still fresh? the plan is to make cannabutter

Dry them so the chlorophyll taste won't be so bad.

dry it first so you don't get the Chlorophyll taste in the lovely butter






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If you're extracting oil, a short bake at ~200 f works. If you are just tossing ground up trim in butter and simmering, it will taste better if you dry for a while like you do bud.

I dry them crisp in the oven @ 100* C. Then i late them soak in the hot butter letting the butter go inside lige a sponge. Just don't know if it works better than else, but it definitely also works so i do it like that every time. (if i make very very high quality butter i just grind some cured bud from the jar). Remember that butter will only get as good as the stuff you put in it - try making the good stuff - a really pleasant and long lasting high - not a waste at ALL ;O))

good info. i'm also planning to make cannabutter with my first trim... what's the best way to dry trim / sugar leaves?

homer371 said:

good info. i'm also planning to make cannabutter with my first trim... what's the best way to dry trim / sugar leaves?

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I just dry them pretty slowly (almost like the bud) I just put it all on a page from a paper and put it in a small pile that i turn every now and then. This makes the leaf cure and taste pretty well. But for butter you can just dry it crisp in the oven @ 100*C. Even when it is dry i still put it in the oven untill completely crisp - then i can make it a fine powder just from crunching in my hand. - then i do what i wrote just above.

im making tinctures and capsuls this go around.. but screw the timmings man im using all buds..

umm umm good i like eddibles a bunch too..

I agree - it is WELL worth making edibles from great bud. Just the one way to get the very most out of a bud. But need to be carefull though. An edible OD can be VERY unpleasant.

Beautiful dog by the way Reggae!

Brimi said:

I agree - it is WELL worth making edibles from great bud. Just the one way to get the very most out of a bud. But need to be carefull though. An edible OD can be VERY unpleasant.

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lol edible OD? ive never had one, that has to be interesting! The closest ive ever gotten was a whole batch of brownies, a tincture, 3 marinol capsules, and a quarter of kush all in about 2 hours (was my first visit to a 'club'). Ill be honest, i was higher then than i ever have and probably ever will be again, and it wasn't an OD. It was a i 'i think iam getting tired....' followed by my head smashing onto the table i was at and proceeding to drool on myself for the next 3 hours.

I imagine the unpleasant edible OD your referring to is possible when the butter is a bit 'greener' than it should be?

KlosetKing said:

lol edible OD? ive never had one, that has to be interesting! The closest ive ever gotten was a whole batch of brownies, a tincture, 3 marinol capsules, and a quarter of kush all in about 2 hours (was my first visit to a 'club'). Ill be honest, i was higher then than i ever have and probably ever will be again, and it wasn't an OD. It was a i 'i think iam getting tired....' followed by my head smashing onto the table i was at and proceeding to drool on myself for the next 3 hours.

I imagine the unpleasant edible OD your referring to is possible when the butter is a bit 'greener' than it should be?

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So this is what i did to get an OD that lasted for days (it did). It was more like a long paranoia trip from eating some chokolate stuff with nuts made from Durban and Jack Herer haze pheno. So this is probably a criteria to get the OD - that you use only Sativa trippy stuff. I think Indica would have made a more pleasant high/stone. So first we ate like 2,5 grams worth of coconut oil (in chokolate milk). We had just eaten, so i didn't feel anything after one and a half hour. Now i just thought that i had even baked away the THC giving it too much heat in the oven or something, so i made another quick batch from more Durban and we ate another 3 grams each of that. Half hour later i started feeling something and it just kept getting stronger and stronger while i got the worst paranoia anciety trip ever. It took me several days to get over and i was seriously a little high a couple of days later - then make stuff worse i got a fever for a week and did still not dare trying to get high because i was afraid the paranoia feeling was there for good - so what happen is that i got straight from a giant OD into a giant UD (under doze ;O) ) Seriously worst 10 days of my life (i guess i have to be happy that this was the worst days of my life since a lot of people definitely experience worse stuff - so i am... happy ;O)) )
But for people who eat it for the first time i just say to be carefull and measure how much they are going to eat.

By the way - that amount of THC you ingested sounds pretty crazy. I smoke and vape super marijuana every day for 15 years so i'm pretty used to the stuff - but could definitely not eat that much weed.

So this is how i felt to explain further why i got so much respect for edibles. You know how you can get really focused on weird stuff when high. You get a great idea and can just focus. Imagine if you started focusing on how hard it is to breathe or what would happen if you got a stroke right now - that's the shit i was dealing with for a couple of days - NOT interesting i asure you ;O))

Brimi said:

Beautiful dog by the way Reggae!

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thanks brimi i get way more compliments on him than my grow..

and yes i agree an eddible hangover is not fun

i think i know what you mean now, especially with the dead 10 days after. if i do too much X in to small amount of time that happens to me, though ive never had weed do it to me all that much (it did at that club though, i felt that for days) so ya i get ya now. i thought you meant like upset stomach, puking, things like that, and in which i would have attributed it to bad butter or too much chlorophyll in it or something.

and ya, that night at the club was pretty intense. ive also been a pretty heavy smoker for about 12 years now give or take, and it was STILL an intense night. When i woke up i could barely walk, my eyes wouldn't stay open, and i don't think i had ever been hungrier! TBH, i think it was the marinol that kicked me over the edge. ive done the brownies and joints in similar amounts before and not had that effect. But it seems EVERY time i do marinol, it knocks me out if i take more than 2 caps.

reggaerican said:

thanks brimi i get way more compliments on him than my grow..

and yes i agree an eddible hangover is not fun

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I can tell why. I own a powder colored boerboel mastiff male - he's very beautifull too.
Yes - i really got a lesson there. Crazy that it can happen after that many year's of experience, but not that experienced when it comes to edibles ;O))

Sorry for taking the thread out of the subject - i'm pretty stoned right now. But guess the question has been answered too ;O)

KlosetKing said:

i think i know what you mean now, especially with the dead 10 days after. if i do too much X in to small amount of time that happens to me, though ive never had weed do it to me all that much (it did at that club though, i felt that for days) so ya i get ya now. i thought you meant like upset stomach, puking, things like that, and in which i would have attributed it to bad butter or too much chlorophyll in it or something.

and ya, that night at the club was pretty intense. ive also been a pretty heavy smoker for about 12 years now give or take, and it was STILL an intense night. When i woke up i could barely walk, my eyes wouldn't stay open, and i don't think i had ever been hungrier! TBH, i think it was the marinol that kicked me over the edge. ive done the brownies and joints in similar amounts before and not had that effect. But it seems EVERY time i do marinol, it knocks me out if i take more than 2 caps.

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Hehe ok. Yeah - nothing illness like that - just in my head. I think that Marinol only has THC in it and this is why you get trippy. A lot of medical marijuana users tell that it just doesn't work because it doesn't contain CBN, CBD and what else goodies we got. Often they claim it's too trippy too - a little like a very sativa bud that is early harvested. It's all in the head then.

yea man i made some eddibles once with 1lb of butter to 4oz of quality shake mixed with small buds.. WOW! my friends wife still hates me for the sack of shit those eddibles made my friend..

thanks for the drying trim advice. i'm gonna dry them nearby the buds, then oven-crisp, then grind, then make cannabutter.

and i've definitely eaten too much cannabutter (not sure if OD is the right word, because it's still not technically toxic). it's MUCH easier to eat too much than to smoke too much. how much butter can a person reasonably eat in one sitting? quarter batch of brownies? and considering how strong you can make said brownies, you could easily without even noticing eat 20 times more than you're used to smoking.

that's why, on a related note, when we pass prop 19 in california (and similar legalization measures in the near or medium term future around the country), there need to be very clear and consistent labels and content info on packaged edibles. i think.