Iced Grapefruit, Skunk#1, Menage a Trois, Flower from day 1

Time to make some oil. I've decided to go ahead and make oil out of all the trim off of the Skunk#1. I have the butane I need so I think I'll go ahead and blast all this and save the Iced Grapefruit and Menage a Trois for dry ice hash. I think they'll have a better taste for the dry ice method. I think different strains lend themselves one way or another to different kinds of hash methods. The taste comes out more I think in bubble and dry ice, than in bho. Alot of flavors come out in bho, don't get me wrong, but they're corrupted by the gas I think. I've already ran one 300ml can, and had a pretty nice return. I put the oil in my vacuum over night for about 8 hours to purge it. Much better after purging the oil for at least 6 hours. Some people go nuts with this and do it for 12-24 hours, and I really see no need for that. I just work with the oil for an hour or so, whipping it until it's almost creamy getting out most of the leftover gasses. I then put it in my vacuum, and run it for the the 8 hours to purge out the rest of the gasses. Alot of people will say the whipping will kill flavor, and do this and that to the oils or terpenes, but when it comes to my health I'm getting out all the gas I can. If I wanted good clean taste, and smell I would make dry ice hash. I just want some super strong meds for emergencies or If I want something a little stronger now and then. I know some people are really into weighing all their harvests and all that, but I really don't. Sometimes when I want to keep records or see if I can get a strain to yield heavier I'll keep track, and start writing it all down, but for the most part that's not my bag. I don't sell so I don't worry about what I'm pulling unless like I said it's either the first time I've grown it or am looking to improve upon a yield. I try more to have fun with it than to put heavy expectations on my crops, and their yield. I'm sure I'll get a dried weight just from being curious, but I've yielded over 360 grams dried outside before on a Skunk#1 plant. Before I go I just want to say that I know bho is not the best thing in the world for you, but all the medicine I've taken over the years hasn't done me much good either so I think I'll take my chances as far as that goes. When I make bho I always use the cleanest butane I can get, never ronsonol or anything like that. It's at least 5x refined, and i also purge it, like alot of people don't. I'll post my results later, but i don't have my good camera just the phone. Have a great day everyone. Peace and Love.

I can't wait to see the results. I'm jealous.

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A couple of quick pictures of trimmed flowers. I'll have alot more later, but I'm really busy today. I have to prepare another couple of hydro buckets for a couple of ladies, do some topping and working, plus some other crap. I have quite a bit more photos, but don't have the time now to go through them. The Green Poison downstairs is screaming for a bigger home, and have to get on it, with Cindy99 on her heels and wanting to spread her roots out. I'm going to keep this round of girls a little smaller, so the stretch won't take me so far apart between my ladies again as far as the canopy difference. Doing a little tiering under them took care of the problem rather easily, but it's nothing I want to deal with regularly. Not worth the hassle anymore when I can take care of it in other ways before hand. This was an alright harvest with results that have even surprised me some, but I think what's to come will make this look like child's play. All the strains I'll be running through this tent are gonna be spinning your heads. The potential just the Blue O.G. and Sour blueberry have is, well, promising. When the Gage Green gear arrive, it'll definitely be on then people. Well I guess it's back to farming for a little bit. Have a blessed day everyone. Peace.

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That looks great bro. Holy crap. Way to go. Very strong effort. You must be happy.

I was a little bummed at first about pulling what i think to some would be early. but they were done, and I needed the space and the meds. It's nice having all that drying, and to be able to play with the trim in the meanwhile. I've already done 3 runs of oil through my stainless steel turkey baster, and i think I have at least another 3-4 to go. I think I have about 5-6 grams so far, and maybe about the same coming. I couldn't be happier with the potency so far, and the taste isn't that bad either. Real piney. All the ladies in the tent are happy with the extra space. If I'm correct we'll be flipping our Green Poison's about the same time. I hope it flowers as fast as they say cause I have some girls to run through before the Gage gear get's here or I moght be holding onto a couple, and maybe scrogging them out afterwards. Wow they'd be huge if The Gage stuff flowers long. I might have to do a mercy killing after taking some clones with a couple, IDK, we'll see. I have to say for just making some oil, these turkey basters work wonders. I remember back in the day when people would use p.v.c. pipe, Ronsonol butane, and paper coffee filters. I now use a stainless steel turkey baster, a metal mesh coffee filter, and 5x refined butane. Not much has changed really. I know you can get glass tubes, but with the way it gets so cold I would think it would be brittle if not nice and thick. I picked this tube up on-line from a cooking store for less than $9, and it came with a brush to clean it. Works fine, and it's only holding the trim so you can blast it with butane, and then pitch it. The rubber bulb that came with it, I just cut off the bottom ring part that holds on to the baster itself, and kept it to hold on the filter. I then took a zip tie to make it hold better, and voila. An easy to use bho tube that's cheap as dirt, safe,and completely functional. I'll take some pictures of it later, with a quick description of how to make it, with better details, and the butane I use. I'll also tell you how much to put in and how hard to pack it, as that's really important to get a good result. Take it easy bro, time to make some more oil. Peace out.

I had a great day making oil, and jamming reggae. I thought I would put some pics up of a little oil. I have yet to purge it, and work it into some wax, but the first batch is fire that I've been smoking on.(1st batch purged)
When you smoke it you think you've stumbled into a pine forest. Nice and strong with a kick that doesn't make you tired, but more up and ready to do some stuff. I like the effect, and I also like the way the taste has come out. I have a small amount of trim left, and I think I'm gonna hang on to it for a dry ice run. I'd like to mix it with the Menage a trois or maybe the Iced Grapefruit for flavor. I've always liked the pine flavor of alot of sativas, and find the buzz very pleasurable.
Here is what's left of the Skunk#1.
Almost sad. I took me out a plantaloupe, and kept the plantlers for a trophy. LOL. That is one strong plant corpse. That thing can hold some weight, I know I trimmed it all up. The Blue O.G. and Sour Blueberry are doing well, and putting on some nice flowers now. The Iced Grapefruit flowers are rock hard now, and the Menage a Trois is swelling up like a fat man at a buffet. They both look really nice, and with the Menage a Trois starting to put on a slight fade now, it's only a matter of time before, "Chop". I just took a dab, and it tastes so good with a punch like Tyson. Wooo, makes ya smile! I just have a small bubbler rig with a glass nail, and dome. I Like the way it smooths out the oil some, even though after the purge it gets pretty smooth already. These are the rest of the girls in flower.

I hope you've enjoyed the pics everyone. Have a blessed evening. Peace out.

niceeeee ! I think Im going to get meself some more propane gas to day and do the same, have a jar full of dry trimming in the fridges

ahhh that was nice, damn Im stoned now, one hit on the bong with some oil and I have absolute no spit left in my mouth

Slipon said:

yea RIU sumthings fuck up, pretty annoying if you just wrote a long post (just ask Myco ) check the box, it save your post in most cases, or most of it anyway, left bottom corner of the box "Restore Auto-saved Content"

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Good tip, been using that ever since. I do a lot of back and forth with my photo library and sometimes forget to copy paste, saved me having the restore button.

Slipon said:

ahhh that was nice, damn Im stoned now, one hit on the bong with some oil and I have absolute not spit left in my mouth

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Now that's a good place to be.


Myco, you've been busy since my last visit. Congrats on the harvest and the bud pics are really sweet. You grow a beautiful harvest and the dry ice conversation reminded me I had a bunch of it stored away. Threw some dry iced AK47 on top of some of my five-month cured bud and packed it into the vaporizer last night. Excellent punch to the head.

yea, did also take me some time to find it, by accident, so why not share, now that the topic was up (and I remember it)

I also try to remember to copy before I hit the post bottom, atleast when its a hugh post, but also forget it more often then I like, sucks to have used 20 minutes to make a nice post with pictures and all and then have to start over

Slipon said:

ahhh that was nice, damn Im stoned now, one hit on the bong with some oil and I have absolute no spit left in my mouth

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I have to say the oil I've made is really nice, and medicating. I purged it last night, and it's so smooth now with quite the kick. I've had cotton mouth for a while now.

prosperian said:

Good tip, been using that ever since. I do a lot of back and forth with my photo library and sometimes forget to copy paste, saved me having the restore button.




Now that's a good place to be.


Myco, you've been busy since my last visit. Congrats on the harvest and the bud pics are really sweet. You grow a beautiful harvest and the dry ice conversation reminded me I had a bunch of it stored away. Threw some dry iced AK47 on top of some of my five-month cured bud and packed it into the vaporizer last night. Excellent punch to the head.

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Thanks you guys are great. I really like the new led rig Prosperian, what a nice light. I plan on storing some of my Skunk#1 in my safe, and let it cure out for at least a couple of months. I like options when I medicate, so if i'm not doing so hot I can nip it in the butt. I have a couple of photos from this morning I would like to share. The ladies are all real happy, and flowering away. The density of the nugs on the Iced Grapefruit are insane, they're literally like tennis ball solid. I'm definitely getting a dry weight on her, mainly because I have another vegging and would like to know if I improve on the yield.
I never have soda or coffee, or any caffeine for that matter. I guzzled a cherry coke this morning, and I feel like I'm speeding, along with a little oil it's not bad. The Iced Grapefruit is swelling up nicely, and the Menage a Trois is putting on weight as well. The Sour Blueberry, and Blue O.G. are setting nice with alot of flowers now. The stretch for them both is pretty much over now, but they sure put on the height after the flip. They're both gonna flower so nicely I think. I had to adjust the humidity in my drying room as the humidity was getting too low, and was making me nervous. I put an ultrasonic humidifier in with my flowers to raise it a little, and I'm right back on track. I like to dry them over at least a 5 day period, I like to go 7-8 days on more dense flowers to get them right before jarring up, and curing it out. I ordered more Boveda packs a couple of days ago for the jars, I really like Boveda humidipaks, makes curing almost easy. I'll never understand how someone could spend the money and time on growing a beautiful plant, and then get lazy in the drying and curing process. Doesn't make sense to me, but then alot of stuff don't. Well I guess it's time to get busy. Have a great day everyone. Peace and Love.

just from a few grams of trimming and maybe 1/8 of a bottle of gas

Just made a coffee run. It's 7:30 Texas time and been on the board for couple hours now. Yawn, time to wake up.

I can imagine you bouncing around your grow buzzed on the cherry coke. Lol What kind of humidity do you like for the end of flowering myco? The girls are looking good like they had some caffeine too!

Here is short and sweet play list from my reggae collection...

Nice man, looks good. I've definitely noticed after a long purge and working with it until it turns into wax, makes it alot smoother and easier to smoke on. I E-mailed Herbies yesterday as it's been 21 days since Chicago got ahold of my order and hasn't done crap with it. In the e-mail Herbies was saying that alot of their orders are getting snagged. They also said that the bulk of the problem is Chicago, and they would like to be able to request it go through New York. I still think that they are either straight opening packages or they have a new tech that is sniffing these seeds out or something of that nature, IDK yet. It seems like a complete waste to spend $ on finding seeds when there's tons of coke coming across the border, I have to call B.S. on that one. The priorities of the American government are so messed up and corrupt, it's sickening. Hippocrates, and Liars!! Oh well, enough of that now. I just wanted to say that Herbies is being cool as hell, and were really quick about getting back to me with a response, and a little info. I don't know if I'll have them re-send or refund at this point. I want my package as what I ordered is some of the best seeds for my problems, but I don't want to keep sending customs free seeds either. I've heard of some packages getting through, but i don;t know what i want to do yet really. Does anyone know of a seed bank in America that sends to non-medical states? What a load of crap, my doc told me to smoke, but he can't give me a recommendation cause of where I live, that's B.S. Here it's medicine, over there it's DRUGS, again B.S. Oh well, I'll do what I need to do, I just wish I could get some seeds to do it. I think I must just get a refund and wait for the Gage Green gear and call it a day with that. How frustrating! Right now an honest guy in Cali that would send real seeds could make a fortune off of us mid-west guys having so many problems at the moment. Any suggestions on what to do will be considered right now. Thanks for coming in guys. Peace out.

Generally in flower I try to keep it about 30-45% during the day, and about 50% max at night with the light out. You're just gonna get spikes at night, no getting around it. I like to put damp-rid in my tent at night under the canopy to keep it a touch drier. I have the container on a big, deep plate so no need to worry. I also have 2 9in high velocity fans blowing in a circular motion around the bottom of the tent, with one up high pushing down the drier warmer air at night. That with my in-lines going keeps it quite comfortable in there. To some that would seem excessive, but if keeps away mold, so be it. The damp-rid or whatever it's called is just a calcium product used as an air dessicant, so nothing to worry about there folks. People use it in basements and closets, and such. Works pretty good, and it just turns to a liquid from a flaky egg shell looking stuff after it absorbs moisture, then you just flush it. I get this stuff by the 5gal bucket from a friend who works for a plumbing company. He gives me a bucket I give him a gram or two. I've only had mold one time,(knock on wood) and it was outside and I never want that again. Wasted a ton of good flowers before I caught it, and I said to myself, never again. So I can go a little overboard on keeping air moving, and keeping that air as dry as possible when I can. When I water my plants i try to do it as early in the day as possible so I don't have a bunch of water pooled in the saucers, and so the top of the soil has a little time to dry as well. This way at night your humidity doesn't spike as bad, and sit in your plants canopy all night doing who knows what. I grew mushrooms for years people, and believe me when I say a spore is an organism that doesn't need much to gestate, and take hold on a host. Some molds are almost completely impossible to get rid of because the spores are so minute you just can't ever get rid of them all. Every time you think you do, one lands and grows term and throws spores everywhere again. You almost have to move or not grow, I never want to get in that situation if I can avoid it. That's a big reason in itself to have the cleanest garden you can, besides it just being alot nicer. You have not to worry much about that Prosperian . Just common sense to keep your grow area free of debris, and plant matter. I like alot of all the Marley's music, from Damian to Ziggy, and of course ol Bob himself. Something about reggae that just makes me happy and calm. One day when they leagalize MJ in Jamaica, I'm outta here. One of those never lookin back things, you know. I like America, but I love REGGAE and WEED. I guess I better get back to things. Have a blessed day everyone. Peace out.

I received an early anniversary gift from my wife today. It's a new camera for my GGG work coming up. I took a couple of quick pictures and they're better than the ones I've been putting up with the sony. The Fuji I just got is 16MP and the sony was only 10MP. I haven't messed with the pictures except for cropping them up, or down, whatever. I'll be taking a crap ton of photos obviously to check it out, and show you guys. Here are a couple to start.

1.girls in veg 2.Cindy99 & Green Poison 3.Iced grapefruit 4&5.Menage a Trois 6.Iced Grapefruit 7.Blue O.G. flower

Just a couple of shots to get things started as there is alot more to come. Have a great day everyone. Peace out.

A couple of photos to show everyone how the flowers are coming along drying. I really like how easy the new camera is to use.


Havin alot of fun! I wish I could post a video since it has HD, but you have to upload it to youtube first, piss on that. Peace out.

Nice pics myco, cameras make great gifts! Something you will use all the time, right? Your wife did good!



This picture is making me trip. Something about the perspective, the white tubes, and the AK I just vaped. Nirvana.

You are one hell of a grower. I am blown away by your op. Things look absolutely incredible. I am way beyond impressed. I need to go clean my space because of you and Pros. I really enjoyed reading these posts. Tremendous.

I really enjoy what I do, with my plants and all, but I post in here because of you guys and all the kind responses. I could just chill at home with my garden and be more than happy with it, but I like to come here and chat because you guys are great. I really enjoy all the positive feed-back, and interesting conversation. Sharing all the mistakes I've made, and also the triumphs between, are great times to be had. Lows and HIGHS it's all good!

Time to get to why I'm here. The ladies are doing great, and seem to be finishing up, and starting strong depending on their case. The girls finishing are coming right along with the Iced Grapefruit's pistils all oranging out, and receding into the calyx. The Menage a Trois is doing this a little lower, and then will go up to the youngest flowers like Slipon's post says. They will start at the lower flowers being the older ones usually and then go to the top working the pistils in and the calyx's out. I think it would be really cool to have a time lapse camera get these details on film. I've tried doing this by marking a container, and numbering the flowers, and trying to get the same angle everyday on the flower. It was almost impossible, but turned out alright I guess. I'll try and find the pics and post them sometime.

The first 3 are of the Iced Grapefruit, and the last 2 are the Menage a Trois. They've both just swelled immensely in the last week with the calyx's doing there thing like I said before. I find it hard to believe that some people find these flowers ugly. I don't see how they could be more beautiful! The other 2 are doing just as good, with a ton of flower sets, and alot of stretch to fill in. I'm quite confident they can do it though.

These are the Sour Blueberry, and Blue O.G. They're looking great I think. The flowers they already have are really dense, and have a nice scent. The Sour Blueberry has an interesting smell being of fruit, but I guess sour or something, IDK. I'll have some more pics later with a new cover I'm going to try out to block all the hid light. Have a great day everyone, and thank you for all the support. Peace and Love.

A couple of pics of how my oil is coming along. I try to do a couple of small batches when I work with it, I think it comes out better that way. I also usually do it according to how trichy the material is I'm working with. I use a little more butane on the heavier triched material to get a better result. I then keep each shot separate, later mixing some of them together trying to get a more uniform cannabanoid profile. My best batches I keep separate though, kind of like scotch.
I enjoy the whole process, and it makes me feel like I'm making more conventional medicine(whatever that is). It starts to get a consistency like wet beach sand almost, or sticky talcom powder. It takes a couple of days to get this consistency, after purging, and working with it, and some air drying in a low oxygen environment. It can turn dark, and get a little goopy if left in the moist air for too long, so you'll want to keep it in a small container to store your end product.
Travel cases for airplane travel from walgreens and such places for make-up, and lotion, work great and save you from having to order on-line. Small baby food jars work good for hash storage as well, cause they have a rubber ring for storage and preservation of food. I also found a brown glass jar that had yeast in it at the store, used the yeast for making Co2 bottles, and now I use the jar after cleaning that sucker out really good. better for the planet to re-use than to recycle, no energy over just less energy.
I watched a video on youtube on how to clean 1gal pickle jars, and such to cure your buds in them. It goes in to what to use to clean the seals on the lids as they are usually what holds the smell, and taste. I've put alot of stuff in the jars since cleaning, and there is absolutely no smell now, pretty happy. I'll use up my conventional jars first, but now I have a ton of extras for all kinds of uses along with flowers when I get low on ball, and kerr. Well I guess I should get some more gardening done. Have a great day people. Peace and Love.