Waste Not Want Not: Cleaning Up After Yourself!

[Vitolo]

There is tincture... but I didnt put it in a tincture thread.
There is Butter.. but we are not in the cooking thread...
there is oil... are we medical........
This is about one days attempts to NOT be wasteful, so I put it in the lounge....
and made it it's own topic.

I hate to see waste where meds are concerned.
I completed this project yesterday for one of our member/cultivators.

There's gold in them thar sweepings!
We separate it all out and begin
Stems, twigs, sweepings, bud bits, and leaves.

Even the stems have a use!
We get ready for a QWISO wash of some broken material and sweepings for a migraine ointment.

The herb used here will be reused in our larger tincture container afterwards.
Rinsed and now that herb is stuffed with all of those stems and all of the sweepings and leaves .. into

A milk jug. (gonna be a lot of stuffing going on here!)

Fingers tired.. I add the QWISO remnents, while this evaporates some.

I will now cover this whole mess with 91% Iso, and I leave in the sun for 6 hours.
The jug will be covered with a black bag to attract heat and keep out light.

Now..
what about the broken up buds, and nuggets that were in this batch of leftovers?
We start with a couple of quarts of water and a pound of unsalted butter.

This next part is boring as hell ..... 12 hours--->

Cooling

Separating..

and Initial butter result.

Note the 3 discs of butter.
I combine the butter and heat it for 4 more hours to clean it up see the last separation..

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This will be a pretty looking chunk of butter tomorrow!.
Now the tinctures
Seperation of strengths

Label so we don't forget.

And we "wasted not" that we might "want not"!

 

[Sour Deez]

Nice stuff vito, u dont strain the pieces out of your butter?

I do something similar on a smaller scale... Vape the herb..cannamilk with stems/scraps...Cannabutter with AVB

 

[Vitolo]

I do not strain....
very messy for me.
I just do second heat... and let most fall away during resolidification...
then I scrape a drop of it off the bottom of the "plug" and I cook with it "sloppy"!

 

[Vicki]

Very nice! I wish I could do stuff like that. I just don't have the time. Mostly because I am not well enough, but moreso because of my daughter. Now, we are homeschooling her, and she is with me all the time now. It would make a good science project too!

 

[Vitolo]

If you were anywhere close I would help.
I do it for as many folks as I can!!
It is good karma, and it never hurts to have those who grow remember you!

 

[Vicki]

If you were anywhere close I would help.
I do it for as many folks as I can!!
It is good karma, and it never hurts to have those who grow remember you!

You're sweet, and a great person. If we were closer, I'd let you help me!

 

[photokographer]

Sweet thread! DO you bag the milk before you let it sit out in the sun? That's what I assume but isn't pictured

 

[Vitolo]

It is not in the pictures, but between the two images at that step, I wrote...
"I will now cover this whole mess with 91% Iso, and I leave in the sun for 6 hours.
The jug will be covered with a black bag to attract heat and keep out light."
You just missed it.

 

[weedemon]

nice little tutorial man! I love that you included so many pictures along the way. I am a visual person so that really helps!

also super cool you are so willing to help others! kudos

 

[Vitolo]

I have been given trim by a couple of growers since this, that had read my post.
Although I did not do so in the past, I am now filtering my butter for crystal clear end product.
Everyone is happy with the butter (18 hours a batch).. and after a few batches I fast realized I had to charge each person for the pound of butter!!
In exchange for the butter, I am making excellent contacts in the grow world, and being left with vapeworthy samples of an anticipatory "next harvest " nature to ponder.

weedemon- I just tried a small amount of BHO from ABV, after reading all of your experiment.
I was surprised at what the Butane dragged out of there!
will let it dry for a time.. and give it a go. (not in my omicron however!)

 

[VaporNation]

Incredibly informative Vitolo! You've literally given a step by step guide on how to never waste any plant material again and pictures all along the way, woah... I've going to be all over making up some tincture next time, with three bottles on hand, I would definitely "want not." Thanks dude.

 

[Nycdeisel]

I know I have seen this all before, and i am now realizing that I probably waste quite a bit!(i know you hate to hear it) of actives that i could save.


You didnt filter for a long time, and i always wondered about that... why the change now? are the end results the same?

whoa whoa whoa i want to hear how you consume the abv BHO