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LizardWizard
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Been researching the possibility of pressing live material and how to go about it. First website I popped open said it would yield a green mess that's gonna be acrid as fuck cause of all that chlorophyl, which is what I would have expected to happen, but zombi3 was pitching this new method he found to dry his bud in his freezer. IIRC he has a freezer that sucks out the moist air and replaced it with dry air, it's simply the type of freezer that doesn't collect ice on the walls. Lots of people have that in their garage or basement, no need for any expensive freeze dryers to get it dry. He spoke of very soft flowers and I think he didn't get around to testing it yet cause he wanted to give it a good cure first.
Coupling that with straight flower pressing seems like a good option to me. It's a bit more hands-on when it comes to drying since you need to replace the container with a "dry" one every day or two and you need a big freezer, although theoretically it should be possible with my freezer compartment and a handful of nugs as well (gonna try), but I think if I'd go live I'd forego on curing the flower as well...
I wanna see the color on the oil pressed from my narco purps. It's dark purple flower and even the trichomes have various shades from whitish pink and orange to dark purple.
edit: got the purple on the parchment, but not in the oil. Further research online yielded this bit of info:
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Can any purple bud make purple rosin? Yes and no! In order to squeeze out purple rosin, you need to use freshly harvested purple flowers. After you hang your plant to dry, wait about 36-48 hours before squeezing. At this point in the drying process, the moisture content is still very high in the buds, and the pH levels within the trichomes are still stable because it hasn’t gone through any oxidation. As the plant dries further and is exposed to heat, light and oxygen, the pH rises, locking out any potential color. You can still see the color, but it is too unstable to become part of an extract. If you use a properly dried purple nug, you’re going to bypass the dyeing stage, and you will yield a golden color.
All seems to tie in perfectly with what life has taught me so far..
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Edited by LizardWizard (08/02/20 02:32 AM)
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That’s pretty interesting...
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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: ashfiken]
#26859059 - 08/02/20 02:27 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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yup, gonna try some tomorrow, had an overshadowed dark devil auto turn into a bud on a stick, but a small bud, so it's just gonna be enough to get a look at color, probably won't even be worth smoking it, but I pulled it today and since they say 36 hrs minimum usually and it's hot out and it's a mini fluff bud, imma give it 24 and then press away.
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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: psi] 3
#26861063 - 08/03/20 02:58 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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A little training/securing for the hurricane
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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: koods]
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LizardWizard
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Anyone ever notice dark purple weeds are harder to light up? Once they get going they burn fine, but both joints, bongs and vaporizers seem to be hard to get going when filled with dark purple coloration bud. Even when mixing it 50/50 with green weed this weed seems to do it. Can't really be overfeeding or lack of flushing since it's an outdoor that barely got any feed.. Ashes look regular as well.
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Is there anyway to figure out when your plants are ready without a jewelers loupe?
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Putting them in direct sun and looking for amber colored shimmers, a magnifying glass helps with this. A jewelers loupe is recommended though, I only did this because I had no other choice.
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LizardWizard
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hahahahah, amber shimmers
how about looking at the plant's general state..? Growers didn't always have a loupe, and a shitload of growers still don't, and some strains' trichomes will stay clear no matter how long you wait. Squeeze em. Smell em. Look at em.
As a rule of thumb, if there's more white pistils than brown ones, you're not yet in the window, if there's a few white pistils left here and there, you're in the window, if there's no white pistils left, you've passed the optimal harvest window.
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Sounds like I might have harvested early then Lizard
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Psyche delics said: Is there anyway to figure out when your plants are ready without a jewelers loupe?
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LizardWizard said: hahahahah, amber shimmers
how about looking at the plant's general state..? Growers didn't always have a loupe, and a shitload of growers still don't, and some strains' trichomes will stay clear no matter how long you wait. Squeeze em. Smell em. Look at em.
As a rule of thumb, if there's more white pistils than brown ones, you're not yet in the window, if there's a few white pistils left here and there, you're in the window, if there's no white pistils left, you've passed the optimal harvest window.
I agree here.I look at the whole plant,along with the average finish time of the strain if I have that info. I usually don't even look at trichs till I've decided the plant is ready visually.
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Psyche delics said: Is there anyway to figure out when your plants are ready without a jewelers loupe?
I got an app called cozymicroscope on my phone. It's not as good as a loupe but it's ok. Although lately I've just been eyeballing them in the sun
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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: koods]
#26862846 - 08/04/20 03:21 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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koods said: A little training/securing for the hurricane
Cannabis is more of a breakfast plant. More bacteria rather than acidic wood debris FYI.
They want oats and grains, eggs, banana’s and shits. Mushies like the wood and tend to lean on the acidic side during the breakdown into good soil. Let your ovoid spawn run through some chips get that nice dirt that comes out a few years down the road. Then add yer shits and grits
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compost. need more hay. found some more seeds and shit i gotta run around come by later
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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: MadMuncher] 2
#26864197 - 08/05/20 10:02 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Some small tester plants we squeezed in one of our beds...
Sour Limón Larry, small nugs but super tasty smoke.
Alien Rift, rock hard buds but weird terps, I don't care for it.
Sour Larry Pebbles, too finicky for greenhouse production.
Some Ice Cream Cake lowers ready for sampling.
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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: Ran-D]
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beautiful. all outs right r u doing light dep or those autos?
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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: MadMuncher]
#26864238 - 08/05/20 10:22 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Dep.
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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: Ran-D]
#26864253 - 08/05/20 10:32 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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nice early finish well done
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