What do you do with your stems?

Stems themselves don't produce resins, but they do collect residues from the flowers they carried and nurtured. Being cannabis, it makes sense that they must have some kinds of value and over time it is possible to assemble quite a collection.

DECARBOXYLATION TO ADD STRENGTH. To get the most from your stems turning up the volume of your THC is the number one priority. Decarboxylating creates the easily absorbed THC which is perfect for Tinctures, Hash Extracts and Edibles. To Decarboxylate, evenly spread your stems on an oven tray and place in the oven at 240 for 60 minutes Cannabis can also be decarboxylated in a slow cooker by introducing solvents such as Cooking oil, Butters, or lecithin. These methods create infusions then can be used in: Recipes, Lotions, Topicals, Soap, Since they are decarboxylated, they will be effective when using them

Now your are ready to go. TEA & CHAI.

You will need a healthy handful of stems that have not been rubbed for hash. Put 450 ml of water or milk in a small saucepan. Chop and add your stems and slowly bring to a gentle, but not bubbling boil, stirring continuously. This should be done for seven or eight minutes as the fluid needs to reduce. Strain out your stems and return to the pot and gentle flame.Plain cannabis tea can taste a bit plain so you might consider adding herbs and sweeteners to your beverage. For tea, mints, lemon and honey or any flavoured tea bag and sugar masks the taste. For chai adding cardamon pods, pepper and honey for that traditional zing is a tasty and mildly stoning and tingly delight. MARIJUANA LIQUEURS.

Whiskeys, vodkas or tequilas that are 40% proof or more can all dissolve the resin of cannabis. Decant your chosen alcohol into a mason jar for easy adding of new and straining of old stems. By the time another handful of stems is ready to add the old ones have given up their treasures to the mix. This little project may take a few months and a few handfuls of stems for strengths to build. STEM KIEF

Keep your stem stash in the freezer. Chop or break your stems into small bits and store in a heavy plastic bag. Every time you add to your collection give it a good shake. Well frozen resin crystals easily break off surfaces when they are fully frozen. You will watch with patient excitement as a subtle layer of liberated kief accumulates in the bottom of the bag. THC BUTTER & OTHER EDIBLES

If you can half fill a large saucepan with broken down stems, then THC-infused butter or oil is on the menu. Replacing stems for buds in your cannabutter recipe will produce a similar product, but with a much milder effect. Where the recipe suggests "28g of flowers," replace with "as many chopped stems as possible". Using your butter or oil in any culinary creations. Thanks for reading

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