Oh yeah been saving it. Not sure if fresh trim is better or not, but I've still got half a quart jar filled w/ trim from the autos lol. Gonna hold off until GG 1, GG 3 and the CSS get taken down, then make up some more buddder
Ran about 1/2 oz of bud and 1/2 oz of trim to 1lb of butter last time. IDK if i wanna go much stronger, cuz those put my ass to sleep. Edibles hit me hard for some reason
Always a question, a lot of opinions on the fresh trim. imo it doesn't matter that much. I like it fresh. I throw it into large sealable (screw-on lids) jars that hold about 3-3.5 zips each which keeps it fresh (I've pulled fresh bud from these jars a year later and still had some moisture in them). Burp them here & there to cure. I outsource the butter & baking (my GF - lol). I run a 100u dry sift for vaping/smoke, last me quite a while as I don't smoke much, then use the remainder for edibles. I have about 4 full jars right now and kept a couple of strains separate which I'll run some kief first, should have enough to make some caps, then use the rest for edibles. Edibles can knock you on your ass, good medicine, I eat/drink more than I ever smoke/vape. Drink a bed-time tea with a small bud in it pretty well every night when I'm home.Oh yeah been saving it. Not sure if fresh trim is better or not, but I've still got half a quart jar filled w/ trim from the autos lol. Gonna hold off until GG 1, GG 3 and the CSS get taken down, then make up some more buddder
Sorry I haven't been around much I've been busy as hell. Been doing a lot of volunteer work lately and my wife is expanding her clinic so I've kinda been there a lot trying to make sure things are getting done the way it should be done. I'll try to make my daily appearance around here I know I've been slipping. My bad. It's good to see that you really have things going your way bud.
It's all good gotta prioritize. I haven't been on much either tbh. Glad 2 hear business is going good for the wife tho.
I saw you had some kief sifted down in your Groerr Grows thread. Are you using one of those box type 'sifters' or how do you make your dry sift kief? Wish i could outsource some cooking to my gf lmao. Her cooking is driving thru kfc real quick
Yeah, you reminded me that I had some popcorn/trim more than ready to run! Took an hour an ran one of the containers (1/4 lb.), JTR and Blue Dream. I dry sift it, fresh/ground, through a 100u screen, got a nice little 10.7g pileI saw you had some kief sifted down in your Groerr Grows thread. Are you using one of those box type 'sifters' or how do you make your dry sift kief? Wish i could outsource some cooking to my gf lmao. Her cooking is driving thru kfc real quick
My GF loves cooking, anything, so I take advantage I made it, bought some stainless screen on e-bay I think, cheap. Took a 2x2 I had and made a frame for it, a couple of cuts, a few screws and you're good to go. You should give it a go, it's the easiest, you can smoke/vape it as-is, press it, put it into caps, cook with it. I like it because there's no solvents involved.
I was shooting for this weekend, but might let her go longer. She is still in good shape, hasn't started fading yet...just getting antsy to move some new ladies into the flowering room lol
Hard to tell from those pics as they're not in natural light, the one on the right though looks like it's pretty mature, definitely some hairs that could mature longer. But you have to watch that, I find some strains can continually grow new one's so you'd be chasing them forever. Think you're at the point where you can go by the trichs though, if they're cloudy you're probably good to go. In past tests pulling early I found too many clear trichs definitely suffers in potency.
I'll go ahead n pull her out for a shot in natural light tonight n get the better pics up next time I'm at a computer. The pic on the right is definitely closer to the true color, most of the pistols are darkening / reddish at this point. Some of the calyxes are reallly swollen, like noticeable bulging out, but when I look close up w/ the lupe it all looks like milky to me. No amber still. I'm just using a cheap lupe tho, might have to get something better to get a more accurate view
+1. Some just go on and on while most of the bud is ready already.
That sums up "almost ready" quite well. "almost" because you said "some of the calyxes" instead of most. I don't wait for amber. It's (IMO) either there at the end or it isn't, genetically, and letting the plant degrade just to see amber does ime not have a positive effect on the effect. But as long as calyxes are still swelling up and it's healthy I'd let it go for a while longer. That swelling really adds to the weight.
She's actually fading out more than I thought. After bringing her out to normal light u can see some of the fans are turning a lighter green towards the ends. She could definitely swell a bit more for that added weight like you said, just gotta decide how soon I need that extra room in there lol...I squeezed the SBA mother into the flowering tent, and potted up the best 4 clones in the veg tent. All of the monster crop clones had rooted, but not much for new growth (impatient lol...) so I ended up pitching them and a couple weaker SBA clones. Got the fruity chronic juice potted up now too (she's on her 3rd set of true leaves now).
Looked like I dipped my hand in olive oil by the time I got done w/ her. The other plants I've harvested all made my hands sticky, but it was really 'oily' this time, haven't seen anything like tht b4...glad I grabbed a couple cuts of her before the flip.Thanks @genuity for putting me on to gage green's gear - your pics / grows are what made me pull the trigger on buying those beans. Haven't smoked any of it yet, but there's no way this shit isn't some kill.). The high was good, but the one thing that stood out to me wasn't so much the intensity, but how long it lasted. The high itself lasted a loong ass time, and even the comedown seemed to linger forever. IDK if i've ever been high that long without having to recap w/ another session. 
GG 1 will be a lot more than the others, but a helluva lot more trimming too 
I started getting more picky on the last 2 with what went in jars and what went into the trim pile. Decided anything that looked like it would be less than 2.5-3 grams dry would just get pitched in w/ the trim, cuz trimming sucks ass. It's like the final stretch on a marathon before victory, and rather than run the rest of the way Ima just sit down n catch my breath lol..
yeah man trimming sucks, usually takes me a week to trim everything. I do like short 5-10 min walks and then sit down and smoke finger or scissor hash before I delay it to the next day.
yeah it's probably best kept in the grow room lol. Can't have everyone coming over n smelling weed. My girl's been really lenient about it so far, but I can tell shes fed up. Everytime I open the tent to water she can smell it. It's always the days I water that she says something, n being winter right now the furnace is always running so having it right next to the furnace is basically like walking through the house w/ a lit blunt (maybe worse :X). I've got another room that's the same size n can set up in there, i've just been kind of reluctant to tear everything down just to set it all back up again (especially w/ only a 2hour window each day after work before lights out). Shoulda jumped on it this weekend, but I thought the Ona was doing the trick. Turns out the Ona bucket w/ their 'ona breeze' fan runs out really quick. That thing is down to like the last 1/8th of the bucket already :S :S idk i'll get it figured out...pulling the plug on the op isn't something I'm really interested in lol.
Crap, that's not good. Maybe it is the location or how air flows through your house. My small tent is close to the furnace and flowering but it's in an alcove so with a HEPA filter and Ona bucket it keeps the smell there. Only time my house smells for a couple of hours is during trimming, I don't even bother trying to hide that smell - lol I think they make those little fans for the Ona buckets to sell more gel, sounds like it ran out quick. I just blow the fan from the HEPA filter across it a couple of feet away and it lasts a couple of rounds.
