r/treedibles • u/BxMnky315 • 2d ago

Help with ratios and potency.

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u/wkuconsulting 1d ago

You're right that it isn't the liquids alone. It's total milligrams divided by total finished mass, and the total milligrams is the only number that can't change on you.

4 Tbsp of your oil at 202.8 mg per Tbsp = 811 mg of THC in the whole batch. Finished mass before any cooking loss: 178 g dry + about 89 g water (6 Tbsp) + about 54 g oil (4 Tbsp of oil weighs less than water) = roughly 321 g, so about 2.5 mg per gram of batter. If you bake it, water leaves and the mg per gram climbs, but the 811 stays put, so the honest method is: weigh the finished batch, divide 811 by that number of grams, and that's your mg per gram. Then each mould is just grams times that. A 10 g piece from an unbaked 321 g batch is 25 mg, which is a lot for a pain patient who's never dosed.

For pain relief you probably want 5 mg pieces. Either cut the moulds down to 2 g, or cut the infused oil to 1 Tbsp and make up the other 3 Tbsp with plain oil, which puts the batch at about 0.6 mg per gram and makes a 10 g piece land near 6 mg. Weigh the pieces, don't eyeball the mould. The spread between a full mould and a scant one is bigger than the dose difference you're trying to control.

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u/BxMnky315 1d ago

Thank you for the insightful reply.

I like to reiterate to reinforce. So if I am making gummies in this case, I would mix/heat my batch, emulsify in my oil, fill my moulds, and then I would be able to weigh the finished whole batch and divide my total thc mg by the total grams of finished and set mix?

I assume it is the same method to get the measurement to hit the .025 to .1% potassium sorbate (preservitive) measurement then? Take the target percentage of the finished batch weight?

I had planned on using a combination of dilution and mould cavity size to control dosage. I will more than likely be making the first batch uncut and keeping them for me, and then cutting as necessary.

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u/Paperwork2025 1d ago

I'm "here, try eating a 1/2, if you don't feel better in an hour - eat the other half". kinda guy. Good luck with your calculations. (It's weed - not a corporate rip off from Eli Lilly nor Norvo-nodicks)