Why you dear.....I’ll do just that. I figure the mold will most likely stop being a problem once the plant gets into the perlite. It’s never been a problem. I can do that for them at any stage in the cloning process?
Hey K.... that was the Carnival clone that’s not doing very well. That mold may be more of a problem than I thought. I’ll replace it with a new cutting.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Or I’ll treat it with H2O2 in the pot.
Cruising on by
Let me know how that red diesel hits, I got it planned for next big run
Tasty.
That Zam Pan is a stunner... getting stretchy too, has it finished stretch do you think?
Zam Pan & Carnival look huge all of a sudden!
I try to apply this to my life.
That Zam Pan is a stunner... getting stretchy too, has it finished stretch do you think?
It looks like it's close to finishing stretch. Now comes the mass of foxtails.That is what I was gonna say. Looking at Morglie's pictures, his had stretch like that.
We learned a lot with this first attempt. Hash Hound is planning to purchase the 2-gram forge. I don’t bame him.
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OMG those buds look sooooo Awesome Sweetsue, you are a genuine genius!Oooooo.... the first one is a cob now, and to be honest, I think it’s my favorite. I haven’t smoked much of what I kept in flower form and may have used it for pain oils.
I’ll let you know about the buds from this one.
Mmmm....
Hash Hound is his way over. BB got some Blue Dream to me to test and we’re gonna squish some of it.
The daughter’s gonna try each pheno out and see if one’s a standout. Today we’re just having fun.
Big fun being had over here!! I thought you were pressing for Rosin, not making CCO... or have you done both?
Oh and I just wanted to show this off to you a bit, I’m not sure you’ve had a chance to come by since I finished it... (you’ve had just a little bit going on
There’s a baby bush in there now...
Actually seeing as she came from your stash, I should share the birth..
A quick trip to the store and a better torch later - one with a push button - we got to the job of pressing some cannabis oil. She’d forgotten she still had some wax bits to use too.
Oh Amy..... WooHoo!
And thank you for understanding. I sometimes have to remind myself that my friends know what I do beyond this journal and don’t take offense when I miss out.
You are talented in a way I can’t begin to see myself. Well done.
Share that picture with MagicJim, if you haven’t already. He’s the proud papa that made the plant produce those seeds.
Rosin is the name we use for pressed oils, but they’re concentrated cannabis oils in their pure form, made without solvents that require purging.
Pure medicine.....
SweetSue goes solventless
Hash Hound found time to come over and do the initial squish with us. I’ve never worked with a torch before and felt safer having him around.
Turned out to be a good thing too. The torch turned out to have a leaky valve, turning it into a flame thrower.
The paper weighed in at 3 grams, kinda waffling between 2 and 3.
When working with dense buds you need to break them up. The creator says you don’t need to bust up fluffier flowers, which these were, but I figured if I did so it’d make it easier for the oil to be released.
Place the Slug on a piece of parchment paper and begin to fill the cylinder with your flowers. Every so often tamp the blossoms down, but not so hard that they’re pressed all the way through.
You load the tamper with the top piece inverted. This gives you something to grab hold of when you’re done. You want to get the puck out ASAP so it doesn’t cook the terps out.
When you have it mounted and ready to go and apply the flame, keep it away from the paper. Lol!
There’s a half dollar mounted behind the paper. We figured out that the backside with the eagle offers more surface texture, which we believe helped the oils seep out easier than a solid flat piece would. We may be wrong in that assessment, but it sounded good. Lol!
The coin is on the vice, the parchment paper over top, folded back to keep it away from the flame.
You can see there’s a small fold on the bottom to catch the dripping oil. So the top is folded away and the bottom is folded towards the Slug.33.
The flame is applied for 1 minute, slowly turning the crank. You don’t want to crank all the way to the end until you’ve turned the flame off. This gives a few seconds for the oil to start running.
Like this.
You can see it’s still bubbling.
It weighs less than 0.10 grams, which is theoretically .33 or so of the available oil in this single gram of Blue Dream.
That means the puck is loaded with over 65% of wat the buds had to offer. They’re in a big jar, to be accumulated and made into oil for edibles, most likely brownies.
It was so much fun we had to do it again.
The dark spots you see on the cylinder are melted rubber. We dropped the Slug.33 and it melted the floor tiles. Lol! The thing got hot.
You’d think we’d have paid closer attention to that, but the excitement was high and we weren’t thinking as clearly as we might have. Lol!
The second attempt garnered very close to the original press, but by using a cylinder that was already too hot to touch we overheated the buds and burned off most of the terpenes. Lesson learned: let the cylinder cool down completely between pressings.
Ain’t it pretty?
As soon as you’re done you want to pull the tamper out, remove the end piece and flip the cylinder over so you can use the tamper to shove the puck out before it cooks away.
A few minutes later Hash Hound checked the temperature of the metals and they were all too hot to touch. They were so hot by this time that even the leather didn’t help much.
I’ll be purchasing a silicone mat to drop the pieces on to when I’m done. Today I simply kept an eye on them for a few minutes, moving them around so they didn’t set the yarn on fire. Lol!
When you’re done pressing toss the piece of parchment paper into the freezer or do what my daughter did and grab an ice pack.
The daughter smiled.
This was delicious fun. Thank you @Dirtdemon.
Your generous gift will brighten our lives in ways you didn’t imagine when you placed the order. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, and all the rest of me.
Tomorrow I’m making Carnival oil.
It warms my heart to know that SweetSue. It was my pleasure, Thank You for pointing in the right direction of healing. I couldn’t have done it without your help. 
Wicked cool picture HH
Keith...I don’t tell you often enough how thankful I am to have you by my side.
Thanks SUe - as I documented in a blow by blow build post, I have been working on it for 6 months spreading out the cost of materials and the cost in energy output (and making visiting guests drill a hole for me every now and thenOh Amy..... WooHoo!
And thank you for understanding. I sometimes have to remind myself that my friends know what I do beyond this journal and don’t take offense when I miss out.
You are talented in a way I can’t begin to see myself. Well done.
). It has been a very satisfying journey, and because I had expert help with some of the technical side (like which driver 
thank you Graytail) I was able to do it without expending very much mental energy either, which is huge.
turning it into a flame thrower.
Indeed!Yes, I have thanked him in PM I will head over to his garden now
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