SmokeLake
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I'm such a baby I forgot not everyone has access to a freeze dryer...my apologies
Freeze Dryer would be awesome
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I'm such a baby I forgot not everyone has access to a freeze dryer...my apologies
Excellent idea.Once the frozen bud in ice water is washed the trichomes or bubble hash yield is wet. I find the easiest way for me to use it is to freeze it then powder it with a zester and dry it on parchment paper makes a dry powder like consistency instead of traditional pressed hash type consistency.
Excellent idea.
Have you tried pressing the dry powder afterwards to see if it forms the more traditional pressed hash?
I think the chicken meant temple ballsI have and its not like a traditional hash that includes some more fibrous material its like dry sift simply trichomes which can press into a block yes but to much heat and it melts into very sticky blob great for dabbing.
Pressed briefly at low temp very clean great taste huge high but I find dab rig hot I dont enjoy it as much and I feel to stoned for an hour afterwards not complaining just not productive in day to day life.
Good point - if it's green and has chloroplasts, it will photosynthesize. Leaves do the heavy lifting but even a stem will generate some glucose.What I keep coming across when reading up about photosynthesis is that any part of the plant that is green is using light and nitrogen and more as part of the photosynthesis process. It would follow that even the buds with their single blade leaves and the sugar leaves are capable of providing the sugars that the plant needs to finish ripening. I would not be surprised if even the younger thin stems which have a green color also have a small of amount of photosynthesis happening there.
Kinda depends on how heavy or how thick the canopy is. I would figure that a canopy that is thick enough to not be able to the see the contain the roots are in is thick enough to block light penetration. But some grows are not thick leafy canopies so the lighting manufacturers "penetration" recommendations will work.One thing I checked out during my last grow was how little light there is below the top layer of the canopy. Even a light layer of vegetation blocks out light so I couldn't understand why manufacturers were hawking the ability for a light to "penetrate".
I can understand making that argument but then it gets down to the meaning "canopy" and "penetration".Kinda depends on how heavy or how thick the canopy is. I would figure that a canopy that is thick enough to not be able to the see the contain the roots are in is thick enough to block light penetration. But some grows are not thick leafy canopies so the lighting manufacturers "penetration" recommendations will work.
I can understand making that argument but then it gets down to the meaning "canopy" and "penetration".
The deep question for the day - if there are no leaves the blocking the light, have the photons "penetrated the canopy"?
The logic behind that argument is that the "canopy" is a plane across the top of the leaves or colas of the plants and, if there's nothing in the path, the photons have "penetrated" the canopy.
That is an arguable view but, to my way of thinking, that just means that nothing got in the way so it's a rhetorical and marketing victory. It's a correct statement and it doesn't help the buyer understand the quality of the light which might be a motivating factor for sellers to make that claim.
Instead of putting up qualitative and undefined statements, publish third party light tests the way Chilled does. OK, that's really opening the kimono so the marketing department will scream. If they can't do that, publish PPFD maps. A lot of vendors are doing that now and that's a great step.
I'll admit that I have a hefty amount of bias here - it pains me to see people buying a "1000 watt light" thinking that they've for a light that draws 1000 watts, for example. I'd like to see sellers turn down the hype and provide more information but that will take some years, I suspect. The LED marketplace was born/reborn with the advent of the white light LED being available at commodity prices so it will take some time for buyers and sellers to settle on a common set of terms.
Back to "penetration" - the video that Shane did help to inform users that lights with "great penetration" don't penetrate leaves. That does help buyers develop a better understanding of what they're getting for their dollar. That's a good thing in my book.
I can't answer for other growers but if you check out some of the grow journals, you'll get some ideas about that.I know nothing about growing indoors but why don't indoor grow setups have lights on the sides as well instead of just having lights on top?
I know for outdoor plants, they get the sun as it rises and sets but I don't know of that sunrise and sunset sunlight is strong enough because on my outdoor plants, I still get the larf buds on the bottoms of the plants. I tried a couple of times to cut the big top colas and grow out those bottom buds longer but the temps just started getting too cold to continue. I'm sure if I would have had an indoor tent, I could have finished those in that.I can't answer for other growers but if you check out some of the grow journals, you'll get some ideas about that.
For my last grow, I had a small light that I referred to as a "side car" light for a couple of branches that fell out of the tent so that was sort of "side lighting". I got at least a few ounces for my trouble. The big PITA for me is that my work space is cramped and then I'd have to build out something that I could use to hang the light. Maybe I'll tackle that as a project.
Good point — do a sequential harvest for indoor grows.I know for outdoor plants, they get the sun as it rises and sets but I don't know of that sunrise and sunset sunlight is strong enough because on my outdoor plants, I still get the larf buds on the bottoms of the plants. I tried a couple of times to cut the big top colas and grow out those bottom buds longer but the temps just started getting too cold to continue. I'm sure if I would have had an indoor tent, I could have finished those in that.
Valid point. The amounts of usable light available in the first hour or so after sunrise and for the last hour before sunset is about zero. Even worse if it is cloudy....for outdoor plants, they get the sun as it rises and sets but I don't know of that sunrise and sunset sunlight is strong enough because on my outdoor plants, I still get the larf buds on the bottoms of the plants.
Ahh what’s a freeze drier?Freeze Dryer would be awesome
Expensive magic. It lets you preserve (something) by rapidly freezing it and then subjecting it to a high vacuum. Kind of like a dehydrator, but it leaves whatever got freeze dried in essentially exactly the same as it went in except with zero moisture. (fruits become almost like candy bits)Ahh what’s a freeze drier?
NiceExpensive magic. It lets you preserve (something) by rapidly freezing it and then subjecting it to a high vacuum. Kind of like a dehydrator, but it leaves whatever got freeze dried in essentially exactly the same as it went in except with zero moisture. (fruits become almost like candy bits)