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Decarboxylation

Can't believe this post came up yesterday! I've been on line for hours this morning looking for "best practices" on decarb times, temps, etc...and finally did a search here. I should be ashamed.

My current question is whether I can use the mason jars as I would in canning tomatoes. I do have a food saver (haven't used it in years but it may become my new toy!) and I could do that. Do you leave some space for expansion in the bag or vacuum it right down flat?

If I can use the old wet bath canning process do you leave the water below the rims in case of leakage or stick to 1/2" above the rim and tighten pretty good?

With the bag I assume no smell?
 

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I've noticed while using a search engine on this topic many GWE links pop up. And in forums I'm directed to GWE and/or the forum is referenced. So good job to all of you! Off topic but I found it to be nice.

So, back on topic. In a recent thread Mr. Furley posted the boiling temps of many cannabinoids and of course I can't find it right now. It has thc and cbd about 20 degrees apart. CBD being higher. Roughly 240 and 260 F is where we need to be to get THCa and CBDa to convert if I'm remembering correctly. The many things I've read today kept coming back to smell, length of time and temperatures. The consensus I'm getting is the thc temp should be 240F for 45 minutes when using a mason jar/oven method. CBD seems to be less settled. But with Mr. Furley's information it seems that shooting for 260F at the same length of time would make sense. Or just add 15 minutes or so to the 240F time. If using thc strains for longer/hotter you may begin to degrade the thc.

Anyhow...I found this to be very informative. I must admit I read more of this post than I'd intended to. Quite good. https://forum.grasscity.com/threads...-youll-like-it.1102315/page-923#post-23884852

As far as a good old fashioned wet bath canning session I found this. https://www.rxleaf.com/decarb-youre-probably-doing-it-wrong/ Under the heading about cannabinoid loss is the answer to my question on canning equipment use.

We have a grandson currently living with us but he should be away for a few days eating turkey. I'm trying to get all of my turduckens in a row now as I'm thinking it will be a good time to play and if it gets stinky so be it.

Wife thinks I'm nuts (she is right) but I'll probably run a wet one and two in the oven. One each cbd and thc in each. Hey once the oven is hot and water is boiling no sense wasting heat.
 
the bag wont smell and you should vacuum seal with absolutely no air inside, once its hot enough, the weed will release the moisture it has inside in the form of vapor so the bag will kinda become a bit swell during the process but when you let it cool down it goes back inside the buds
 
That Foodsaver bag has zero smell as does the Ardent Nova. And as you have one, you know those bags are more than durable. Watch the color change too...it goes from olive drab to brownish
 
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