StRoostifer
Member
There’s definitely something to removing those shade leaves. Helps every time I’ve done it.
Plants are really looking good dusted. Well done.
Is the cream caramel a heavy feeder? Kinda got my eye on this strain now.
Dusted’s Traditional Hydroponic Grows
- Thread starter Dusted
- Start date
Plants are really looking good dusted. Well done.
Is the cream caramel a heavy feeder? Kinda got my eye on this strain now.
- Thread starter
- #242
Dusted
Well-Known Member
Thanks Roosti. The Cream Caramel just grew into a big ball of leaves with no shoots really showing. The apex has been overgrown, which is a bit strange. The colour has been great the whole grow so the nutrient levels should be average. The shoots exploded today which is nice.
- Thread starter
- #243
Dusted
Well-Known Member
Day 23 post flip
Strawberry Banana #1 has pretty much stopped stretching and is looking great. It is only 2 feet from the light but doesn't seem to mind. Strawberry Banana #2 is stretching and trying to live but is still iffy to make it to harvest. I have never lost a full grown plant before, but there is always a first.The Cream Caramel is stretching nicely with lots of growing shoots that emerged from the undergrowth. Interesting looking flowers on it. White Widow should make it to harvest but it won't be pretty and will be stunted.
Strawberry Banana #1 has pretty much stopped stretching and is looking great. It is only 2 feet from the light but doesn't seem to mind. Strawberry Banana #2 is stretching and trying to live but is still iffy to make it to harvest. I have never lost a full grown plant before, but there is always a first.The Cream Caramel is stretching nicely with lots of growing shoots that emerged from the undergrowth. Interesting looking flowers on it. White Widow should make it to harvest but it won't be pretty and will be stunted.
Looking good Dusted, and I don't see an issue with the SB#2. Why don't you think it will make it to harvest?
- Thread starter
- #245
Dusted
Well-Known Member
Thanks Shed. It is still losing leaves. The main stem has red streaks and is slowly withering.
Photographs well, so there's that!
DutchinAB
Well-Known Member
Agreed, I wouldn’t have noticed anything if not told about it, looks like it’s going to be another great haul for you either way though.
I agree looks good from this end!
- Thread starter
- #249
Dusted
Well-Known Member
Thanks guys. We get to know each plant in intimate detail and see stuff that is hard to pick up on a photo.
I’m attempting to make some coco butter for the first time. I have the Dr. S. 30:1 CBD decarbing as I type. It is stinky, but a completely different odour than thc based flowers. Another first is the oven decarboxylation. I always thought you got decarboxylation by cooking the brownies. Apparently not enough. The CBD needs 50% longer decarboxylation than THC does, so 90 min at 240 F is recommended. Not sure what I will do with the butter yet. May just swallow some before bed
I haven't decarbed any CBD yet but THC I do in the instapot in a mason jar same why I infuse oil I just leave the oil out. 110 min @ 110 degrees Celsius then I let it cool overnight and run the same cycle again. I like it because I can start it and walk away then come back the next day and run it again. No smell and I like to think it might retain more Terps that way.
- Thread starter
- #251
Dusted
Well-Known Member
I really would prefer to keep the terpenes so I like the idea of the instapot. Don’t own one though. I have thought of using vacume seal bags in boiling water, but don’t do edibles regularly so never experimented.
True for the Candida as well.
Not even close!
Not true. My lab-tested Candida is completely decarbed at the same time/temp as my THC weed.
Only in a foil pouch, because it absorbs heat which makes it take longer to get to the flowers. In an open tray 60-70 minutes is fine at 240ºF.
Toast?
You decarb twice or infuse twice? No reason to decarb twice that I've ever heard.
I have been doing both twice.
Infusing twice is probably a good idea since oil infusion will never match the efficiency of extraction, but I'm not sure about decarbing twice. I must say that I have never been convinced that decarbing in oil is as effective (even under pressure) as the oil insulates the carbon molecule in the THC from the heat needed to break it free. Even though they didn't do their test under pressure, Nova did find a much lower rate of decarboxilation in oil than not in oil.
"When you add the decarbed flower into the fatty oil, the oil encapsulates the flower, acting as an insulator.
That’s why it’s necessary to decarb BEFORE you infuse.
The oil acting as an insulator means that you won’t get a fully activated product if you don’t decarb before the infusion process."
I'd really like to see a lab test on someone's oil decarbed and infused in an instantpot to convince me otherwise.
"When you add the decarbed flower into the fatty oil, the oil encapsulates the flower, acting as an insulator.
That’s why it’s necessary to decarb BEFORE you infuse.
The oil acting as an insulator means that you won’t get a fully activated product if you don’t decarb before the infusion process."
I'd really like to see a lab test on someone's oil decarbed and infused in an instantpot to convince me otherwise.
- Thread starter
- #255
Dusted
Well-Known Member
If the oil is at 246 F then i don’t see how the insulation idea works. Yes, experimentation is the best way to find out
When I first started making infusions I was decarbing in the oven and using the crock pot for infusing. But that's an all-day process that requires someone to keep an eye on things. Since switching to the instapot I can't tell the difference and it's hands off set it up and walk away. And not having to listen to the wife bitching about me stinking up the house is a bonus. I am sure there are better methods out there but this is easy and it works.
I agree I'm going to be experimenting with another brownie tonight
StRoostifer
Member
Hey Dusted. Looking good! Is the SB 1 or 2 a pheno? Their growth is different. #2 looks great regardless . 
- Thread starter
- #259
Dusted
Well-Known Member
Not a different phenotype. Just diseased
I trust Nova's lab results. Just because the oil is at decarb temp doesn't necessarily mean that the extra carbon molecule can break free from the THCa. I don't think they mean insulation as strictly referring to preventing it from getting hot.