WEED, The Official Thread

[Bunion 2020]

Fill a quart mason jar with herb and everclear, put jar in a pot with water. When everclear boils it’s done. If my weed is fresh I decarb if older I don’t. I usually use trim, I love green dragon

Interesting. The recipe I grabbed from the Internetz had me doing decarb, then a coarse grind and then into a Mason jar covered with Everclear and then in the freezer for 30 days. Remove and filter out the vegetable matter.

It works well, but the taste isn't great and I wonder if adding the heat would release more of the desirables.

Two of my 4 in the greenhouse. About 7 weeks into flower. 1 is Animints and 2 is Peyote. Both stinky indica strains.

[Dantheman]

That sounds incredibly dangerous.

Be sure to do it on a gas stove.

[Lee Murian]

One more day

[Rasputin]

[Peruvian]

Interesting. The recipe I grabbed from the Internetz had me doing decarb, then a coarse grind and then into a Mason jar covered with Everclear and then in the freezer for 30 days. Remove and filter out the vegetable matter.

It works well, but the taste isn't great and I wonder if adding the heat would release more of the desirables.

I’ve read that heat will release more lipids and chlorophyll which are not desirable.

[forty]

fwiw there are lab test results from everclear washes of differing times/temps, as i recall you get 60%ish percent of the good stuff in a quick cold wash, and up to 85%ish from long and warm extraction

is the difference in potency worth the difference in taste?
i suppose it depends on how much raw ingredients you have
you can always adjust potency of final product by evap down tincture


some nice looking plants in here lately!

my season has been bit of a mess

put 4 plants from seed outdoor, 2 popped male, 1 died for no apparent reason, and 1 is a week or so from finishing and looks great

early summer i had a family emergency to deal with for a minute which meant had to transfer my 2 indoor plants to outside with limited notice, they were already a few weeks into flower and the light change caused them to reveg, one powered through and is now looking great but a few weeks behind where i want her, the other freaked the fuck out and made the ugliest buds ive ever grown, its embarrassing, chopped that one today and 90% of it is going into hash, bummer since was a great growing strain gifted by a friend who moved away and was really hoping to do it justice, oh well on to the next one

[Bunion 2020]

fwiw there are lab test results from everclear washes of differing times/temps, as i recall you get 60%ish percent of the good stuff in a quick cold wash, and up to 85%ish from long and warm extraction

Interesting. I would think the 2 keys are the curing process and the de-carb process. I was pleased with the cold extraction and will have enough material to try that as well as a warm slow extraction. I was thinking of perhaps 36+ hrs in a warm bath cycle in a crockpot.

Fun to tinker.

Final flush today for 2 plants and I will begin cutting tomorrow or Tuesday.

[Peruvian]

When you got weed to burn.

[~mikey b]

One more day

yummy

[TBS]

Harvest time at La Ponderita
Three plants yielded five of these - not my best yield for Durban Poison

Yielded one drying rack of big buds, two of mid sized, and one of bong buds





The finger resin rolled in screen keif is incapacitating

Cooler temps and some moisture in the forecast means a nice long cure cycle. Most of the time it’s way warmer and 20% ambient rH.

Went down the Gram Parsons rabbit hole while trimming. Short sad life for a visionary.
Also stumbled across Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. She puts on some kickass concerts

[riser4]

The finger resin rolled in screen keif is incapacitating

Yum.

[Peruvian]

Also stumbled across Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. She puts on some kickass concerts

Yum

[Rasputin]

[Rasputin]

I've posted a couple pics of the flowers which have been growing in my bedroom window. I hadn't grown pot for a number of years, but a friend gave me a few ounces from a seed crop she had grown; over half the weight of the buds was seed, and so I thought it would make me happy to let some plants grow in the window. I had no intention to create a crop, but just to have the enjoyment of looking at the the plants in my bedroom. I started sometime in June I think.

I didn't try to create an optimal environment, the overhanging eave prevented direct sunlight during vegetative growth, so I made a rudimentary reflector from a drawing board and some scraps of mylar which were among my hoard of useful materials that I can't bring myself to throw away. I over watered them early in their vegetative growth (oops!) never having had plants with such a meager light source, and also because during the summer I try to maintain my room as a relatively cool space to escape the summer's heat. So, they didn't drink quickly or grow quickly. I had to use various sticks, to stake them so they would grow relatively upward.

As far as fertilizer, I didn't feed them for half the summer, as they were so slow to eat and drink, that the soil didn't get depleted of nitrogen. Eventually, I went fed them a weak dilution of Miracle Grow (30-10-10) once the vegetative growth increased noticeably.

I had started off planting three seeds each, in two five inch pots, of which five came up. And transplanted each pot into eight inch pots, once the growth had taken off, and constructed a rudimentary lattice to hold them upright as they continued to grow. Vegetative growth increased, however there remained long periods between need for watering. By the end of August they had started to flower.

Once they started flowering I began to get excited that something might come of these "houseplants". As the angle of the sun declined with the shortening of days, it dropped below the shading of the eave, and the plants started getting direct sunlight. I was happy to find that all of the five seeds, which came up, yielded females. At this point I decided to try to encourage the buds with appropriate fertilizer. I had no flowering fertilizer around the house, but a quick search online informed me that banana tea is an excellent organic fertilizer for flowering marijuana. I've been amazed at how well my spindly little plants have flowered, and are getting pretty close to harvest.

It is also interesting to note, that I did nothing to provide the plants with a purely dark environment during their night cycle, aside from leaving the lights off in my bedroom at night. In fact, I avoided putting a shade up in my window to keep out the light of the bright porch lights across the alley from me, because the goal wasn't to produce a crop, but just to let them grow with little effort on my part, and see what happened.

This is what happened:

[jackstraw]

^that's awesome! My goal is similar. Let it grow with minimal effort. I just haven't stumbled upon any seeds yet.

[Rasputin]

It has been very satisfying, and the only cost, beyond what I already had in my house, was a couple bunches of bananas (I just used the peels of the bananas I bought).

Here's the runt that came up late, and is only a foot in length:

[berko]

There's a reason they call it weed.

[3s]

Growing it is easy .
Drying and curing is where youll fuck up

[TBS]

While true, there’s lots of ways to fuck up the grow too

And a PSA for those you you using hygrometers in jars to monitor rH while curing - the humidity in the jar will increase/decrease with ambient temp. I’m getting a 5 percentage point variation between indoors at 70*f vs garage at 45*F

[Thaleia]

Growing it is easy .
Drying and curing is where youll fuck up

TBS adds some interesting nuance but it's pretty straight forward.

Dry until the small stems crack when bent (or a little before if you're watching humidity levels closely).

At that point put everything in mason jars, filled ~85% full and toss a hygrometer in there.

The first few days consider checking the humidity twice a day. If it's over 75% remove contents to air dry another day or so. If it's under 75% burp the jars for twenty minutes or daily.

Once it's around 65% there's not much chance of things going sideways so I'm not burping them daily anymore, I'll do it every few days or once a week if I happen to think about it.

Four to six months seems to be my preferred cure, but opinions vary wildly on this.

*This is with wet trimmed bud, YMMV. And if you have any fist sized buds break them up into small pieces for this process.

[Rasputin]

Four to six months seems to be my preferred cure, but opinions vary wildly on this.

You ain't kidding, I have one friend who swears it never needs more than two months (he even claims it degrades after that), and another who swears at least year, or even longer, is optimal. They both grew great herb, though the latter grew large scale commercial, and the former, grew for personal use.

[Bunion 2020]

FWIW most of the dispensary product sold here is + 6 months from harvest.

[gravitylover]

^that's awesome! My goal is similar. Let it grow with minimal effort. I just haven't stumbled upon any seeds yet.

I got a cheap oz from a reservation shop a while back that was loaded with seeds. If you're anywhere near Danbury CT in the near future let me know and I'll give you a handful. The weed they're in isn't terrible so might be worth trying. I tossed a few out in the yard and ignored them, 1 came up nicely, a few more stayed really small because the ground has been so damned wet. Unfortunately the squirrels seem to like them so next year I'll protect them.

[TBS]

FWIW most of the dispensary product sold here is + 6 months from harvest.

Hmmm just checked the labels on my last two bud purchases- one was three months from harvest, the other five months. But my dispo is turning a crop every 3-4 months.

The last three jars of my purple panty dropper was harvested 9/22. It’s still potent & tasty, but starting to crumble. Stored in mason jars in total darkness in my garage that ranges from 40-80*F

@Thaleia - all of what you say is true. For me - dry climate without rH & temp controlled drying space - time on the drying racks matter a lot. 24 hours will be too wet, 36 is about right, 48 hrs means it’s gonna be hash stock. Was a whole lot less anxiety inducing on the wet side of the mountains

[jackstraw]

I got a cheap oz from a reservation shop a while back that was loaded with seeds. If you're anywhere near Danbury CT in the near future let me know and I'll give you a handful. The weed they're in isn't terrible so might be worth trying. I tossed a few out in the yard and ignored them, 1 came up nicely, a few more stayed really small because the ground has been so damned wet. Unfortunately the squirrels seem to like them so next year I'll protect them.

Yeah, my nephew bought weed from a MA or ME shop and it was full of seeds...wtf? And thanks, but I won't be back east for a while. I'll score some somewhere.