I make edibles, normally using flower purchased from a dispensary. I used the THC % and this calculator to determine how much butter to add.
A friend (who normally only smokes) has requested cookies using the flower he gets directly from a grower. The grower apparently doesn’t know the THC content and my friend is very lackadaisical about it, and doesn’t want to ask for more information. So I’m stuck making my best guess.
I noticed that this flower had very little smell compared to what I usually get. I wondered if that has anything to do with potency? Is there like an average amount of THC that can use to estimate how much butter to use? Any advice in this situation? TIA.
Just do the process you normally do with the proper weight of grams and hope it all works out. You are presumably doing a free service for your friend using the valuable skillset and experience you have gained. They have no room to complain if the bud they supply you is mid and makes mid edibles or if the bud is fire and they end up sickly potent.
Does smell signify potency? I think theres a correlation at least some placebo where you think sticky dank flower is more potent so it is. You can put some humidity back into the flower to try to bring back some smell and stickyness but if youre cooking it anyways no point.
No smell doesn’t impact potency. Terps are volatile so you are smelling them off gas/evaporate. Properly cured and stored bud 58-62% RH will usually have less smell as the terpenes are less volatile in this range.
Now if it’s like. Old bud. Yeah. Its lack of smell could give insight into its age as all the terps have evaporated. Leaving you with a subpar tasting flower.