RetiredRN Gorilla Glue, Northern Lights 2021 First Time Grower

Them hanging to dry I'm having a hard time keeping it at 50% humidity because I tried already and I forgot about it and it went to 99% I got lucky real lucky it was only like that a few hours

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Wow great job man. Awesome harvest inho. Big dense buds it looks like. SWEET. Bet it smells pretty awesome in there.
 
Hey @StoneOtter @Jon @Maritimer @InTheShed @Emilya @Virgin Ground and anyone else who want to jump in. The more the merrier. So these are my poor pitiful gummies and I didn’t have enough molds so I ended up using my deviled egg tray to make gummie eggs lol. They look and eat more like chewy candy. They were out of the park good! The high from them was a level I had not experienced yet. It was the most relaxed I have ever been in my life. I slept 8 hours uninterrupted, which I haven’t done in more then 30 years! I’ve made some observations during this journey. #1 I can grow WAY better weed then I can get off the street. #2 Off the street weed is dryer then a cactus in the middle of the dessert. #3. Off the street weed is trimmed down way too much thus I lose the benefits of the extra trichomes and sugar leaves. #4. Off the street weed never gets grown to its potential. The trichomes observable on the street weed are always clear!, never any cloudy. They just want to get it sold and don’t care about the quality. Now folks, when I say off the street, I in no way am referring to a dispensary , that’s probably different I’m guessing.

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Hey @StoneOtter @Jon @Maritimer @InTheShed @Emilya @Virgin Ground and anyone else who want to jump in. The more the merrier. So these are my poor pitiful gummies and I didn’t have enough molds so I ended up using my deviled egg tray to make gummie eggs lol. They look and eat more like chewy candy. They were out of the park good! The high from them was a level I had not experienced yet. It was the most relaxed I have ever been in my life. I slept 8 hours uninterrupted, which I haven’t done in more then 30 years! I’ve made some observations during this journey. #1 I can grow WAY better weed then I can get off the street. #2 Off the street weed is dryer then a cactus in the middle of the dessert. #3. Off the street weed is trimmed down way too much thus I lose the benefits of the extra trichomes and sugar leaves. #4. Off the street weed never gets grown to its potential. The trichomes observable on the street weed are always clear!, never any cloudy. They just want to get it sold and don’t care about the quality. Now folks, when I say off the street, I in no way am referring to a dispensary , that’s probably different I’m guessing.

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HA! Great post. Bet they were strong. A lot bigger than the Gummy Bear molds, yes? And by the way, I loved your numerical list. I agree wholeheartedly with basically every word there. I'll add this: Yes, you can and should ALWAYS outperform any street weed you could possibly get. By the way, it's even worse than you said, lol, cuz you forgot the goddamn keifing that a lot of idiot shadesters do. The weed HAD the trichomes you're looking for. Till they kiefed the buds over a screen before selling it to take all the outside kief, ie, trichomes. But yeah, street weed sucks. Honestly it ain't that hard to beat. Funny what you said about dispensaries. The way you described street weed is almost precisely how I would describe dispensary weed. It's all barrel blade machine trimmed, all in bulk, usually quick dried and quick cured, it always WAY too dry and has lost most of it's smell and trichomes, RARELY sticky GARBAGE. I hate giving them money. I bet your weed is better than most dispensary weed too. I EXPECT mine to be. My first grow was bag seeds from the dispensary. I grew it. Then I had an eighth from the dispensary when I harvested of the same strain. So I directly compared theirs to mine. No contest. Mine DESTROYED the dispensary. A part of it too is that the weed has only been touched ever by your own hands and nobody else's. So the trichomes will never be as undisturbed as when you grow your own weed. I will say that the dispensaries, despite the negatives, do tend to begin with weed that if you or I harvested a plant of it it would be amazing. They know how to grow, at least here they do. It's what they do from the moment they cut it down until you get it at the store that screws it up. Oh well.
 
I just picked up a LEVO II and plan to make some gummies soon. I read that you need an extra pack or two of gelatine to keep them from melting. I will post up once I get a chance to play with my new toy (LEVO II). Awesome job and congrats on your harvest.
I used 1/2 c canna oil, 1 large pk flavored jello, 1 small pkg flavored jello, 2 pk of unflavored jello, 2 tablespoons sunflower lecithin, 1/4 c of water, 1/4 c of light corn syrup. I thought it was going to be too much jello and it would set up like a brick but it didn’t. If I hadn’t used all that jello it would have been a melted mess and not set up at all. There was still separation that happened even with the sunflower lecithin. I’m over all pkeased with the end product even though it was pretty.
 
It's also cheaper in the long run to grow your own.

Great job on making your first gummies. @Carcass and @BooWho2 have been making some fantastic looking gummies. I would look to them if you want some pointers or alternate recipes.

Congrats on finally getting a decent nights sleep. It's amazing what plants can do in the right hands.
 
You got it! The whole enchilada! Those look sick! Wish I had some! Isn't it something how relaxed a body can get when it gets just enough edible. There's nothing better in my book! Now you did it. Tonight's the night for me. I haven't done that in too long, could use a good sleep! I'm in!
 
It's also cheaper in the long run to grow your own.

Great job on making your first gummies. @Carcass and @BooWho2 have been making some fantastic looking gummies. I would look to them if you want some pointers or alternate recipes.

Congrats on finally getting a decent nights sleep. It's amazing what plants can do in the right hands.
Yes! I never knew sleep could be so good. I’m over the top excited about going to sleep at night now!
 
You got it! The whole enchilada! Those look sick! Wish I had some! Isn't it something how relaxed a body can get when it gets just enough edible. There's nothing better in my book! Now you did it. Tonight's the night for me. I haven't done that in too long, could use a good sleep! I'm in!
Happy sleeping my friend!
 
It's also cheaper in the long run to grow your own.

Great job on making your first gummies. @Carcass and @BooWho2 have been making some fantastic looking gummies. I would look to them if you want some pointers or alternate recipes.

Congrats on finally getting a decent nights sleep. It's amazing what plants can do in the right hands.
Hey @StoneOtter @Jon @Maritimer @InTheShed @Emilya @Virgin Ground and anyone else who want to jump in. The more the merrier. So these are my poor pitiful gummies and I didn’t have enough molds so I ended up using my deviled egg tray to make gummie eggs lol. They look and eat more like chewy candy. They were out of the park good! The high from them was a level I had not experienced yet. It was the most relaxed I have ever been in my life. I slept 8 hours uninterrupted, which I haven’t done in more then 30 years! I’ve made some observations during this journey. #1 I can grow WAY better weed then I can get off the street. #2 Off the street weed is dryer then a cactus in the middle of the dessert. #3. Off the street weed is trimmed down way too much thus I lose the benefits of the extra trichomes and sugar leaves. #4. Off the street weed never gets grown to its potential. The trichomes observable on the street weed are always clear!, never any cloudy. They just want to get it sold and don’t care about the quality. Now folks, when I say off the street, I in no way am referring to a dispensary , that’s probably different I’m guessing.

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Thanks, I’ll ask them.
 
Hey @Carcass @BooWho2 so I made gummies for the first time and wonder what went wrong. I used 2 Tablespoons of sunflower lecithin in the recipe and things still separated during the cool down. It was nicely blended in the pot before putting it into the molds. My gummies also were very soft but still formed and chewed like soft candy. They look nothing like gummies. I had a terrible time getting them out of the molds even after I dusted the molds with corn starch. The recipe I used is a few posts up in this thread from 12:43pm today.

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Aye,
Likin the Virgin says you might consider askin them pro's
@Carcass did me the scoop and me crew thinks me the more clever with his help. :hookah:
 
Hi, RetiredRN...I think I can help a little-
I made gummies for the first time and wonder what went wrong.
The lecithin should be added to the oil when you infuse the oil, like 1 tbsp per cup of oil- I think that may have caused part of your problem, because everything else looks ok...

To get the oil to remain in suspension, you need to let it cool while stirring the oil in- when the mixture
cools off a bit, the jello will thicken up a little- this is when the oil will blend in- it usually takes about 5 minutes for it to cool enough to hold the oil...An easy way to tell, is to just stop stirring for a little while-if the oil doesn't float up to the top, then it's ready to put in the molds- if the oil floats to the top at all, then it's still too hot to hold the oil in suspension, and needs more stirring...(and cooling)

If you need to add lecithin to the mix, I'd say 1 teaspoon would be enough- the lecithin isn't what makes the oil and jello mix, it's the temperature and consistency of the mixture that determines whether the oil stays mixed in or not.
 
Hi, RetiredRN...I think I can help a little-

The lecithin should be added to the oil when you infuse the oil, like 1 tbsp per cup of oil- I think that may have caused part of your problem, because everything else looks ok...

To get the oil to remain in suspension, you need to let it cool while stirring the oil in- when the mixture
cools off a bit, the jello will thicken up a little- this is when the oil will blend in- it usually takes about 5 minutes for it to cool enough to hold the oil...An easy way to tell, is to just stop stirring for a little while-if the oil doesn't float up to the top, then it's ready to put in the molds- if the oil floats to the top at all, then it's still too hot to hold the oil in suspension, and needs more stirring...(and cooling)

If you need to add lecithin to the mix, I'd say 1 teaspoon would be enough- the lecithin isn't what makes the oil and jello mix, it's the temperature of the mixture that determines whether the oil stays mixed in or not.
OK so I want to be sure I’m understanding correctly. The lecithin needed to be added into the oil in the magic butter machine when I was trying to extract the properties from the weed??
 
The lecithin needed to be added into the oil in the magic butter machine
Exactly- What I do is wait until the infusion process is done, then add your lecithin to the oil (1 tbsp/cup) and hit the "wash" button on the MBM and let it run the full wash cycle- takes about4 or 5 minutes- this will blend the lecithin into the oil.
Adding the lecithin to the oil after the infusion process is thought to make it work a little better, so that's how I do it.
 
Exactly- What I do is wait until the infusion process is done, then add your lecithin to the oil (1 tbsp/cup) and hit the "wash" button on the MBM and let it run the full wash cycle- takes about4 or 5 minutes- this will blend the lecithin into the oil.
Adding the lecithin to the oil after the infusion process is thought to make it work a little better, so that's how I do it.
Ok thanks
 
Their where Dance when I hung them but when I checked them today they feel like leafy like fluffy no dance not as fat as they were either I was my first girl I think I fucked it up
I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying here did you post in the correct spot?
 
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