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Damn you're right! Thanks dynamo. I was looking at the stem. Luckily tomorrow is spray day.
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good catch on the aphids @dynamo1
think he was referring to the pic of the jars in my fridge.
i live alone so there's a lot of pre-made foods and pasta in my life lol ..
i reheat them to liquid in a double boiler. can use just a pot of warm water on the stove if careful. everything melts but stays below the temp to re-cook.
grapeseed oil and vegetable glycerin infusions will stay in liquid form even when refridgerated. i will warm them to divide or make in to final products. makes them easier to deal with.
think he was referring to the pic of the jars in my fridge.
i live alone so there's a lot of pre-made foods and pasta in my life lol ..
i reheat them to liquid in a double boiler. can use just a pot of warm water on the stove if careful. everything melts but stays below the temp to re-cook.
grapeseed oil and vegetable glycerin infusions will stay in liquid form even when refridgerated. i will warm them to divide or make in to final products. makes them easier to deal with.
Morning Shed!I think for this particular harvest 15% THC may be a little high? Perhaps 10% or 12% might be more accurate?
LOL! Yeah, well. I was eagerly awaiting the answer to that little tidbit of a question and VG did not disappoint!I would have gone with.
Okay, so in an effort to learn to fish.....I downloaded the Old Bear worksheet and I think I know how to use it now.
For my upcoming gummy batch:
15% THC
1 oz weed (28.35 g)
1 cup coco oil (236.59 g)
85% Efficiency
= 15.28 mg/ml THC
And for the pain oil batch:
12% THC
78 grams weed
591.471 ml oil
80% Efficiency
= 12.66 mg/ml THC
Do you mind checking my work?
If I used the spreadsheet correctly, it looks like I could get to 13.80 mg/ml if I bumped up to 3 ounces at 12% THC to start. 
Of course it is Shed. It was all about reverse psychology. I was hoping for girls all along.
you can't increase final product potency too much by simply increasing the ratio of weed to oil that you are infusing. there has to be a minimum amount of oil to make it work. as you increase the amount of weed used, you will also have to increase the amount of oil. so your final percentages will remain the same.
you can add extra weed to the process, but you are simply leaving it behind without sufficient oil for a proper infusion.
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fucking Bugs 
I found this online calculator for pot sizes a couple of years ago... dunno why I’ve never shared it here before now
I grow with microbes and let my soil dry out well during veg. Might be something particular to the GF - but I’ve not found usual wet dry cycles to be a problem in living organic grows that rely on soil biota. Some folks say it (that strong wet-dry bothers the microlife) - but it hasn’t been my experience.
Hi Shed and all
And just because I need to know, are you going to include a 100ppm in your GA3 adventures this time?
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VG rarely disappoints!
You are spot-on with your numbers, and here is your certificate of completion! : parchment :
I knew that...
I am acting under the assumption that Boo has the bud covered with oil as I mention in all of my oil-making tutorials, as well as in discussions we've had on the site.
IKR! But it's just part of growing outside. If I had this kind of infestation as a tent grower I'd be pissed!
Maybe it never came up
. Thanks Amy!GF has it as part of their instructions, so it must be specific to them.
Not 100ppm on the nose for a couple of reasons. First is it's not as easy to mix for, given the starting 180ppm, and also because we're really guessing at these numbers to begin with. My mixing vessels aren't lab-calibrated, nor is my scale. Also, the GA3 we can buy isn't 100% GA3.
So I figure that the odds of my 90ppm being 100ppm are the same that it's 90ppm!
Some pics coming in a bit. Took yesterday off from the computer so I have to catch up on here.
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Monday update, the one where I almost cut down three of the four mother plants but don't because it's cold out.
Let's start with the winter two, which are smooshed in the tent because it's chilly and grey today. I will probably clean out the shed to make daytime room for them so they can spread out on inclement days.
Here they were yesterday morning, flip day 8:
You can see them on flip day 1 here.
I re-measured them so @BeezLuiz can have something to enter on his spreadsheet.
Durban Poison grew from 34" to 39":
And Colombian Gold grew from 29" to 33":
Finally, here are the three Candidas just after they got sprayed with their individually unique PPM sprays, listed on the tape labels!
I'll get another pic at the end of 5 sprays just before they get flipped.
Hope your weekend went well and your Monday is sunnier than mine!
Oh yeah, about those mother plants. I'm tired of watering, trimming, and spraying three sativas I will probably never grow again (Fruit Punch, Golden Tiger, and Carnival), and I have at least one other seed of each of them. I'll just bee keeping the Candida mother around for obvious reasons. So sometime this week...off with their heads!
Let's start with the winter two, which are smooshed in the tent because it's chilly and grey today. I will probably clean out the shed to make daytime room for them so they can spread out on inclement days.
Here they were yesterday morning, flip day 8:
You can see them on flip day 1 here.
I re-measured them so @BeezLuiz can have something to enter on his spreadsheet.
Durban Poison grew from 34" to 39":
And Colombian Gold grew from 29" to 33":
Finally, here are the three Candidas just after they got sprayed with their individually unique PPM sprays, listed on the tape labels!
I'll get another pic at the end of 5 sprays just before they get flipped.
Hope your weekend went well and your Monday is sunnier than mine!
Oh yeah, about those mother plants. I'm tired of watering, trimming, and spraying three sativas I will probably never grow again (Fruit Punch, Golden Tiger, and Carnival), and I have at least one other seed of each of them. I'll just be
Heavenly Hybrid
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Those winter two are beauties. Nice growth 8 days in. Good luck with those reversal candidas. We’re majorly counting on you, so no pressure.
Good luck with those reversal candidas. We’re majorly counting on you, so no pressure. 
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Nice flippin' plants, Shed! 
That there is a limit to how strong an infusion can get/how much weed can be infused in a certain amount of carrier oil is true, but do we actually know what/where that limit is?
I have done multiple re-infusions with the same amount of carrier oil, and have yet to see it become "saturated". Then again, I don't like mine to be too strong!
That there is a limit to how strong an infusion can get/how much weed can be infused in a certain amount of carrier oil is true, but do we actually know what/where that limit is?
I have done multiple re-infusions with the same amount of carrier oil, and have yet to see it become "saturated". Then again, I don't like mine to be too strong!
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All oils will have an saturation point for cannabinoids, but I have not seen any science on where that is.
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I'd love to know if anyone has found that limit, even just anecdotally.
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If the oil hasn't been tested at various stages along the way, it's just someone saying "This got me higher and this didn't." I think that's way too many variables for it to matter!
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Here is a test run to see which oils had the best absorption of the same amounts of THC in each, but repeating the test with a different lab produced different results!
"After infusing 3.5 grams of this cannabis (with 507.5 milligrams of total potential THC) into each fat and testing the results thoroughly, we received sets of results from two different labs. Our first set of infused fats went to SC Labs, where results pointed to the olive oil as the most efficient absorption medium for THC. Chef Payton repeated the experiment and had the results tested by C4 Laboratories, who showed the clarified butter performing the best, followed by coconut oil."
Pretty anecdotal in the end.
Which Fat Absorbs THC Best?
When extracting THC for use in cooking, both stoner lore and hard science tell us that fats make the best mediums for potent infusions. But what type of fat should you use to extract THC most efficiently? To find out, I devised an experiment comparing the total potency of five different...
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"After infusing 3.5 grams of this cannabis (with 507.5 milligrams of total potential THC) into each fat and testing the results thoroughly, we received sets of results from two different labs. Our first set of infused fats went to SC Labs, where results pointed to the olive oil as the most efficient absorption medium for THC. Chef Payton repeated the experiment and had the results tested by C4 Laboratories, who showed the clarified butter performing the best, followed by coconut oil."
Pretty anecdotal in the end.
I use the shake and other small stuff in my first pass of infusing. Then I strain and refrigerate the oil. Next time, I use that same oil with some nice buds off of any plant that has impressed me (I don't know the "real" THC content of my strains). I infuse those buds in and then use the resulting oil.
Seems to work pretty well for my gummies!
the only appreciable difference i've noted is whether i've done a single or double infusion process. i do mine with an IP so it lends itself to it.