I’ve been playing around with CBD strains for a while now and make it into cocobudder and eat it. A lot less trimming involved as I just snip off what doesn’t have sugar on it then freeze the fresh bud for later processing.
Processing involves adding the bud to a pot of warmish oil, (coconut, MCT, olive, sunflower seed, etc), then grinding it up good with a hand blender. Heat it up with frequent stirring until it hits 100C/212F and the water that came from the bud boils off. Once that’s done raise the temp up to around 115-125C / 239-257F when the decarb happens and maintain that heat range until all the fine bubbles stop. Then I cool to below 100C and add some liquid sunflower lecithin. Run it thru a fine mesh strainer into mason jar(s) and freeze. Then thaw and freeze once more to supposedly bind the lecithin to the cannabinoids to make them more absorbable in the gut.
Saves so much time trimming and by skipping the dry/cure then decarb in the oven process you don’t lose a lot of the terpenes and other volatiles you normally would. With my arthritis the less trimming the better!
When using dry bud I find a 10:1 ratio of oil to bud makes a pretty good batch for THC pot too. With fresh frozen but I use up to 4x as much by weight to get close to the same effect.
In the last few years I’ve grown some CBD stuff from crosses made by a buddy to various effect but a good one is Sebring’s Revenge. I grew out some of the early ones sent to me by @Shadey and have since got more of a newer generation, ( Patch Adams S1) and the last is newer yet. An F4 I believe but also sold out.
When I got the Revenge, (CBD Reg Fem) I also got some Earth Lover, (CBD Auto Fem), Loco-Mota, (THC Auto Fem) and the Maui Sunshine, (THC Reg Photo).
I did an outdoor grow with the Earth Lover and Loco-Mota but it went awry. I sprouted 4 of each to make sure I had two of each to plant outside. All 8 grew but only one of the EL actually grew as an Auto Fem and it was one selected for indoors One each of the outdoor ones grew as auto males and the remaining Loco went male when it began to flower as a photo plant. It got removed but 4 branches were allowed to mature and drop pollen that I have since collected just in case.
The one outdoor plant left over is still flowering with about 4 weeks to go. I made a half-assed greenhouse for her and put a heater in there for frosty nights of which we’ve had 3 so far including last night. Hoping I can limp her along to the end before the deep freeze hits up here in northern Alberta. She’s almost 5ft tall now and I’ve entered this pic of her in the Sept contest. (nudge nudge, wink wink)
I have a well rooted cutting of her inside under T-12 fluoros but she’s yet to show new growth as it was 2 weeks into flowering when I took the cut from a branch that snapped off in the wind. Still alive outside the humidity dome but no new growth as yet. I’m starting to think that she might have enough of the auto genes in her to keep her from re-vegging but I hope not as I really want to grow some indoors so need a mom!
A couple weeks ago I ordered a pack of the Double Ought Cherry and got two packs with a total of 179 seeds plus a pack of the Dragon Heart with 19 nice beans in it! Very nice of Brother Sebring for sure!
I’m growing the CBD to deal with arthritis and chronic depression. A strong sativa using small hits in a pipe works good for a mood lift but I find the Sebring’s Revenge with it’s 2 - 4% THC gives a good lift along with the pain relief from the CBD. The Earth Lover is almost no CBD but I plan on making THC budder too and try blending some into budder I make from her to see if I can find a good mix. Some without CBD will be great to be able to medicate and drive and I have a couple friends/family that really want to try some as they work and need to be sober.
I find that strains containing Mazar seem to work particularly well for my depression so would really like to find me a pure Mazar to grow out and try.
I also grow THC strains, (getting into kush now), to make RSO for my wife who has liver tumours of unknown threat as yet. Seems to be helping. Plus I don’t mind catching a good buzz once in a while too.
All this stuff and more is in my grow journal that I regularly update.