May give up on flowers and just do hash

The best hash comes from good flowers. You cant really have one without the other.
Also, Nice appearance is about the only positive aspect of 90% of dispensary weed. IME, most dispensary weed has no flavor and dull smell.

Here's a pic (today) of my first grow. Strain is LSD which is mostly indica. If I can produce dense nugs with my cheap-o setup, so can you! The smell is amazing and the coloring is pretty damn sweet if you ask me! Maybe I got lucky?

Update: I got a crock pot, a jar of coconut oil and ordered suppository molds online. Now my first batch of cannabis-coconut oil suppositories are cooling off in the fridge, made by heating leftover trim in the oil and then straining out the solids.

I know, you're thinking "Suppositories, ew!" but they are supposed to be for medical uses and nothing is more "medical" and less "party oriented" than suppositories, I believe. The only "cool" suppositories I've ever heard of are the belladonna and opium suppositories that hospitals give to patients who are almost dead and in really horrible pain. Well, that and the famous suppository in "Trainspotting" that ends up accidentally ... OK, I won't spoil it for any loser who hasn't already seen that movie.

My mom's bf is a really nice guy and he just got diagnosed with kidney cancer. I just read that story about a hospital in Iowa that called Five-O on the stage four pancreatic cancer patient who was suspected of having cannabis in his room, possibly because some nurse smelled something suspicious. So I don't want Ron to have to put up with that shit, and I know someone could smuggle a suppository in for him to use if he had to, and no one would be the wiser. Matter of fact, I was hospitalized for a month about a year ago and I got my wife to do that for me. So I know it can be done.

The suppositories usually kick in really fast and make me groggy as hell. Good for insomnia.

The leftover extract, if any, I can use for ointment to stop pain. It would probably taste nasty as hell because I did not wash any of the chlorophyll out, so it's not likely to get made into edibles. But you can easily get rid of a lot of green pigment by just putting the trim in the filter basket of an old-fashioned coffee maker and letting the machine drip hot water through it. Throw out the "green coffee" and run about two or three pots of water through the trim or leaves.

Couple of updates:

I dug my electronic gram scale out of a box of stored junk and weighed some of my kief/hash powder and discovered that one teaspoon of powder weighs just slightly more than a gram.

I got a second, larger pollen press because the small one apparently will only hold two grams at a time of unpressed kief. The larger one will hold at least twice that much, but I found out it is slightly narrower in diameter than the smaller press. So if you put a half a gram in the larger press you will get a "coin" of hash that is about the diameter of an American dime, while the smaller 2-gram press produces "coins" the size of an American penny.

One icky problem has been hair getting into the powder. At first I was blaming the four cats who live in the same dwelling with me but now I'm not so sure the cats are completely to blame. I looked at a couple of the hairs I found in the latest batch that I pressed and I am not sure they didn't come off my hairy arms. Not sure which is worse, cat hair or arm hair.

Well, anyway, the lesson I learned from the hairy business is that if I want to "scale up" my hash-making I might have to "invest" in a "clean room" setup and maybe even buy a "bunny suit" and hairnet, etc. to wear while sifting and handling the powder.

It's somewhat gross, but I also read in news stories about hashish that is sold in countries like Morocco or Turkey that the dealers cut it with all sorts of awful substances like shoe polish, henna and even animal manure.

I was griping about how hard it is to get flowers "just right" in a Goldilocks sense, and I still stand by that whine, but one clear advantage of flowers is that I really doubt anyone could add animal poop to make a gram of buds look like two grams and sell it to a sucker on the street.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I am optimistic that the days when a scammer could pass off a bag of catnip or oregano as cannabis are either over or rapidly coming to an end, at least in the areas where cultivation is legal. I hope I am right about that.

Long sleeve shirts with rubber bands on the wrist, proper gloves, and a hair net. I suggest looking at Bodhi's 88g13 hp crosses and gorilla glue hybrids for good hash varieties.

MidwestGorilla219 said:

Long sleeve shirts with rubber bands on the wrist, proper gloves, and a hair net. I suggest looking at Bodhi's 88g13 hp crosses and gorilla glue hybrids for good hash varieties.

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Just so happens I laid my hairy hands on a pack of Equilibrium Chem 4 Glue hybrid seeds and just popped four beans over the weekend. Now if I can manage not to kill the seedlings, they should either produce some good hash or provide good pollen for cross-breeding. I'm looking forward to it!

Roger A. Shrubber said:

not a bad idea, may try that, by the time i get it the way i like it, my hands are sore as hell for a few days....

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we always put the

Roger A. Shrubber said:

not a bad idea, may try that, by the time i get it the way i like it, my hands are sore as hell for a few days....

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we always put it in a bag that you can boil food in,just put it in the boiling water till its melted and then press it with a jack while its hot works and burns good and love the tased

ltecato said:

Update: I got a crock pot, a jar of coconut oil and ordered suppository molds online. Now my first batch of cannabis-coconut oil suppositories are cooling off in the fridge, made by heating leftover trim in the oil and then straining out the solids.

I know, you're thinking "Suppositories, ew!" but they are supposed to be for medical uses and nothing is more "medical" and less "party oriented" than suppositories, I believe. The only "cool" suppositories I've ever heard of are the belladonna and opium suppositories that hospitals give to patients who are almost dead and in really horrible pain. Well, that and the famous suppository in "Trainspotting" that ends up accidentally ... OK, I won't spoil it for any loser who hasn't already seen that movie.

My mom's bf is a really nice guy and he just got diagnosed with kidney cancer. I just read that story about a hospital in Iowa that called Five-O on the stage four pancreatic cancer patient who was suspected of having cannabis in his room, possibly because some nurse smelled something suspicious. So I don't want Ron to have to put up with that shit, and I know someone could smuggle a suppository in for him to use if he had to, and no one would be the wiser. Matter of fact, I was hospitalized for a month about a year ago and I got my wife to do that for me. So I know it can be done.

The suppositories usually kick in really fast and make me groggy as hell. Good for insomnia.

The leftover extract, if any, I can use for ointment to stop pain. It would probably taste nasty as hell because I did not wash any of the chlorophyll out, so it's not likely to get made into edibles. But you can easily get rid of a lot of green pigment by just putting the trim in the filter basket of an old-fashioned coffee maker and letting the machine drip hot water through it. Throw out the "green coffee" and run about two or three pots of water through the trim or leaves.

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How are you going to get oil and water to mix???????????

I don't put water in the crock pot. Just coconut oil. Sometime the "trim" or "shake" is wet when I put it in the crock pot with the oil but the water in the plant material evaporates and leaves behind just oil.

ky farmer said:

How are you going to get oil and water to mix???????????

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Also sometimes after I "wash" the plant material I put it in the oven to dry out and decarb for an hour or so. Set the oven temp at about 200 F or slightly higher.