well I found a good decarboxylation temperature with my oven at 225 for 5 minutes or so. doesn't go above 250 which is when some of the cannabinoids start boiling.

Could I also make large batches like master Wu's just with lemon extract?

ok, read the package...does the extract have a high alcohol content?
now read the instructions...do the instructions say to use something with a high alcohol content?

if the answer to both of these questions is yes then i think that you can do the math by yourself

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lol, yeah. damn I hate when I can't sleep. I have this back problem..

I didn't know that 75-80 percent is high alcohol content, since I thought 151 rum had more.

hm well I think I got it to kind of work with weak schwag ? except that I used some extract with propylene glycol, I bought 2 bottles of extract, one orange and one raspberry, thinking they were both the same but they weren't.

I just drank the whole thing, and I've been feeling something...

Hell yea! I know what I'm drinking for 420 lol. Anyway take care and who ever thought of this thread is a genius. Thanks Master Wu

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lol non - u crack me up man

I made a double batch a week ago and I've been in a haze ever since. Shit get's you wasted... I've been waking up high. Thanks, Master Wu.

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Bah! I baked about an 8th of good dank for exactly 5 mins until it smelled, put 2.5 oz of everclear and the weed into the mason jar for the water bath, and cooked it at about 166 or so(couldn't quite get up to 170) for 20 minutes. Strained it and pressed it out.. we only ended up getting like 9 ml of it and it wasn't potent at all =\

I feel like 'non' but it pisses me off because I followed directions perfectly! Did the 5 degrees really make all the different, you think?

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O.K. I just finished reading this whole thread, and I would love to try it. I have a bottle of Everclear (190 proof), and enough bud. I just had a couple quick questions. First, I have read all the steps but I seem to have missed the part on storing it. Are you able to save it, or do you have to drink it often? Second, Isn't this also a process for making honey oil? What's the differance between the two???

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ok, here it is, how does it look. . .

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Has anyone tested the potency over an extended amount of time? How long are you able to keep this stuff before or if it goes bad?

My first try at Green Dragon is a success. I used 2 oz. of Everclear, 1/8 oz of good bud. At 8:00 A.M. I mixed 1 gr. of Dragon with 1 shot of Mtn. Dew. I now have a nice, maintainable buzz going on now. Tomorrow morning I will try 1 1/2 gr. The experiment goes on.

nice!

damn i reallly wanan try this, but im just as curious as the people above me on storage times..how long can i keep it in the fridge before it separates? or does it separate at all?

cause damn, 30 hits of this shit sohould last at least like..30 days rite?:P i dont wanna be making a batch this size if it goes bad in like 2 days or something, you know?

anyone have personal experiences with this issue?

I've kept a batch around for 3 months and it still works fine. Just make sure you store in a dark place. Also, it never separates (as far as i can tell).

Ummm I didnt feel like reading past the first page, so I dont know how many times this question has been answered, but...

To the people curious of what a water bath is... Watch "Menace 2 Society" again. You get a saucepan and put a couple of inches of water in it and put it on the stove to simmer. Put your weed and alcohol in an uncapped mason jar and place the jar in the pan so that the heated water heats up the mason jar. Get it??


As far as the THC evaporating with the other vapors... substances that evaporate do so because they have been heated to their vaporizing point. Waters boiling point is 212F but it begins to steam much sooner than that. The vaporizing point of THC is about 375-380, and since the simmer is less than half that, no. The THC is safe from evaporating with the rest of the alcohol and water.

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By water bath I'm assuming that you put the mason jar of alcohol/weed in a boiling pot of water. Am I correct about this?

Man, if this stuff is really as potent as you would make it seem I'll have to try it.

But I won't be using Everclear, even though I could. It seems too dangerous to have that much Everclear near something that hot. Everclear is 95% alcohol (190 proof) for those who don't have it where they live. Very very very flammable.

Crap. I thought there was only one page of this. Well, I guess I will use Everclear if this many people have had success with it.

Also, while reading this topic I thought something. Some of the people here may be having problems because they are measuring the temp. of the water during the water bath process instead of the temp. of the weed/alcohol mix. It might be worth 2 or 3 degrees difference. Just a thought.

I am very surprised that no one has asked Master Wu to check his facts regarding the temps THC actually begins to vaporize.

He claims that THC begins to vaporize at 380F(195C). Well THC actually begins to vaporise from as low as 280F(140C). Hell my Volcano is set to vaporise at 360F(180C)!!!

I would strongly suggest that you should in fact use a temp below 280F to get the most out of your bud. Apart from this..It is an interesting thread.

hey i dont know where i read this, but i heard that i can use lemon extract instead of alcohol..is this true? I was grocery shopping and walked by a lil bottle of it and wanted to pick it up, but i wasnt sure if it would work or not...anyone know?

I just made a batch of GD with 4oz. of lemon extract and an 1/8oz. of chronic. It works but I need to concentrate it more so I plan on cooking the extract a bit longer and burning off some of the alcohol. I can't seem to find if anyone has had success with this or not.

i would like to know if you could cook the weed and then instead of cooking the mixture just let it sit for like 2 months stirring it every day?

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I finally tried Master Wu's recipe with no apparent results. I grinded my bud, baked it at 325 F precisely with a candy thermometer for 5 minutes. My buds got a little brown, but were still green enough to make me wonder if it was too short and/or too low temp. But according to Master Wu, 325 F, 5 minutes should be good!? Anyway, after, I put it in 2 oz of 94% alcool and let it simmers for 20 minutes at 170 F. It turned out to be 1 oz of a clean, green emerald solution after filtration on a 0,2 µM pore membrane (I work in a biotech lab, we frequently use that as a cold sterilisation method for some sensible solution).

The final liquid was free of any impurity but still ineffective with 4 ml after 1h. Damn. I think the pre-baking wasn't sufficient, the weed wasn't that brownish-green as one would expect. And i'm almost out of weed now after my two attemps at making GD. Gotta try again later this month when my weed inventory will allow me.

The first time I tryed it, I only had a meat thermometer, and 40% alcool, which wasn't ideal, but now...

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Has anyone tried this method with stems? About a month ago I placed about a half ounce of grinded stems into 120 proof tequila to cold distill it. According to the original poster, the cold extraction is less effective and since I used stems I'm afraid it will have been useless. I'm about to try it, I'll post my findings soon. In the meantime, anyone else tried this? Any good results?