Blend it with disty to achieve a thc powder.
Make flour for cooking pancakes, waffles, fried chicken, bread etc and whatnot.
Can blend it with sugar and powdered milk in a k cup style delivery.
All sorts of wonderful applications.
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Cost is relative.
Diamonds I make = 0.00
Distillate = more than that lol
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I use a hot plate/stirrer and let every thing stay hot and stirring while I fill the molds with the pipette.
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Care sharing the free diamond SOP? Shit I will pay for it. 
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Well yeah it’s relative, but comparing apples to apples, I’d think distillate is more cost effective, no? Thus, why every single infused product manufacturer uses it…
Like, if you were making both in house, distillate made from trim would be cheaper to produce than THCA isolate from nice starting material (more expensive than trim), and then would still need to be decarbed and lose 13% of its weight.
You getting free diamonds on splits or what? $0.00 cost sounds like a darn good business model lol.
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Lol I was thinking the same thing. Can’t beat $0.00 diamonds
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Just disty, powder and blend? It sounds line in that thread post I linked cyclopath was saying you need a solvent to encapsulate the thc…maybe I misread/misunderstood
@Killa12345 he is also doing it on the stove and not sous vide maybe easier to add disty to gelatin mixture.
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If you are making a powder I highly doubt it will have any “liquid” solvent in there.
No, its not just powder and blend. There is a ratio, temperature, and powerful enough mixer to accomplish this feat.
@BG305, 0.00 of additional costs to me lol.
@ZizzleB, I agree with all of what you’re saying, but I make relatively small batches of extracts for personal use. I don’t have the gear to make distillate, nor do I have the volume to make any either.
For me to play along with everyone, I gotta make do with what I got!
Plus it’s not like I’d take an entire batch and experiment with it!
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Sorry bro. So the SOP is bloom the 300 in a zippy in a pot with water, cook the sugar/corn syrup till clear on low heat. When the gel and sugar are clear I pour them into a 1k ml beaker on my hot plate and turn the stir bar on. I then add my color, citric and disty/cbd blend. Let the stir bar do its thing and then fill the molds with a pipette.
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I didn’t mean to reply to you I was talking to dread, I do something similar to you gonna add the hot plate
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I recommend amending this to “cook sugar/corn syrup to 117c” … you will get a unique cooked sugar smell if you’re doing it right.
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That’s what I get but really didn’t CV check the temp. I cook it stiring every so often till it turns clear.
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Did you tumble these
I’d like to make some gunmies and other edible sweets but I’m kind of lost on how to add the flower… I live in the UK so can’t buy distillate or anything from a dispensary, just flower.
Do I decarb some flower and make a butter or make some rosin and melt it down and add that?
Recipe wise there’s some great advice in here to follow and some good tutorials online but not much in the way of how and when you add your TH flower!
@Raptor sounds like you got some reading to do.
Cheapest option would be flat iron to make rosin oil and make gummies from that, you just mix it in the same time they do their disty. - ethanol extraction on very small amounts is also easy to get quite clean in initial extraction.
edibles, cakes and such can be a butter, coconut oil extract or the like…
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Have you ever tried malic acid for sourness? It is less hygroscopic than citric acid and way more sour. My thought is that you could use less and have better shelf stability.
I had some decent luck using preflavored sour sugar from a candy store in the mall and all the super sour stuff had malic acid.
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I get ya. I don’t have a distillation rig at my house either unfortunately 
Wouldn’t that be nice
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yo…they are mad cheap in china…there really isnt a great excuse not to own one…lol
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I suppose cheap is a relative term…