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Encomium

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Yea Cannabutter is super easy. I might try making some hash just for kicks. I'll likely make cannabutter as well with my lower "popcorn" buds. I'm getting so excited to harvest lol.
 

KevinSmith

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Yeah I want to make hash from the harvest clippings and stuff too!
Me too, on the excitement level but I know I have longer than you to go lol.
 

Encomium

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Very nice. Did you ever do any pruning of the lower branches during flowering?

I read a thread about lollipopping when I was getting worried about my canopy height and experimented a bit with 2 plants basically pruning the bottom 1/4 to 1/3 of them. I've noticed that those 2 plants have much larger main colas than the other 2. In hindsight I would have done the same type of pruning a week before I switched them but even into the 3rd week of flowering (when I did this pruning) the 2 ladies that I did this with are by far the best plants based on overall cola size.
 

KevinSmith

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Yeah I started lolipopping last week of veg and continued into flowering. 5 out of 6 have no lower leaves up to about 6 to 8 inches. The one that I didn't do was/ is a runt.
I find that if you don't prune those lower leaves they dry up and fall off anyway.
But really the big change happened when I cleared out a lot of the upper fan leaves giving a ton more light to the rest of the lower plants.
So anxious but so long to go still!
 

Encomium

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Making the cannabutter now :D
Stinks like hell hahaha
1.5 lbs of butter to 3 ounces of trim and 2 ounces of vape leftovers.
Trim meaning your fan leaves that you pruned a few days ago? I did not know you could do that with fan leaves so good to know!

I've also never thought about using vape leftovers lol.
 

KevinSmith

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Oh ya man all the trim has trichs/ resin all over em. and the vape leftovers ain't done either it could be smoked if your desperate lol.
Like you I'm always reading/ learning here and there and picked up this recipe over and over.
Now I have to get some of that ready made cookie dough and make a batch :weed:
 

KevinSmith

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Looks like i'm going to get a good amount out of this.
Good thing because it stunk real bad! lol won't be doing that again for a while.
Had to shower, change, febreeze the whole area to get rid of the smell.... and yet I can still smell it... Better be worth it :D
 

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Encomium

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Sounds yummy man. Hope you don't mean the cookie dough that's pre-made. The cannabutter replaces the butter/oil you'd normally use in recipes unless there's something I'm missing.
 

KevinSmith

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damn you're right.
ok well off to get ingredients to make cookies from scratch.
One thing I am not sure about; most recipes say 375F should i lower that??
 

Encomium

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Well I never did. I just cooked with it just like any other butter/oil. If you did lower the temps you'd just end up having to cook them longer anyways. Just don't burn your cookies :)
 

KevinSmith

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I baked em at 325 instead of 375 and went 5 minutes longer.
They are a bit gooey but good :D
I made a pan cookie started with one corner square. See how that will hit me...
Ate it at 4:20 my time hehe
 

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KevinSmith

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went to bed stoned, woke up stoned.
Took one square today at an outdoor-fest was way more buzzed (location buzz lol)
 

Encomium

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Very nice man. Have you started inspecting the trichs yet?

I got one of those 30x stamp magnifiers and it's like threading a needle to get the proper distance to see any trichomes lol.

I'm like 2-3 weeks away as well I think. 1 of my plants may need to be chopped a week before the other 3 but we'll see.
 

KevinSmith

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I have a 40X jewelers loupe and I find it quite easy to use.
The trichs are awesome under the magnifier! They look like little clear liquid mushrooms right now :D
I have soo many on some you can see em without the magnifier!
I also have one that seems to be reaching maturity faster than the others..

Oh I found out what those dehumidifying tabs are called; DampRid.
But I gave in and put my a/c in today. It is only 9C out but raining everyday and my humidity is still too high! Luckily my a/c has dehumidify mode on it.
outside H is 87% inside now is 56% it was up too 72% this morning!
 
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