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ThanksGreat! I'll help you any way I can...It's actually an easy process, and once you do one, any others will be a piece of cake...
For your first one, I'd suggest a photoperiod plant- they're much more forgiving than autos.
Autos are fine as long as everything goes well, but one little bump in the road can set them back so far they may not ever catch back up...
Funny- that's almost exactly what I told @Heavenly Hybrid about a year and a half ago- she grew this beautiful quadlined plant, and when I saw it, I thought "OMG! that's just the best plant ever!"
So that's how I've grown my indoor plants ever since...
If you haven't already, you should check out her journal- She's a very nice lady, and she really knows her stuff!
then hit the "wash" button on the machine once to blend it in.
Thanks, BL! Nice job you're doing on that basement bathroom! I'd like to have a basement, but it'sCongrats carcass!! Well deserved sir!!
But we all share a common interest, so that sort of evens things out- the only sex I worry about on here is pistils or balls....Us girls gotta stick together since you blokes outnumber us 10:1.
Thanks, Trala!- I appreciate that!Oh and congrats on the green Oscar nomination
Thanks, Candy- but it's just a nomination- I'm honored just to be included in the contest with those other great growers!Congrats on the well deserved win!
Law agin it?can't quote @Amy Gardner ,
thanks for the compliment, Amy!
Well, now I learned something... (after 7 years)...so that's what the "quote" button is for....
Sorry for the slow response, VG- I had to go visit my Mom at "the home"...Sous vide when you decarb?
Thanks, VG- As do yours!Plant looks great C.
Usually it would be an immersion cooker or an Instant Pot with a sous vide function. Sous vide is precise temp control over a longer period of time.It does sound interesting...Do I need an immersion cooker, or is there a ghetto way around that? ...Pressure cooker maybe?
I think you want to cool completely before opening the bag.I've got the vacuum sealer and a pressure cooker- Maybe I could try decarbing a little bit of pot in there-
Not sure how to tell if it worked or not- although I'm not adverse to just eating a gram or so and seeing if I get high...If I catch a good buzz, it worked, if I don't, it didn't....
A pressure cooker with a 15psi weight should get the water up around 257f ,which sounds like it should decarb the pot pretty well - 17 degrees hotter than I do it in the oven, but still not hot enough to destroy the thc or terpenes. (hopefully)
I'll try it tomorrow and let you know how it goes.
Thanks for the idea, VG!
Don't be mad. I was uber stoned and probably neglected to mention that the directions that I saw involved grinding the weed.....Pressure Cooker Decarb (?)
Yesterday, @Virgin Ground mentioned Sous vide decarboxylation, as a way to get rid of the "toasted pot" taste that oven decarbing leaves you with...(Thanks, VG!)
Sous vide definition:
"a method of cooking food, especially meat or fish, by vacuum-sealing and immersing in warm water".
So, I decided to give something similar a try, by "cooking" some vacuum packed pot in the pressure cooker...and it appears to have worked- I won't know for sure until I eat some of the pot to check whether it decarbed or not- If I get high , it worked, and if I don't, then it's back to the drawing board....(smoking it won't tell me if it decarbed or not, so I gotta eat it)
I'll do that this evening and report on that part of the experiment tomorrow (or the next day- tomorrow is Lil' Nova's day )
So here's a few pics of my process.
1.46 grams of Alaskan Purple- I did a small quantity, in case this just ruins it..
This bud is pretty old, but it still had some moisture in it, so I sat it out for about 16 hours to get it "real dry" before vacuum packing it. (apologies for the blurry pic)
So, apparently my vacuum packer is a POS, because today, it decided not to pull a complete vacuum
on the bag and shut off automatically like it's supposed to do- so I had to manually hit the "seal" button,
which always lets a little air back into the bag, but I continued anyway. You can see that it's not a very good vacuum in that bag. I double sealed the bag on both sides to hopefully keep it from springing any leaks... Notice how green the bud is.
From there it went into the pressure cooker, with one of those collapsible collanders upside down over it to keep the bag fully under the water during the process...hard to tell, but the water is filled to about an inch above the collander.
The pressure cooker has a 15 psi weight- the boiling point of water goes up 3 degrees for every pound of pressure, so, instead of boiling at 212f, the water will get 45 degrees hotter (257f) before it boils...
Hot enough to decarb the weed-17 degrees hotter than an oven decarb, but hopefully not so hot that it ruins the weed...I ran this batch for just 15 minutes after the weight started to "jiggle"-the jiggle means it's up to its max temp.
So after cooking for 15 minutes, I turned the flame off and let it cool till all the pressure was gone- apx. an hour and a half (the decarb process will continue for awhile as it's cooling off)...then I pulled the pot bag out and let it cool for another 15 minutes or so.
I was a little surprised to see moisture inside the bag when I pulled it out- first, I thought the bag leaked, but, while it was a bit melty looking, it didn't leak- maybe the moisture was a by product of the decarb process? or, that pot wasn't as dry as I thought it was when I put it in there? no biggie-I can dry it some more after I open the bag. Oddly, the bud now has a purple-ish tint to it
So here's what those green buds look like now- not so green anymore, but brownish purple instead...
The good part is- they don't smell burnt at all- they still smell like pot, but with an added "sweet" note to it
That's what was supposed to happen- the question now is did I cook them long enough?
-I'll have an answer to that question this evening...
One more thing - 1.46g went in, 1.39g came out- probably just lost a little moisture during the process-so it wasn't as dry as it should have been.
And that's it for this little experiment- even if it does work, there's probably no real advantage in decarbing this way unless the usual "burnt" taste of oven decarbed buds is something you find objectionable- I do- so, if this did work, I may do an ounce or 2 this way next time.
Thanks for looking!
I hope the upcoming week is a good one for everyone!
Yeah, no smell at all- I ran the exhaust while it was cooking, but just for the steam- and there's not even much of that! Mrs.C. hates the smell of decarbing weed, so maybe I won't have toGuessing you get no smell deacarbing that way too.
It was Alaskan Purple...but it was sure green before the decarb...Purple , eh? That was unexpected.