"Squelch the little weasel
Crush him before he spawns
Break it to me gently
But with merriment and song
Squelch the little weasel
Juice him as he bleeds
Feed him to the many
For thoust their souls shall weep"
Weasel Forges Ahead
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Thanks WeenMO. I love that! ❤ not so much when the mods sing it, of course. Mainly cause they sing soooo badly. Horrible...like nails on a chalkboard ( shudders ).
This is a good journal to be subbed to right now because I hardly ever post anything. So.... very low pressure. At least for you. Not for me. I chew my nails to the bone stressing about being so behind and not answering posts. Oh the guilt.
This new CO2 hash invention could be a real breakthrough for me. I’m going to do some more tomorrow.
Lately I’ve been using up large batches of bud and trim and getting tiny little yields, splashing around in the icy cold with bubble bags. Brrrr. It’s a lot of work too. All that rinsing and cleaning and straining. Not sure why my hash yields have been so sad lately. But sad yields makes me sad too
Nivek, I sure hope you weren’t in a hurry for an answer there... ha ha ha. Re what you mentioned about playing around with earlier harvests - no I haven’t really played around with it much.
Sometimes I harvest some strains that are very speedy. I have then sometimes delayed harvest times by a week or two, and found that the bud wasn’t nearly so speedy anymore, and was more enjoyable.
I have noticed @OldMedUser in years gone by, cite the same info re late harvests being a waste of thc. Myself I have a sort of fetish for harvesting late. I don’t think that it’s rational. I just like it when the buds look like flowers and get nice and colourful and gooey. I don’t feel comfortable harvesting bud that is all green and leafy. But there’s not any science behind that feeling.
Also, just throwing this out there, ‘degrades’ is a bit of a loaded term. THC isn’t everything in the land of cannabinoids is it? Not that I really know shit about it.
I hear what you said what you’re saying though. You preferred the early bud. I’ll try taking some early samples. Maybe from the three different Carnivals I have going right now - two new from seed plus the original which I revegged.
This is a good journal to be subbed to right now because I hardly ever post anything. So.... very low pressure. At least for you. Not for me. I chew my nails to the bone stressing about being so behind and not answering posts. Oh the guilt.
This new CO2 hash invention could be a real breakthrough for me. I’m going to do some more tomorrow.
Lately I’ve been using up large batches of bud and trim and getting tiny little yields, splashing around in the icy cold with bubble bags. Brrrr. It’s a lot of work too. All that rinsing and cleaning and straining. Not sure why my hash yields have been so sad lately. But sad yields makes me sad too
Nivek, I sure hope you weren’t in a hurry for an answer there... ha ha ha. Re what you mentioned about playing around with earlier harvests - no I haven’t really played around with it much.
Sometimes I harvest some strains that are very speedy. I have then sometimes delayed harvest times by a week or two, and found that the bud wasn’t nearly so speedy anymore, and was more enjoyable.
I have noticed @OldMedUser in years gone by, cite the same info re late harvests being a waste of thc. Myself I have a sort of fetish for harvesting late. I don’t think that it’s rational. I just like it when the buds look like flowers and get nice and colourful and gooey. I don’t feel comfortable harvesting bud that is all green and leafy. But there’s not any science behind that feeling.
Also, just throwing this out there, ‘degrades’ is a bit of a loaded term. THC isn’t everything in the land of cannabinoids is it? Not that I really know shit about it.
I hear what you said what you’re saying though. You preferred the early bud. I’ll try taking some early samples. Maybe from the three different Carnivals I have going right now - two new from seed plus the original which I revegged.
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Here are some not so great pics of the two new Carnivals.
Carn 3 is about 4’ tall and smells citrusy with a little fumey/spiciness. Carn 2 is smaller and has very little smell so far, what there is sort of reminds me weak smelling clover.
I’ll try to get/post some pics of some other likely looking plants tomorrow. Including La Niña.
Would Nivek harvest a plant this early? 
Carn 3 is about 4’ tall and smells citrusy with a little fumey/spiciness. Carn 2 is smaller and has very little smell so far, what there is sort of reminds me weak smelling clover.
I’ll try to get/post some pics of some other likely looking plants tomorrow. Including La Niña.
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A few pics of La Niña. I’ve been hampered by my inability to get good photos under the lights. Got a new filter which has improved the situation slightly. Anyway she is a very nice plant- though it may not be really obvious from the pics. I’ve struggled to get a good pic.
I did another large run of CO2 hash using about a half pound of bud, running it through a 160 micron bubble bag. Got a good yield of something or other. Not sure exactly what but it seems like good stuff. I’m going to play around with it more, maybe run it through some finer screens or concentrate it a bit more with iso alcohol.
I did another large run of CO2 hash using about a half pound of bud, running it through a 160 micron bubble bag. Got a good yield of something or other. Not sure exactly what but it seems like good stuff. I’m going to play around with it more, maybe run it through some finer screens or concentrate it a bit more with iso alcohol.
Skybound
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How does your process work, do dry ice chunks form, or does the gaseous CO2 completely envelop the plant matter and crack the trics off on contact? Damn, now I want a CO2 cylinder.
ditto,, me too
that's fantastic weaseley,, so fluffy,, real nice colour too
have you been doing any weighing of the materials to see what kind of return you might be getting. the process certainly is workin for ya, and if one has too much bud to handle, well, sure reduces the volume
now,, the left overs,, whatcha doin with the leftovers?? sounds like a batch of oil is in the future maybe,,
great stuff weaseley,,
cheers friend
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Ok so the technique definitely needs a little refining but overall the process definitely works.
No I have not managed to create any dry ice like that crazy Russian dude. Although I haven’t tried to. I just haven’t seen any form when blasting out the gas. Not sure how he got so much- but maybe I would just need to crank up the gas. If I wanted dry ice. Which I’m pretty sure I don’t.
So far (as I posted before) my technique is to throw the dry bud in a 2 litre plastic container, which has a hole drilled in the lid about the right size to force/ thread onto the CO2 tank outlet pipe. The container has the bottom cut out and a screen fastened over it with hose clamps. A bucket underneath/around the whole affair.
At the moment the screen I’ve been using is the 160 micron bubble bag. That may change.
For the last run I left the gas on for 15 seconds at medium blast although that did seem like it was probably too long. (Both times I’ve turned the gas up to full I’ve had tragic results involving the bottom of the setup blowing off, which was very messy ).
The buds In the container will agitate violently and quite a lot of powder comes out the bottom into the bucket. Some gas can be seen smoking out of the bottom. After I turn the gas off I shake and sift the material through the bag a bit longer
For this last run I used 240 g of bud and produced 70 g of kief. A near 30% yield is too much to expect top quality I think. Im sure most of my bud is probably not anywhere near 30% thc. I must be getting a fair amount of plant material. I assume I can change that by varying the blast time and the screen size(s).
The 70 g of kief I got would stick together when I warmed it up in the oven last night, but still didn’t really form the soft hash texture that I was looking for.
I took all the kief and sifted it through a 120 µm bubble bag which yielded about 30 g. of supposedly higher grade (?) kief. This process was kind of messy and wasteful and I lost almost 5 g somehow while doing it. The dust clings to the bags and puffs up in the air, sticks to everything, etc. I should have done all my straining at the time of the CO2 blast.
The remainder, which didn’t sift through, I mixed with isopropyl alcohol, shook it, strained it, threw away what remained in the strainer and evaporated off the rest to get this
Then I mixed it with the sifted kief, as well as a half ounce of bubble hash I had around on the shelf, and the kief from my two earlier CO2 experiments. Mixed it all together and warmed it up to get this.
A way nicer texture. Soft and gooey. If anything, maybe a little too gooey.
As for what’s left over I don’t know that there’s enough good stuff left in it to use it for anything, but I’ll let it sit on the shelf for a while and think about it
No I have not managed to create any dry ice like that crazy Russian dude. Although I haven’t tried to. I just haven’t seen any form when blasting out the gas. Not sure how he got so much- but maybe I would just need to crank up the gas. If I wanted dry ice. Which I’m pretty sure I don’t.
So far (as I posted before) my technique is to throw the dry bud in a 2 litre plastic container, which has a hole drilled in the lid about the right size to force/ thread onto the CO2 tank outlet pipe. The container has the bottom cut out and a screen fastened over it with hose clamps. A bucket underneath/around the whole affair.
At the moment the screen I’ve been using is the 160 micron bubble bag. That may change.
For the last run I left the gas on for 15 seconds at medium blast although that did seem like it was probably too long. (Both times I’ve turned the gas up to full I’ve had tragic results involving the bottom of the setup blowing off, which was very messy
).The buds In the container will agitate violently and quite a lot of powder comes out the bottom into the bucket. Some gas can be seen smoking out of the bottom. After I turn the gas off I shake and sift the material through the bag a bit longer
For this last run I used 240 g of bud and produced 70 g of kief. A near 30% yield is too much to expect top quality I think. Im sure most of my bud is probably not anywhere near 30% thc. I must be getting a fair amount of plant material. I assume I can change that by varying the blast time and the screen size(s).
The 70 g of kief I got would stick together when I warmed it up in the oven last night, but still didn’t really form the soft hash texture that I was looking for.
I took all the kief and sifted it through a 120 µm bubble bag which yielded about 30 g. of supposedly higher grade (?) kief. This process was kind of messy and wasteful and I lost almost 5 g somehow while doing it. The dust clings to the bags and puffs up in the air, sticks to everything, etc. I should have done all my straining at the time of the CO2 blast.
The remainder, which didn’t sift through, I mixed with isopropyl alcohol, shook it, strained it, threw away what remained in the strainer and evaporated off the rest to get this
Then I mixed it with the sifted kief, as well as a half ounce of bubble hash I had around on the shelf, and the kief from my two earlier CO2 experiments. Mixed it all together and warmed it up to get this.
A way nicer texture. Soft and gooey. If anything, maybe a little too gooey.
As for what’s left over I don’t know that there’s enough good stuff left in it to use it for anything, but I’ll let it sit on the shelf for a while and think about it
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Anyway.... that took care of my reserves of bud that was ‘too fluffy, dude’ according to local expert who doesn’t know what a sativa is.
It’s not fluffy anymore.
It’s not fluffy anymore.
Skybound
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When I did some runs with dry ice chunks, I found I got nice blonde for maybe the first 5 mins, then I noticed the powder coming out began to get green. I expect in your case with the gas, it would transition quicker, but have you noticed any visible changes in color of the sift as it peppered down?
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Well when I had the gas running it went too fast to really observe that happening. Also I tried to keep the bag folded over the bucket as much as possible because the kief dust tends to fly around.
I did shake and sift the bag contents for a minute or two after that, and got a lot more. I didn’t observe any colour change but again I was trying to keep the dust from flying around too much and I couldn’t really see in there. I just went till there wasn’t much kief coming out. Next time I will use a large tote or something to minimize the dust storm, and like I said there are a few obvious ways to tweak the process.
However, even if the kief produced turns out to be low grade for whatever reason, I figure it can be refined by settling in water as in the bubble hash method, or with alcohol as I did, so all is not lost at that point.
I did shake and sift the bag contents for a minute or two after that, and got a lot more. I didn’t observe any colour change but again I was trying to keep the dust from flying around too much and I couldn’t really see in there. I just went till there wasn’t much kief coming out. Next time I will use a large tote or something to minimize the dust storm, and like I said there are a few obvious ways to tweak the process.
However, even if the kief produced turns out to be low grade for whatever reason, I figure it can be refined by settling in water as in the bubble hash method, or with alcohol as I did, so all is not lost at that point.
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I wanted to try to get some more pics of the La Niña and also the Durple Pream for a member who’s name I’m not supposed to mention that asked me about them.
As always my photos under the lights continue to suck quite a lot.
Both these plants are getting nice and frosty now. They are starting to look like they’ll be the two frostiest plants in the room actually.
Under the lights with my naked eyes I can’t really see any purple on the Durple Pream, but in some of the photos I took I definitely do. In this case I tend to trust the camera more, since many times I’ve been totally surprised at what I see when when I finally drag a plant out into daylight for harvest.
As always my photos under the lights continue to suck quite a lot.
Both these plants are getting nice and frosty now. They are starting to look like they’ll be the two frostiest plants in the room actually.
Under the lights with my naked eyes I can’t really see any purple on the Durple Pream, but in some of the photos I took I definitely do. In this case I tend to trust the camera more, since many times I’ve been totally surprised at what I see when when I finally drag a plant out into daylight for harvest.
Wow. 
Durple Pream looks amazing!
Durple Pream looks amazing!
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Partly due to what Nivek said about early harvesting I’m posting a few pics of two of the Carnival phenos. I am a compulsive late harvester and I’m wondering if any of you guys would harvest plants that looked to be at this stage?
I notice that nearly everyone on the forum harvests earlier than me, and maybe they’re not all wrong.
By appearance Carn 3 is maybe approaching the harvest window? She is still way leafier than I would normally want. My usual method is to let those flowers turn whiter and stickier, and let most of the leaves turn depleted and yellow.
I picked a couple mid level buds to try smoking.
Carn 2 was put into flowering a week or two later than Carn 3 and I believe still has some fattening up to do.
Part of my reason for asking is that I want to reveg both these plants. Therefore I’m not gonna let them go to the very bitter end. Somehow I failed to get clones of them. Which is something that is a complete mystery to me.... how that happened. I know I rooted some. But there are no clones of them in the veg room.
I notice that nearly everyone on the forum harvests earlier than me, and maybe they’re not all wrong.
By appearance Carn 3 is maybe approaching the harvest window? She is still way leafier than I would normally want. My usual method is to let those flowers turn whiter and stickier, and let most of the leaves turn depleted and yellow.
I picked a couple mid level buds to try smoking.
Carn 2 was put into flowering a week or two later than Carn 3 and I believe still has some fattening up to do.
Part of my reason for asking is that I want to reveg both these plants. Therefore I’m not gonna let them go to the very bitter end. Somehow I failed to get clones of them. Which is something that is a complete mystery to me.... how that happened. I know I rooted some. But there are no clones of them in the veg room.
Could you have been stoned at the time?Yep, the first one looks ready for an early window harvest - great trich production! - looks like it'll be foxtails from here on.
The others are still pretty spindly.
I don't think I've revegged a Carnival yet (maybe once) but her cuts always root well.
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I revegged my first Carnival and she’s just finishing flowering now. She revggged easily. Didn’t do so well in flowering this time around, but possibly it’s because I didn’t chop down the roots a bit and transplant her into new soil as I usually do.
Yeah, I always cut mine back to gallon size and upcan as soon as they get their grow back on.
I'm still trying to figure out why your plants always finish the way they do. Could it be temps? Do you have a wide swing? (The temps, not you).
I'm still trying to figure out why your plants always finish the way they do. Could it be temps? Do you have a wide swing? (The temps, not you).
Remystemple
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i just decided yesterday to reveg one of my girls i have going now. i've loved it a lot and grew about 15 plants from one seed and was about to put her out to pasture but had a change of heart lol. after the reveg i'll probably just self her.
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I ended up re-vegging that Carnival because I discontinued the strain in a misguided moment after being told angrily that the bud was ‘like smoking air’. By the time I realized it wasn’t the Carnival I should discontinue, but the guy who told me that, I had no clones of it.
And now I have no clones of the new two too
Wait- what way is that?
I’m thinking about chopping a plant or two tonight- maybe that larger Carnival. Been a long day though so maybe not
And now I have no clones of the new two too
Wait- what way is that?
I’m thinking about chopping a plant or two tonight- maybe that larger Carnival. Been a long day though so maybe not
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