meangreengrowinmachine
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Yeah he for sure was very combative about this entire thing.
What Cured Weed Looks Like
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NukaKola
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Agreed! What do you do Doug? I work in a hospital as well, as a surgical tech.
Doug Dawson
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Work in IT, managed print and IT services. Keep the machines running, the servers talking and the pages flowing so everyone can do their jobs.
MajorCoco
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Funny story about nepal and hash...
I was in Goa, India about 2007, delivered by taxi fresh from the airport to a crappy little guesthouse in a crappy little village by the sea; it was basically lifeless when I turned up about 9pm local time! I'd been to Goa a few times, though not to this particular village, so when I got unpacked I decided I'd go out and try and see where the hell I was (and if I could buy beer...mainly, if I could buy beer...it was day 1 of my holiday after all!!).
As I was out with the torch getting my bearing on the nearest "big" road to my guest-house a random taxi drove past, and slowed as he saw me. I ended up buying a tolah (10 grams) of charas from him. It probably cost me $10 or less I think. I also found some beer.
Anyway...I clearly remember this finger of charas being dried-up as hell. Really hard and brittle...just like you don't normally want your hash to be. So...I took it back to the guest-house thinking "there was a waste of money"....
As I got nearer to the guest-house I started hearing noises of people drinking.... Turns out there were a load of young Nepali guys who were down looking for work for the tourist season and were all staying the same GH as me. I joined them at the communal table in the veranda area, and we all got to drinking. They were very nice, and the booze and conversation flowed.
Anyway, a beer or two in I remember the charas, and ask my new companion if they mind if I roll one. They don't, so I get on and start rolling. I notice that the hash breaks off in shards, which then crumble down under my thumb to dust...."Not good" I think....
30 minutes later, after finishing my second solo joint.....bearing in mind my tolerance was pretty high from daily toking of skunk at home in UK.....I'm suddenly very super-aware that I'm sitting on my chair in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by people chattering in nepalese, and occasionally looking at me and smiling......I'm clearly paranoid to fuck, and suddenly finding it hard not to fall off my chair.
So I make my excuses and decided to go to bed...
One of the nepali guys asks, as I'm leaving, if he can have a little hash to smoke. He mentions that he hasn't smoked before.
I'm so stoned at that point I just break off a few smokes-worth, mumble something about "being careful with it", and stagger off to bed....where I lie, for several hours....rigid...staring at the big gaps between the wall and ceiling of my mud-hut room, from my tiny hard bed with no mosquito net, thinking "What the hell am I doing here!?" An hour or so into my white-knuckle stakeout of the ceiling I eventually realise there's some sort of noise going on outside...
My addled mind finally works out what the noise is.....it's the guy I gave the hash to puking his guts up in the toilet outside my room.
The thought that someone else had it worse than me obviously helped, and finally I drifted off....
I woke up next morning to cows on beaches, blue sky and 30C. Fantastic holiday...
Anyway...kinda the reason I wanted to post that....I've had really good Indian Charas (actually the story above is not about the best Indian charas I've had, which was from near Parvati, and I've never had hash like it before or since), but have yet to actually come across any of the mythical Nepalese hash people rave about.
I tried Nepalese temple balls in Amsterdam a few times over the years. I've never been impressed.
I was in Goa, India about 2007, delivered by taxi fresh from the airport to a crappy little guesthouse in a crappy little village by the sea; it was basically lifeless when I turned up about 9pm local time! I'd been to Goa a few times, though not to this particular village, so when I got unpacked I decided I'd go out and try and see where the hell I was (and if I could buy beer...mainly, if I could buy beer...it was day 1 of my holiday after all!!).
As I was out with the torch getting my bearing on the nearest "big" road to my guest-house a random taxi drove past, and slowed as he saw me. I ended up buying a tolah (10 grams) of charas from him. It probably cost me $10 or less I think. I also found some beer.
Anyway...I clearly remember this finger of charas being dried-up as hell. Really hard and brittle...just like you don't normally want your hash to be. So...I took it back to the guest-house thinking "there was a waste of money"....
As I got nearer to the guest-house I started hearing noises of people drinking.... Turns out there were a load of young Nepali guys who were down looking for work for the tourist season and were all staying the same GH as me. I joined them at the communal table in the veranda area, and we all got to drinking. They were very nice, and the booze and conversation flowed.
Anyway, a beer or two in I remember the charas, and ask my new companion if they mind if I roll one. They don't, so I get on and start rolling. I notice that the hash breaks off in shards, which then crumble down under my thumb to dust...."Not good" I think....
30 minutes later, after finishing my second solo joint.....bearing in mind my tolerance was pretty high from daily toking of skunk at home in UK.....I'm suddenly very super-aware that I'm sitting on my chair in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by people chattering in nepalese, and occasionally looking at me and smiling......I'm clearly paranoid to fuck, and suddenly finding it hard not to fall off my chair.
So I make my excuses and decided to go to bed...
One of the nepali guys asks, as I'm leaving, if he can have a little hash to smoke. He mentions that he hasn't smoked before.
I'm so stoned at that point I just break off a few smokes-worth, mumble something about "being careful with it", and stagger off to bed....where I lie, for several hours....rigid...staring at the big gaps between the wall and ceiling of my mud-hut room, from my tiny hard bed with no mosquito net, thinking "What the hell am I doing here!?" An hour or so into my white-knuckle stakeout of the ceiling I eventually realise there's some sort of noise going on outside...
My addled mind finally works out what the noise is.....it's the guy I gave the hash to puking his guts up in the toilet outside my room.
The thought that someone else had it worse than me obviously helped, and finally I drifted off....
I woke up next morning to cows on beaches, blue sky and 30C. Fantastic holiday...
Anyway...kinda the reason I wanted to post that....I've had really good Indian Charas (actually the story above is not about the best Indian charas I've had, which was from near Parvati, and I've never had hash like it before or since), but have yet to actually come across any of the mythical Nepalese hash people rave about.
I tried Nepalese temple balls in Amsterdam a few times over the years. I've never been impressed.
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Lockedin
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You'll do just fine in SoCal...
Lockedin
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Since we've clearly lost the thread -
I was on the other side - in the Punjab, NW of Armritsar - the Kush region; on a film crew capturing meetings for an organization.
On our way to a little village within eyesight of the Pakistani border, our little Tata Sumo SUV crapped out.
I'm with the driver - a new one today - looking under the hood (bonnet for UK) while rural traffic goes by.
The driver taps me on the shoulder and points to a bus that had stopped a little while ago --- it was leaving with my whole group staring at me from the back window. Uh-oh.
The hospitality of the Punjabis is second to none. The local villagers brought me in - leaving a few by people by the road to flag down the next bus, which will arrive when it arrives - hopefully today.
Turns out there was a wedding, & I ended up seated at the table, eating red curry chicken and drinking chai --- not sure what planet I'm on right now.
Another bus arrived and they fetched me to the road and found out the bus was full --- not room for one more body - full.
My new found friends pointed up the ladder to the luggage rack on top. I noticed 3 old men were already up there, so I said goodbye to the new couple, the village elder / leader and off I went. (Old men - all 3 in linen pyjamas & turbans, beards NEVER trimmed by the look of them).
3 stops in, the bus shuts off for --- no reason I can discern. We're on the side of the road in the middle of a rice field.
One of the old men produces a zippo lighter and what looks like a chillum from his robe, packs it with a marble of something hashy looking and rips down on it. He empties the bowl, and drops another marble in, handing it to his friend, and then the other. He looks at me for a moment, packs another marble and passes the chillum to me. I hesitated (never hesitate! lol), 3 sets of eyebrows started to look angry that I wasn't accepting their gift; so I lit up.
Not sure WTF it was - opium for sure, some schwaggy weed? and tobacco - in one bowl. I gacked like a rookie on the first rip! The old guys laughed just as hard as I would have, and so I did once I could breathe again. The smoke was THICK - almost creamy, and that funky flavor was strong, but I managed my second and third hits without exploding - and got pats of approval and smiles from the guys. We had a few more stops like that, we took rip after rip, and traded some items from my pack for theirs.
I didn't get back to town until late in the evening.
I couldn't feel my face, much less my feet, so I shouldn't have been surprised when I landed in a heap next to the bus. My group heard the bus, and had come running to look for me - pretty sure they were not expecting what they saw. I was being helped up and dusted off by the old guys, barefoot, but wearing a new sash & knife combo (good trade!).
One of the most rollercoaster days in my life!
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Wattzzup
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I take back what I said. After my vape sessions at 389 degrees it’s still not this burnt.
great job man. You’re a hell of a salesman.
BobCajun
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That's typical dispensary weed results. But that doesn't tell you anything about how it smokes or how much stalk and leaf there is. You seem to have done as good a job as any dispensary weed producer, it's just not cured, that's all. It's typical uncured, not fully ripened, dispensary weed
Horselover fat
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My avb is usually quite a bit darker.
meangreengrowinmachine
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Holy shit that sounds like an amazing adventure!!Since we've clearly lost the thread -
I was on the other side - in the Punjab, NW of Armritsar - the Kush region; on a film crew capturing meetings for an organization.
On our way to a little village within eyesight of the Pakistani border, our little Tata Sumo SUV crapped out.
I'm with the driver - a new one today - looking under the hood (bonnet for UK) while rural traffic goes by.
The driver taps me on the shoulder and points to a bus that had stopped a little while ago --- it was leaving with my whole group staring at me from the back window. Uh-oh.
The hospitality of the Punjabis is second to none. The local villagers brought me in - leaving a few by people by the road to flag down the next bus, which will arrive when it arrives - hopefully today.
Turns out there was a wedding, & I ended up seated at the table, eating red curry chicken and drinking chai --- not sure what planet I'm on right now.
Another bus arrived and they fetched me to the road and found out the bus was full --- not room for one more body - full.
My new found friends pointed up the ladder to the luggage rack on top. I noticed 3 old men were already up there, so I said goodbye to the new couple, the village elder / leader and off I went. (Old men - all 3 in linen pyjamas & turbans, beards NEVER trimmed by the look of them).
3 stops in, the bus shuts off for --- no reason I can discern. We're on the side of the road in the middle of a rice field.
One of the old men produces a zippo lighter and what looks like a chillum from his robe, packs it with a marble of something hashy looking and rips down on it. He empties the bowl, and drops another marble in, handing it to his friend, and then the other. He looks at me for a moment, packs another marble and passes the chillum to me. I hesitated (never hesitate! lol), 3 sets of eyebrows started to look angry that I wasn't accepting their gift; so I lit up.
Not sure WTF it was - opium for sure, some schwaggy weed? and tobacco - in one bowl. I gacked like a rookie on the first rip! The old guys laughed just as hard as I would have, and so I did once I could breathe again. The smoke was THICK - almost creamy, and that funky flavor was strong, but I managed my second and third hits without exploding - and got pats of approval and smiles from the guys. We had a few more stops like that, we took rip after rip, and traded some items from my pack for theirs.
I didn't get back to town until late in the evening.
I couldn't feel my face, much less my feet, so I shouldn't have been surprised when I landed in a heap next to the bus. My group heard the bus, and had come running to look for me - pretty sure they were not expecting what they saw. I was being helped up and dusted off by the old guys, barefoot, but wearing a new sash & knife combo (good trade!).
One of the most rollercoaster days in my life!
meangreengrowinmachine
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Yeah same but I guess that might all just be personal presence. I know people that vape their weed until its burnt. At that point I guess why aren't you just smoking it but hey each to his own!
Kalebaiden
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I feel like this is my time to chime in. (Brace yourselves and pucker your O-ring)
*takes a deep breath*
Bob isn't entirely off his rocker.
There, I said it.
What Bob is calling a proper cure isn't a cure but it is doing exactly what he wants it to do.
What Bob is doing is fermenting the chlorophyll out (as well as some wanted stuff but to each their own).
High heat, high humidity will ferment damn near anything. The issue behind this is the loss of the proper flavor profile. Treating ganja like tobacco with a fast fermenting will definitely get you brown weed. Unfortunately for everyone else around here that doesn't know, brown weed (not fermented or cooked) actually is the goal of some growers and it isn't schwag weed. It really is fan-diddly-tastic if it's done properly.
My first successful grow gave me great weed. Green, dried and cured for 3 weeks. It smoked like a dream and was better than most Street weed I was smoking. The grow after, I cured it for 6 months. It was much more brown than anything else I had seen (maybe not brown....a ton less green?). The smoke profile blew the previous batch out of the water.
After reading a bunch and talking to a bunch of growers and asking questions to the hippy ecologist professor that ruined existence for me, I learned why it was better and tried for a browner brown weed.
I got it.
The shit done near sent me to the green-out place.
It was bombastic.
The long and the short of the story;
Chlorophyll sucks, what we all know as curing is the right way to cure, what Bob is doing is a very fast version of a fermenting and his smoke profiles would improve tremendously if he followed up his fermenting with a 6 month cure.
...and to Bob directly;
You grow and cure your way. It's your ganja and you do what you like and if it works for you, don't change.
If you would like even better weed, slow your fermenting down by a week or so and follow it up with what is commonly known as curing for an extended period of time and you will surprise even yourself.
*takes a deep breath*
Bob isn't entirely off his rocker.
There, I said it.
What Bob is calling a proper cure isn't a cure but it is doing exactly what he wants it to do.
What Bob is doing is fermenting the chlorophyll out (as well as some wanted stuff but to each their own).
High heat, high humidity will ferment damn near anything. The issue behind this is the loss of the proper flavor profile. Treating ganja like tobacco with a fast fermenting will definitely get you brown weed. Unfortunately for everyone else around here that doesn't know, brown weed (not fermented or cooked) actually is the goal of some growers and it isn't schwag weed. It really is fan-diddly-tastic if it's done properly.
My first successful grow gave me great weed. Green, dried and cured for 3 weeks. It smoked like a dream and was better than most Street weed I was smoking. The grow after, I cured it for 6 months. It was much more brown than anything else I had seen (maybe not brown....a ton less green?). The smoke profile blew the previous batch out of the water.
After reading a bunch and talking to a bunch of growers and asking questions to the hippy ecologist professor that ruined existence for me, I learned why it was better and tried for a browner brown weed.
I got it.
The shit done near sent me to the green-out place.
It was bombastic.
The long and the short of the story;
Chlorophyll sucks, what we all know as curing is the right way to cure, what Bob is doing is a very fast version of a fermenting and his smoke profiles would improve tremendously if he followed up his fermenting with a 6 month cure.
...and to Bob directly;
You grow and cure your way. It's your ganja and you do what you like and if it works for you, don't change.
If you would like even better weed, slow your fermenting down by a week or so and follow it up with what is commonly known as curing for an extended period of time and you will surprise even yourself.
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getogrow
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show us the way !!! step by step with pics !! your the only human on this planet curing weed right!! we need you to teach us ?
I picked some just now , whats my next step ? oven on 350 ?
meangreengrowinmachine
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I mean i would do 200 for 45 minutes if you really want to try it now it will work but you be getting the buzz more from the coughing and lack of oxygen lolz
BobBitchen
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LOL the cajun kook has been spewing this crap for years.
getogrow
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My hears tend to open more to certain folks on here....
What do we got here ? Why do you think its better ? Thanks.
What the world has been doing for years gets rid of all the chlorophyll. Fermenting it will work but it gets rid of too much good stuff, mainly terps. So like i said a while back ....hes saying things that work but he has NO CLUE what or why he is saying the shit so we gotta call him out.
If its brown , there is a VERY good chance its got spores all over it....dont smoke that crap. "fermenting" has to be very controlled to keep the mold out and i dont advice it for anyone ever,
