Ok, I went and picked up some Virgin Coconut Oil. They did have extra virgin, but I was unsure and now that I'm home I have found out I should have opted for the other jar at twice the price.

Should I return what I have or is it similar enough to work? For what it's worth, it says this on the lable: Certified Organic Virgin Coconut Oil. Cold-pressed and unrefined. 100% pure.

After I get this figured out, I just need some bud. Hopin to experiment with a 1/4 of schwag only I'll use 2g instead of 1.5g because of it's lower potency obviously.

If it were me I'd use it...........I had an earlier recipe that I used olive oil with so I think you'll probably be fine with it.

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Awesome. Returning a food item just seems kind of odd to me.

Thanks,
Jay

extra virgin coconut oil is the same exact thing as virgin coconut oil. companys just use extra to make it sound better.

Not quite true. Extra virgin means first pressing. Virgin does not. In theory, there shouldn't be much of a change, not relative to the caps. The different tiering is because of flavor.

wow
i am definitely going to try this

Greetings everybody. I stumbled on this post a few days ago while doing general internet hopping and was entranced. I've been looking for something like this for years and excited to give it a shot. My current stash is pretty small, barely enough for 24 caps so I am only commiting half of it to the experiment, but I have it simmering in the slow cooker at 105C as we speak and figure to give it 2 1/2 hours and see how it goes. Here's hoping it works as well as I hope it does since thats my last bit of bud for a while (hate moving to a new city, dontcha?).



AAAAAnyway, just wanted to say hi and thanks now that I got in the goodies to try this out, and hopefully I'll have some good news to post soon.

bummer.. well I just wasted less than a gram, trying to do a single dose with just coconut oil and already dry and decarbed weed. It simmered in oil around the 90-95 C degree mark for about 4-5 hrs. Nothing came of it I assume. I took it a little less than half an hr ago and just finished smoking so I dont know what to look for lol.

if this doesn't work I'll assume that this temperature is not optimal for me.

Awesome how to Flameon, thanks!

Also found some "pure cooking fat" in the parents fridge. Looks almost like white wax (checked already, it isn't). How well do you think it'd work?

Well, sadly my first go was a no go. I havent put all the material into caps yet, in case this happened, but I consumed about 3 doses worth and felt nothing. Going to scrape whats left up, put it back in, and cook it at a higher temp and see if this helps.

Genomerio, what temp did you have it at and what temp are you going to try next?

My first shot was between 90C and 105C, although I did open it 3 times to stir. This is kind of the low temp range but I figured I'd play it semi-safe since I dont have too much material to play with right now.

My second shot I am trying to reheat the mix to 120C for 2 hours.

As a side note, this shit is the funkiest smell I have ever smelled. Not bad mind you, just weird. That coconut candy and pot smell is out there.

The medium setting on mine is 85c. So I was going to try my first batch at that temp. I forget what the high setting is, but it is over 100c. If medium does not work I will put them in at high and see if that helps. From the sounds of it 85c should be plenty. Although a lot of people seem to need more heat. Maybe I'll just cook it at 85c for a few hours then dump half onto a plate for cooling and let the other half sit at high for probably another hour.

Good luck on your second shot. Hopefully I'll get my first shot at it today or tomorrow. I just don't have a scale, any chain stores I can go to to find something like that? Otherwise I'll have to get one off e-bay, and I don't really want to wait another week to do this. Although, I guess I will if I have to.

Well, secind try changed thigns a bit, but not enough. I took 2 caps this morning and after 2 1/2 hours felt nothing. So I tried another 3 caps, and waited 2 more hours. I felt a slight sensation like after smoking where your slightly stoned, but nothing more. I smoked a small amount, basically a 1 hitter bowl, and got much more stoned than usual, and for far longer. It wasnt a huge feeling after a couple hours, but it stayed there for a good 6-7 hours.

So more heat definitely improved things, however I am out of bud so for now I will have to pause my attempts. If your weed is anything like mine, 85C isnt gonna be enough to do it, it would seem.

Geno, what are you using? I'll be using Keif.

High EveryOne! New to this site,not new to High Times. . tried the THC extraction into butter using the crock-pot with overnight cooking of leaf/shake, used about (this dates me) three fingers of weed, ground in the blender.Cooked on stove, lowest setting too high, switched to crockpot on low, cooked 22 hours. After whole process, had about 1c. of cannabutter. I used 1/2 c for some banana-pecan 'jewel' muffins, adding 2 Tablespoons of leftover groundshake, and also made brownies (from a mix) substituting 1/3 c. cannabutter for oil--I remelted it. Four little muffins, or three very small brownies, that gets me a 'mind' high (not just a body high), kinda haven't decided how I feel about it. Still have some butter left in freezer, got lots of capsules left from my failed chemistry extraction of morning glory seeds, so I think I'll make some up. . . Thanks Guys, going on vacation. . PatchouliOne

Jay, it was suposed to be good stuff, but smoking it, I think it was decent mids at most. Who knows what the next batch will be as I need to find someone local to me, or fly to FL.

I'm giving it my first shot right now. I took all the Keif I got from my 1/8 and threw it in some coconut oil so it looked as to be a good mix. I didn't measure or anything, because I'm mostly experimenting to see what will happen. Mostly because it seems as though there is no tried and true method that works for everyone.

I put them in the crock at 125c and turned it on to high so it will gradually get warmer throughout the hour. At the hour I will pull them out, cool them and then make some caps. Not sure how many this will make, but I'm assuming about 5 or so? I might add a little more coconut oil about halfway through the cooking depending on how I think it's looking.

I will have to wait till after work to try these. So tonight I will let everyone know how my caps turn out. So in about 12 hours I should have some info on how my try at it goes. Let's hope for the best.

Props to Flame man. Cost efficient while getting higher
good stuff im gonna have to try it out. cant wait till 420.
im gonna have to make some for that special day!
By the Way Has Anybody found Any Capsules in Stores rather than Using the Internet????? I'd rather not wait on the shipping because i want to start makin these little capsules soon.

Hi,

I have found the capsules at Wholefoods and at local health food stores. In a pinch you can go to Walmart and get a bottle of something cheap from the vitamin or supplement department I have gotten the niacin caps for around $2 for 100 and empty them out.

I have been following this thread for weeks and taking notes on those who have had success and those who havent. Many people who are using swchag and mids seem to be having more problems with the pills not working than those who start off with hash or high quality meds. Also those with the most success closely monitor temperatures and follow instructions.

I ordered all my stuff through amazon, including a digital thermonitor so I can track the temp throughout the cooking process. I used 1.5 grams of average hash and .5 gram of good stuff.

Before even doing it for real I did a practice run, running the crockpot a few hours with wesson oil in a small purex cup. I took notes on temps and wrote them down at different time intervals.

Once I knew how my crock pot worked, I started with the real deal. Ran it on high for an hour, then lowered it to low once it was hot. The mixture got to a high of 258 degrees and never dropped below190 degrees. AN hour and 15 minutes later the cooling process began. I loaded my pills in the caddy that came with them with the exact baby medicine dropper that flame used. I filled 24 capsules, despite dropping some mixture and making a little mess.

took my first pill at 6:45 and two hours later was feeling REALLY GOOD! It was a combination couchlock with a nice haze. went to bed at 10:30 and it was really going. WOke up at 6 am for work and still had a slight buzz until about 9:30 a.m.! Flame you are the man!

Ok, so I bit for this one and tried it out last night. .8g fine dried hand ground herbs, 4.6g virgin coconut oil. Simmered for about 2.5 hours on 200F in a toaster oven. I found the miniature non stick muffin tray icluded to be perfect for the oil. Anyway, made the thing, color looked ok I guess but after about an an hour and forty five minutes, only a few giggles, and it was too late to stay up any longer. I do remember feeling funny before bed, sleeping like a baby, and having some vivid cool dreams...

Tonight I cooked up a couple more mini batches each in their own tin- .5 gram and a teaspoon of coconut oil- just lake flame said in other posts. This time I used a coffe grinder to prepare my material and made it nice and powdery. I put it in the oven at about 200F for like 3 minutes to 'activate' it first, then ground it up after making sure it was .5g dry weight. I lost a little weight in the grind, so I added some hand ground flakes to one of the batches to compensate. This time cooked on about 240-240F for about 2hrs 20mins, and in refrigerator now. I was afraid to vape my shit on accident, so I tried to calibrate the temperature by testing where I had to get the know to to heat a pan up enought to sizzle droplets of water, then I gave it a little more juice and ended up a little ways before the 250F mark. Also this time I put the toaster oven broiler pan over the muffin tin to protect it from direct overheating since theirs some sort of quartz or ceramic heating rod emements on the top AND bottom of this thing. I will admit both times it was somewhat smelly, but not like an herb sense, more like just smelling 'something'. Anyway, will follow up with more...

Check out some pics of (someone elses) first batch:

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It only took an hour for my wife. She took one at 4:45, called me at 5:45 and told me everything in the world is A OK! I got home at 6:30 and she is passed out cold in bed snoring away. It was a knockout for her.

This is only my first batch but I feel the key is using pretty decent hash. 2 g of different kinds of hash made 24 full pills. I scraped the mess i spilled and was able to get a 25th. I figured they only cost about $2.10 cents each. Freaking great.

I have 3.3 grams of purple kush hash. Cant wait to make 39 more pieces of heaven!

No dice. Didn't work the way it should have. I'm guessing it is mostly because of the fact that I did not cook them correctly. I took three of them and did not feel one single thing. I felt some sort of floaty feeling pop up halfway through posting this, but I think that was just a placebo type of thing from thinking about it. That and it seemed to have gone away right away.

I'm not too disappointed, because I kind of rushed it. I have a scale on order, so I wasn't able to weigh anything. I barely even cooked it for an hour. I had to go to work and I wanted to have them for when I got off. Unfortunately, it ended up being just as good as not having them.

Time to grab my batty and give this cooking thing another shot. Only this time it's already been cooking for 2 and a half hours.

so, i just started my first plant, it is about 1in tall and has it's first pair of "real leaves". I have 1 60w plant light about 1" away from the plant. Is this too close, it doesn't seem to be burning or stressing the plant. Should i have a higher watt light? i've read a lot of people having 200 and 400w bulbs. Also, can I begin fertelizing my plant this early, and if so, what type should i use? Thanks