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Thanks Az. "Dust", huh? Uhm, you know that, in sales, its about the sizzle and not the steak, right? We need a new name, Az, not sure I can live with - "Dust". ;>}Not really what you're asking, but I've taken to using most of my harvest in Dust form. Mostly I leave it undecarbed as I prefer the acidic forms of the cannabinoids but it's easy enough to decarb either the bud or the dust.
Most of the studies of the cancer fighting properties of canna have been done with decarbed flower so that would certainly be what I'd do for a chunk of it at least. But the acidic forms target different receptor sites in many cases so spreading out the targets seems like a good strategy. So, some decarbed, some not.
Once you have the dust prepared it can go on almost anything; smoothies, with milk on cereal, with olive oil on your salad or dinner, baked in brownies, etc. Extremely flexible.
The one thing I'd say which doesn't help your dankruptcy issue is that it tastes much better after curing so you'd have to factor that time in. Also, the plant material can be a little hard on the stomach, at least at first, but wouldn't take long to acclimate your system to it.
And, like RSO, this form is an edible so comes with the associated latent onset and much longer impact timeline. A good mix'n'match for a smoking routine I'd imagine.
I'm not sure. Cal/Mag deficiency doesn't usually wrap itself around a stem like that with the two distinct blobs and ventilation hole. Maybe more like boron excess?But yeah a bit of Cal-Mag deficiency (I always say that!) Or am I missing something else?
I have never tried fresh plants, but many press fresh for rosin, so it must have value. The trick is to freeze the material AND the alcohol. Everclear won't freeze, but it will get well below the freezing point. I find -18C or colder is perfect. My freezer is -16C. The reason for the freeze is to hold all the water soluables frozen in the plant (chlorophyl mostly) and only wash out the trichs. That makes for the purest oil.Thanks for setting him straight, Nick, saved me doing it and doing it poorly. Tequila thanks you for pre-empting me also (just trust me on this one, buddy). Not a topic I feel uber-confident communicating to others, though I understand it all just fine. It's explaining it all I get tongie-tied.... Great job in your description Nick.
So, thanks Bud.
Good to see you too Ta'Kill'ya.!! Your little Earthbox went boom! at the end! Nice work! Especially the custom racing stripes you applied so professionally. 1st time for everything.
AhYuyp, that's right, look who's still alive, and kicking Cancer's ass up and down the street. Yup, The ReservoirDog Liveth.
I've finally managed to go home, to be checked out again, as I have been 'ínside' twice since the 7th October, with a ten-day home-break in the middle. Lemme just say that going in for surgery at same time as a world-shattering terrorist event does in fact have psychological impact. In case someone ever wondered, going under in one world and waking up in another is very confusing and upsetting.
As an outpatient I still have to be at the hospital every weekday for chemo/radiation - for another couple weeks-10 days. Tumour is responding 'well' to treatment (Cancer tumour has become very animated, has gone "full chest-burster"; it seems to sense death is coming, so it trying to hurt me as much as possible and make the treatment stop. Swear to you, this is a very similar sensation to what those fictional characters who had Alien Chestbursters, er, 'burst'.... guaranteed this is what they felt!
Wanted to tell everyone that my RSO oil is a miracle guys, and I'm really so grateful for the help I rec'd from site users, friends, who sent me grain alcohol in the mail, who showed me how I could trap the escaping alcohol gave me the gift to create another batch. Which is to say you've given me life. Life itself, and I thank you.
It is no exaggeration to say that the RSO relieves all of my symptoms, across the board, by a full 50%, while I'm max-lit. This is more effective than the dilauded (sp) (pain) and Ondansitron (nausea)(sp), and other powerful drugs put together. Drugs, consider, whose only purpose is to relieve immediate symptoms, not cure you. And it means that I can then use those secondary meds much, much more effectively.
I've just run out of my RSO supply and need to make more. Will be scraping the jars clean for this one I guess, however I do have a fresh plant with a few OZ in it waiting for chop.... how could I utilize my extraction process on a green, fresh plant? Just freeze and then use uncured? I guess it will have different qualities, but so long as I decarb -- it should work ok? How about mixzing fresh and dried for RSO, is possibilities or instructions from users?
So, @Gee64 , (and anyone for that matter caring to add anything helpful to contribute here, please do I need some answers so I can move forward today) Any thoughts on mixed fresh/cured for making RSO? Or maybe just fresh, maybe just do the whole plant, the one ready to harvest and use it all for RSO, never mind the dried product on hand? Too complex? I like all the mixed cannabinoids for this project, but if mixing fresh and cured will introduce issues then I can go without.
@Bill284 buddy.... I so hope you're doing well. I'm back in touch again, I'll c'mon over and find out how you're doin'..... Any thoughts on RSO from fresh plant material, Bill?
Srry, wanted to leave pic of finished fresh plant ready to harvest, misplaced phone/camera. Haveta'wait an hour or so... before I can show it to you I guess. Mostly I'm just wondering if using fresh plants is OK just so long as I freeze for 24-36hrs first and cool the solvent (190pf grain alc) also.
My ready-to-harvest Barbara Bud x Kryptonite F1 has taken on a little purple in the calyxs' lately, giving that "grape-nuts look" when fresh, but not enough to show up after cure. I bring up purpleness because I wonder what smoking anthici-whatever-its-called-I-cant-remember, you know, the dye that makes things purple in plants... I wonder if it has any negative smoking aspects, for taste, like chlorophyll does?
I doubt it would be anywear as caustic feeling as chlorophyll, but I just haven't heard anything about it, and wondered. Any close listeners out there with thoughts on, "smoking purple" and making RSO/FECO from fresh buds (using 190pf grain alc. method)
I wish everyone a thoughtful, even pensive, memorial Day, Rememberence Day, 11-11-11, however you remember, I ask you to remember what our recent forbears suffered and stopped. Not only that, but your absolute responsibility to moral and ethical positions of asylum, aggressive war, and truthfulness. We are at the most profound human crisis moment in our species history and must find a way to again be capable of positive, collective action. Not this atomizing, individual-worshipping, cult-like tribal behaviour we've been running of late, if that's been you, well, snap the fuck out of it. Courage is contagious. If you have none to give, go find some to borrow.
Not sure! I’ve actually left it there. This plant is a bit of an experiment, doesn’t look like anything is harming the plant so I’ll just let it hang out - we do get mantis’s here. Up in the doorframe top right the picture is some other insect home my wife promises isn’t gonna bite or sting. She doesn’t know the English name though.Hey Nick is that a praying Mantis cocoon on your plant , when I was growing we got them a lot !
Looked like the makings of a bee or hornets nestNot sure! I’ve actually left it there. This plant is a bit of an experiment, doesn’t look like anything is harming the plant so I’ll just let it hang out - we do get mantis’s here. Up in the doorframe top right the picture is some other insect home my wife promises isn’t gonna bite or sting. She doesn’t know the English name though.
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Looks similar but def its not that, some husband and wife mating pair of insects apparently. I’ll ask her again to find me a picture, we live in the tropics so get some big stuff insect wise. You marry a girl grew up in the jungle you generally let them handle the creepy crawlies!Looked like the makings of a bee or hornets nest
thats so awesome. Drink deep, Nick.Looks similar but def its not that, some husband and wife mating pair of insects apparently. I’ll ask her again to find me a picture, we live in the tropics so get some big stuff insect wise. You marry a girl grew up in the jungle you generally let them handle the creepy crawlies!
The absolute simplest way is probably a water glass that you change out the water to every day, worked well when I didn't have anything else. If a cutting roots or not is mostly down to the health of the cutting and its genetics. I like water cloning since I can choose whatever medium or style of growing from that point onward and I don't have to any daily work with misting.** Cloning with Azi **
For anyone new at cloning or looking for a simple, effective, and SIP friendly approach I thought I'd detail my process.
I used to be horrible at rooting cuttings, and in fact successfully participated in the International Worse Cloner Of The Year competitions held each year around the world. I never did medal in them as I was always able to get a small percentage to root which kept the lights on, but man did I suck. And the few clones I did get to root took a long time and looked pretty sickly by the time they did.
I tried everything you could imagine including soil, coco, glasses of water, bubble mist cloner contraptions of three different types, DWC, domes, rooting hormones, you name it. Nothing worked very well for me which I attribute to my environment, but I kept at it. I even started a cloning thread recently (which you can read through here ) but for those of you that like to jump to the last chapter of the book I'll detail my process below.
My criteria was that I wanted something highly successful, simple, consistent and involved no judgement, no noise, no hardening off, no domes, no rooting hormone, no complicated builds, etc and this approach checks all of those boxes.
The Build
Find a container that won't hold water. A regular small nursery pot would work fine but I use a Solo cup with a small hole made with a soldering iron or small drill bit. If you're using cups you can cut a slit with scissors on the side of the cup at the very bottom corner. I make a corresponding hole at the top of the cup so I can easily see where the hole is. I use a clear Solo inside of an opaque one.
Congratulations, your build is finished.
The Medium
Fill the container with something coarse that breathes well; perlite, pumice, or coarse builder's sand.
The Process
I take cuttings from the ends of branches about 4-5"/10-12cm long, trimming away any branches below the top flush of leaves fairly close to the stem but leaving a little stub. The smaller the better as that's less wound for the plant to heal. If you do this step the day before you cut it while the cutting is still attached to the plant you'll get roots a day or two earlier. My theory on this is that the plant will send repair hormones to heal these cuts and these hormones are still present the next day when you actually cut the clone and that helps wth the rooting process. Plus, those wounds will have scabbed over and need less repair effort after the cutting is removed from the plant.
Make a hole in the medium slightly larger than the stem width with a chopstick or other tool, stick your cutting and firm the medium around the cut by pressing down and around. I have small plants and therefore small cuttings but I can fit 5-10 in a standard Solo cup. Doesn't matter at all if the leaves touch or overlap.
Now mist the leaves twice a day, I do roughly 12 hours apart. When I spray, I place the cups in a large storage container stood on end which contains any overspray. Then tilt the container on one corner and drain the excess water into another cup for use on your other plants. I use straight tap water, left in an open container for 24 hours to help off-gas any chlorine but really don't think that matters a bit.
I leave the cuttings off to the side, out of direct light and in fact I have a piece of cardboard on the side of the cuttings area to block any direct light. And I keep them in an environment with more than 12 hours of light since I don't want them trying to flower while they're rooting. I keep them in my veg room at 18/6.
I get roots in 7-10 days and usually let them stay in the cups for 3-4 weeks total before potting up but I have potted them at as little as 14 days. I just like a better developed rooting system before I do. I don't feed them or rewet the medium at all while still in the cups as drips from the twice daily misting keeps the medium moist enough. Taking more cuttings than I plan to plant allows me to select the best of the best from the group and there are always one or two that are appreciably better than the others.
This process is borrowed from the commercial "Rooted Cuttings Industry" where they root thousands of landscape plants in sand beds under intermittent mist and shade cloth to protect from direct sunlight.
Rooting cuttings is really hard until it clicks, but once you find a process that works for you it becomes easy. And this is the one that clicked for me. And, because the cuttings are rooted in the same environment as your veg space there is no hardening off required. They go directly into my organic soil SIP and don't miss a beat.
Good luck!
I didn't have good luck with the glass of water approach. Took me way too long to get roots and had too many failure to launch plants once they were transferred into soil. Too many didn't survive the up-pot.The absolute simplest way is probably a water glass that you change out the water to every day, worked well when I didn't have anything else. If a cutting roots or not is mostly down to the health of the cutting and its genetics. I like water cloning since I can choose whatever medium or style of growing from that point onward and I don't have to any daily work with misting.
Cheers!