love new flowering heads. That initial look across the canopy and seeing the white golf balls forming is priceless. going great guns Prof.Hey 420! Another day in isolation and another chance to get some gardening done. Today I managed to take some clones and cut back the mothers plus get a few pics of the other tents progress. First up we have the coco grow. Here we are a couple of days after the training session on flowering day 25....
Holy batcrap , that combo would have me working. I love favourites over sweet anyway but I try to like it with zero joy. lol. Does sound like you have some good variety making waves too. I am trapped in the seed zone with lots to use now before I can again shop around again. must have 100 from the gelato jizzfest.!!!. lol watching with an interest on these flavour saves.I could eat marmite with a spoon lol. Cheese, bacon and marmite toasty GG. That's all I need to say.
I didn't realise that you had your new journal up and running. I'll be over for peep soon. You're probably on page 30 already. You're plants are looking great though.
Thanks N. I still need to get in there and check for pleasant smells lol. The Crumbled Lime's are both very good at the moment
Love the cat battles.hahaHere is the mother tent before I took some cuttings earlier. The plants were in need of a good trim and they certainly got that....
If you look to the right you will see Dick Head otherwise known as Chairman Meow. Just waiting for me to turn my back....
Keep it cheap and cut back on recycling at the same time. The trusty ol yoghurt pot method....
I simply cut the stems where I could and placed them in coco to root. I did tidy them up a bit as well. I didn't use any rooting hormone for these....
BONSAI!!!!....
Continued....
"TEAS UP"I cut the mothers backdown to their lowest side growth shoots and also took the opportunity to remove some of the main branches. They had 8 growth tips each but I've trimmed them down to 4 as I will never need that many cuttings. Now I can fit more plants in my mother tent as well. I should be able to get 5 more in there if I need to....
The Fat Purple is beginning to show her age....
Like a forest in winter....
Of course this wouldn't be a Professor journal without a random spider attack. I very nearly dropped the whole tray as I was taking the plants out of the tent when this thing ran across the top of my hand lol....
So there you have it. That'll be the mothers dealt with for another few weeks. They do grow fast in coco though....
Here is where my waste is going. The anaerobic tea which just sits there in the garden cooking in the sun. Smells lovely. I'll be using it to water my outside garden and dont like the idea of bringing it into the bedroom. Even I draw the line at some things....
You have me worried now lol. I'm fairly certain that what I'm seeing is salt build up. I do get a little concerned when I see the surface of the medium beginning to turn white. I cant remember which grow it was now but I definitely remember thinking that MC was particularly salty once. it has clogged my dripper lines before now.
It looks like there might be some interesting ones this time. The Starcake looks like it might be purple or at least very dark. The Exotic Genetix are both very fast and are noticeably ahead of the rest at this point. The Double D's looks beautiful now compared to what she looked like at the beginning of flower. It feels like I may be re-vegging a few of these.
This one feels a bit like that. Just add more water lol. The plants are looking better than most of the plants I grew last year though I did go through an experimental phase with all sorts of shite soil combos lol. I'm feeling happy that I went with the coco now. I always used to associate coco with waste which I didn't like the sound of but doing it like this removes that and makes it much cheaper.
Pop around later for a cuppa if you like
still got my like working away with all the coco waste , fruit and veg , dandelions ect.. it is so rich when I turn it now and the life in it is crazy. Just need to find a good base soil to add to it for volume and herd growth. Got my compost bin empty witha nice layer of wet cardboard to bring them wrigglers up for the feast to come. All good stuff too , no onion or citric crap. lots of banana and a whole aviary of eggshells breaking down, spuds are trying to grow in it again now but they will be mashed into more compost for the cause. Used a bit in the LOS pots as I went up in volume by nearly 20L a tub and didnt have enough ecothrive to fill them all up. doing good on it so far.I cut the mothers backdown to their lowest side growth shoots and also took the opportunity to remove some of the main branches. They had 8 growth tips each but I've trimmed them down to 4 as I will never need that many cuttings. Now I can fit more plants in my mother tent as well. I should be able to get 5 more in there if I need to....
The Fat Purple is beginning to show her age....
Like a forest in winter....
Of course this wouldn't be a Professor journal without a random spider attack. I very nearly dropped the whole tray as I was taking the plants out of the tent when this thing ran across the top of my hand lol....
So there you have it. That'll be the mothers dealt with for another few weeks. They do grow fast in coco though....
Here is where my waste is going. The anaerobic tea which just sits there in the garden cooking in the sun. Smells lovely. I'll be using it to water my outside garden and dont like the idea of bringing it into the bedroom. Even I draw the line at some things....
That is some nice coloured hash Prof. Do you mix before you put it through the bags???. Did consider it being easier than trying to not hit the sides all the time and risking the bags. I bought the all mesh ones last run and found them helpful with the draining the smallest micron bags. Been putting it off with mine but now getting very low so need to get on with it . Lewy did some nice runs and I planned to do it a few weeks back. I have the blackberry and lsd sugars in a small tub separate so will only get a very small return on them I think but I do have a few oz of the rest too and all of the stems that are gritty as hell too. inspirational yet again fella. Enjoy mate. looks so nice.Before we continue I must first apologies yet again for the camera. I really wish I had the better one for this. This stuff looks very tasty indeed.
Ladies and gentlemen I give you Hashplant D hash....
Good night everyone
I'm doing a little outdoor experiment with an autoflower using the tea and my homemade soil mix which is just coco, some clay pebbles and my homemade compost. The compost looks really good and I am growing quite a lot with it at the moment. I'm nearly out already though but the next bin is well on the way to being shut up until next spring. So far the Auto is alive though it seems a little slow to me. Ive gone with 2 photo regs as well to see how they like being brought up as veg plants in the mix. The auto is going to hopefully flower and we're just going to feed it the evil tea. No cheating with the MC lol.
To be honest GG I'm not quite sure that I have the hang of it quite yet. I had a brief chat with Lewy last night about how my last round of hash turned out. The finished product is potent as hell and tastes amazing but seems far to sticky and is a nightmare to use. I had to keep it in the freezer in between use as any heat applied to it caused it to melt and stick to anything that isn't a greaseproof surface. I left a little blob of it on the table next to my spliff and about 30 seconds later it had begun to pool and I lost it. I used a knife to try and scrape it off the table but it just stuck to the knife. I used another Knife to try and scrape it off the first knife....You can see where this is going lol. God forbid you let it rest on your finger tip for longer than 10 second. Gone simply put. To make a joint I have to get the everything prepared first then go and get the hash from the freezer. Then after unwrapping it I have to pick little bits of it and drop them straight into the joint before they begin to melt. You have to move really fast and there is no second chance to break up a lump that might have been a bit too big for the joint lol. Luckily it burns incredibly smoothly even with large lumps of sticky caramel like hash blocking up the joint. Other then that it is very nice lol. Lewy said about stirring it for less time as I did mine for about 15 minutes before letting it sit for around 10 and then going at it again. I stir it loose in a bucket before dumping it through the bags. I did it about 4 times
makes sense prof. the runoff is always the reason I turn back off it too. I tend to get lazy and avoid runoff so probably keep it a bit dry too. getting regular times to farm is always a pain too so feeding schedule gets harder. Small mixes in the saucer for wicking makes sense but as your finding , the moisture content is harder to hit the sweet spot with. Do you give them a top feed occasionally to hit the laterals up top or is it all wicking ?. maybe the white is mushroom mould. good for herd.You have me worried now lol. I'm fairly certain that what I'm seeing is salt build up. I do get a little concerned when I see the surface of the medium beginning to turn white. I cant remember which grow it was now but I definitely remember thinking that MC was particularly salty once. it has clogged my dripper lines before now.
It looks like there might be some interesting ones this time. The Starcake looks like it might be purple or at least very dark. The Exotic Genetix are both very fast and are noticeably ahead of the rest at this point. The Double D's looks beautiful now compared to what she looked like at the beginning of flower. It feels like I may be re-vegging a few of these.
This one feels a bit like that. Just add more water lol. The plants are looking better than most of the plants I grew last year though I did go through an experimental phase with all sorts of shite soil combos lol. I'm feeling happy that I went with the coco now. I always used to associate coco with waste which I didn't like the sound of but doing it like this removes that and makes it much cheaper.
Pop around later for a cuppa if you like
Don't believe everything you read here GG. Read the actual MC bag and you'll see the ingredients are just as salt-based as every other nutrient brand.
making sense shed. thanks buddy. I have hidden the bag from ever seeing light ( or smelling it) until absolutely necessary!!. lol
Here are the top 4 ingredients listed:
Before we continue I must first apologies yet again for the camera. I really wish I had the better one for this. This stuff looks very tasty indeed.
Ladies and gentlemen I give you Hashplant D hash....
Good night everyone
I remember when I thought that the bag said to feed at 7g per gallon in flower lol. I threw out the bag and made up my own rules!
Thanks for clearing up the confusion there Shed
Thanks for the advice TC. The shaker sounds like a great method. Is it a cleaner method than bubble bags? I noticed that you can cover half the room in oily water if your not careful making bubble hash.So this is great stuff. 25m looks very potent and the rest is also amazing. I jumped in here because I like hash products better than any nug and I have some stuff to say
I am not trying to brag but I've had too much experience on hash in every aspect. I've met lots of hash masters and smokers. I tried almost everything hashy. It has been an obsession because the taste of hash is unrivalled. I prefer a good hash to any other cannabis product. Extracts also have a great taste but they lack lots of stuff compared to hash. I would like to share my final thoughts about hash making and rolling here for everyone if you guys don't mind
First, there are lots of ways to make hash as we all know. I tried all kinds of extraction. Bubble bags are nice but I abandoned them because they don't yield good. You get several products with different potency and that is a plus. When you smoke that 25 microns stuff it will feel like heaven thats for sure. But you don't have too much of that. Other stuff is also great but achievable with another methods in a more convenient way.
I am using a pollen shaker for a long time. I put my trim in freezer and set it to the lowest temp. I wait for a couple days then put the stuff inside the pollen shaker. I got one with 160 microns and another with a 90 microns screen. I am mostly using the one with 160 microns screen and sometimes I add dry ice to the system. This gets things even freezier.
Yield is huge compared to bubble bags. The downside is, you can't smoke the powder without processing it. The trick here is not to shake for too long. You can use the screens together to get two different products. After shaking for around a minute with dry ice or two to three minutes alone, you can put your trim back into the freezer. In the second run, you can shake as much as you want and get enormous yield with a lower quality but don't worry, we will process these as well. You will be very satisfied with the taste and high with the both products.
After getting a single or several products with different potencies, we store them in cooking paper. You can slightly press with your hand to give them a shape. Powder is not the best form to store pollen. If you have a minute shake with dry ice inside 90m shaker, you can press the powder between your fingers inside a small piece of cooking paper. After a couple minutes you can observe the change in tone. It gets dark green because you basically cook them. It is ready to roll that easy but lets consider you have a 15 minutes shake without dry ice inside a 160m shaker. That is not the best product to work with but if you can cook this one properly, this will also kick *ss.
There are many different cooking methods but I think this is the most modern and efficient way to do it. I must say that some traditional methods lead to different products like stone hard hashish so if you are after a certain product you might need to dig in deeper. We can't learn every method from the internet. I am just sharing what is working for me the best.
To cook my type of stuff, we'll need heat and a pollen press. You must fill your pollen press with the fewest amount of pollen required to form a pressed disk. I am pressing with the bigger pollen press(I think there are mostly two sizes available) and rolling only one joint with the pressed disk so you can figure how thin the disk should be. The thinner the better because we don't want to cook too much.
After pressing the pollen with our presser, we place a tissue on a pan and turn the heat on. You can crank it all the way it doesn't matter. We just need to heat the pan until the pollen press gets hot. I constantly roll my pollen press on the pan to distribute the heat uniformly. I take it away from the pan before it gets too hot to handle. At this point, pollen loosens up and lets you press for more. This is the trick for cooking. Press as much as you can then put it back in the pan and turn down the heat. Give it 10-15 seconds in there and take it away again. Let it cool down to room temp. and then get your disk out of the press.
In the end this method becomes much more efficient compared to bubble bags method. You need to use more product in press but the yield is so greater that you will have no shortage of pollen. I strongly suggest this way.
About rolling, I agree that this stuff is very sticky and cooling it helps but your hands always stay sticky at the right? I am rolling my weed with tobacco and I am rolling my hash with both weed and tobacco. Thats the most efficient way to burn your hash. About the sticky hands, I rub them with tobacco and all of the stuff on my hand fuses into the joint. I take a small piece of tobacco to rub my hands and the small hash pieces. I am not trying to fuse the hash into tobacco here, I am trying to do otherwise. When you fuse tobacco in hash, you make the hash burn easier. You can also cut the pieces into crumbs easier after doing this. You should use a small part of tobacco to do this because if you make a dough with all of your tobacco, your joint clogs. We need some of your tobacco to stay loose. You want this portion of the tobacco, mixed with a fine cured and ground weed. Finally you need to add your tobacco infused hash crumbs inside this mix and distribute them in a uniform way. Smaller crumbs are better for uniform burning. I don't like hash crumbs to be close to paper and I find them burning more efficiently in the center of the joint so its better to keep this in mind.
I hope you guys try my method and enjoy it. I am running out of my stash these days and my pollen shaker keeps me going for 4 days. I don't know how much left to shake but I think I can manage to stay alive without smoking for 3-4 days
Happy smoking folks
Should have kept the bag and made up your own shoes! That plastic was much thicker than crisp packets.
I'd have had to have put both of my feet in the same bag. It was big enough to do that. At £70 a bag I wouldn't have been buying another one for the other foot though. Expensive shoe(s)!
So far I'm growing chillies, tomatoes, cucumbers, spring onions, chives, mixed salad leaves, rosemary, spearmint, sunflowers and cannabis with it. Its early in the season but nothing has died yet. With cannabis plants I'm going to give them some tea maybe next weekend and see how that goes.
