shredder4
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That's right capsules for medibles, and this includes weed, hash, rosin, rso, shatter, budder and whatever. They all can go in capsules, and they all should. I use gel caps and store them in the freezer although a refrigerator works fine as well. They can survive at room temps for a while but I don't recommend it. Veg caps don't hold up as well as gel caps, if you use them try to use them up fast.
BTW Shout out to @BadKittySmiles who taught us all this ten years ago. I've been making these that long.
So why capsules? Because they're discreet, convenient, have no taste, are easy to dose with, and they work well. Plus weed capsules have pretty much the same effects as smoking or vaping the same buds.
I use size 0 gel caps for concentrates and size 00 gel caps for weed. 00 size is what many supplements come in, and 0 caps are smaller. 00 caps hold .91ml and size 0 hold .68ml.
Since I said they're easy to dose with, here's how I do it. Lets throw out some random numbers. You have 12 grams of buds at 16% thc. (And while were at it don't use most dispensary numbers or breeder numbers for estimates. I generally use the lowest estimates I find and find those numbers show less surprises.) OK back to business, 16% means 160mg per gram, (16% of 1000mg) so 160 times 12 grams is 1920mg. Please note the 12 grams is after you decarb the buds, you can lose a few grams while decarbing, even if you pre dry the buds first.
So you have 1920mg to work with, but you want each cap to be 30mg. 1920mg divided by 30mg is 64, so you can make 64 doses at 30mg each. Still following me? It gets easier after a while.
64 doses using size 00 gel caps (.91ml) is 64 times .91ml and is 58.24ml. So you need to carefully measure your ingredients.
Your ingredients are decarbed buds ground post decarb into flower, dust, powder. The finer the grind the easier it will be to fill capsules with.
So into a graduated beaker (measuring cup works fine) find 58ml. Pour the weed powder into the beaker, followed by a dollop of liquid lecithin. (You can use powdered lecithin, but I recommend mixing the powdered lecithin in coconut oil first then adding that).
Now here's an important thing, be very careful not to add more total of everything than 58ml. So I like to pour a tiny amount of warmed coconut oil in on top the lecithin and weed powder and let that wet the powdered weed and I stir a little to help wet it. The weed absorbs the oil and volume will go down a little. Once it's mixed well I add warmed coconut oil to 58ml as marked on the beaker. If you get this part wrong, and it's easy to do, your numbers will no longer work.
Now it's a slurry and the beaker is filled to 58ml with a warmed up mix. I use a coffee warmer for heat. Coconut oil gets thinner and easier to work with when it's warm. At less than 76F it becomes a solid. Then to fill capsules I use a plastic pipette, and cut the tip back to make the opening bigger to allow sucking up the slurry easier than through a narrow opening. I stir every other cap or so to keep the mix consistent, as you go up in strength the mix gets thick and after 50mg or so, it gets too thick to work with. I fill caps by hand, fill one cap it and place it in a container sitting in ice cubes, today I used snow, lol. The cold underneath the container helps solidify the oil quicker than without. Don't get the capsules wet with water, they will melt, so keep them dry.
There you have it, if you measured correctly and consistently filled each cap to the same amount you should have 64 gel caps filled with weed at 30mg each. If you have more or less caps just divide the total thc number by the number of caps. You won't have lost any potency since your actually eating the weed itself, depending on your decarb ( I use a nova fx) you should have a fair amount of terpenes in each cap, but if desired you can add terpenes. When I do it's at one drop terpene per 10-12 capsules. I use sativa caps for sativa and likewise for indica. Some like blue dream has blue dream terpenes. I do thinking adding them is worth it.
It's basically the same with concentrates, decarb well, mix with oil and lecithin and put in caps. I use smaller caps for concentrates because you don't need the volume and can put more caps in the same size bottle. I bought pill bottles of amazon that I label. BTW everything but the weed can be bought on amazon, if you want one stop shopping, but they're not too hard to find elsewhere.
BTW Shout out to @BadKittySmiles who taught us all this ten years ago. I've been making these that long.
So why capsules? Because they're discreet, convenient, have no taste, are easy to dose with, and they work well. Plus weed capsules have pretty much the same effects as smoking or vaping the same buds.
I use size 0 gel caps for concentrates and size 00 gel caps for weed. 00 size is what many supplements come in, and 0 caps are smaller. 00 caps hold .91ml and size 0 hold .68ml.
Since I said they're easy to dose with, here's how I do it. Lets throw out some random numbers. You have 12 grams of buds at 16% thc. (And while were at it don't use most dispensary numbers or breeder numbers for estimates. I generally use the lowest estimates I find and find those numbers show less surprises.) OK back to business, 16% means 160mg per gram, (16% of 1000mg) so 160 times 12 grams is 1920mg. Please note the 12 grams is after you decarb the buds, you can lose a few grams while decarbing, even if you pre dry the buds first.
So you have 1920mg to work with, but you want each cap to be 30mg. 1920mg divided by 30mg is 64, so you can make 64 doses at 30mg each. Still following me? It gets easier after a while.
64 doses using size 00 gel caps (.91ml) is 64 times .91ml and is 58.24ml. So you need to carefully measure your ingredients.
Your ingredients are decarbed buds ground post decarb into flower, dust, powder. The finer the grind the easier it will be to fill capsules with.
So into a graduated beaker (measuring cup works fine) find 58ml. Pour the weed powder into the beaker, followed by a dollop of liquid lecithin. (You can use powdered lecithin, but I recommend mixing the powdered lecithin in coconut oil first then adding that).
Now here's an important thing, be very careful not to add more total of everything than 58ml. So I like to pour a tiny amount of warmed coconut oil in on top the lecithin and weed powder and let that wet the powdered weed and I stir a little to help wet it. The weed absorbs the oil and volume will go down a little. Once it's mixed well I add warmed coconut oil to 58ml as marked on the beaker. If you get this part wrong, and it's easy to do, your numbers will no longer work.
Now it's a slurry and the beaker is filled to 58ml with a warmed up mix. I use a coffee warmer for heat. Coconut oil gets thinner and easier to work with when it's warm. At less than 76F it becomes a solid. Then to fill capsules I use a plastic pipette, and cut the tip back to make the opening bigger to allow sucking up the slurry easier than through a narrow opening. I stir every other cap or so to keep the mix consistent, as you go up in strength the mix gets thick and after 50mg or so, it gets too thick to work with. I fill caps by hand, fill one cap it and place it in a container sitting in ice cubes, today I used snow, lol. The cold underneath the container helps solidify the oil quicker than without. Don't get the capsules wet with water, they will melt, so keep them dry.
There you have it, if you measured correctly and consistently filled each cap to the same amount you should have 64 gel caps filled with weed at 30mg each. If you have more or less caps just divide the total thc number by the number of caps. You won't have lost any potency since your actually eating the weed itself, depending on your decarb ( I use a nova fx) you should have a fair amount of terpenes in each cap, but if desired you can add terpenes. When I do it's at one drop terpene per 10-12 capsules. I use sativa caps for sativa and likewise for indica. Some like blue dream has blue dream terpenes. I do thinking adding them is worth it.
It's basically the same with concentrates, decarb well, mix with oil and lecithin and put in caps. I use smaller caps for concentrates because you don't need the volume and can put more caps in the same size bottle. I bought pill bottles of amazon that I label. BTW everything but the weed can be bought on amazon, if you want one stop shopping, but they're not too hard to find elsewhere.
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