16000+ watts medigrow: og kush+ 13 x 1kw hps + 3 x t5 badboys + grotek = *HAPPY JOY*

a mongo frog said:

question. have u found og kush a harder strain to grow? youve probobly done it before, but i find it a little finikey, and wirey. but with hard work the best strain ever no boubt about it.

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it's.... we definitely have to keep the stretch in check, if we don't want to end up with lanky looking plants and buds.

i'd say it rates high on the finicky scale.

do you do any topping or SC to your plants ??

mugan said:

do you do any topping or SC to your plants ??

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we usually top them once, sometimes twice. these girls got topped once. i think you can catch it early on in the thread.
what is SC? i'm not savvy with all these 2 and 3 letter acronyms.

mellokitty said:

we usually top them once, sometimes twice. these girls got topped once. i think you can catch it early on in the thread.
what is SC? i'm not savvy with all these 2 and 3 letter acronyms.

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Probably super cropping, that is my guess!

thanks hazo, i've apparently spent the last decade growing under a rock, so when i finally joined the modern age (aka riu ), all this new terminology and acronyms made my head spin!

kitty i like it eva update that is so tight !! what is the resin color like as trimmed? meaning color on the scissors my og has a red-orange trait it passes along to daughters... the apollo 13 pink and light red-mangenta on the scizzors... the blueberry and grape ape - purple to black spectrum -well made hash rolled thin is purple! nice resin content in those pics for sure...

yup... very definitely orangey. especially the glove hash, as it gets all the hairs in it.

(yes, i keep the glove hash too; i use powderless nitrile gloves so it doesn't get talc in it)

speaking of hash, i'm making my first bubble in over a year.... my results seem to range from fan-fucking-tastic to "crumbly stuff that looks more like wetted kief" -- suggestions welcome!
having read up on the "matt rize bubble method", i did a test run with some older shake but the finished product still isn't quite full-melt; does how old the shake is affect the finished product? i took it from my "to be processed into medibles" stash, so it was about a year old. the only time i've managed to make fullmelt is using fresh frozen shake, but i don't have that luxury this time. lack of freezer space --> we had to dry it all.

wet trim just makes a better product due to tons of factors... only using a few select bags raises the chances of full melt as well ... i am looking into 99% iso washes using labgrade gold high micron crosshatched mesh for superpure oil .... i will post about yeild and chemical compound test results once my fist ones come back from denver next week...once i am sure the process is safe for eating ...

that's kind of what i figured...

about using fewer bags: i've wondered about that too. i have a 4 bag set (25 --> 220).... if i don't really care about microns and grades and whatnot, can i just use the 220 (to catch the pulpy shit) and the 25?

i miss a good iso wash. it's super-frustrating because i use a boiler method that recovers roughly 95% of the original iso used, with very little escaped vapour, but mr kitty still won't even let me do it outside on a hotplate..... damned hazmat brainwashing.

in that set i would pull out the middle bag but that is just me i dont mind the large heads when you do a wash but for full melt use all four and test the 25 to see if it or the 73 is the melty bag.... if both mix them...In the 4 bag system the 220 will collect allmost all the waste leaf. The 160 will be a mixture of large trichomes and extremly small contaminates. The 73 will be very pure and a mix of your most potent trichomes along with a small bit of waste material and your 25 micron bag will be all the remaining smaller trichomes that the 73 did not catch.

Joedank said:

wet trim just makes a better product due to tons of factors... only using a few select bags raises the chances of full melt as well ... i am looking into 99% iso washes using labgrade gold high micron crosshatched mesh for superpure oil .... i will post about yeild and chemical compound test results once my fist ones come back from denver next week...once i am sure the process is safe for eating ...

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it occurs to me that i'm VERY VERY curious about the results, when you get them.... i've always been a bit wary of the claim that if properly purged, there should be ZERO trace of iso/butane/acetone/hexane/whatever people are using for solvents these days, left in the final product; lab tests are more dependable than "should, in theory..." you know?
especially because i have medibles folks on my facebook who are constantly posting articles about how terribly unethical it is to make cannabutter out of bho and pass it off as "medible"...

[edit: just wanted to point out that ^this^ isn't my opinion, but that of my medibles' folks'.... for now, until i see more lab results, i'm a sideline spectator on this issue... ]

25 --> not melty
73 --> still a bit on the damp side

*weeping*

mugan said:

i made canna butter and milk with my trim, i found edibles keep me higher for longer... could also be the amounts of trim and bud i put in

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edibles do certainly keep you high for longer; it's all about "metabolic pathways" and that ilk of biologese.....

cannamilk makes me completely useless. i usually save it for when my period cramps are so bad i'd be useless anyways. better to be useless and happy than useless and in agony, right?

Kitty I just ran a batch of dry ice hash for the first time and the results were pretty good. I used all of my cheese trim (roughly 2 1/2 oz).
I did screw up by going straight 220 from start to finish but everyone that's smoked it has loved it so far. I went the length of the table so I did split the grade and kept the darker hash apart from the lighter colored stuff.

Overall I was satisfied with the run. It was fun and easy. I ended up with 24g of hash all together. I have about 2oz's of trim left from my lemon skunk and looking for a new idea. What would you recommend I do? I have 3 bubble bags 1gl in size... 25, 73 & 220mc

mellokitty said:

edibles do certainly keep you high for longer; it's all about "metabolic pathways" and that ilk of biologese.....

cannamilk makes me completely useless. i usually save it for when my period cramps are so bad i'd be useless anyways. better to be useless and happy than useless and in agony, right?

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Never heard of cannamilk, but I like the idea of being completely useless. Depending on how much shake I get from my plants, though I'm thinking not much, I think I'm either gonna make that or cannabutter . My lungs could use the break from the abuse lol

Dubbz0r said:

Kitty I just ran a batch of dry ice hash for the first time and the results were pretty good. I used all of my cheese trim (roughly 2 1/2 oz).
I did screw up by going straight 220 from start to finish but everyone that's smoked it has loved it so far. I went the length of the table so I did split the grade and kept the darker hash apart from the lighter colored stuff.

Overall I was satisfied with the run. It was fun and easy. I ended up with 24g of hash all together. I have about 2oz's of trim left from my lemon skunk and looking for a new idea. What would you recommend I do? I have 3 bubble bags 1gl in size... 25, 73 & 220mc

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see, this whole dry ice thingy is new to me too. did you do a dry sieve with it, or a bubble run?

isn't lemon skunk the notorious pain relief strain, or am i thinking of something else?
looking for a new idea, eh?

oh wait, isn't this your first harvest? made any qwiso yet?

The first time you run a strain use all the bags, once you learn your money bag(s) you only need your work bag and the money bag.

Unless you mix trim from different strains with different size trichs

mellokitty said:

thanks hazo, i've apparently spent the last decade growing under a rock, so when i finally joined the modern age (aka riu ), all this new terminology and acronyms made my head spin!

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Your head is spinning because you have so much plant knowledge up in there, that it is hard to make room for acronyms, etc! I am always amazed at people that can remember all the plant species' names! Way beyond me!

hazorazo said:

Your head is spinning because you have so much plant knowledge up in there, that it is hard to make room for acronyms, etc! I am always amazed at people that can remember all the plant species' names! Way beyond me!

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thanks hazo, i helped my friend the horticulturalist study when she was getting her degree, plus it's a course i hope to someday pursue as well.
botany is fun! lots of memorising, but fun! you know you're a nerd when your friend is cracking "bacillus" jokes and you're laughing at them ('bacillus', incidentally, means 'rod-shaped').