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Sorry for the lack of updates, life has been a bit crazy and ptsd has been kicking my entire ass.
But, trying to push through that and become self-sustainable with my meds, I've developed a method for making shatter with isopropyl alcohol and some kitchen nerd equipment that I wanted to share.
It's essentially a refined quick wash iso technique, so it's still legal in Canada after the new hydrocarbon laws.
Equipment:
A French press (put in the freezer before starting)
99% isopropyl alcohol (also in the freezer before starting)
Coffee Filters
Clothespins
An immersion circulator (Mine is Anova)
A pot
Salt
Ice
Break up fresh frozen bud into small pieces and put them into the already frozen French press. Don't pack them in too tightly or else the isopropyl won't be able to reach all of the trichomes. Think of it like steeping tea, it's gotta have room to expand or else the alcohol won't be able to permeate the trichome membranes. When it's full and loosely packed, put it back into the freezer, uncovered, for at least 12 hours. This will dry it out a bit more and make sure that it's cold for the extraction.
Make a super saturated salt solution ( https://sciencing.com/prepare-supersaturated-salt-water-solutions-8559439.html ), cool it to room temp, and pour it over ice in the small pot to make a very cold water bath. Put the whole French press with the herb in it into the icy salt solution (decreases ambient temps), and pour the also as cold as possible isopropyl over the herb and steep that for 1:30. The colder the ambient temp at extraction, the less chlorophyll gets removed. I've got some other hypotheses for refining this that I'll post later after testing- nitrous oxide, dry ice, liquid CO2, and liquid nitrogen could all theoretically be used to lower the ambient temp, which would potentially mean more pressure could be applied to the extraction, potentially increasing yield.
Filter that out into a mason jar and winterize, then pour the alcohol solution out into a silicone baking pan. Place that on a water bath at 86.5 degrees F, and walk away. The evap process (which I haven't refined enough to recover the iso yet) depends on the surface area of the silicone pan and how much you're running.
It's done when it looks dried out. But don't just eyeball it, put the evap pan onto a hot baking tray and move the mixture around with a silicone spatula until there are no bubbles appearing to evaporate. Collecting it all into one place makes getting it out of the pan easier, as well. It'll cool to a hard candy consistency that's pretty easy to work with when cold. Dab at 620 and get medicated!
That Violator Kush from @Dirtbag is stretching a week or so into flower. Hope it's still got another 6 inches of height or so to go.
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I definitely think the 3g pots are the right size for the inside space at the moment. 5 gallon ones are being reappropriated to grow melons, squash, and pumpkins as the ladies get chopped.
Nice bud! Just wait till you get a whiff of that girl. It starts out citrusy but turns to an outright dank kush smell that goes through walls by week 7.
And yeah she still has a couple weeks of stretching left. That one really grows in flower.
Lol now that is a silly question. Indeed I would! But you should try and keep a bud or 2 unpollinated to you can smoke some in its dank form!If I pollinated this with the Nepalma, would you want some beans?
Lol now that is a silly question. Indeed I would! But you should try and keep a bud or 2 unpollinated to you can smoke some in its dank form!
Haha oh yeah, that won't be a problem! She's still stretching, so I just hit a few of the lower buds with the pollen. Should be ready by the end of April!
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Wicked. I read a bit about nepalma, that would probably be an awesome cross since violator is also from a hash making lineage, malana. Could make a hashmaking super plant.
Hey kanzeon , then you are going to re veg the clones ?Sooooooooooooo yeah, more tinkering.
New veg section, under a hodgepodge of different lights of different spectrums between 3000k and 5000k.
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USC Seeds' Ducksfoot and Kurdish Kush, alongside Hungarian Black and Matchbox pepper seedlings
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Silver Fields x 3, Motherlode Kush, AK Kush, HSO Bubba's Gift, RQ Northern Lights Auto, and the first of my Uzi/Nepalma cross.
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I've been training Kubanskiy Ubiyza like I feel Killer Kowalski would. She loves it, she's into the rough shit. Stem split after manifolding, she barely noticed. She's about 30" wide now.
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I'm trying a new thing with some plants in flower. On-branch cloning! I mixed some sterilized coco with iba and put it inside these starter pots around the branches.
@Dirtbag 's Violator Kush, the hardiest Nepalma female, and Uzi, from top to bottom.
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More of that Uzi, she's so sexy in flower.
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And the whole flower room. Red beans and rice didn't miss some of these ladies.
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I love this shit, y'all.
Has anyone tried adding iba to their normal waterings?
Hey kanzeon , then you are going to re veg the clones ?
Yeah I did try a little IBA for seedlings waterings. It was off the cuff. When I up potted to 1 gals I didn't notice any real difference in root development. I had a similar experience A/B ing with and without Great White. That was more controlled, and I didn't see any real difference there either.Sooooooooooooo yeah, more tinkering.
New veg section, under a hodgepodge of different lights of different spectrums between 3000k and 5000k.
View attachment 959288
USC Seeds' Ducksfoot and Kurdish Kush, alongside Hungarian Black and Matchbox pepper seedlings
View attachment 959285
Silver Fields x 3, Motherlode Kush, AK Kush, HSO Bubba's Gift, RQ Northern Lights Auto, and the first of my Uzi/Nepalma cross.
View attachment 959284
I've been training Kubanskiy Ubiyza like I feel Killer Kowalski would. She loves it, she's into the rough shit. Stem split after manifolding, she barely noticed. She's about 30" wide now.
View attachment 959287
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I'm trying a new thing with some plants in flower. On-branch cloning! I mixed some sterilized coco with iba and put it inside these starter pots around the branches.
@Dirtbag 's Violator Kush, the hardiest Nepalma female, and Uzi, from top to bottom.
View attachment 959283View attachment 959282View attachment 959281
More of that Uzi, she's so sexy in flower.
View attachment 959279
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And the whole flower room. Red beans and rice didn't miss some of these ladies.
View attachment 959289
I love this shit, y'all.
Has anyone tried adding iba to their normal waterings?
Yeah I did try a little IBA for seedlings waterings. It was off the cuff. When I up potted to 1 gals I didn't notice any real difference in root development. I had a similar experience A/B ing with and without Great White. That was more controlled, and I didn't see any real difference there either.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing! I've got it bookmarked for when I have a bit more time.Yeah after a bit of research it seems like IBA is really best for cloning and germination, since its function is to make the plant produce undifferentiated cells
https://www.cannabisbusinesstimes.c...erdoses-rooting-hormone-iba-nutrient-matters/
But that led me down a research rabbit hole about the benefits of salicylic acid, another ingredient in a "germination bomb" that was posted on here years back.
"Salicylic acid (SA) is an endogenous growth regulator of phenolic nature and also a signaling molecule, which participates in the regulation of physiological processes in plants such as growth, photosynthesis, and other metabolic processes. Several studies support a major role of SA in modulating the plant response to various abiotic stresses. It is a well-founded fact that SA potentially generates a wide array of metabolic responses in plants and also affects plant-water relations. This molecule also found to be very active in mitigating oxidative stress under adverse environmental conditions."
"Salicylic acid or orthohydroxy benzoic acid is ubiquitously distributed plant growth regulator [5]. Salicylic acid has positive effects on plant growth and developmental processes [5–7]. Research findings demonstrated its roles in seed germination, glycolysis, flowering, fruit yield [8], ion uptake and transport [9], photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance (gs), and in transpiration [10]. Salicylic acid can modulate antioxidant defense system thereby decreasing oxidative stress [11]. Photosynthesis, nitrogen metabolism, proline (Pro) metabolism, production of glycinebetaine (GB), and plant-water relations in abiotic stress affected plants were regulated by SA [12–14]. Induction of defense-related genes and stress resistance in biotic stressed plants have also been reported [15]. Moreover, exogenously applied SA showed putative positive effects on stressed plants [16–20]. Salicylic acid induced genes encoding chaperone, heat shock proteins (HSPs), antioxidants, and secondary metabolites of different types. Moreover, SA was involved in mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) regulation, and in the expression [21]. There is no doubt about the vital roles of SA under abiotic stress condition. So, we will review and cover the area regarding the biosynthesis, involvement, and role of salicylic acid on abiotic stress affected plants."
https://www.intechopen.com/books/ph...regulating-abiotic-stress-responses-in-plants
Okay, so awesome. Then I found this.
"Acetylsalicylic acid (C6H4OCOCH3COOH) is the ubiquitous pain reliever known as aspirin."
Salicylic acid (C6H4OHCOOH; it's aspirin's parent compound)...
Salicylic acid is a natural analgesic present in the leaves and bark of certain plants. It is generally unsuitable for internal use, since it is a strong gastric irritant and can cause internal bleeding. In fact, aspirin was invented for this very reason; the acetylated molecule isn't as rough on the digestive tract, although it does hydrolyze to some degree in the stomach."
http://www.crscientific.com/article-aspirin.html
Given that aspirin is much more readily accessible than pure salicylic acid, I'll be incorporating it into every feed going forward as well as putting together a foliar spray with it and kelp extract for the tomatoes and peppers.
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