Total Noob using teas and I am a believer

[st0wandgrow]

My bad. I understand what you're saying. Like I said, I pull the pin when I start seeing any amber. If I take a sample and see a couple amber heads, I will take another cut from a different spot on the plant. If more amber is found it's coming down. When the trichome head turns amber that is a sign that the THCA is degrading in to CBN. That's not desirable.

 

[RedCarpetMatches]

My bad. I understand what you're saying. Like I said, I pull the pin when I start seeing any amber. If I take a sample and see a couple amber heads, I will take another cut from a different spot on the plant. If more amber is found it's coming down. When the trichome head turns amber that is a sign that the THCA is degrading in to CBN. That's not desirable.

It's sort of a catch 22. Great flowers or great hash. I don't want either with a bunch of amber.

 

[st0wandgrow]

It's sort of a catch 22. Great flowers or great hash. I don't want either with a bunch of amber.

Great flowers. You can always make hash from the bud if that's your thing. Bubble hash is a labor of love. It's a lot of time and work for little return. Personally I think edibles have it all over hash if you're looking to get messed up. I'll get you that butter recipe. I'm anxious to have you try it. My sister in law ate a chocolate made with this butter last Sunday night and had to call out of work the next morning because she woke up still wasted 8 hours later. It's not for the faint of heart

 

[RedCarpetMatches]

Great flowers. You can always make hash from the bud if that's your thing. Bubble hash is a labor of love. It's a lot of time and work for little return. Personally I think edibles have it all over hash if you're looking to get messed up. I'll get you that butter recipe. I'm anxious to have you try it. My sister in law ate a chocolate made with this butter last Sunday night and had to call out of work the next morning because she woke up still wasted 8 hours later. It's not for the faint of heart

I'm harvesting next week so I'll let ya know. If i don't post for awhile, it means I've OD'd on peanut brittle. I do love my hash tho...after getting the routine down.

 

[Steelheader3430]

Oregon are those "yield pro" brand pots? If so be very careful if you need to move them. Lift slowly. They tear along the stitching. Welcome to the party.

Red, from what little experience I have, I've noticed that the trics do seem to continue to change after harvest. Cutting the plant doesn't put it into suspended animation. Also my nirvana seeds ak-48 showed lots of amber long before it was harvest time. Remember the plant is continuously creating new trics. Watching those things had me tripping on harvest time. Hamish to the rescue again on that one. Giving me an exact day to harvest.

 

[hyroot]

Ooh penaut brittle medi style HMmmmm (homer simpson voice).

red when I do butter. I do it a little different for taste. It doesn't affect potency. I simmer the trim in water for 30 min before adding butter. then add butter and simmer for 3 hours. Stir occasionally. Halfway through. Add some sea salt. Simmering with water and adding sea salt really helps with flavor. Then brittle will taste like brittle not front lawn..

 

[Mad Hamish]

Nah bro this is an easy one. Go by the calyxes, the amber leaves make killer 'gunpowder' bubble. Great all day smoke usually.

It's sort of a catch 22. Great flowers or great hash. I don't want either with a bunch of amber.

 

[May11th]

He'll yeah red. I love me some hashish. I can't wait to make more because I never have enough because I smoke the hell out of it. My next batch I want to try making a full melt 70 micron blueberry hash, and I believe when the bud is sitting and curing there's a possibility it's still aging it's trics. I have 2 month old blueberry that is all amber . I took down originally at 30%, it's my night time use stuff, smoke a joint , eat a pizza drink a 2 liter and crash. Love you guys, hope to be on later . Love chatting with you guys I really appreciate the friendship. I do need some good genetics but here soon it will happen. I did find a good source for a g13 male and may end up going on a breeding program for 5 yrs to try to get my father something like his old deadly g. He just wants something crazy potent that will blast him like the stuff he use to take on, I don't have it yet but I'm lookin, he smokes for stress and simply out of in joy meet of the herb,always talks about over seas hash, I was like ugh I think America is hash nation now.

 

[RedCarpetMatches]

Man you guys rock!!! Wealth of wisdom. Thanks everyone. I'm going to harvest some nugs at diff stages and compare. Nothing too drastic. I'm also going to watch the trichs as they dry n cure. I try to just get a smidgin of amber/redcarpet on calyxes or 'juggies'. I rep'd who I could

 

[May11th]

How the hell you spread rep so much red. I can't fucking rep none of you and it's been like 6 months lol

 

[RedCarpetMatches]

How the hell you spread rep so much red. I can't fucking rep none of you and it's been like 6 months lol

It says plain as day...spread rep lol.

 

[GandalfdaGreen]

You guys are all unreal. Great work.

st0w.......those shots look great. I can't wait to hear how they smoke.

Mr. head......a deflated lung. Good grief.

Java...awesome shots of shrooms.

Looks great oregon......welcome.

 

[st0wandgrow]

Hey Stow, glad to help.

I thought of the idea myself, and then found that there were also
sacks being sold online intended for this purpose....but, even as I
initially considered it, it does not seem to me that these will produce
enough CO2 to affect my environment.

You know, I never considered whether a number of them, used together
in a sealed environment, might be able to beat a set of plants at the
CO2 vs O2 game.

I vent to waste, as it were, and filter with carbon, drawing fresh air all the time.

I will totally support the adding spawn to soils idea. This thing is a lot of fun. :0)

I have gotten fruits of about 6-8 species in the pots of various
fruits and vegetables.

I have read that the garden giants, the King Stropharia, is a very good
species to assist growing plants. (Stropharia rugoso-annulata)

Speaking of spawn:
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I am going to test some small spawn sack. I might try selling these
at the local farmers market. Well, the tigrinus is an experiment.
I have heard that it is delicious, if a tad delicate.

I will make some Pioppinos and a few others too.

JD

Thanks for the reply JD.

So are you recommending adding the spores right in to my containers (mj plants), or use a separate vessel for the shrooms?

 

[Javadog]

I would put them onto agar, then that onto grains. This "grain spawn" is
very effective, but spawning them to an appropriate bulk substrate would
give the fungus the best start.

I will bury spawn when it is largely clean, but is suffering from a contamination,
straight into the pot of a plant that I am up-potting. Otherwise, an outdoor bed
will benefit from some colonized substrate (spawn grains are food for too many
things too ;0).

So to just answer your question, I would put some spawn into the soil of my
plants, to both make CO2 but to also (and, really, primarily) to assist the
plant at incorporating nutrients in the soil.

THEN, I would hang sacks of a colonizing substrate along the ceiling of my tent,
outside the light where nothing is using the space.

There is no reason to not use both approaches....but use spawn in the soil if
you use only one of the two.

JD

 

[st0wandgrow]

Great info JD. Thank you much. I love eating mushrooms, and considering the CO2 benefit (however small that may be) it seems like a great companion in a flowering room.

 

[Javadog]

Here's an interesting one....some species takes months to fruit (Shitake)
where others take weeks (Oyster).

Now, presumably the faster colonizer makes CO2 faster, but I do not
believe that the difference is proportional.

Let me add that fruiting is something that you should avoid indoors.

This means that once you see fruits, move the blocks outside. The
spore-load of a strong block is way too high for indoors. The spores
of the many species can cause sensitivity in the lungs. (one of the
unfortunate examples is the Oyster Mushroom...this baby dumps
a *pile* of spores).

All in all, I think that I would used Shitake and let them hang for
all three months until they are ready to fruit.

JD

 

[st0wandgrow]

So you're thinking shiitake instead of the king strophoria that you mentioned earlier?

 

[st0wandgrow]

OK JD, strap in. I'm gonna be buggin the shit out of you until I get this figured out.

Step one: where would you recommend I order shiitake mushroom spores from?

step two: what container/contraption would you recommend propagating (is that the correct term??) these in?

We'll leave steps three thru two hundred alone for now.

 

[st0wandgrow]

You know what, scratch that. I'm a complete noob at this and I don't want to pester you and bogg down the thread with a bunch of elementary questions. Let me do a little research first to get the basics down, and them maybe I'll have some more pointed questions for you.

I'm smoking on some nice Dream Lotus right now so it took me a minute to have this epiphany.

 

[GandalfdaGreen]

You know what, scratch that. I'm a complete noob at this and I don't want to pester you and bogg down the thread with a bunch of elementary questions. Let me do a little research first to get the basics down, and them maybe I'll have some more pointed questions for you.

I'm smoking on some nice Dream Lotus right now so it took me a minute to have this epiphany.

Are you serious? A week ago I was talking about lighting the 911 Turbo and Boxster S on fire. There is no bogging this thread down.