"I promise to be nice" my goodness. I'll be here till harvest. I've seen 1000's of plants and none like this, so interesting, and that's the plant and yourself.
Thanks for the comment but I have a problem. I don't know when I'll harvest. I can't harvest it at once. It would be illegal. I'm only allowed a pound.
So you can expect a very interesting step-by-step pictorial as I document picking a branch off.
I will separate out the individual buds and we'll see them for the first time individually. Shared experiences are nice.
But then what? Will this be hashish or will this be boiled in MCT oil?
If it's MCT oil, no cure is required. You will never know how much that weighs. I'll do an overnight dehydrate in the multi shelf dehydrator and then I'll run it through a food processor and then I will boil it in MCT oil. The first extract of that is essentially the maximum the oil can carry. A tablespoon of that under your tongue will cause you to hallucinate.
That's not the goal, but it's an excellent starting point for later dilution for joint rub oil.
I'll then do additional boils with additional oil for further extracts but keep that separate for a lesser strength formulation.
And that's where my Candyman materials come from.
But now it's time for play. For concentration without chemicals of any sort.
Take a silk screen that you would use to make t-shirts. Cut and appropriate hole in a cardboard box. Hot glue it to the bottom of the box.
Find a source of dry ice. I got fishing towns surrounding me so there's lots of dry ice here.
Take whatever I consider the best/ easily curable pieces. Hang, cure whatever is appropriate for air flow. Keep it in a dark closet in perfect indirect wind flow with perfect humidity. Yeah I got that.
I also have my wood drying closet for my woodworking projects when I take the outside wood to the inside for a month or two to get that moisture level balanced.
After appropriate hang/cure, slowly, taste testing every few days, choose the moment it's right.
Scissor up large chunks into smaller chunks. Don't go too crazy. The next step will take care of it.
Toss chunks of butt and dry ice into box with silk screen on bottom. Stand over glass table. A big glass table. Four times the size of the box.
Turn the music on loudly and start dancing. Shake shake shake come shake your booty. Shake that box back and forth. As the dry ice disappears. Throw more in. Golf ball size chunks are the best.
The coldness of the dry ice will cause the the trichones to simply drop off the leaf material and fall through the silk screen. That's it. The weight of the dry ice will smash the buds around and that will cause them to do the final crumble and you'll be left with nothing but bone dry plant material on the top when you're done.
5 minutes later glance at the table. Grab a plasterers scraper. Gather. Shit yourself. Go holy fuck. I didn't know that could happen.
You got a bunch of trichones. And yes, get used to me spelling it that way because I'm not fixing the fucking dictate every time it does it.
What will you do with them? In the old days it simply meant you had some extra kief to sprinkle on top of your bud. Those days are over.
Wrap in parchment paper. Wrap a cloth around that, a strong cloth.
Set up a couple of steel plates or boards or whatever it takes in a bench press. Place wrapped bundle inside and start squeezing. Open, flip, close, squeeze. Keep flipping angles and keep squeezing that fucker.
After a minute or two you're done. You'll have a block of hash. Real hash. Not the shit they sell in stores. Not extract. No chemicals. Absolute bare minimum amount of weight for maximum amount of THC to maintain your legal plant material level. While maintaining all the
terpenes and all the flavor.
Yeah, I think I know what I'm doing here.
Who out there remembers real hash from the '70s? You can't get that now. Unless you make it.
So anyway, I may never harvest it. I may leave a bit of it growing just to keep it around for historical purposes. But it's a medical plant and I have to track the legality of its use very carefully.
I think I'll do Thai stick next. Real Thai stick. And yes, I'll figure out how to get a legal opium dip. Thai is jungle sativa weed. That's the type of weed I expect to do best in this process. I'm going to try all types of jungle sativa weeds to determine. The testing shall go on. It is always time to test.
