I understand that. Cannabis seems to be a miracle drug for most of my needs which is wonderful. I also still am taking a lot of pharmacy meds too though. I was at a new dentist yesterday and had to ask for more paper to list all the medications; I thought my hand was going to fall off from all the writing. I am medically retired and am on a limited income so saving money is also a big motivation for why I started growing. I also just wanted to have something to do with all this time that wasn't physically straining, and this seems perfect!
I am very novice when it comes to cannabis and its products. I basically just take whatever my girlfriends mother had been getting us from her dispensary trips. What exactly even is rosin? Is it something you consume or is it more an ingredient you use in other products?
Rosin is solvant free extract made with heat and pressure like a hydraulic press or pretty much anything with heated plates that applies pressure. It can be made with a curling iron or a cheap second hand press for $50-200 easily.
In fact I think you could get a small new one for $100-$200. I got a big one so I can press like 1-2 pounds in just a day or two, so bigger the better.
For small scale its still nice the heat melts the resin in the flower and forces it to flow out into parchment paper which you collect and can dab right away.
It can be used for edibles or topicals maybe couplenother things I cant think of. You can vaporize it, inhale and typically get higher than a serving of flower (weed).
It is alot like what you describe with edibles comparing to flower but to me the dabs are what does the job every time for me. Dabs are any concentrate you can inhale with a vaporizor.
How do perpetual clones work? Is that just having a mother with a strain you like and then you just clone it and grow from there? It sounds like it would be a lot cheaper than seeds. Though I do think I like the idea of trying to propagate my own seeds because I will definitely produce more than I can consume on my own, so it would be another fun experience and allow me to try and stockpile various strains.
Yup exactly, pheno hunting is a breeder growing anywhere from 10 to 1000 plants before choosing a mother. Bean hunting is growing 1-10 plants at a time or more to simply mother a nice strain to grow out which is just as it sounds when they say cloning.
Growing seeds is like having kids, different pheno expressions, a crapshoot each time. Cloning youre essentially growing out the same plant. You can cut off veg plants which are in leaf and stem growing mode in photoperiods.
You can cut a branch and clone the next round like that. The mothers just help keep it alive like in my setup, so I can flower different strains and keep the others dormant. Im about to be maxed out with 4 strains.
So my first two mothers are 8 months old and can continue to age for years, they can be replaced with new cuttings before genetics degrade, what ever keeps the “cut” alive. Usually special to just you, but in a bigger scenario, millions of dollars to a grow facility or breeder etc.
I can just buy new seeds of these strains or make my own and bean hunt to start over and get back what I had. So mothers are important.
Being the same clone of a plant it will produce nearly the same results given the conditions are optimal. So the flower and extracts produced will be the same and consistent.
Ive had half my clones finish later due to being in different tents and sizes and conditions. So itll take some tweaking to get it to finish in a strict schedule. With seeds even of the same strain you cant perpetuate as great.
Perpetuating is a way to split in half the time to grow a photoperiod which is a plant that requires change in light schedule to flower. It technically produces more weed quicker.
It does so by say, it takes 10 wks to flower this clone I have, and 8 weeks to grow it to prepare for flower. Instead of waiting 18 weeks for 14 oz I got 14oz at the 10 week mark and put 8 week old plants I grew in a separate space into the flower space…
I just got 14oz every 10 weeks instead of 18. Just requires another space to grow. Finding a good cloning method youll know when to take the cuttings and yes its cheaper than growing purchased seeds each time.
Making youre own seeds isnt that hard I almost did but you wont always get the same plant. Seeds only good for 1-3 years before germination rates drop. Its all up to you what you want to do, the weed world is yours lol.
Ive had less great strains and cloning is a way to make sure its always the same end product for all the effort. I just set a small space to bean hunt new genetics. Its a way to play it safe and have predictable results and low maintenence since you know what it needs start to finish.
What is "decarb trim?" I think my girlfriend does a similar process. We do it it with 20g of ground flower though. It usually lasts us a crazy amount of time. It only takes us about 1-2 drips from a dropper in the mouth to get a full day heavy buzz. Its a miracle for when I am having a flareup. I find with smoking flower that I have to re-up often and I build a tolerance. With the oils I for some reason get very high and have no tolerance gain which is quite nice to the wallet.
Decarb is decarboxilation probably spelled wrong but I just meant I harvest the plant, discard all the parts that have no use.. The flower is one product but the leaves with medicine on them that were trimmed off the flower is knows as trim.
I meant I simply decarboxilate that and infuse into coconut/lecithin oil to make butter. The lecithin I use sunflower lecithin it increases bio-availability making it effective for me and potentially stronger to regular individuals.
Though if you get that high off that little which is average, you probably wont notice, its strong with or without. For me if it doesnt have lecithin I wont get high.
Ive been treating some sleep issues with my edibles but also take recreationally. My buzz last like 1-2 hrs and lingers and dont take much either. I can eat myself sober so I try to enjoy whatever it provides. Thers many out there like me.
What is dabbing?
How do you like those sticky traps? My girlfriend ended up getting a plant that had a ton of gnat eggs or something because one day the whole house just was overwhelmed. It's since been taken care of; she used some kind of pest tea to kill the gnats and eggs in the plants/soil and then some giant yellow sticky traps but it was a bit of a nightmare for her. She was really stressing out over it. :/
Yea they got 90% of the gnats and this thing called mosquito bits, they go in the soil or coco etc and kill the larvae.
Its a common way to get rid of them, better to act asap than later like I did. Probably got babies but are probably now dying from the mosquito bits
Ya I have been having an absolute blast with the whole process, especially how deep the learning seems to go. It can be overwhelming at times, but I seem to enjoy the process even more so when I am overwhelmed! And also $8 dollars a day adds up! That is about $240/month and almost $3000/year! I don't think I am miserly or anything, but if you offer to pay me 250/mo or 3k/year to have fun and get to keep the product, I only have one thing to say: "hell ya!"
In regards to how much rosin you yield and the amount you vape, I have absolutely no idea how the measurements play out in real life. I should really try to pay attention to that.
