So you managed to save up a good amount of kief huh? Well you’ve come to the right place cause we’ve concocted the dankest most totally awesome kief e juice recipe to guide you through turning that precious pollen into a great tasting e juice to be used in just about any type of vaporizer.
What You’ll Need
- At least 5g of finely ground kief. Amount of kief used will determine amount of other ingredients to use below.
- Food grade vegetable glycerin (VG)
- Food grade propylene glycol (PG)
- Blunt tip syringe
- Double boiler
- Food thermometer
- Cheese cloth
- e liquid containers for your finished product
- Optional: E cig flavor (no nicotine)
If you have everything then let’s get started.
Kief e Juice Recipe
- Use your syringe to measure out a 50/50 mixture of PG and VG equal to 8 ml of solution per 1g of kief.
For example: If you’re using 5g of kief then you will want to use 40 ml of solution – half PG and half VG. That would be 20 ml of each, giving you 40 ml in total to use with your 5g of kief (8×5).
- Heat up your VG/PG mixture on your double boiler. Make sure the water is boiling but don’t boil the VG/PG mixture. Don’t let the mixture exceed 270°.
- Once you’re between 240° and 270° go ahead and mix in your kief. Stir well
- Continue to stir once every 30 minutes for the next 3-5 hours – just depends how much time you have. Don’t let the mixture exceed 270°.
- Once your timer goes off you can now add your optional e juice flavor.
- Strain through your coffee filter. This can take a while and when it’s almost finished you can try to squeeze the rest out. Watch the temperature and be careful not to burn yourself.
- Use your syringe to fill your vape cartridges.
- That’s it! I hope you enjoy this kief e juice recipe as much as I do 🙂
The optional e juice flavor can serve two purposes. It can add flavor AND sort of disguise the smell if you plan on consuming in public. I personally prefer no added flavor but hey to each his own. Also consider the following:
Making homemade goods is typically trial and error. Everyone uses different varieties of ingredients, everyone’s heat settings are different, everyone’s bud/kief is different and everyone’s ability and effort will always be unique. That being said there are some best practices to keep in mind when preparing AND consuming your diy products.
- Keep written notes of everything. Note everything including the amount of every ingredient you used, the temperature you wound up in, the time it took to sit, any additional ingredients you decided to add, how much you consumed and how it made you feel, etc and learn what works best for you. You can more accurately adjust your dosages if you know what you’ve already tried.
- Store your finished product in pre-measured containers. For example, store your e juice in a jar with measurements on it. Or if you make butter and you know you stored your butter in 1/4 cup containers then you’ll know you need two of them if your next recipe calls for 1/2 cup.
- As always, be safe and enjoy. Your notes will help you do this.
Great read! But I am curious to how much e-juice flavor you add to that specific recipe??? Cheers!
Hi Liz, you always want to flavor to your personal taste and flavor potency usually differs from source to source. This is mostly a trial and error kinda thing. I always recommend going light at first and adding more next time if necessary vs the other way around.
I think I may have gotten a splash of water in my juice while the water was simmering. Is it wrecked?
Absolutely not, water can evaporate right out. Happy vaping and nothing but the best vibes!
Giving this a try. Im guessing you have the temperature at 240-270° is to promote decarbation of the thc? If so, have you tried the decarb for 30min in an oven at 250°. Being the oil nature of the vg and pg it should be a lot quicker to make the juice this way. Ill post back.
P. Dawg, any heat source will work as long as you can keep the temperature steady and stable. I find that ovens fluctuate in temperature a little more than double boilers. There are now decarb machines on the market specifically designed to provide optimal decarb conditions. Happy vaping brother!
How strong is this recipe?
Can I use more kief to Pg/VG or will this not work?
How strong will depend person to person. Yes, you can always use more or less to get your desired potency.
Why are we decarbing for vape juice when the vape battery heats it up before it turns to vapor.?
Personally I dont like marijuana (as far as getting high) but I do take CBD! They have lots of different ways of taking marijuana/hemp products that dont involve getting high! Just want people to realize this fact. It has many marijuana/hemp has medical benefits beyond the “high”.. I take cbd daily by tincture. However there are lots of ways to benefit from the marijuana plant without getting high. I guess that’s just my little public service anouncment haha.
Well what fun is that?!
Scott I hear ya… But there’s a large population that benefits from cannabis without getting high. They tend to show up and be supportive on voting day as well. I embrace Sammy although I, perhaps like you, tend to enjoy ALL the benefits of the cannabis plant 🙂
Marijuana and Hemp can really be used for anything.. I cant believe this stuff used to be illegal… and STILL IS in some places.. For example I have been giving this stuff to my elderly dog for a few weeks now as an alternative to mainstream animal suppliments. Alternative methods “by which i mean natural” are important to me. So i am glad marijuana and hemp are losing their bad stigma..
What’s up dear, me plus my mom are as well
Hey this is very informative! Just wanted to share that I just made a small batch in a tiny glass bowl using one of those electric cup warmers as the heat source . Turned out great
That’s great to hear. Feel free to post your recipe, instructions and any tips you learned along the way!
About how many grams of juice do you get from this?
Hey was wondering does the mix have to be 50/50 can you do 80 vg 20pg or will this not work
I’ve never tried. Please experiment and come back to let us know!
Hi what is the purpose of double boiler for 3-4 hrs? Is this for decarb or just to blend the pg/vg? Does the temp of vape pen not decarb product?
Great question, it’s more to get an even consistency.
Can I add nicotine to the mixture?
Sorry, I don’t know much about nicotine brother.
(Heat up your VG/PG mixture on your double boiler. Make sure the water is boiling but don’t boil the VG/PG mixture. Don’t let the mixture exceed 270°.
Once you’re between 240° and 270° go ahead and mix in your kief. Stir well
Continue to stir once every 30 minutes for the next 3-5 hours – just depends how much time you have. Don’t let the mixture exceed 270°.) This makes no sence boiling point is 220 your stating not to boil, but anything over 220 is boiling, please clarify.
You would be correct if you were talking about the boiling temperature of water. However glycerin has a boiling point of around 550° and propylene glycol is at about 370°. Don’t worry my friend, I got you 😛
Hi, I’m trying to experiment with this recipe and have a couple questions:
1) I’ve heard that during the double boil procedure, the kief will lose potency if left over heat for too long. Is this really the case? Can I leave it on for about only an hour?
2) By every 30 minutes, does that mean you heat for 30 minutes, then let it sit until it’s cooled out? If so, what methods can you use to cool the solution?
3) According to your ratio, if I were to only have 0.5 grams of kief, would I only use 4 ml of the 50/50 PG/VG mixture?
Thank you! I really enjoyed reading this post and hope to make my liquid soon!
Hey, thank you for your questions :).
1. Yes, you can “overcook” your cannibinoids (not just THC).
2. You can let it cool at room temperature or temporarily let it cool down in the fridge/freezer.
3. If you have .5 grams of kief then that would be exactly 1/10th of the recipe. So yes 4 ml of the mixture total (2 ml of PG + 2 ml of VG)
Good read! With all the talk about PG, PEG4 & other carriers being bad to inhale, can I substitute MCT (coconut oil) for the VG/PG solution?
Good question… I’m not sure, sorry. I use MCT for tinctures (arguably just an oil extract and not a tincture) but I don’t have experience with vaping it.
Propylene glycol is a poison to human beings
It’s impossible to get the oil mixture above 200-210 in a double boiler setup.