Weasel Forges Ahead

SweetSue said:
can’t remember what the significant difference was between the two batches of oil you used for pain creams. Do you?
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You know, I still feel like I’m fumbling in the dark.... got that feeling I get when I overwork a stew and keep blindly throwing more crap in there to make it ‘better’. I used a Lot of weed in both batches. Random stuff I wanted to clean out of the stash- mostly whatever I thought might be strongest THC-wise. The first batches I decarbed, or at least tried to decarb, by leaving them to run in the MB machine for a few days. I got the impression from my readings that low heat would work fine, given enough time. Those batches did seem to work.
The last batch I made in the crockpot and left in there on low for a few days. The low setting kept it just short of a full boil. Maybe I overcooked it, I don’t know. I can’t think of a really significant difference with the last batch except I used grape seed oil, instead of jojoba or coco oil.
I think I should just try following the recipe you sent me. Seems like I’m using about 8 times as much weed as everyone else and I’m definitely not getting 8 times the results. I’ll do another batch soon when I get my hands on some decent oil.
I do have some hemp oil. Has anyone tried this for skin cream?

I didn’t reply to your post earlier partly because I was trying to get my hands on an oven thermometer. You’d think it would be easy to find that in a store, but alas, not here...
Anyway I eventually found one and it turns out that my old propane oven is perfect :) The thermometer reads exactly what I set the dial to. Who knew.... So I’ll just decarb in the oven next time and try doing it like the normal folks do it.
 
Someone many years ago told me why old guitars are worth more than new ones ...

It's not because it's an old guitar - it's because it's a guitar that didn't warp, didn't crack, didn't lose its tone over a very long period of time. It's been proven. It damn well IS a good guitar!

Examples like your propane oven give me pause. In my home, I have an old cast iron boiler furnace - an American Radiator Company "Ideal" model sectional boiler. You can see that it originally ran on coal and had been converted first to oil and then to natural gas. The house was built in 1923 and as far as I can tell, the boiler may be original. Every fall, when I turn it on, it runs the same way it ran 32 years ago when we bought the house.

Your propane oven is apparently a good oven. :)
 
Well… That stove currently is mostly held together with duct tape and wire. Lol. It keeps breaking, and the bear bent it up pretty bad crawling around on top of it - but it still works, and I was surprised to see that the thermostat is so good.
But I totally hear what you’re saying. My girlfriend and I were working on one of those old Singer sewing machines I have- you know the sort, lots of fancy gilt scrollwork all over it, heavy as hell, built in the 1930s and it’s just incredible how high the quality is . It’s so solid and well-built, it’s like a work of art . Really amazing. All the new stuff just disintegrates when you look at it hard. We bought a $6000 outboard motor for the skiff last year. Plastic parts are flying off it left and right :)
 
Todays kids in the future and plastic moulding, they be saying, "they make'm how they used to"
 
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A couple pics of Angel's Breathe F2 #5 after drying. Didn't require much trimming, which is nice. I'm still smoking the lower buds that I harvested at 14 weeks while I let the 18-week buds cure for a few months. The smoke is exceptional. The smells are pure haze and exceptional. It's so much fun to roll joints, you just take one of the scrawny buds by the stem, pinch and pull like you would if you're preparing fresh thyme in the kitchen. Only you pull off nothing but calyxes coated in tiny crystals that burst forth with a pungent, complex lemon-lime haze smell. A couple tokes and you have a big smile on your face for a few hours and you can get things done. You WANT to get things done. You're just happy. Very euphoric. This weed will be insanely good when I get to the main cola after a proper cure. Wow.

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that's great that description of rolling a joint by stripping the foxtail of it's calyx's,, haha,, i did that very same thing with a mama thai/thai stick foxtail not two nights ago,, so that would make it last night

that;s quite a coincidence,, the foxtail stripped bare just like he described,, and one thing about foxtails,, the stalk is unreal tough,, and bigger foxtails stalks are amazingly tough

i need a puff,, :volcano-smiley:
 
What I like is the genetics are nl 12.5 skunk 12.5℅ afghan 25℅ haze 50% ... 18 weeks... make me go, Hmmmm.. hows it make you boys feel "oh and it makes us wonder" :rofl::rofl:
 
Oh wow. That’s exactly my kind of high. And, on the bright side, that photo is also a fair picture of what a lot of my bud has looked like lately :)
Not so much the Ethiopian though. Fluffy yes and for quite a while it looked like it was going to be good and sticky with some frost, like in that photo. In fact it was good and sticky for quite a while, but another month or two went by and then it wasn’t so much. Now it’s sort of like a leafy garden herb.
I might just stick the scraggly existing clone of it into flowering as is to try again, and forget about taking the time to clone that clone, thereby creating more space and time and greatly increasing the chances that it will be great and I’ll be pissed I didn’t clone it. But I’ve got more Ethiopian seeds, and quite a few other strains I want to try and make room for this winter.

A little more quick catching up. Here’s how the Dinafem OGK turned out. I harvested it a few weeks back. A nice plant but seems fairly unremarkable, at least to look at. I haven’t tried any of it yet. I gave some to a friend today and they said it was great. By appearance, I still don’t think it turned out nearly as well as it should have. Haven’t decided whether to run another round of it, try another seed, or just move onto planting an OGK/Thai cross strain that I want to try, which a friend kindly gifted me seeds for.

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That looks nice man... :passitleft: thanks :thumb:
 
~Golden Tiger x Thai Stick~

Here are the GTx plants which I’m finally taking a few minutes to post about. They both turned out nice, though not necessarily worth all the trouble they caused me.
By the way all the plants in my grow these days are quite floppy because of overcrowding and because my oscillating fan in veg is so lightweight.
I’ve been too busy/lazy/broke to get around to ordering better movement fans from the internet and am tired of buying local ones that break after five minutes.

GTx2 This was the shorter and generally more cooperative one- started flowering more decisively, looked prettier, etc. In the end it yielded a lot more than the taller plant too.
Buds are those longish skinny-ish Thai style buds that look like wasp asses, sometimes with goofy tufts of leaves where the stinger should be.
The smell is typical woody/spicy Thai, but with a more fruity overtone.

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GTx-3. This was the tall one that I had to keep mangling hard to keep away from the ceiling. She took forever to get around to flowering for some reason, then was always gangly and homely looking- maybe partly because I kept having to chop and break arms and twist her out of shape. This is the one I did the beautiful basket weave on.
Buds on this plant were a litttle smaller, and much rounder without so much of that Thai look. I was surprised the day I put my hand on one of the buds and discovered how sticky it was. Despite having kind of a scraggly look to it, the bud on this plant was far more gooey than GTx2.
I’ve stuck a pruned down clone of this one in flowering to see what happens next time around.

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~Chocolate Mint~

Harvested this one last night. I don’t take many photos because of poor lighting after it got dark.
This is one of three different CM phenos I have. It’s the most generic looking one I suppose- but i don’t mean that in a bad way- it’s a very dank and sticky looking plant. The sort of indica dominant type I’m scared to sample. This one yielded a lot of good bud.

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Sheesh, you turn out some fine produce! :Love:

I have held such a bundle of sticky mess like that in my own hands and it's a somewhat illuminating moment. Looks like ... dunno ... (insert one's own impressions) ... but I get visions of a tropical jungle clearing and a mass of those plants growing on a sunny knoll, reeking of that green sativa aroma. And then you learn that dat chit can fug you up! But you can't buy it in a dispensary I understand. There's just the one way to get yourself some of that and it's to grow your own. :slide:

Props to you, sir! :Namaste:
 
Weaselcracker said:
I still don’t think it turned out nearly as well as it should have.
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Ya know.... looking at your latest haul.... I feel I've seen better from my northern neighbor and wonder if he's been stretching his HPS bulb life a bit too much and getting less horsepower delivered to plant tops.
Even the choco mint looks like it wanted to be fatter... tho it's mighty pretty.
 
Now i want new lights even more. Simply suerb weaseley. Wow. I try desperately to keep envy out of my life but i envy the master gardenet that you are friend. And what you can do with that dim bulb of yours

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hey weaseley,, i would so love to see you grow the og kush\ma thai cross,, it is a fine plant,, i just harvested a close cousin,, an [og/mack]/mack,, oh man,, i call that one og-x

but the og-mack,, what you have,, well, go figure,, because of the shite show clone show round here lately, i have been growing seeds mostly,, and i have three,,

count em,, one two three og macks, what you have, in the production cycle right now,, one just put to flower a few days ago,, real nice looking plants,,

what do ya know,, with a comp out here now,, here ya is

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these two were a test,, the one on the left started with zero ferts,, till i saw how far it fell behind the other one and i decided i would need it for my production cycle,, so i started ferting it and it has come back nice

the right one had fert all along and has been cut back a whole bunch, including tonight, because it was getting too big for me and i have no room for it in flower room, soon tho

last and only time i grew this i notice it has good production and near no smell at all,, as i mentioned to you

do it friend,, pop one,, two even,, fer kicks,,

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Thank you! :). High praise coming from you guys. It’s more shithouse luck than anything.
Tead has think the bulbs are pretty new, but when I get a minute I’ll try to search to find when I bought those ones. I could be wrong. Time has a way of zipping past. I think most of the light deprivation you see has more to do with neglect, and the fact that my 600w HPS lights are barely enough. I feel like I butt up against that reality all too often.
I haven’t yet found a good way to mark the date on my bulbs, but the next set I get I think I’ll maybe engrave the date on the base so there can be some organization to the mess of new(ish) and old ones.
I’m definitely jealous of the lights you and Graytail have. Next time I get some extra pocket money ( that may be a while :) ) I think I’ll try to switch half my flowering over to something like that.
I think I mentioned this before probably, but a friend, who is passed away now, once muttered something about ‘a green thumb just means you have time to spend with the bloody things’. Seems to me he was completely right about that. The quality of the plants and the green-ness of my thumb rises in direct proportion to the amount of time I spend in there, and the sad reality is I’ve done the bare minimum with them for at least the last year or so. I keep hoping that will change. But weeks go by with me just only finding the time to throw them food and water. It’s amazing I get much of anything worthwhile. If I took that extra time to train and prune them into a shape that would catch the most light, and got off my ass long enough to get a better movement fan in veg, I wouldn’t be growing plants that are drooping down to the dark and shady floor. I’ve been doing just enough to get by.
Last winter all I did was work away from home. This summer I was home a lot, but too focussed on outdoor stuff to get in the room much. With my eye being so gimpy now I think I’ll be finding a way to stay home this winter, and maybe/hopefully get back into some more artistic ventures to earn a living wage. Winter darkness and bad weather mean more inside time and maybe I’ll start giving it that extra 20% of love.

MI, I have to admit I haven’t even tried the Chocolate Mint. :oops: The indica lovers tell me its great, though nothing is quite as good for them as the P Chunk.
One of these days I’ll try some, but honestly I find it hard not to reach for one of the sativas every time. Indica has some serious side effects for me and I just can’t seem to get around a bit of paranoia, munchies and cloudiness when I smoke that stuff. I spent so many years slave to the dealer and having bad experiences with it that I’m reluctant to go back. Still- there are some good feelings that come with an indica ride too- I should screw up my courage.
Graytail I also visualize that jungle clearing. What I’m doing is sort of like raising a wild animal in a cage, or an exotic fish in a bowl. It’s sort of wrong and I feel a bit bad, but it’s still gratifying, and plants can’t talk or I’m sure they would swear at me.
Thanks for those pics Nivek. I think I’ll start one of the OGK/ Thai seeds this week. And maybe one of the latest GT seeds I bought from Ace.
 
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