16000+ watts medigrow: og kush+ 13 x 1kw hps + 3 x t5 badboys + grotek = *HAPPY JOY*

mellokitty said:
nyoinked this here recipe from greenpassion.org (but i prefer my oven to the crockpot)

Glycerine-based Tincture
You need to use food grade U.S.P glycerine, this can be relatively hard to find inexpensively but a gallon lasts a LONG time.

Glycerines have a shorter shelf life than alcohol based tinctures and while they can sit on the shelf I refrigerate mine. Vegetable glycerine has nearly no impact on blood sugar or insulin and is very low in calories (4.3 per gram). It's sweet taste makes the tincture more palatable than the alcohol based tincture and is a suitable substitute for those concerned with alcohol consumption.

Add the amount of cannabis that you desire for potency. I added 6 oz of roughly trimmed (finger trimmed the leaves off) cannabis to 1 gallon of glycerine. For your personal preference add more cannabis or less depending on desired potency. I blend mine, using a coffee grinder, blender or if you are lucky enough to have a Vita Mix. Make sure there is no other product matter in whatever you use. I use a clean basting brush to clean out my Vita Mix when I am done powdering my cannabis.

Place in a crockpot on low. Some crockpot's low settings are too high so you may not be able to use yours. A "Keep Warm" setting if you have it is the best choice. Too hot, and you are killing the properties you are trying to extract, you want the mixture to be as warm as possible without boiling, I left my tincture like this for 24 hours. I have heard people leaving the tincture from anywhere from 4-6 hours to 3 days. You can try the tincture at intervals to decide when you are done. REMEMBER that glycerine tincture retains heat VERY WELL, do not burn yourself!!

If you do not have a crockpot you can place the herbs in a clear, sealed jar in a warm, sunny spot and accomplish the same thing over 4 weeks. Some people make their "sunshine tinctures" over 2 weeks. I do not feel that is long enough, especially in colder weather. Some leave them in the sun for up to 12 weeks. I have never seen a need to go that long myself. Shake each day to mix the herbs in.

When ready to strain use cheesecloth and a strainer to extract the cannabis debris, the THC has been extracted and the tincture is ready to use. The best way to store is in a glass amber bottle. A good place to obtain a large bottle for the bulk of your tincture is a brewery store that has supplies to make wine or beer. I also obtained a few small amber bottles with eye droppers for convenience. It takes a lot longer to strain glycerine than it does alcohol, the tincture will drip when strained instead of flow.
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Hey kitty kat, I was wondering if you've ever tried the fast method you posted here? I know that normally it takes at least 60 days normally so I had a felling that doing it fast in the Crockpot wouldn't be as good. It seems like whenever you try to do something fast with weed, it never turn out good. Not that 4 days is short, but you know what I mean...
So have you tried it and is it as good as doing it the long way (letting it sit in a jar in the sun for 60 days)?
 
Dubbz0r said:
Edit: Hey mellokitty, I was curious if you've ever ran MH and HPS together during flower and if so what were the results?
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i have, because it's supposed to be fuller spectrum and superior to hps-only and all that; to be honest i don't think i'd know the difference without a side-by-side. so in a most unsatisfactory fashion my answer is yes but i wasn't looking for a comparison and so didn't notice if it was better than hps-only or not.
 
Beansly said:
Hey kitty kat, I was wondering if you've ever tried the fast method you posted here? I know that normally it takes at least 60 days normally so I had a felling that doing it fast in the Crockpot wouldn't be as good. It seems like whenever you try to do something fast with weed, it never turn out good. Not that 4 days is short, but you know what I mean...
So have you tried it and is it as good as doing it the long way (letting it sit in a jar in the sun for 60 days)?
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the method i used was close to this one except i used the oven on 'warm' instead of a crockpot. i'm not a big fan of direct (ie. surface touching the element) heat for canna-cookery, BIG FAN of the oven for this reason. example: when you make butter in the oven as opposed to stovetop, you don't have to add (and then extract) water. AND, the finished product is much less plant-mattery because you don't have to stir/agitate it as much to keep it from burning.

i can't say which is better because i haven't tried the 60days method. personally, i think if you can keep your temps down low enough, as long as the glycerin gets runny enough to activate, you're laughing. it's just a much slower process at room temp, hence the waiting time. my jar never got too hot to touch; much like something that's been left out in the hot sun, it was hot enough to be surprising if you didn't expect it, but still grabbable with bare hands to turn over every so often. i only did 24 hrs and i think my tinc could take out a horse. i say this because i gave my man (who has a noticeably higher tolerance than most of my other guinea pigs) 1ml on his toast and he was outski for the next 11hrs. haven't chanced it on anybody else yet; don't want to send folks to the dark side of the moon.

the girls at margarita night really really liked the second run "vodka wash" (which has to be, if you think about it, much less potent than the first run).....

i make most of my cannabutter using the sun method (a full day of full sun usually does the trick, sometimes 2 days if it's cooler out); if it ever gets sunny/warm enough here this summer, i'd like to try it on glyc.... (it's a balmy 57f out right now! ;))
 
Interesting coincidence that we have two Canadian couples that grow and have kitty in there name. Great growing nonetheless!
 
mellokitty said:
someone buy me some damn batteries!! or make me remember to! (<- sorry dude keep forgetting until i get home and see my cam sitting on the table *doh*)
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Batteries!? Like those little metal slugs with those "AA" symbols on them? Didn't they put those in walkman radios back in the stone age? It's called Lithium Ion, get with the times, man.

Lol, I'm about to trade an oz of pot and 75 bucks for a sweet DSLR. I hope. I really want to take high-class bud porn photos so I can get an swanky journal going.
 
it hurts my inner eco-terrorist, but i won't do rechargeables anymore, waaaay too many close calls. (that and i don't enjoy playing with or cleaning up battery acid. yeesh. stay the FUCK away from eneloop.)
and watch where you're steppin', son, (lol!) the walkman was current technology when i was growin up. i remember when discman was bleeding edge, ffs. ;) it was rough growing, during the stone age. had to keep the fire going in shifts and timing the 12 hrs by the stars..... bwaaaa hahaha

that and the last "accident" corroded the contacts on my charger so i had to chuck IT out, too.
 
woodsmaneh! said:
This one's not trying to sell you anything.
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orly? so im a sales man now am I? or maybe you just can't read? heres the post for you again since you forgot :D and i'll make the part that matters all fancy so you might take the time to actualy read it this time instead of being an ignorant prick. just because im Canadian doesn't mean i cant be an asshole as well.

Corbat420 said:
^ thats exactly what im getting at. your the FIRST person to actualy be able to tell me what Grotek uses..... and i like that :) it means the company does actualy try.

my thing is, i've worked in certain fertalizer company on the canadian west coast..... i know what some of the companies do to make you think their product is better, when realy you could make them in your back yard...... and having graduated from the malaspina University horticultural Program (naniamo,BC, canada) i know what the differance is between a surviving plant and a striving plant.......it comes down to 16 essential minerals...... theres the carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen that every oxygen based life form uses.... then there are the rest......

nutrients needed (PPM Limits.)
[SIZE=-1]Primary Nutrients[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Nitrogen (N) ppm=150-100
Phosphorus (P) ppm=50-100
Potassium (K) ppm-100-400[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Secondary Nutrients[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Sulfur (S) ppm=200-1000
Calcium (Ca) ppm=100-150
Magnesium (Mg) ppm=50-100[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Micronutrients [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Zinc (Zn) ppm=.5-1
Iron (Fe) ppm= 2-10
Copper (Cu) ppm=.1-.6
Manganese (Mn) ppm=.5-5
Boron (B) ppm=.5-5
Molybdenum (Mo) ppm=.01-.05
Chlorine (Cl) ppm=.01-.05[/SIZE]

most people dont know what life actualy needs to strive, or what there actualy putting into your plants.......

as long as you can ensure that your feeding your plants those nutrients, in the proper PPM at the right time in their life, your good to go.

Edited to add PPM.
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there, maybe you can read that?

Edit: sorry mello, some of these people just dont let up....
 
corbat..... down boy, methinks mccuke meant "on here" as in riu, and mayhaps woodsmaneh! is referring to somebody else.... ;)

.... there's a good boy... i got peanut butter..... :twisted:
 
mccumcumber said:
Interesting coincidence that we have two Canadian couples that grow and have kitty in there name. Great growing nonetheless!
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[smartass remark] canada's a *pretty big country, you know, and i've heard tell there's a few of us that grow up here... when the snowdrifts let us out of our igloos... [/smartass]

smartassery aside, welcome to the dungeon!
 
mellokitty said:
[smartass remark] canada's a *pretty big country, you know, and i've heard tell there's a few of us that grow up here... when the snowdrifts let us out of our igloos... [/smartass]

welcome to the dungeon!
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I'm glad to see that I'm not the only Canadian that is growing well since I was able to get out of the igloo. :P
 
hory clap, there's gonna be as many cannnnnnnadian growers in here as the "canadian growers" thread! **awesome**
 
mellokitty said:
hory clap, there's gonna be as many cannnnnnnadian growers in here as the "canadian growers" thread! **awesome**
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Hahaha its awsome. I was thinking about maybe getting a 250w HPS but I am restricted with the space so I'm worried about it being a fire hazard. :(
 
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