Just some additional info from personal experience, so ymmv, that said there are things that will impact your final product, first and foremost starts with strain selection, being that you are looking for something more heady I would look at sativa or sativa dominant strains, I’ve had good results with strains that have a proclivity towards alpha-pinene or limonene. Second is when you harvest, don’t wait until everything is completely amber, just a little earlier is better than too late when your looking to avoid a more sedative vibe.
Then moving on to decarboxylation, more heat = comfier couch, so just enough to accomplish the task, prolonged heating will push things farther into the body feel. I preform this step post extraction.
Lastly dosing, always go low and slow to start, this is especially true when you’ve made up a new batch of oil or tincture unless of course if you have access to lab results and then you’ll just need to do the math, remember overindulgence will also find you on the couch or worse...
I utilize coconut oil for edible infusion and always add lecithin as it aids in emulsification as well as absorption. I look to get approximately 1400 mg per tablespoon of oil, this may seem excessive to some but it gives you the most options since being highly concentrated it can be diluted to adjust to the proper fat content of a recipe, also as a side note since the volume increases with the addition of the extract the rough math comes out to about 1000mg per tablespoon of finished infusion.
We are on the low side of the tolerance scale here at home so the typical target dose per serving is 25mg, 3 drops sublingually of the above ratio is enough to know how close we are to the target and then it’s just a matter of adding additional oil if needed.
A heads up, when working with highly concentrated products don’t get it all over your skin as it will be absorbed.
The pic is of the gummies made about a week ago.
