BigBearNTX Perpetual Auto Grow

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Quick Saturday Update:

Crop King Seeds Northern Lights Auto was harvested today. It was okay, nothing special. I think I’ve learned how to take a plant from seed to harvest, now I have to learn how to increase yield and resin.

Here is a pic of my NL ready to harvest next to a Fast Buds CBD Crack. NL was topped and had LST, the CBD Crack was only topped and has her lower branches defoliated. The tallest cola of the NL is 13 inches. The CBD Crack and the others in the tent are at 20 inches and still growing. I’ve had to move my lights up as far as I can get them.
CKS NL vs FB CBD Crack.jpeg

CKS NL vs FB CBD Crack.jpeg


Total wet from the plant was 190g.
CKS NL Harvest 1.jpeg

CKS NL Harvest 1.jpeg


After a bit of trimming.
CKS Northern Lights Auto harvest.jpeg

CKS Northern Lights Auto harvest.jpeg


After this trim of most of the large leaves, I chop these lovely buds into tiny bits so that they can dry quickly and evenly in the dehydrator. Seven hours in the dehydrator was enough to dry out my leaves and trim, and get the buds decently dry. I don’t have the humidity level on the jar, since it’s packed full.

Tomorrow the bud is ground and decarbed and I’ll run a batch of tincture from it. I may leave some in bud form, haven’t decided yet.

Trim will go into an olive oil infusion, I think. I’m thinking of making up a mixed batch with the Northern Lights trim, what I’ve been storing in the freezer, and some Cherry Wine CBD bud that I bought locally from a storefront selling hemp based CBD.

My jar of bud weighed 58g. I’m okay with two ounces. Not a lot of jar appeal, because I trim so small. If I were keeping it to smoke, I would have left the buds larger.
CKS Northern Lights Harvest 5-19-18 .jpeg

CKS Northern Lights Harvest 5-19-18 .jpeg

58g.

One of the things I love about growing my own meds is that even though I only have two ounces of bud from this plant, I have an equal amount of leaf and trim to work with, plus I dry and grind the stems, and think will do the same with the roots for this plant. I’m planning on harvesting every bit of the cannabinoids that I can. Lol

More processing pics tomorrow.
 
CraZysWeeD said:
Wow! Happy harvest day!!!

That looks like a good harvest! Are you going to show how you make your gummie bears? :p
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Happy harvest day! Lol

Gummies are fairly easy. I use one box of flavored “Jello” - the green ones were green apple jolly rancher flavor - plus three packs of unflavored gelatin.

Mix all the gelatin into a small pot with a cup of cold water. Let it sit for five to ten minutes to allow the gelatin to bloom. It will soak into a large clump.

After the gelatin mix is soaked, put the pot on low heat and stir until everything is dissolved. No need to boil it, just heat until the gelatin and sugar are dissolved.

If you are using a mold, make sure it is sprayed with a light coating of oil, so the gummies release after they are set.

If you don’t have a mold, lightly oil a 8x8 pan, or whatever size square pan you would use for making brownies.

Once the mix is clear, allow to cool a little, pipe into the molds or baking pan.

Chill to set.

If in a pan, cut into pieces. This recipe makes about 80 gummies in my mold, and probably about 60 if I cut them by hand.

After taking out of the molds, or once cut, put them on a baking sheet and put in a refrigerator uncovered to dry out. I found it helps with the texture, without adding so much gelatin that the gummies become hard to eat.

Or if you like really firm gummies, increase the amount of plain gelatin packets at the beginning.
 
BigBearNTexas said:
Happy harvest day! Lol

Gummies are fairly easy. I use one box of flavored “Jello” - the green ones were green apple jolly rancher flavor - plus three packs of unflavored gelatin.

Mix all the gelatin into a small pot with a cup of cold water. Let it sit for five to ten minutes to allow the gelatin to bloom. It will soak into a large clump.

After the gelatin mix is soaked, put the pot on low heat and stir until everything is dissolved. No need to boil it, just heat until the gelatin and sugar are dissolved.

If you are using a mold, make sure it is sprayed with a light coating of oil, so the gummies release after they are set.

If you don’t have a mold, lightly oil a 8x8 pan, or whatever size square pan you would use for making brownies.

Once the mix is clear, allow to cool a little, pipe into the molds or baking pan.

Chill to set.

If in a pan, cut into pieces. This recipe makes about 80 gummies in my mold, and probably about 60 if I cut them by hand.

After taking out of the molds, or once cut, put them on a baking sheet and put in a refrigerator uncovered to dry out. I found it helps with the texture, without adding so much gelatin that the gummies become hard to eat.

Or if you like really firm gummies, increase the amount of plain gelatin packets at the beginning.
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I will make sure to be saving this thank you very much!
 
CraZysWeeD said:
Yes, absolutely great! Thx!

One question, how much weed du you put in them and when in the process? :cool:
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I use about 30 ml of alcohol tincture. It’s about equivalent to a half a cup of oil. I figure it’s about 500mg of THC. It makes about 80 gummies in my molds, so that’s about 5-6mg per gummie. I try to have my edibles be about 5mg per dose

There are also recipes for gummies that use oil. I made one of those, but didn’t care for the way it jelled.
 
BigBearNTexas said:
I use about 30 ml of alcohol tincture. It’s about equivalent to a half a cup of oil. I figure it’s about 500mg of THC. It makes about 80 gummies in my molds, so that’s about 5-6mg per gummie. I try to have my edibles be about 5mg per dose

There are also recipes for gummies that use oil. I made one of those, but didn’t care for the way it jelled.
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Great job. I usually concentrate mine down to 20 mg / ml and dose at 1/2 ml or 10 mg. I made a nice batch of butter a couple weeks ago and made some Chocolate Chip Cookies. I found that the cookies came out at about 5 mg per cookie.

Next I'm going to try some of your gummies

Great job and nice looking harvest.
 
Oil is as done as it’s going to get. Didn’t like the way it looked coming out of the Instant Pot. Unfortunately, I didn’t decarb before running the batch because ...well, Instant Pot. Not going to do it that way again. I’ll use the Instant Pot, but I’ll decarb first.

The real big mistake was trying to decarb the oil further on the stove. What I wasn’t anticipating was all the crud that was in the water burning and sticking to the pot. I’m sure it was just glucose and cellulose from the plant material, but it looks so much like burnt resin that it scared me. I know, I know; the good stuff has bonded with the oil and didn’t burn. It’s still scary looking. And took a while to scrub off. Lol

Used two 500ml bottles, and managed to get most of it back. Also added some liquid sunflower lecithin, at about one tablespoon per bottle. They are cooling now.

I used cheap olive oil from Aldi, US$2.29 per half liter. Taste test will be tomorrow night. It’s way past dosing time for tonight. I may hit the vape instead of taking my nightly edible.

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forgot you wrote it... bummer. Just a little toast right now. :ganjamon:

It's very hard to come by >40% prof alcohol in my country, you can get it from the pharmacy if you have a licence for it. In the other case if you know a moonshiner, or have ambitions to become one........
 
An olive oil extraction may be a better idea than the alcohol one.

You can do an extraction with lower proof alcohol, but it can limit the amount of cannabinoids that can bond with alcohol, and you’ll get more of the chlorophyll and other water soluable material in your mix.
 
The tinctures look pretty neat.:cool:
We need a tutorial on how to make your own vape juice now.;)

I did the crock-pot thing with a a pound of butter and an ounce of finely cut sugar shake.
I put it in 00 pill capsules. Mrs.A loves them, but I get to couch-locked.

Knowing I did it wrong, by not decarbolaxating them. They are still pretty strong.
I made some noodles, and cookies with them a few times.
Brownies stank... It all stank.
Not as if it were not potent.
I mean it staaaank.:ganjamon:

I had purchased some edibles in Seattle last Oct. and mine are way better.o_O
I wish I could make a drink like they have there. :p
It's called Legal and comes in a variety of strengths and flavors.
They let you choose between indica or sativa too.

Mrs.A and I downed a couple of higher dosage ones at the airport for the ride home.:rolleyes:
She ended up wandering around lost. :rofl:
I had left her in a line, to relieve myself.;)
She got lost, in the line. :(
Had to be escorted by an airport employee until I found her.:eek:
Everyone knew, I knew they knew. No one really cared.:kiss:
Yay for that!

Forgive the rambling. I am having an odd day.:hmmmm:
 
Vape juice can be a little difficult, because sometimes the good stuff settles in the tank and clogs the filter.

If you use the method for making alcohol tincture and then evaporate out the alcohol, you can get a pretty clean resin. Take the resin and mix it with EJ Mix or Wax Liquidizer and you have vape juice.

The first time I did it with some northern lights resin that I made, but I don’t think I filtered well, so it was pretty cloudy and dark. The second time I used some store bought resin for dabs when I was in Denver. Mixed it with the Wax Liquidizer and made a very clear easy to use vape juice.

I think I can make much purer resin extract now, so wouldn’t hesitate to make more at home.
 
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