Farmer P
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Thank you. I understand the nature of "likes". I appreciate it. He's handling it like a champ, I'm really impressed. We're both Christians and pragmatists so we're not afraid of death much, but still.
If he goes and sh*t goes sideways and we can't cover the bills, I figure we have roughly three months from the last house payment. At least that gets me through most of winter and I can squirrel up more than a few grand in $$$. I'm pretty good at hustling up cash but not enough that it wouldn't wipe me out if I tried to help keep this property. Plus I can't consistently maintain that level of cash flow.
All my first cut is dried and curing in vacuum sealed mason jars with 58% Boveta packs. As long as I'm vigilant at keeping them sealed they should last at least a year. If I can't get rid of them by then, I shouldn't be growing. Probably still going to buy the small rosin press. Extracts move better than flower around here.
Same here, I think this is true of most places in the US right now. Shit maybe even Europe.. The guy I get my oil from doesn't even carry flower anymore. It wasn't worth it for him I guess, didn't get rid of it fast enough. Besides you can take a multi # stash like yours and reduce it down to something that could fit in a back pack. Less smell, overall more incognito. My plan is to blast or press whatever I have left from my last harvest as soon as I pull down my current room. :ninja:
*Side note edit* Am I losing it or did the site go black, and then go back? Thought that was against the rules :cry: lmao
By the way, sending positive vibes to you and your cousin. You guys making RSO for him? I know it's probably a little late for that, but it may help any pain he's in? Just thinking aloud, could be a good use for a little of that bud. Best of luck to you as well in your endeavours. Everything will work out how it is supposed to.
I think you might be better off making shatter than rosin if you want to sell. Rosin gets too small of a return. 10 to 15 percent. You'd probably have to get dispensary prices to make it worthwile.
Same here, I think this is true of most places in the US right now. Shit maybe even Europe.. The guy I get my oil from doesn't even carry flower anymore. It wasn't worth it for him I guess, didn't get rid of it fast enough. Besides you can take a multi # stash like yours and reduce it down to something that could fit in a back pack. Less smell, overall more incognito. My plan is to blast or press whatever I have left from my last harvest as soon as I pull down my current room. :ninja:
*Side note edit* Am I losing it or did the site go black, and then go back? Thought that was against the rules :cry: lmao
View attachment 757128 100 micron kief, Royal Nepal Kush. Sifted from 1/4 zip of 150 micron kief.
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It's dry but sticks to itself like a magnet. It chunked up as I was sifting it.
I've seen what comes out of a rosin press and the one I'm looking at has 3x the pressure of the mini nug masher, at 6tons. That's up there with the pneumatic ones. It only has a 3" plate but that should allow 7gr extractions. Supposedly, its touting a 20%-30% extraction rate. That's plenty enough for me. The commercial labs are charging around 60%. F^ck that!!! I'm betting I can pull better than 30% with the Kush. It's just some icky, sticky, glue with the consistency of cold honey or Play-Doh. Worst case scenario, I'll have some fire to dab, and it'll be smooth. Its a win/win.
A tincture is a good idea as well but if you want to sell it here, there must be a lab test and labels. It's legal to make and trade tinctures here and it's a buyers market.
Around July-Aug the prices usually go up (we'll see this year). That's when I was getting offers of $900+ per lb from the co-op that didn't return my text. Even with the commercial growers flooding the market it should still stay above $600-$700 per lb. I have lbs of sugar shake and secondaries to play with in the meantime. Sh*t, that's what I've been smokin. I've been smokin everyone out with these bomber 4-5gr secondary roints. Hopefully I won't have to concentrate any of the top shelf.
This one also has that 100 micron kief. I usually use Zig-Zag 100mm black wraps. Can shape them just like cigars but I'm out for the moment. Had to use a Juicy hemp wrap but I can't shape them like I can with blunts.
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Your kief looks killer. Check out this one my friend rolled last night almost as big as the lighter. Like a cigar lol. I was working on my flood table I built yesterday. Finishing up painting it now. Next run in a week and a half I'm going to try it out. Got the ebb and flow kit and an air pump coming tomorrow. :cool:
Very nice.
I'm really enjoying having so much pot to play with and no real plans for. Doing all the stuff that was cost prohibitive before. Except with sh*tty shake and that still turned out good, usually. Will be cooking some soon.
I really need to get a plan. We have just been dumping all our non bud material in tubs, not keeping the Kief separated. We switched this year from unrealistically trying to cure and burp 200 mason jars to 5 gallon buckets with gamma seal lids. Much easier to hit the target rh using air tight buckets.
Wasn't happy with most of the presses I saw in my current price range. The clamshells had decent heating elements but nowhere near the pressure I was looking for. Finally found what I wanted on Ebay. It's a 3.5"x3.5" with only a 300w element on each block but it uses a 4ton bottle jack for pressure. The clamshells have all the bells and whistles but it took way too much material for very little results. In one Youtube video I saw, the guy pressed the filter bag 3x. Each time the rosin got darker and more burnt looking. I'm hoping I can pull better amounts off one press and lower heat. Less heat, more terps. The 300w elements will get the plates to the 200F-230F sweet spot and that's all I need.
I ordered 90micron silk bags. Not sure if I should have gone with 25-37micron but will see how clean it is after the first press.
Really looking forward to seeing how much comes out of the Royal Nepal Kush. It already turns to nougat from scissor cuts.
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Looks cool. The only table top model we've considered is the 6 ton harbor freight press. Yours looks better. I would have to buy a milling machine to build that. Not likely anytime soon.
That's pretty cool. I haven't seen that before. I'll have to check out some youtube videos and see how it works.
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