Carport GreenHouse 2011
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gimmenobammerweed
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damn double j that carport look like a rainforest man, bravo!
Hopsnmalt
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O.K., JJ.
Did my first dry ice runs. I did 2 runs and moved left to right slowly while shaking, watching for color change. I used my 190 bag, worked well.
Started with 12 oz of fluffy bud and trim and even some straight up leaves in there, my least appealing trim of the season.
Got a total of 58g of kief; 36g of gold and 22g of a "sage/gold". Not bad, I think that's about 6.5:1 return overall and a 10:1 of the beautiful stuff.
The whole process, including the clean up was about 40 minutes and 8.00 worth of dry ice.
This stuff is too strong for me though. Won't be medicating with it again, bud is fine.
1 word of caution for first timers with dry ice...if you are asthmatic WEAR A MASK. I haven't had a bout of asthma like that in years, took over an hour to mellow out.
Vended most of the first batch to my local club but they don't want to offer a lot in the way of donation. I'll figure something out.
Hops
Hopsnmalt
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Now that's a hell of an idea, you could even use the sage colored portion for such a thing. BTW, I looked at both through a 30x and the gold is like, 90% trichomes which is what you would hope for. The sagey stuff ain't bad either, it looks to be 60% resin, which would still bury me.
Hops
doublejj
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I mean, if they aren't gonna pay anything for keif, might as well make your other buds unique & more appealing.
peace
doublejj
P.S. Speaking of buds, I'm still not finished trimming. I have already 'vended' a couple of the early strains, but there's about 2lbs in each turkey bag & about 2lbs in each tub, left.
peace
doublejj
P.S. Speaking of buds, I'm still not finished trimming. I have already 'vended' a couple of the early strains, but there's about 2lbs in each turkey bag & about 2lbs in each tub, left.
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When it stops coming out naturally with gentle agitation or "shaking" then you need to stop, the color blonde is perfect, and that should be your guide. However, If you use more dry ice than vegetation trim, you can literally smash and grind all of the shake thru the 110 micron screen, so stop the shaking action when the kief stops coming thru the screen onto the table easily. Anything after that point is just plant material and it will turn your kief a green color the longer you force shake it thru, making for nasty unpure hash. What Im saying is that there is no magic number of trim to ice ratio. Most of the guys on youtube are at 2 pounds of dry ice to half of a 5 gal bucket of trim.
This is what I noticed in my hash runs....... to little ice and you may have a hard time "snap" or rapid freezing the trim, but too much dry ice will act as little hammers and pound the trim thru the screen. A rule of thumb but not concrete details is that if you stay around 2 ponds of dry ice broken into golf ball size chunks to a half of a home depot bucket full of trim and you will be fine. Look on youtube for dry ice hash extraction to learn some more. Like growing, your hash making skill will come with experience. By the third shake night or after making about 2 zips of 110 micron hash, I had it down to what I like to end up with, blonde, smelly, and strong hash because thats really whats it is all about.
You will learn quick, dont worry, have fun, and do get a pollen press of some kind. Im using a homemade cylinder press and pucks now, but was using an old wheel brake cylinder from a plymouth duster.... no kidding. If its ok with double, I will post pics of it.
Trust me.... you can over shake the trimmings, so just take it easy and shake until it starts to slow down on what is coming out of the bucket, at that point you are digressing and will dilute the potentcy. Remember, you want blonde and not green hash!
Thank you for the recognition here in double's awesome journal. Ironically enough, I am shaking up 2 pounds (dry) of popcorn with no stems tonight. Thats something else I forgot to mention, be sure to remove all sticks, as frozen branches can poke right thru your silk screen, causing the screen itself and your batch to be garbage. A hole in the screen lets vegetation thru (very bad), and this is experience friends. Anyways, I will take pics of my wheel cylinder press and my homemade press dye tonight, and post them tommorrow some time.
Ok, here is what happenend last night, we did 5 shakes in total, and each shake was 110 grams dry with no stems, popcorn and leaf trimmings for a total of 550 grams dry. Each 110 gram dry run had about 2 pounds of ice in it at golf ball size. The bucket was less than a quarter way full. We ended up with 90 grams of really blonde kief. About a 6 to 1 ratio. Anyways, the wheel brake cylider and the other presses above.
Ok, here is what happenend last night, we did 5 shakes in total, and each shake was 110 grams dry with no stems, popcorn and leaf trimmings for a total of 550 grams dry. Each 110 gram dry run had about 2 pounds of ice in it at golf ball size. The bucket was less than a quarter way full. We ended up with 90 grams of really blonde kief. About a 6 to 1 ratio. Anyways, the wheel brake cylider and the other presses above.
I mean, if they aren't gonna pay anything for keif, might as well make your other buds unique & more appealing.
peace
doublejj
P.S. Speaking of buds, I'm still not finished trimming. I have already 'vended' a couple of the early strains, but there's about 2lbs in each turkey bag & about 2lbs in each tub, left.
doublejj!!!!!!
Just wanted to give MAD PROPS for your amazing grow here!!
HAve read it all the way through and am both impressed and inspired! I am sorta close to you up in the Sierra foothills, and am planning a big greenhouse grow next year. Gonna build a greenhouse, prob from a kit. Or maybe w the Solexx panels (thanks for that tip!)
Thanks for all the awesome info here and and for keeping an excellent journal for peeps!!! Keep rockin it, yo!!!
konagirl420
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Wow looks very very nice and yummy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great job man
stumps
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This is no carport. But thought I would post to to show how well it's holding up. we have had 40 mph winds with gusts around 70 mph. this is day two of high wind. 22x10 hoop style green house about 700.00 to build.
This is no carport. But thought I would post to to show how well it's holding up. we have had 40 mph winds with gusts around 70 mph. this is day two of high wind. 22x10 hoop style green house about 700.00 to build.
Budologist420
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Congrats JJ u did an amazing job this year.
Thanks for all the knowledge I've learned a lot of great things from you.
Thanks for all the knowledge I've learned a lot of great things from you.
