WOW WOW WOW!!!
I could not have read any better news over coffee this morning!
And a quick question, does your oncologist call your follow up "surveillance testing"? I know what you had is far different than me because of the metastasizing, but these medical terms are starting to confuse me. LOL
I agree it is the people around us that have to pay the most for our issues with PTSD... There is no doubt if my fella didn't work on the road we would have never made it this far... Not because of him.... because of me...
.... We have been together so long now he does know how to deal with me when I'm having one of "my days"... but I am not foolish enough to think they don't affect him too and I don't think anyone could deal with me 24/7 365 days a year..
. It's hard to be on either side of PTSD and I hope she finds her way back to her family and that you have the strength to carry on if she doesn't......
Hello,
I don't know how i missed this thread while i was researching for the cure.
Here are my question as it was very very lengthy thread i thought after reading 4 pages to directly ask something
Question Regarding Oil Extraction
1) In our country there is no such thing as Grain Alcohol in the super market or wine shop. It is totally banned. And max % of alcohol i can get in any whiskey is near about 10% (that is very costly though)
So Grain Alcohol is out of question
2) I also saw that Rick uses chemical to extract the med from the plant material. I also can't find the same (light naptha). It is also banned. So i tried searching Paint Thinners well that too didn't have much info regarding the chem. Or i can say it is not light naptha.
So Light Naptha Out of question
3) I heared Coconut oil alone will be sufficient. Is that true ? I saw several videos of "Bad kitty smiles" who is pro on the subject. She says that "Coconut oil help adsorption" and it make potent oil. In one of her video she show how to make the oil. And do like the method and i feel it is the most safest of all. But i do not have any testimony on if that will work for cancer.
Please can you guide me in my situation as i do not have Alcohol to work with + No Light Naptha (benzine). So only option (i think) is coconut oil. Am i missing some other options ? which are tested and works with cancer and other health problems ?
Question Regarding Grow and harvest
FYI - My aim is to make all rounder medicine for donating purpose to people in need.I have never tasted or seen a marijuana thing in my life. The thing is banned in my country (as of others). So from childhood we kept very very distant from it. So using it Medicinally require certain knowledge about the plant, flower bud, trims etc which i do not possess.
The only method by which i can make the med is by growing myself. I cannot grow organically as it is very complicated and i can't control it. But hydroponics is my way so here are the question..
1) Which strain works on all think like seizure, tumour, brain cancer, lung cancer, epilipsy (now what is that. i will google), arthrithis, simple headaches. If different strain please mention them.
FYI - currently i will work with Northern light from nirvana as i heard from rick that he used this strain. Also it is Low odour as i read so it will be safe for me not getting caught.
2) Now Which method is best for making med grow ? (hydro, soil, organic)
3) Which part of the Plant is used in the process or for medicinal purpose ? The Frostly Leafs, Bud (this is flower right ?), stem, branches etc
4) I heared that eating / juicing 4-5 leafs regularly will provide sufficient suppliment to your body (the plant gender doesn't matter in this). So is it correct ? we can use it as supplement to avoid multi vitamins ?
5) Harvest...(big question) ... So for making oil how exactly should one work in the flowering period ? Should one wait till the trichoma become fully/partially milky, fully/partially amber ? Shall one dry and cure the flowers (also any thing else ?) as people do for smoking ? or what exactly is the method for harvesting for making/extracting oil?
Couple of grams short of an 1 1/2 oz should produce about 6 grams if everything went well and the potency is good. If the alcohol is around 90-92% I run 2.5 qwet's to get the same pull with 98% +. Good idea to pour some alcohol through the distiller to get all the goodies out. It will dissipate doing the decarb. This is why food grade alcohol rules. It allows you to get all the left over oil where it needs to go. When I'm done cooking down the oil I add a couple of cap fulls of alcohol to the cooker, use a silicone spatula stir it around to pick up any left over oil and pour that into the ss cup before decarbing. I normally get about a 1/2 gram of oil left in the cooker that use to get cleaned away.
Congratulations on the first batch. Its a learning curve. It always gets better. Less boo boo's happen. Soon you will be a jedi master. I love the smell when its decarbing. So much so I was thinking of making a cologne out of it. The smell attracts the wife
Made some Bubba Kush oil last night. Now she has a nighttime oil to go with the Apollo13xVortex Oil I made last time. She is going to try it this weekend. She is still worried she will feel high and doesn't want to have to work the next day.
And big congrats from me too Hiker! You got one under your belt, you'll be an oiler pro soon.
Hiker I bet it feels good to have the first batch done.
Congrats Hiker!!!!
Congrats Hiker on your first batch of oil.... I am so looking forward to being able to say I have made it through my first batch......
. You have earned the nickname 'The Prof'.Funny, we made the same nighttime oil the same time. LOL at the filtering process. It is the longest process, sometimes I do a double filter. The QWET is the part to master all else is easy. Batch #2 is now under my belt.
As far as rinsing the distiller, I think I may not be cooking down as far as you do with the rice cooker. Since I can't see inside my distiller, I just watch the recovery jar, and when it's close to the amount I put in, I stop. I left 4+ oz of alcohol in there last night. This let me pour it out pretty cleanly. I haven't even bothered to clean the distiller as there is very little residue left. I don't mind if there is a tiny bit of contamination between strains/batches. I only have one distiller, so they have to share.
I am basically using the 'decarb' step as a final purge. I poured the remaining liquid from the distiller into the measuring cup and cooked that down in the double boiler. Worked great!
I even ran it through another coffee filter between the first and second purge as I thought I saw some debris in the liquid.
It's true that after a couple runs, I now understand the process pretty well. I did take a LOT of lab science in college, so that might help too.
Thanks again
I got TWO under my belt now
Feels better to have the second batch done. It's amazing how much smoother things went the second time. Of course I did spill a little (again), but I'll get better at it.
It's pretty easy. Hiker's short version of how to make oil:
Make everything cold. Wash material with oil. Filter oil infused alcohol. Boil off alcohol (recovery optional). Decarb.
The filtering is, by FAR, the longest step.
Best news I've heard in awhile.
That is awesome! I was a wildlife biology major when I started college. Reptiles and amphibians being my preference, but now I have a new found appreciate for frogs!
I hope everything else works out well. I'm so happy your health is better. I like Motoco's reference to Curly in City Slickers. Find your 1 thing.
Don't people use IPA? I know it's not the ideal, but if you can get some high purity 95%+ IPA, wouldn't that work?
I've decided this is definitely a Winter task, so I'll be stockpiling oil for the next couple months. I'm too OCD and would have a hard time doing this when it was warm. I like working inside a freezer. I kept the buds and alcohol in the freezer overnight, but to 'pre chill' everything else, I just set them outside for a half hour 
