400w Querkle Grow
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AzCannaMan
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Fo sho, its more like smoking herbs now. I smoke herb in the morning before work & im functional, then bho after work to relax. Mainly only because i got 1/2 oz of it and its going real slow.
And yes, warning - taking this many dabs will smash your now low tolerance (which you think is high) lol.
Im about to test the blunt theory out tho, business trip coming up & cant take all my dabbing shit with so ima bring some blunts i think & go to a park or somethin.
rocknratm
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be safe and have a good trip
psyte
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Thank you, I appreciate the comments!
You could always top bowls with bho or make some honey buds and mix em into the joint/blunt. We don't have any of the dabbing utensils so my wife just does stuff like that with the iso hash (which can be pretty gooey like the bho depending on how it's made).
AzCannaMan
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Thanks Man!
Honey buds is a good idea, then 1 blunt would prob be enough to last the whole time lol. I was just gonna bring a couple Gs tops so maybe half as much honey buds would be plenty. Honey buds taste really nice too... How does the iso taste?
rocknratm
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I do normal hash extract via bags.... have a 7 bag kit. as time passes I smelel the viles and they smell sweet... I smoked some out of a bubble meth style pipe (never smoked meth or crack, its just what I call the pipe.) and it does taste sweet.
Thats what I was saying about the color. seems off. Just my intuition, as odd as that seems to say- intuition of extracts with no objective valution
psyte
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Most solvent based extracts are black/dark green. It's all plant material anyhow, just melted into the resin.
When I had medical in california and got extracts from the clubs if it wasn't bho, it was black.
The last batch was an odd one though. It was the first time I ground up the weed to powder and I think way too much plant material got into it. This batch I have now is a thick resin. I'll post pics once I have a chance to scrape it off the dish.
When I had medical in california and got extracts from the clubs if it wasn't bho, it was black.
The last batch was an odd one though. It was the first time I ground up the weed to powder and I think way too much plant material got into it. This batch I have now is a thick resin. I'll post pics once I have a chance to scrape it off the dish.
psyte
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Here's the newest batch of iso hash. If you thought the last stuff looked like shit, this stuff literally does lol.
Much more potent this time and has consistency very similar to BHO. Insanely sticky and impossible to put anywhere without it getting all over the place.
I got 16.7g of hash from 80.2g of very dry trim and popcorn (for comparison, the last less potent batch was 17.6g of hash from 69.5g of trim/popcorn)
I made this with a new low maintenance method that I'll probably keep using cause it was so easy.
I call it Lazy Man's Blender Hash:
The last pic is the blended weed/iso mix after filtering through a 125 micron poly mesh bag. Put a fan on it and let it evaporate for a couple days. Then scraped the remaining resin off the dish.
Much more potent this time and has consistency very similar to BHO. Insanely sticky and impossible to put anywhere without it getting all over the place.
I got 16.7g of hash from 80.2g of very dry trim and popcorn (for comparison, the last less potent batch was 17.6g of hash from 69.5g of trim/popcorn)
I made this with a new low maintenance method that I'll probably keep using cause it was so easy.
I call it Lazy Man's Blender Hash:
The last pic is the blended weed/iso mix after filtering through a 125 micron poly mesh bag. Put a fan on it and let it evaporate for a couple days. Then scraped the remaining resin off the dish.
rocknratm
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I just did a bag extract, got so little out of it I wanna cry. didnt weigh what I used, and there was no popcorn just trim and fan leaves. But I probably only got 1.5 grams.
lights are off and I put it in there. Ill try for pics tomorrow. So little I feel like I screwed up somehow.
lights are off and I put it in there. Ill try for pics tomorrow. So little I feel like I screwed up somehow.
psyte
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Oh man that sucks. I've never bothered with fans. I wonder if they kind of get in the way. Like if some of the resin from the trim kind of gets stuck on the fans cause they're so much material with so little resin. If that makes sense... I've never tried to just speculation.
My wife and I discussed expanding the operation. I'm going to be moving up to two 400w HPS in an open area and then using the 4'x4' tent for veg. I should be able to do the full upgrade including all supplies for about $500 if I buy everything online. Not too bad. I was tempted to go bigger than dual 400s, but I'm worried about drawing any more power than that in a single room of this shitty old house and it's horribly outdated electrical system.
My list of supplies:
Lumatek 400w ballast: $120
Plantmax bulb x2 (one for backup): $40
19"x22" aircool hood: $110
440cfm 6" in-line fan: $90
6" 470cfm carbon filter: $82
6" ducting (25 ft): $15
Panda Film 10x10: $16
Misc items to make reflector panels: ~$25
There is a great new hydro shop in town that will probably be cheaper on a few of the items though.
This should be fun. I'm excited!
My wife and I discussed expanding the operation. I'm going to be moving up to two 400w HPS in an open area and then using the 4'x4' tent for veg. I should be able to do the full upgrade including all supplies for about $500 if I buy everything online. Not too bad. I was tempted to go bigger than dual 400s, but I'm worried about drawing any more power than that in a single room of this shitty old house and it's horribly outdated electrical system.
My list of supplies:
Lumatek 400w ballast: $120
Plantmax bulb x2 (one for backup): $40
19"x22" aircool hood: $110
440cfm 6" in-line fan: $90
6" 470cfm carbon filter: $82
6" ducting (25 ft): $15
Panda Film 10x10: $16
Misc items to make reflector panels: ~$25
There is a great new hydro shop in town that will probably be cheaper on a few of the items though.
This should be fun. I'm excited!
psyte
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Last time I got a generic hood on ebay. It seems to work fine for my setup.
I'm a bit tight for cash these days and I have a hard time spending a lot of money on grow stuff. There just seems to be so much hype between the people selling these products and the people who buy something expensive and just really want to believe that it's awesome cause they spent so much money on it (a great example is nutes... I look at the prices on some of these bottles at the grow shop compared to nutes that people use to grow every other kind of plant in the world and I just laugh).
Do the more expensive hoods really make that much difference from what you've seen? I mean I'm definitely open to looking in to it if it's one of those things that actually does make a noticeable difference.
I'm a bit tight for cash these days and I have a hard time spending a lot of money on grow stuff. There just seems to be so much hype between the people selling these products and the people who buy something expensive and just really want to believe that it's awesome cause they spent so much money on it (a great example is nutes... I look at the prices on some of these bottles at the grow shop compared to nutes that people use to grow every other kind of plant in the world and I just laugh).
Do the more expensive hoods really make that much difference from what you've seen? I mean I'm definitely open to looking in to it if it's one of those things that actually does make a noticeable difference.
psyte
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Hmmm... well looking at the Blazer, it's only about $40 more than the hood I got last time. Also last time a big consideration was that the hood had to fit into my tent and something like the Blazer would have been too big. Now that I won't have that restriction I think I may consider other options. Thanks for the info.
psyte
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Gonna be harvesting most of the plant tomorrow. Bud growth has pretty much stopped, no new pistils in a couple weeks, and resin heads are about half clear half cloudy with just a few amber. Probably going to leave the smaller lower buds that still have fresh pistils for another week or two. Yesterday was 10 weeks of 12/12.
I can hear the crickets chirping on this thread. What's going on with everyone else's querkle these days?
I can hear the crickets chirping on this thread. What's going on with everyone else's querkle these days?
psyte
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It's similar. I think the only differences are that simpson oil uses naptha as the solvent and it's heated in a crock pot to evaporate the solvent. The heating is very important if you're making an extract that you eat because without heating/decarbing you won't get high at all.
psyte
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Oh and I think it's typically made with buds, not trim. I don't see why you couldn't do a version of it with trim though.
Also, it will wreck your tolerance. I think people who use it to treat cancer use something like the equivalent of 1lb of marijuana per month and they don't get high at all after they've developed a tolerance over the course of the first month or so. So if you're not using it medicinally I'd use it pretty sparingly.
Also, it will wreck your tolerance. I think people who use it to treat cancer use something like the equivalent of 1lb of marijuana per month and they don't get high at all after they've developed a tolerance over the course of the first month or so. So if you're not using it medicinally I'd use it pretty sparingly.
AzCannaMan
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Lol i havent been on RIU much since the big crash. The spidermites that fucked my perpetual grow up, cost me all my hashberry, and have delayed things by months have made it into my veg/mom room. Im just saying fuck it and blooming out my 6 querkle moms that have been growing since 1/1/12.... This should be interesting, if they stretch any more than double ill be screwed and i have a 9'9" ceiling in my bloom room! Also there is almost no room between them now as it is. Luckily they are still veggin; so im pretty open on options for the little devils... I started by hitting them with Mighty Wash, then the next day Neem/soap, then the next day when they were nice & thirty a root drench with 20ml/gal of Azamax (systemic) for the ladies to drink.
The Azamax is OMRI listed & Neem derrived, it's safe to use as a root drench till the day of harvest. It make the adults feel full for the rest of their lives once they bite your precious ladies; therefore killing them of starvation. It also stop them from molting & getting bigger, thus being able to mate. And it stops the females from being able to lay eggs. It's not a contact killer, but it can be used in bloom up till harvest w/out any effect on flavor or quality of your herbs. It can also be foliar sprayed to help speed things up, which was done today.
I caught them real early this time so im hoping this works. I plan to veg another week then flip to 12/12 & spray along with the root drench 1x a week with alternating Neem & the Azamax spray 2 times a week till first pistils appear, by then the borg should be gone. Then ill keep doing the azamax root drench 1x a week till im like 3 weeks or so from harvest to keep them away. I also have some SNS217 which is a contact killer & also natural - also it smothers the eggs. So in a few days ill look around carefully & any infested leafs will get a healthy dousing of SNS217 to kill them & their eggs hopefully. Anything badly infested has been lobbed off & I also trimmed off the bottom 4 - 6 branches which looked like little popcorn machines.
I am very much hoping this works perfectly and keeps them off my precious elite cali cuts. If I stay on it I see no reason why it wont
