How To Make Your Own Cannabis Capsules with FECO2
Our friend Ryan Cohen, known in the cannabis industry as The Sophisticated Dabber, has made this awesome tutorial on how to make your own capsules with our FECO2! Check out their Instagram page here and their review page here. And to follow along via video, follow these links to their video tutorials: Part 1 and Part 2
This tutorial was sponsored by Farmer's Friend Extracts
Today, instead of a review, I'm going to be walking you through how I make cannacaps using Farmer's Friend Extracts' FECO2 products. Firstly, we'll need to collect a few things.
For this tutorial we are going to need:
1g of FFE FECO2
9ml of liquid coconut oil
50 empty size "4" pill capsules
This recipe can be adjusted based on the dosage you wish to make your capsules. For this tutorial I used the Ananda Farms blend FECO2 made on 01/05/22 which contains 748mg of THC. Following this recipe will result in 50 capsules with ~15mg of THC per cap. I'll include an explanation for calculating mg/capsule and creating your own recipes at the end of this tutorial.
In addition to the ingredients listed above, you'll need a syringe or dropper of some kind (the one included in FFE tinctures would work great), a small glass dish, a small whisk or fork, a heat source (preferably a flat top grill or hot plate of some kind), and a container to store your finished capsules. Also a cap filler device is incredibly helpful when filling capsules and I don't recommend trying this without one. I use a size "4" "EZ Cap Filler", and there are several other options out there from various online retailers. Just make sure you get the correct size for the capsules you are using.
The first thing to do is to preheat your heat source to 150°f. While it's warming up, separate the top and bottom of the empty capsules and fill your cap filler with the bottom halves (the longer ones) of the empty capsules, putting the top halves to the side for later. Next, transfer your FECO2 into the glass container and warm it up on your heat source until the oil becomes thin and easy to mix with the coconut oil. Personally I do this on a flat top grill for about 5 minutes or so. You don't want to get it too hot, just warm enough that it moves more easily in the glass container and will mix nicely with the coconut oil. Next, add the liquid coconut oil to the glass container and whisk together with the FECO2 until fully blended. Turn off the heat and remove the glass container from the heat source. Be careful, the glass may be warm.
Next fill the syringe/dropper with some infused coconut oil and proceed to fill the capsules one by one. If you are using a syringe, you may want a dispenser tip to make filling easier and less messy. Carefully fill each capsule, being sure not to overfill as this can cause quite a mess. Once all 50 capsules are full, take the collection of capsule top halves and cap each capsule. Be sure to press down with some pressure, but not too much. You should press the top half down as much as possible without squishing it to fully close the capsules.
Now just collect your capsules and store them in your preferred container. That's it! I hope this tutorial has been helpful! Below are the details on how to create your own recipes.
Formulas/Calculations for creating your own recipes for size "4" capsules:
In order to create your own recipes, you just need to understand how they work and input your own numbers into some formulas. Creating a recipe for 50 capsules makes the most sense because most pill fillers can hold 50 capsules at a time and it is easy enough to double the recipe if you wish to make 100 capsules.
First, take the total mg THC in 1g of FECO2 and divide by 50 (50 capsules) in order to get your mg/capsule. In this tutorial that was 748mg/50caps = 14.96mg/cap. If the resulting number is higher than you want your capsules to be, you will need to use less than a gram of FECO2 and vise versa.
If you want to set your mg/cap at a specific number, let's say 5mg/cap, you would need to do some more advanced calculations and measure a very specific amount of FECO2. For this reason, what I would recommend for most people is to just determine how much a half gram of FECO2 would be per cap (~7.5mg/cap for the Ananda Farms blend) and using that as an increment to adjust by.
For example if you want your caps to be 7.5mg then you would need to use 0.5 grams of the Ananda Farms blend FECO2. If you wanted your cannacaps to be 22.5mg you would need to use 1.5 grams, and so on.
The maximum amount of FECO2 you can fit in 50 size "4" capsules is 10 grams (0.2 per cap). In order to figure out how many ml of liquid coconut oil you need for your recipe, simply take 10 and subtract the number of grams of FECO2 in your recipe. For example, if your recipe calls for 0.5g of FECO2 then you need 9.5ml of liquid coconut oil.