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oldguyintn
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How to tell if the marijuana I have grown is of a good quality ? Suggestions ?
#18857859 - 09/18/13 12:43 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I sort of have a problem. As I am in my mid 50's, living in a small town and not knowing anyone who smokes mj, ar at least anyone that i would also want to know that I may smoke it, I really don't have any idea if what i have grown/harvested and curing is really that good. I started growing this for medicinal purposes and have not smoked any myself in decades. I would guess it is more because it has been so long for me more so than the potency, but it only takes a hit or 2 at most for me - and i really have not smoked much at all because i am in a pain clinic getting either morphine or fentanyl patches so there is always a chance i may have to take a urine test - but even if i smoked it every day, as i have nothing to compare it to except memories, and those are long gone, i still would not know if I am on the right track as far as my grow and cure. Tho i guess it really doesn't make any difference since i am more than likely the only one who would be smoking it, I am really, really, really curious on how the quality is. i had read some articles about sloooooowwww curing , how mj ages like fine wine with some people curing theirs for years and since i would be smoking so little anyway and it piqued my interest, I figured i would give that a shot. I grew an auto white widow, which actually got much larger than I expected, and it was just oozing with thc - very, very, very sticky. As I was looking for more of a "head" - uplifting high, I harvested it when maybe only 30-40% of the trichs had started turning an amber color. I may have missed a really small sugar leaf here and there, but I then trimmed it all until it was only the buds left.
My wife was out of town but coming home the next day so I trimmed it in my house. Almost a mistake. This was my 1st ever grow so I did not know what to expect I guess, but while trimming it in the house, the smell was so overwhelming it seriously almost made me sick. I was very surprised at how overwhelming the odor would be. Of course then I had to open every window in the house and crank up a bunch of fans and the ac trying to air it out before the wife got home the next day.....man what a stench.
Dried it by hanging, I tied each branch with some fishing line and then tied that to a hangar. As it was so humid out, I had to put it in my attached garage. Of course the smell was still there so I ended up buying boxes of fabric softener sheets trying to mask the smell from the wife (almost worked). After about 10 days I then snapped off the buds and put them in 1 1/2 pint mason jars to start the cure. Tho the stems snapped easily, the buds still seemed kind of "wet", but I figured it was just due to them oozing with the trichs. I started out with a humidipak in each jar (it took 4 jars to fit all of the buds in - I figured that wasn't bad for an autoflower plus my 1st ever grow), but after a couple of weeks I started thinking maybe i should not have used the humidipaks yet, so pulled them out and figured i would wait until around month 4 or 5 before i put them back in.
It has now been probably a little over 2 months and everything seems to be doing fine. I open them for a little bit occasionally and check for any dampness/mold, but all seems well. They do still seem to have a slight chlorophyll odor to them, but I am guessing that is the point of the slooooowwwwww cure.
Wanting to try it out obviously, i waited until a day after my pain clinic appt since it would be close to a month when i went back so a urine test would show negative, I only took a couple of small hits and it seemed pretty darn good to me - but my problem is I have absolutely nothing to compare it to.
I could have grown average at best or i could have grown some really good stuff - i don't have a clue.
I am also really, really curious if I am on the right track as far as curing it goes and of course the drying part plays a big part in that also.
But I am left to wonder - am I on the right track or do I need to make adjustments ?
Of course the only real way to know is to have someone who is knowledgeable in those things try it out and since I do not know anyone to check it out for me, i am left to wonder.
If we could have figured a way around the privacy issues, I was going to see if anyone over on autoflower.net wanted a very, very small amount for free so they could give me some feedback, but of course as with all forums, you can't be selling or even giving away mj since it is an illegal substance.
I thought about driving up to a university that is about 40 minutes away and trying to see if i could find someone, but that thought did not last long. Besides the obvious problems, I would not have a clue if they actually knew anything about the finer points of mj. The only way it would have been useful at all would have been if they told me it was not that good potency wise, besides that, unless I got really lucky, some really harsh mj could be just as good to them as some smoother smoke as long as they got stoned.
So here I sit not having a clue if what i have grown is any good and i am on the right track or if I have grown, harvested and cured some smoke that is not much better tasting than a handful of mowed grass.
I then thought what about giving it to someone in the silk road forums. problem there is I am wayyyyyyyy too lazy to get the 40 or 50 posts it takes to get out of the newbie forum as it takes a couple minutes per post. So being in the newbie forum, i have no doubt i would get a whole bunch of takers for some free mj, even tho i am talking about a very small amount, but i am once again left with not having a clue if the person getting it was really that knowledgeable or just looking for a free smoke. People being what they are, will say just about anything if it involves getting something for free.
So I have now run out of ideas. I live in a smaller town and am fairly well known, as are my kids, so I can't really go looking around here. I have coached baseball and softball and even umpired little league, babe ruth and softball for close to the 20 years since i have lived here so a whole bunch of people may not know me well, but they do know me, and being a small southern town, unfortunately I am guessing many would fail to distinguish the difference between medicinal use and recreational use (personally, even for recreational use i would rather people smoked pot than get drunk on their ass every weekend. You don't see a lot of stoned "rednecks", but you sure do see a whole lot of drunk ones - but that's besides the point, sorry)
As I am now out of ideas and still curious, since this has been my "sounding" board for all things mushrooms (I am hoping to have some penis envy soon - fingers crossed), i thought why not go ahead and ske here if anyone has any ideas about what i could do.
Seems to me my best shot is taking a gamble on the silk road forums, but if anyone else has any ideas it would be greatly appreciated.
I would just really like to know the quality of my buds and how the cure is going. I am harvesting an outdoor strain any day now and I guess i will just do it the same way, but all it really takes is one small change here or there to make a pretty big difference in the final outcome of the smoke. Even tho it is for personal use, as i now consider this a fairly serious hobby, i just think it would be nice to know that i was growing/curing some fairly high quality smoke - a pride issue i guess sorry so long - i did not sleep well last night so took a couple of adderall which kicked in a bit a go. headed out to see that outdoor plant now - just waiting for a few more amber trichs and she is coming down.
Of course I will end up with a lifetime supply as i am starting another white widow grow here shortly, but i rather enjoy the process.
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Re: How to tell if the marijuana I have grown is of a good quality ? Suggestions ? [Re: oldguyintn]
#18857873 - 09/18/13 12:47 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Holy shit haha
I'll go back over this but I really think you might be over thinking the whole thing. Unless you can get better quality Cannabis, isn't your quality the best? Regardless, congrats on the set up and successful grow, getting stoned off of a hit or 2 is pretty good in my book.
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Re: How to tell if the marijuana I have grown is of a good quality ? Suggestions ? [Re: Galidor4]
#18857950 - 09/18/13 01:04 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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This post is entirely too long. Make a TLDR version next time
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Re: How to tell if the marijuana I have grown is of a good quality ? Suggestions ? [Re: Galidor4]
#18857987 - 09/18/13 01:10 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I smoked some red Lebanese hash once and it was as potent as the run of the mill modern indica. There are a lot of potent sativas. You might have smoked one long ago. Indica was introduced later but was sold old school as hash. Your pot is probably pretty good. It's a shame you have to worry about urine screens.
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Re: How to tell if the marijuana I have grown is of a good quality ? Suggestions ? [Re: sunshine]
#18858973 - 09/18/13 04:19 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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give it a watering with3-5 tablespoons of molasses per gallon of water, it will make the buds uber sticky and smell/taste delicious.
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Re: How to tell if the marijuana I have grown is of a good quality ? Suggestions ? [Re: whitelights]
#18859052 - 09/18/13 04:31 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I can't believe I just read that. 
Look, if it's that important to you, why don't you look up how to make a quantitative THC test? I agree with everyone else though, it neither matters nor does it sound like you have shitty weed.
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oldguyintn
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Re: How to tell if the marijuana I have grown is of a good quality ? Suggestions ? [Re: whitelights]
#18859934 - 09/18/13 07:30 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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yea, I have to stop posting right after my prescription drugs kick in - sorry
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whitelights said: give it a watering with3-5 tablespoons of molasses per gallon of water, it will make the buds uber sticky and smell/taste delicious.
It was pretty darn sticky as is. When trimming the sugar leaves, at best I could only do 2 buds before having to clean the scissiors as they would start to stick together and not cut very well. I used the subcool super soil. great thing with that was I never added a thing except water. Plus it was an outdoor grow and we had a very, very unusually wet summer, seemed like it rained at least every other day, so I rarely even had to water them. Basically planted them and harvested them...could not have been much easier.
I would guess it had more to do with the strain tho then anything I did. I just got lucky and had great growing conditions.
As for the one hit, is probably just me. Is why i am curious - is it one or 2 hits for an average mj user or would it take a lot more ? Got me
If you grew some mj and spent all of that time with it, wouldn't you be curious if it was REALLY good, good or just average ?
Guess it is just me, but every time I open the jars and see the buds, I get really curious how the quality of it really is
I do have to open the jars early. I leave them open for between 40 - 60 minutes and those 4 jars end up "stinking" (wrong word but all I could think of) the whole end of the house up. Good or not, that auto white widow sure is aromatic as hell.
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Re: How to tell if the marijuana I have grown is of a good quality ? Suggestions ? [Re: oldguyintn]
#18859972 - 09/18/13 07:41 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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yes yes it twas a nice season this year wasn't it--maters didn't do so good---early season blight--but back to your ??--if its good to you who gives a damn right--but I bet it is good--mine turned out great--if you grew it till it started getting red you should be fine---the longer it sets the better it does get--every one I smoke just gets better and better---them leaves starting to change on your end??---it is starting to get cool aint it---bout time to go ginseng huntin aint it??
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Re: How to tell if the marijuana I have grown is of a good quality ? Suggestions ? [Re: oldguyintn]
#18859998 - 09/18/13 07:47 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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The only way you are going to tell if you have grown good quality is if your customers keep coming back and giving you good feedback.. If you don't want to get your lazy ass to a proper lab to test the thc content, then that is really your only option.
Get a scope and check out the trich colors and make sure to flush your plants properly with pure water for the last week to 10 days.
I used to have a few tents going and would have x3 600w hps lights with 30 plants in each tent. I used to change out 2 blue spec lights when its time to change into the flowering stage, but only change them out to red spectrum for 3 days and finally change out the 3rd blue spec for a red spec.. I found it very helpful for the growing patterns changing from veg into flowering.
24hrs of darkness prior to harvest and a bend in the main stems help produce more thc in the plants final hours of life.. << People are skeptical of this method, but I see the difference for sure.. Oh yeah and dont forget to starve the plants out in that last 24 hours of darkness, it will help with the drying process
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Re: How to tell if the marijuana I have grown is of a good quality ? Suggestions ? [Re: Blazer420]
#18896081 - 09/26/13 09:20 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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It depends on where you are and as you said you don't deal with Marijuana frequently but I believe to anyone, who is knowledgeable enough, it's blatantly obvious how good the herb is.
Is it frosty like this?

or

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or maybe it's mid-grade and it looks like this

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what it all comes down to is smell, density, taste and level of smooth/harsh.
After thinking about for a bit, if you had super dank, you'd know. I guess all you can really be is content that mother Gaia blessed you with such a wondrous gift (over diddly squat).
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Re: How to tell if the marijuana I have grown is of a good quality ? Suggestions ? [Re: Galidor4]
#18896630 - 09/26/13 11:21 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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There's a lot more to potency than frostiness of the bud. Current research points to terpenes, or the smell, as being key in the potency of cannabis. No one is really sure how it works. If you did a good job growing it and it's a run of the mill indica it's probably pretty good. I've smoked sativas that weren't particular sticky that were incredibly strong. I'm from Los Angeles and we used to get a lot of good imports.
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Re: How to tell if the marijuana I have grown is of a good quality ? Suggestions ? [Re: sunshine]
#18898208 - 09/27/13 11:17 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I dunno man, I'm pretty sure that frostyness is directly related to the level of THC. But I'm just going off how I know BHO chemistry works.
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