Calling for volunteers for a leaf-cooking and consuming experiment.

[alltatup]

Excellent!!!

[alltatup]

Precisely. I cooked the leaves quite gently, and I don't know what I activated, but I sure did it.

[DingusKhan]

Nice! I'm going to try to repeat that too when I bring Jack out for her BIG defol (not too Mongol, this time) along with the trim from my current harvest and a little jar of ABV that I've been procrastinating using.

But how did your plant respond to their Dec 27th butchering? Could you post a pic? I'm a defoliator too, and wondering if I should back off a little.

[RosettaStoned]

I have never had luck with edibles either, homemade or dispensary

[facs_grow]

Alltat— first off let me apologize for the length of this post and that is not about making tea. I read a post you put up a few months ago about using your fan leaves for tea so I started saving mine. I knew there had to be a use for them other than the compost. I had already saved the trim from King Tut harvest and I started saving the fans that I trim off while defoliating. The trim was in a paper bag in the freezer and the l just started tossing the fans on a shelf to dry. When I flipped the switch to 12/12 on my current grow Dec 27th I butchered them (trying something new) I trimmed off every fan leaf that had a stem that I could get my clippers on. They were some sad looking girls by the time I got done.
Two weekends ago I finished drying the previously frozen trim and the pile of leaves in the oven at 170F - when they were nice and dry I crunched them up and decarbed them at 240F for another 40 minutes. I don’t have a scale so I don’t know the weight of the finished product but it was 2 cookie sheets with a pretty solid layer. After that I put them in the crockpot with a quart of water and 14oz coconut oil and let simmer for 18 hours. The wife wasn’t happy about that because it stunk the house to high heaven!! After cooking it down I strained it and put it in the fridge to separate and solidify. I took the layer of oil off the top and put it back in the jar. Last weekend I got a boxed brownie mix that called for 1/3 cup veg oil which I substituted with my coconut oil. Not knowing what to expect from the brownies we probably over indulged!! Holy sheep shit Batman we got f#<ked up!! But then it didn’t help that my son and I polished off half the pan waiting for it to kick in!! The strains are used were the King Tut trim And fan leaves from CBD Somango. CBD Durban and Blueberry. I will however try making some tea out of the last three Soon!!

[Campesino]

My wife and I are in.
Currently have plants in 3rd week of flower, so good supply.
I am less impacted by edibles than anyone I know, so I am not a good test subject, but if it is psychoactive at all, my wife will be flying. She eats one gummy bear and is stoned for 24 hours.

[D.A.A.S.69]

Morning Alltatup, You know I'm in. When do we start ???

[DingusKhan]

Uh...well...I will! I like greens and like being high as fuck haha. I have girls in week seven to trim from.

That. What she said.

My lights just went out an hour ago. I was going to wait until tonight, but Rosetta just changed my mind.

I'm doing this now, drawing the blinds and green-lighting it. I have a Jack Herer in almost week 3. How many leaves should one eat? How many is too many?

[Garrett]

So do the leaves have to be removed around week 2-3 of flower? And how many are you using?

[starramus]

I would give it a try, but my only source of leaves is a couple of boxes of trim from last fall. Since those leaves have not been frozen as per your methodology I suppose I would be exempt from this clinical trial. Maybe next fall I will give it a try.

[Californiakid]

Alltatup when I chopped my "mazar" that grew like a straight sativa, I put it straight into the freezer so later I could make hash. But lately I've been thinking about your experience lightly cooking some leaves. I figured that what I have is not the same material that you are talking about but maybe I use a little less. Someday I'll get the ardent machine so I can do more types of ingestion.
Looking forward to seeing everyone's experience.
Cheers

[Potted]

I'd give it a whirl,sounds better than tea! Cooks like spinach till wilted?

[RosettaStoned]

Uh...well...I will! I like greens and like being high as fuck haha. I have girls in week seven to trim from.

[alltatup]

I want to conduct some more experiments with eating the leaves off of the plants, and I need people outside of myself, well I guess that goes without saying.

I'm referring to the fresh, vital leaves and pinched growth tips--not the old, spent or funky-looking leaves.

The first time I did this, I used clippings from 6 different strains (plus a little from 2 more strains). I froze the clippings in freezer bags, pulled out a bunch at a time, and GENTLY SIMMERED in water and coconut oil for around 8 minutes. I DID NOT BOIL THEM. Then I consumed them on an empty stomach. Warning: these are some intensely-flavored dark leafy greens.

As I wrote originally, I got high when I did this on the last grow. These leaves came primarily from around week 2-3 of flower forward--the three-week trim, and then the leaves blocking bud sites or layering with other leaves. But I only saved the tender, youthful leaves, and I did NOT include leaves with lots of triches on them. Those went into paper bags to dry.

These leaves are incredibly potent and contain psychoactive compounds. Are there any volunteers?