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Has anyone tried making vape juice before

panalilies

panalilies

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Not sure if this is a strictly flower site or not, but has anyone ever tried making THC vape before? If so, how much flower did it take to make 1g vape? I like flower more, but my SO prefers vape. Id like to get him interested in growing with me by having this be beneficial to him as well (2k spent on vapes in the past 1.5 months alone)

Thanks in advance :)
 
I’ve done it a couple of times. Another member here has more experience using mtc*(not sure if that’s right). I’ve used vegetal glycerin and propenilglericol(again not sure)

its a a hard thing to do. Specially to get enough thc in there. I’ve used bho and was still too weak to be worth it. Using flowers you’ll get nothing. Imagine you are going to divide whatever you put into 200 pufs so you need a but load of ThC and the right chemicals to keep it dissolved in the e liquid. The main ingredient use to be pg 400 but now they’re mtc (short for something. Carbon chains, better solvent) it’s not worth your time. I know they’re fucking expensive but that’s cause you need expensive processes and equipment
 
I make cannabis oil after every harvest. The yield depends on

* how rich the plant is in oil.
* the extraction technique and how well it is executed
* the solvent used for extraction
* the number of extraction runs
* the method of purging the solvent from the oil


I am always hoping to get a 20% return on the flower weight (i.e., 28g of flower to yield 5.6g of oil).
 
I want the concentrate to look like this. It’s not vape juice. It could have been vape juice but I didn’t want that. Here the carrier is mostly purged and was not replaced with another carrier for juice
 

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is that like RSO? Im not well versed in the different forms of cannabis past flower and noticeable looking edibles lol. How do you tell how much oil a plant would have?
 
It's not like RSO or FECO. I have unpolite words for those two. I think they're disgusting but that's me. You can't tell how much oil is in the flower, not in quantitative sense. In a qualitative view you can tell how much oil is there .. sort of ... which sounds vague and it is. Sticky buds with a lot of frost will have oil. The stickier and frostier the better.
 
I want to walk that back. The typical way RSO or FECO is made is disgusting. If it's done right I am more than okay with it.
 
The only RSO Ive tried was Mag Landrace and it looked about that consistency, but I did not enjoy it. This plant I have is pretty sticky, but not very frost (compared to others Ive seen). It be just be more beneficial for him to buy his own and for me to just enjoy my flower lol
 
What's disgusting about RSO and FECO, and some edibles - the swampy taste, the taste of green. It's chlorophyll.

If your extraction process included super cooled flower and super cooled ethanol you can avoid that taste. The oil you extract won't have a discernable amount of chlorophyll in it.
 
I agree. I've made vape juice with the VG/PG blend too. While it works pretty good for vaping (using lower temperatures), it doesn't seem to be very potent. It's still an option but I just have to use more than a store bought cartridge.
 
I know peeps that make their own cartridges from oil but I don't know anyone who'd trade. Frankly it's a PITA to make your own imo, but alot of people do it.
 
My parents are the only other smokers I know that smoke vape, and they live in another state where any form of THC is illegal (id so trade them but it would take wayyy too long and too much effort). Most of my friends are either flower snobs themselves or prefer edibles so they dont have to deal with the smoke
 
Someone who likes bud might prefer to buy cartridges instead of dispensary weed and trade for the far superior home grown buds.
 
panalilies Did you get seeds in dispo weed? I'm in IL, I grew Mag last year, my first grow. The buds got sticky but not very frosty looking. I did get some nice kief from them while trimming. I made oil and vaped it in a used Verano cartridge during Jan/Feb. Mag oil is a deeper color than some others. I'm saving my best buds still, looking to get them pressed to see the yield and be able to do what I want with it from there. When I have time to make some more QWET I will let you know my yields.
 
Puglover1- i got my seeds from Iheartgrowingmarijuana.com. The dispensary has been really good about making sure no seeds get into the flower (but I did get one seed from them, just waiting to grow it). So far, Mag has been my favorite flower. I buy as much as I can of it at one time (I dont have an IL license so Im restricted in my amounts)
 
panalilies The first time I bought Mag Landrace it was called Mag Mile, I still have the container from 2016. I found 4 seeds total in 5 years but someone put the best one in a bag of old street weed seeds. I've bought more of their vapes than bud, depends on the bud batch's %. The tins of five .5 gram pre rolls were always a good buzz and good price. It's my favorite indica. During the Christmas sales I searched online and couldn't find Mag seeds for sale yet. Dispo told me they're making crosses, it won the 2020 high times IL cannabis cup. Are you in the south part of the state? I'm north central, right off I-80. I'd like to take a drive and check out other dispensaries one day, maybe Peoria, Chicago/suburbs are probably more expensive. If your SO goes through vapes that fast maybe they should dab. I bought a gram of Mag shatter once, it was nice. I converted that to vape-able oil, makes it about the half the price of buying a 1/2 gram cartridge.
 
Puglover1- I bought a lot of their 5 packs of prerolls- those made for an awesome high. Im right outside of Chicago, in the burbs. I go to Sunnyside and Curaleaf, depending on who has the best sales. Ive been buying the Ice Cream Indica lately since they have a really nice purple color to the buds. I got a 14g popcorn container for like $140 after tax with the 4/20 sale they were having, like 22% THC. How did you convert the shatter to vape oil? Sunnyside is having a spring sale on a couple of Verano shatters (no Mag tho :( ) The weed I bought from my plug before moving to dispensaries had tons of seeds in them, but I didnt get into growing until after I started going to the dispensaries, learning the names of the flower I was smoking

Edit: my plug also sold 1oz for $260, so it was fiscally better than the dispensary. But I like to know what i smoke now so I decided to grow myself instead of going back to whatever is available
 
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panalilies I put the shatter (or wax, whatever extract) into a small pyrex jar - I bought a dozen - in the oven to melt with a little wax thinner, I use pyur it has no pg or other nasties, it's hemp oil based. A little goes a long way so you don't lessen the potency much. Watch for bubbles. Use a blunt tip syringe to stir it and to suck it up to inject into a cart. Many videos, many versions of tech. I got this method off of an /r thread. Either clean carts or Oil but all of the options are listed with pros/cons and success rates.

I got a ride to a dr appt in Chicago Friday, the driver was cool. We were talking about the newer dispos in the Aurora and Naperville area, he's lives in Nville. He is rec so he stops wherever he happens to be driving for work - Morris, Ottawa, etc. Cake Mints pre rolls were at 35% recently, I buy those to try a new strain. The Soap was high % but I wouldn't buy quantity of it. Cake Mints in jars were lower %. The driver still buys his bud off the street bc of cost. He had a jar in the car, nice tight frosty little buds. He shared a blunt with me on the way home, I was stupid all night. My best male friend is 78 yrs old. He dropped his long time connection bc there's a local 'head shop' that sells as a 'club' and it's cheaper ... but not legal, AFAIK. You need someone to sponsor/vouch for you. I'd rather grow what I know I like and helps me. I used to buy 4 of those Mag tins at a time for my friend, his wife likes it.

Popcorn can be really good in size and price for half oz. I split an oz with a friend, got it at Morris. Ottawa is cheaper but less variety. Morris changed from Greenhouse to Curaleaf recently, I haven't been there in a while. If anyone has Wild Thai I'll drive for it. It's a sativa landrace that helps my pain the best. I buy Double Rainbow carts for mood, they last me a while. And Sundae Driver for a change of pace, only if it's on a deal. After experimenting for 4 years and knowing what works when IL went legal rec Ottawa doesn't have what I want but their Arlington Heights facility had everything ... over 100 miles away.
 
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