I’m well into my first grow and am planning for post harvest.
I am planning to make oil tincture and bought a Levo II which decarbs and infuses oil.
The machine has a “dry” function but I’ve been unsuccessful finding anyone who can confirm that yes, you can snip bud from a live plant and pop it into this contraption and dry —> decarb —> infuse.
Nor can I find anyone saying you can’t… on the demo videos and YouTube the bud is pulled from a mason jar.
Then again not many folks grow vs buy dried bud — so I figured I’d come here.
I would suggest you dry your harvest slowly over about 7-10 days like you would if you were going to smoke it. Unless you are just going to throw it into capsules, it will taste better in a tincture and in edibles.
These machines all though seem very cool for cool hipster kids. 329.00 jezuz my sauce pan and oven work just fine and my gummies after making thousands of them are on point. You want better brownies use Ghirardelli brownie mix infuse your decarbed extract in Avocado oil 30 mins at 200* easy peezy
@ColeLennon I so hear you. I would prefer more DIY but with kids and pets and laundry and a tiny windowless NYC apartment where If you open the oven you block the dishwasher… I was like can I just do push button easy for now?
In 6 years I’ll be an empty nester different landscape.
That’s why I use Instant pot with Mason jars, it decarbs and infuses.
My volatile terpenes don’t get released into the air like a standard decarb, they just stay in the Mason jars and then once they cool down I open them and add my oil then back into the Insta.
Capsules are cool, if you arent a lightweight though its easier to get larger doses by infusing or hashing the bud first, if you want this route or just a crazy long thread thats my go to for alcohol tinctures you should check out Grasscity. BrassNWoods Hash Caps and Psychedelic Sam’s work on there is AAA. Stickied threads under Edibles