I’m in for a HM calendar Hyena.
Hyena's Never-Ending Adventures In Growing
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Yes please on the calendar 
SteveJasmine
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Lol hilarious and totally on point!!! Time to buy an auto trim machine @Hyena Merica
425jesse
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You devil dog! That harvest is one to make heads spin! As always you are making it look easy, and growing the top notch fire. Great job. If there are extra calendars, you know I’ll post one up at my place, the other is almost done!
Cheers HM!
jb
Cheers HM!
jb
I'm in brother!!Hi All:
Lately some of you must have referred a new reader or two, as I have noticed some new names reading this journal.
THANK YOU! I truly enjoy sharing my writing and photography with everybody and I deeply appreciate that! My satisfaction in all this is knowing others have enjoyed it and I'm making an effort now to build a wider audience, so thanks my friends for your help with that!
In appreciation to those of you who regularly read my stories, I am doing another HYENA calendar for 2020 and I'd like to offer one to you.
Let me know who's in and when they are done, sometime in the next few weeks, I'll PM you for mailing addresses and send you all one.
Peace, Hyena
Congrats on another successful run brother. Those colas were amazing!!
Looking forward to seeing put yourself through another bout of trim hell!
Looking forward to seeing put yourself through another bout of trim hell!
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High there! I sure am! 
About time for the HYENA'S GROW HOUSE FINAL SMOKE AND WEIGHT REPORT!
I rolled up to the GH Thursday evening and checked in on the fun. The harvest in the drying closet was perfectly ready. I looked at all the crystalline colas of Run #2 hanging there, and my guess was it had to be at least as much as Run #1...and the overall quality of the buds looks better. We shall see...I couldn't wait to start bucking this harvest (and smoking it too).
BUT,
Before I could play with the produce, I had to address the now-empty tent which looked like Times Square the day after New Years.
God how I hate this part. It's (at best) 4 or 5 hours of stinky, sweaty, bust-ass work. I got up Friday morning and tackled it. Each bucket contains a solid mass weighing about 40 pounds. Once those were all discarded the tent could be cleaned.
About three hours later it looked a little better:
I brought the new girls up with me, all about a week younger than usual but looking healthy. They waited patiently in the hallway for their new home to be ready.
Then the planting process is another couple hours all told. But in the end it's a new beginning...
Fill and balance 100 gallons of water, and a trip to the landfill with no less than 15 large bags of crap. Run #4 is in. Whew.
Now time to finish the budz! I did three different stages of trim, hoping to figure out how to achieve perfect nugs with maximum bag appeal while separating and preserving the highest-quality trim and smaller buds for pressing. Evaluating various methods in one shot was the goal.
So first up was the plant I simply chopped and hung. Boy, they sure get crispy, don't they? Ten days or so of drying had made this a crystalline treasure. I was kind of hesitant to handle it...it seemed so brittle. The major leaves simply came off with the slightest touch, no trimmers required for a lot of it. I'm not sure if it was actually faster than clipping them wet but it was no slower. Then I went right to bucking the buds and dumping the untrimmed nugs into a device that is, well, my new best friend...
Okay they aren't a sponsor as far as I can find so they must remain anonymous. You don't know what this is, okay?
But this un-named device is amazing. About 12-15 spins and BOOM, perfect nugs and the trim separated for easy removal. I was astounded and that doesn't happen often. With $5000-$10,000 trimming machines that don't do as precise a job, for my small-production needs this guy is fab. My meticulous hand trimming, four days' worth, will become less than two thanks to the ability of little No-name. Thank you God!
This also applies to the buds I only rough-trimmed, as well as the 8 plants' worth of colas I trimmed the shit out of.
Bucking big job! Rough nugs on the right, finished on the left...
Buck buck buck
Seriously, the finished nug quality is excellent:
So I feel incredible relief at figuring out how to dramatically reduce this brutal harvest routine to something reasonable. I was honestly panicky about the prospect of having to do four days of hell every time, trimming hour after hour. Day after day. All that work, kind of for nothing NOW because all types look equally perfect after a trip through the bag.
It looks like the days of sitting and trimming like a creature in a cave are largely over and I didn't have to spend ten grand.
So NOW...time to find out what we got!
The weighing and packaging took forever because it was a college football day and I was drinking and also really, really high all day. Somehow by midnight I was finally done. Yeah, I know.
The final tally surpassed my expectations!
SUPER BUD: 25 ZIPS/1.56 LBS.
BLUEBERRY: 16.3 ZIPS/1 LB.
WHITE WIDOW: 15 ZIPS/.94 LB.
The colorful, stinky nugs looked out from their final home...sorry girls but it was fun while it lasted.
PLUS...another 2 pounds of the highest-quality trim including all buds smaller than a nickel. As frosty as it gets. I can't wait to press this and see what happens. The new world of concentrates. SO much to learn. We'll see where this goes. Time to create my own label, probably!
Exploring and enjoying the fruity and delicious flavor of all these buds took days. I'm proud to report that Super Bud, Blueberry, and White Widow are all amazingly fragrant to smoke and very, very tasty, with the buzz ranging from powerful to Knock-yo-azz-out. But a smoke report on strains this great is kind of silly because you knew all that.
This means the Grow House project is officially a success. I'm very grateful and happy that it has all worked out this way. I can't begin to add up all the hours but they have paid off in a dream coming true. But there won't be long to relax...
Run #3 is a week into 12/12!
The cycle of life goes on. Mother Nature working her shapely ass off for our pleasure. She's now officially my bitch.
Stick wit me as we roll into Run #3...Blueberry and Big Bud!
Peace, Hyena
About time for the HYENA'S GROW HOUSE FINAL SMOKE AND WEIGHT REPORT!
I rolled up to the GH Thursday evening and checked in on the fun. The harvest in the drying closet was perfectly ready. I looked at all the crystalline colas of Run #2 hanging there, and my guess was it had to be at least as much as Run #1...and the overall quality of the buds looks better. We shall see...I couldn't wait to start bucking this harvest (and smoking it too).
BUT,
Before I could play with the produce, I had to address the now-empty tent which looked like Times Square the day after New Years.
God how I hate this part. It's (at best) 4 or 5 hours of stinky, sweaty, bust-ass work. I got up Friday morning and tackled it. Each bucket contains a solid mass weighing about 40 pounds. Once those were all discarded the tent could be cleaned.
About three hours later it looked a little better:
I brought the new girls up with me, all about a week younger than usual but looking healthy. They waited patiently in the hallway for their new home to be ready.
Then the planting process is another couple hours all told. But in the end it's a new beginning...
Fill and balance 100 gallons of water, and a trip to the landfill with no less than 15 large bags of crap. Run #4 is in. Whew.
Now time to finish the budz! I did three different stages of trim, hoping to figure out how to achieve perfect nugs with maximum bag appeal while separating and preserving the highest-quality trim and smaller buds for pressing. Evaluating various methods in one shot was the goal.
So first up was the plant I simply chopped and hung. Boy, they sure get crispy, don't they? Ten days or so of drying had made this a crystalline treasure. I was kind of hesitant to handle it...it seemed so brittle. The major leaves simply came off with the slightest touch, no trimmers required for a lot of it. I'm not sure if it was actually faster than clipping them wet but it was no slower. Then I went right to bucking the buds and dumping the untrimmed nugs into a device that is, well, my new best friend...
Okay they aren't a sponsor as far as I can find so they must remain anonymous. You don't know what this is, okay?
But this un-named device is amazing. About 12-15 spins and BOOM, perfect nugs and the trim separated for easy removal. I was astounded and that doesn't happen often. With $5000-$10,000 trimming machines that don't do as precise a job, for my small-production needs this guy is fab. My meticulous hand trimming, four days' worth, will become less than two thanks to the ability of little No-name. Thank you God!
This also applies to the buds I only rough-trimmed, as well as the 8 plants' worth of colas I trimmed the shit out of.
Bucking big job! Rough nugs on the right, finished on the left...
Buck buck buck
Seriously, the finished nug quality is excellent:
So I feel incredible relief at figuring out how to dramatically reduce this brutal harvest routine to something reasonable. I was honestly panicky about the prospect of having to do four days of hell every time, trimming hour after hour. Day after day. All that work, kind of for nothing NOW because all types look equally perfect after a trip through the bag.
It looks like the days of sitting and trimming like a creature in a cave are largely over and I didn't have to spend ten grand.
So NOW...time to find out what we got!
The weighing and packaging took forever because it was a college football day and I was drinking and also really, really high all day. Somehow by midnight I was finally done. Yeah, I know.
The final tally surpassed my expectations!
SUPER BUD: 25 ZIPS/1.56 LBS.
BLUEBERRY: 16.3 ZIPS/1 LB.
WHITE WIDOW: 15 ZIPS/.94 LB.
The colorful, stinky nugs looked out from their final home...sorry girls but it was fun while it lasted.
PLUS...another 2 pounds of the highest-quality trim including all buds smaller than a nickel. As frosty as it gets. I can't wait to press this and see what happens. The new world of concentrates. SO much to learn. We'll see where this goes. Time to create my own label, probably!
Exploring and enjoying the fruity and delicious flavor of all these buds took days. I'm proud to report that Super Bud, Blueberry, and White Widow are all amazingly fragrant to smoke and very, very tasty, with the buzz ranging from powerful to Knock-yo-azz-out. But a smoke report on strains this great is kind of silly because you knew all that.
This means the Grow House project is officially a success. I'm very grateful and happy that it has all worked out this way. I can't begin to add up all the hours but they have paid off in a dream coming true. But there won't be long to relax...
Run #3 is a week into 12/12!
The cycle of life goes on. Mother Nature working her shapely ass off for our pleasure. She's now officially my bitch.
Stick wit me as we roll into Run #3...Blueberry and Big Bud!
Peace, Hyena
The new trimmer is a god send, buds look great!
Pjs420
Well-Known Member
Highya HM,
What a nice presentation. So glad you can knock trim jail in half! That's a relief! Yes, and when one cycle ends, another begins! Cheers
What a nice presentation. So glad you can knock trim jail in half! That's a relief! Yes, and when one cycle ends, another begins! Cheers
That’s the Q.E.D. on the lifestyle upgrade 
Cheers for the inspirado amigo
Cheers for the inspirado amigo
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Been looking at a lot of presses.
It seems 10-tons and all-electric is the sweet spot for someone who wants to do 1 or 2 pucks of maybe 5-7 grams each.
I ordered an all-electric 10-ton press. Picking up all the accessories as well. I have been watching You Tube tutorials and getting an idea of press times and temperatures and techniques for packing the pucks and recovering the goo. None of it looks like rocket surgery.
I feel solventless extraction is the best way, though pressing seems like a small-batch craft-level technique at best, I can see why larger extraction operations use butane systems they do volume. But do any of them produce a rosin that has absolutely no residuals? I don't know but from the labeling I'd say probably not which makes the case for the more time-consuming but natural method of pressing. On the videos (and when I examined samples firsthand) the pressed rosin looks on par with the BHO stuff, they both look pretty good really. Even to me, having never actually done a dab, it looks tasty.
So now as I wait for the equipment I'm gathering information...anybody dab out there? Anybody pressing rosin? I would appreciate some firsthand knowledge and such. I'm going to press about 2 lbs of ultra-dank trim and small bud. I'm thinking 6-7 gram pucks using a 39 micron screen...? Or are larger screens better? Smaller pucks? Where's the sweet spot? Temps? Press time? 2nd press techniques? Difference between first and second press rosin? Etcetera.
I have read many expert opinions but I want some from the most reliable source of all, friends. Thanks.
I often get high and watch experts on TV...
Makes me feel smarter.
We press on.
Peace, Hyena
It seems 10-tons and all-electric is the sweet spot for someone who wants to do 1 or 2 pucks of maybe 5-7 grams each.
I ordered an all-electric 10-ton press. Picking up all the accessories as well. I have been watching You Tube tutorials and getting an idea of press times and temperatures and techniques for packing the pucks and recovering the goo. None of it looks like rocket surgery.
I feel solventless extraction is the best way, though pressing seems like a small-batch craft-level technique at best, I can see why larger extraction operations use butane systems they do volume. But do any of them produce a rosin that has absolutely no residuals? I don't know but from the labeling I'd say probably not which makes the case for the more time-consuming but natural method of pressing. On the videos (and when I examined samples firsthand) the pressed rosin looks on par with the BHO stuff, they both look pretty good really. Even to me, having never actually done a dab, it looks tasty.
So now as I wait for the equipment I'm gathering information...anybody dab out there? Anybody pressing rosin? I would appreciate some firsthand knowledge and such. I'm going to press about 2 lbs of ultra-dank trim and small bud. I'm thinking 6-7 gram pucks using a 39 micron screen...? Or are larger screens better? Smaller pucks? Where's the sweet spot? Temps? Press time? 2nd press techniques? Difference between first and second press rosin? Etcetera.
I have read many expert opinions but I want some from the most reliable source of all, friends. Thanks.
I often get high and watch experts on TV...
Makes me feel smarter.
We press on.
Peace, Hyena
Jgrowlove
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Rocket Surgery lmfao !!!!
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I was checking out one of my very favorite threads, COME ON FOLKS LET'S SEE SOME EYE CANDY! and the subject was raised about germinating very old seeds.
I have done it, with interesting results, so I am copying my post here in case anyone is interested.
The real problem with germinating old seeds is the cases have dried to such a hardness that water can't penetrate. Often there is still life even after decades. Scarification using several progressively more severe methods could work.
Here's a link to an article:
How To Germinate Old Cannabis Seeds - Cannabis Grow Guide
With that many seeds you will get some sprouts, however, the average potency of the weed your seeds came from is the most important thing. Most weed available from Mexico and Columbia in the 70s wasn't more than 5-10% THC at best (unless you were lucky enough to cop some Cali State Forest-grown stuff or some Maui) so plants grown from those old seeds will have a lot less THC compared to today's strains.
I sprouted some 25-year-old seeds and the plants (the few that did sprout) simply weren't that good. It was just as if we took the Hot Tub Time Machine back and picked up a QP of Mexican reggie. Took me back to those youthful days as a novelty I guess, but when we were smoking it it mainly made us all realize how weed-poor we really were in the 70s and 80s compared to today's amazing variety, taste and strength. And unfortunately it was the same amount of work and time to grow...for relatively weak weed.
One thing though...I will say the "old days" dope is INCREDIBLY RESINOUS compared to today's. Smoking the plants from the 1980 seeds reminded me that joints back then ALWAYS got gummed up by tons of sticky resin on the toking end. Not nearly so much today, I think. Even the amazing frost I get on my White Widows doesn't translate into the gooey excess of resin that yesteryear's Mexi weed produced. Not sure if that has been "bred" out but who's with me that today's weed isn't half as resinous, when you smoke a joint, as the bud from 1980?
The solution of course was to roll a REAL fatty...
Peace, Hyena
I have done it, with interesting results, so I am copying my post here in case anyone is interested.
The real problem with germinating old seeds is the cases have dried to such a hardness that water can't penetrate. Often there is still life even after decades. Scarification using several progressively more severe methods could work.
Here's a link to an article:
How To Germinate Old Cannabis Seeds - Cannabis Grow Guide
With that many seeds you will get some sprouts, however, the average potency of the weed your seeds came from is the most important thing. Most weed available from Mexico and Columbia in the 70s wasn't more than 5-10% THC at best (unless you were lucky enough to cop some Cali State Forest-grown stuff or some Maui) so plants grown from those old seeds will have a lot less THC compared to today's strains.
I sprouted some 25-year-old seeds and the plants (the few that did sprout) simply weren't that good. It was just as if we took the Hot Tub Time Machine back and picked up a QP of Mexican reggie. Took me back to those youthful days as a novelty I guess, but when we were smoking it it mainly made us all realize how weed-poor we really were in the 70s and 80s compared to today's amazing variety, taste and strength. And unfortunately it was the same amount of work and time to grow...for relatively weak weed.
One thing though...I will say the "old days" dope is INCREDIBLY RESINOUS compared to today's. Smoking the plants from the 1980 seeds reminded me that joints back then ALWAYS got gummed up by tons of sticky resin on the toking end. Not nearly so much today, I think. Even the amazing frost I get on my White Widows doesn't translate into the gooey excess of resin that yesteryear's Mexi weed produced. Not sure if that has been "bred" out but who's with me that today's weed isn't half as resinous, when you smoke a joint, as the bud from 1980?
The solution of course was to roll a REAL fatty...
Peace, Hyena
Tony Urban
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Yeah I definitely remember weed, even in the 90’s, being way more resinous than today. Bleeding out the tip and getting on the lips and fingers... Jesus that sounds like a medical emergency requiring rubber gloves and antibiotics
MagicJim
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In my mind the primary difference in weed back in the 70s and today's tasty pleasures in the parts smoked. Much of what I purchased back then was leaf material. I remember buying lots of nickel and dime bags which weren't much more than leaves, sticks and seeds. Of course somewhere between then and now growers found that unseeded flower had better potency hence greater popularity. Sensimilla, or flower without seed was the hot ticket back then and growers have learned that. Generally we don't think of seeded flower as being nearly as potent.
I have mostly gravitated to pipes and other smoking devices versus joints but I believe the reduced amount of resins have come from smoking more bud material and less leaves.
I have mostly gravitated to pipes and other smoking devices versus joints but I believe the reduced amount of resins have come from smoking more bud material and less leaves.
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You might be right.
Well I always smoked Mexi weed, or green Kentucky-grown but still from Mexican seeds. You could tell it was unmanicured though the big leaves had been removed, then the colas just crammed into bricks that you had to pull apart. I was never happier than when I got the chance to break up a QP that was just a chunk at first. Good old Mexi. Lots of seeds but mostly pretty decent taste once you cleaned it and rolled up the fatty you needed to get high. I think for a lot of reasons it wasn't as good as today's.
But I stand by my assessment that today it's just not as resinous as the plants of yesteryear. That's fine because the problem of too much resination was often ruining the joint's airflow so it burned unevenly or it even becoming so clogged it got unsmokeable and we had to pry the joint open and throw the remaining stickylicious mess into a bowl...you definitely don't have to do that very much today.
Peace, Hyena
I grew up on the space coast in Florida, doing a lot of surfing back as a teen. I remember I out near Port Canaveral one afternoon and I saw something bobbing out the surf. I paddled out there....and found a bale of pot floating.
I yelled for my buddy to come out to me but he was being a jackass and wouldn't listen. I finally reluctantly paddled back in and told him he needed to come back out with me. He told me to fuck off, he was done. I said OK, but I ain't gonna share my bale of pot with him.
We waited til just after sun down....(I was waiting back out in the water with the bale) and brought it in. I had an 87 Trans Am (with the hatch back) that we loaded that heavy fucking thing into. 17 years old....driving down A1A with a bale of pot in the back of my ride and I had no freaking clue what I was going to do with it.
We stopped at gas station and got some zip lock bags....grabbed some from the bale and took it to my pot dealer LOL. He was a classmate and was like WTF. He offered me a grand to take it off my hands (minus two big zip lock bags we took) and I was happy to be rid of it. Fun times man....fun times! It was shit weed...but did the trick.
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I grew up on the space coast in Florida, doing a lot of surfing back as a teen. I remember I out near Port Canaveral one afternoon and I saw something bobbing out the surf. I paddled out there....and found a bale of pot floating.
I yelled for my buddy to come out to me but he was being a jackass and wouldn't listen. I finally reluctantly paddled back in and told him he needed to come back out with me. He told me to fuck off, he was done. I said OK, but I ain't gonna share my bale of pot with him.
We waited til just after sun down....(I was waiting back out in the water with the bale) and brought it in. I had an 87 Trans Am (with the hatch back) that we loaded that heavy fucking thing into. 17 years old....driving down A1A with a bale of pot in the back of my ride and I had no freaking clue what I was going to do with it.
We stopped at gas station and got some zip lock bags....grabbed some from the bale and took it to my pot dealer LOL. He was a classmate and was like WTF. He offered me a grand to take it off my hands (minus two big zip lock bags we took) and I was happy to be rid of it. Fun times man....fun times! It was shit weed...but did the trick.
Wow, great story! I think most of us who DIDN'T grow up near the beach in Southeast Florida dreamed of exactly that thing happening. The funniest part is that it wasn't (sadly) awesome bud. Most things, you long for how they used to be. Herb is the exception. It has never been better than today, in all human history, or even close.
Ironically, I just found a bale of weed the other day, behind my couch.
How times change!Peace, Hyena
Oh it was garbage weed for sure!!! But who knew better back then. I had a fresh grand in my pocket, a killer car, and a big ass bag of weed. Life was good for a 17 year old beach bum LOL