Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!

Dear Mister Stink.
I was in the process of forking over a good amount of $$ for a comparable commercially available Aero system, when i discovered this thread.
That was a close one!
It would be far from an understatement to say the detailed information provided by you, and generosity in sharing your expertise, in no small way will contribute to my mental and financial well being.
Not to go in to much detail, but I now am able to put the following combination: square footage of residence/ my green thumb/ recent unemployment - to good use.
Did I say thank you? Thanks a Million!!

or maybe point me to a thread that might be able to help........ thanks

How much are the clippings worth? My club just asked me what i do with all my clippings. So far i have just been storing them. ( I have 6 big zip lock bags full in the freezer) He asked if he could buy them from me, i said how much? He said i dont know? i said i dont know either..lol anyone?

DIRTHAWKER said:

How much are the clippings worth? My club just asked me what i do with all my clippings. So far i have just been storing them. ( I have 6 big zip lock bags full in the freezer) He asked if he could buy them from me, i said how much? He said i dont know? i said i dont know either..lol anyone?

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Free! (or really really cheap)

Thanks Andy, they've been under HO T-5's from the beginning. I'm not as worried about cost as I am about doing the best possible grow (results/cost = value). I might try that as well and use the ballast in my flower room, its a HTG switchable. What do you think?


When should I get rid of the burned leaves?

Also, two of the plants longest roots are almost in the water, what's the protocol for keeping them out of the water?

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks for the help with light. After 24 hours of 18/6, the two biggest HK grew 1/2" since yesterday. I'm using the little stakes to mark the vertical growth.

Thanks again.

Jagermaster said:

Thanks Andy, they've been under HO T-5's from the beginning. I'm not as worried about cost as I am about doing the best possible grow (results/cost = value). I might try that as well and use the ballast in my flower room, its a HTG switchable. What do you think?


When should I get rid of the burned leaves?

Also, two of the plants longest roots are almost in the water, what's the protocol for keeping them out of the water?

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks for the help with light. After 24 hours of 18/6, the two biggest HK grew 1/2" since yesterday. I'm using the little stakes to mark the vertical growth.

Thanks again.

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one thing people forget to mention is that when u build something or fix something bought u gain confidence and education on that subject which will help u in the future
after building 2 cloners......6 veg units.....and 6 flowering units (building final 3 this weekend) ive gained tons of all of the above.......not to mention in about 4 weeks ill have my first aero buds..........im planning on the 2 weeks of sweet to finish off the grow......

DIRTHAWKER said:

How much are the clippings worth? My club just asked me what i do with all my clippings. So far i have just been storing them. ( I have 6 big zip lock bags full in the freezer) He asked if he could buy them from me, i said how much? He said i dont know? i said i dont know either..lol anyone?

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i was in a cannabis club in cali today and they were chargin 15 for clones in rockwool cubes. I'd sell them for 10 or 12 to the dispensary.

Someone asked the question on a previous page, 'how to go from seed to Stink's aero system?'

Nobody seemed to have a good answer. I don't have cuttings (not yet), so i had to do some experimenting. This seems to work best. feedback anyone?

Step 1: germinate in moist paper towels for 48 hours.

Step 2: Put seeds into plugs in this floating tray. The trick, tho, is cutting the plugs into pieces first so they can be discarded later w/minimal damage to the new roots: I cut the bottom half off and discarded it. Then, I cut the top half into quarters (vertically, like pie pieces). The seed was inserted in the center. Then the 4-piece plug was pushed to the bottom of the tray hole.

Step 3: Fill the tray with 30 oz of tap water mixed with 10ML of Clonex.

Step 4: Four days later, you have 3" roots. Discard plug pieces (very carefully) and transfer to neoprene collars and 2" net pots.

Three of the four pieces of the plug will simply fall away when you pull the plug out of the floating tray. A few times, all four pieces fell off and left me with a perfectly clean plant and root.

The plants below are my first grow...Blueberry and White Widow...all from seeds. I'm following Stink's system to a t. I want to move the best 14 on the 16-site veg tray to my flower unit in a couple weeks........I need time to flower cuttings from some of my Veg plants to see if there are any males in the bunch. I plan to take cuttings before transferring them to flower.

QUESTION(s): How long does it take for sex to show once moved to flower? (i'm afraid the wait is going to make some of my veg plants too big. Is there a better way to identify sex in my existing Veg plants?

DIRTHAWKER said:

How much are the clippings worth? My club just asked me what i do with all my clippings. So far i have just been storing them. ( I have 6 big zip lock bags full in the freezer) He asked if he could buy them from me, i said how much? He said i dont know? i said i dont know either..lol anyone?

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Not sure.. I was able to google one time and find a bulk price.. dispensary would buy it (or sell it to someone) who would turn it into hash and sell it back usually for twice what it cost..

See how much they buy good hash for. Then figure that was maybe from 5% of the total dry trim weight (even less for fresh frozen maybe 3%). So if they buy bubble hash at 20$/gr and you have 2lbs of trim, which is 908gr.. should be able to produce on the low end 3% hash or 27gr.. on the very low end at 1% it is 9gr. If you charge $10/gr (of hash equivalent, since it is just trim) it is anywhere from $90/2lb for 1% return or $270/2lb at 3% and so on..

Somebody still has to do the actual work of turning into hash... whoever does that job typically turns around and sells it for twice what they paid.. i.e. $10/gr -> $20/gr why don't you do it? Make twice the profit.

Anyway I'm just throwing out numbers. I would guess they would easily pay twice for the finished hash than they will for the trim.... some dispensaries sell bubble for $80/gr from what I understand... so scale it up from here

DIRTHAWKER said:

How much are the clippings worth? My club just asked me what i do with all my clippings. So far i have just been storing them. ( I have 6 big zip lock bags full in the freezer) He asked if he could buy them from me, i said how much? He said i dont know? i said i dont know either..lol anyone?

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cash from trash? yahoo! my buddy gets pounds of pretty good trim for $300 - from his club wholesale price to turn into hash. ...now this stuff has plenty of crystals and you can actually make a decent ounce or so out of the popcorn.

Thanks guys..i just weighed my clippings and it came to 3 lbs frozen. what should i ask for?

there is alot of good popcorn in there that didnt make the cut...it could be worth something???

DIRTHAWKER said:

Thanks guys..i just weighed my clippings and it came to 3 lbs frozen. what should i ask for?

there is alot of good popcorn in there that didnt make the cut...it could be worth something???

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I don't want to commit to any actual numbers!

From my experience I would count on ~3% from fresh frozen trim so that is an easy 40gr hash from 3lbs.. It's probably worth half in trim form what hash is being bought wholesale for. The dispensaries probably markup their products at least 25%?

Any numbers I come up with our based on how much they sale hash for. Which makes this almost impossible?? I've seen dispensary prices anywhere from 10/gr up to 80/gr.

If we choose $40/gr selling price, they probably purchase it at $30/gr. Trim would then be worth ~1/2 that amount or 15/gr.. making your 3lbs worth $600 or $200/lb.

You see I made a lot of assumptions.. and took awhile to write--probably already a few posts in between.. oops


edit: just throwing in a few more numbers as that figure might be high? I have no idea.

If they sell hash for 20/gr the trim would go for $100/lb based on the same calculations above

$10/gr and that would drop to $50/lb, based on the above. This I can say for sure--selling for anything less than $50/lb and you might as well give it away free!

DrunkMonkey said:

Someone asked the question on a previous page, 'how to go from seed to Stink's aero system?'

Nobody seemed to have a good answer. I don't have cuttings (not yet), so i had to do some experimenting. This seems to work best. feedback anyone?

Step 1: germinate in moist paper towels for 48 hours.

Step 2: Put seeds into plugs in this floating tray. The trick, tho, is cutting the plugs into pieces first so they can be discarded later w/minimal damage to the new roots: I cut the bottom half off and discarded it. Then, I cut the top half into quarters (vertically, like pie pieces). The seed was inserted in the center. Then the 4-piece plug was pushed to the bottom of the tray hole.

Step 3: Fill the tray with 30 oz of tap water mixed with 10ML of Clonex.

Step 4: Four days later, you have 3" roots. Discard plug pieces (very carefully) and transfer to neoprene collars and 2" net pots.

Three of the four pieces of the plug will simply fall away when you pull the plug out of the floating tray. A few times, all four pieces fell off and left me with a perfectly clean plant and root.

The plants below are my first grow...Blueberry and White Widow...all from seeds. I'm following Stink's system to a t. I want to move the best 14 on the 16-site veg tray to my flower unit in a couple weeks........I need time to flower cuttings from some of my Veg plants to see if there are any males in the bunch. I plan to take cuttings before transferring them to flower.

QUESTION(s): How long does it take for sex to show once moved to flower? (i'm afraid the wait is going to make some of my veg plants too big. Is there a better way to identify sex in my existing Veg plants?

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Great looking setup. I have the similar question, although I was under the impression that the 3rd to 4th week of veg you would be able to determine sex, cut your clones and move them into the flower room. BTW, what kind of lights are you using for all 3 stages and are your roots getting to long?

Hey Stinkbud and all the other buddies, its been a while since I posted but I just wanted to give you guys a lil feedback.
These plants are only 3wks old from seed in the veg system, and they are allready 12" tall!

DP- Blueberry
GH- White Widow

Stink I know you like to see the feedbacks of what you have done for us all so here it is. All I know is there are gonna be a lot of patients finally having good medicine and enough thanks to you!
My heart goes out to you greatly buddy!
Same with the rest of the buddies on here that have joined the ride on the stink train.

SOG said:

anyone recognize whats going on these stems
are these roots or some sort of pesticide eggs

Thanks

SoG

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The actual name is “explorer roots”, and are perfectly normal and a sign of vigor and health

Jgoasnhja said:

Hey Stinkbud and all the other buddies, its been a while since I posted but I just wanted to give you guys a lil feedback.
These plants are only 3wks old from seed in the veg system, and they are allready 12" tall!

DP- Blueberry
GH- White Widow

Stink I know you like to see the feedbacks of what you have done for us all so here it is. All I know is there are gonna be a lot of patients finally having good medicine and enough thanks to you!
My heart goes out to you greatly buddy!
Same with the rest of the buddies on here that have joined the ride on the stink train.

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Lookin' good! They grow so well in the StinkMachine. When are you going to flower?

Shrike said:

Hey...have you managed to find a way to sell the DVD yet and remain anonymous? We're all waiting anxiously for it to come out.

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Most likely it will be through High Times. They don't want to do anything until after the dead date on the article.

It works out well for me because I'm so busy with work right now. I just don't have time to finish editing right now.

Just curious...... have your plans been corrected yet?

If you follow the directions for the aerocloner \ veg unit and cut the pvc pieces into 7" lengths, etc.... according to your plans, you end up with a spray assembly MUCH too small. If you cut the lengths you indicate in your instructions you fail to account for the material needed INSIDE OF THE FITTINGS to hold the whole thing together. (ie. if you cut 7"pieces, after assembly only 6" will be visible, the other 1" is inside elbow\tee fittings and the finished product is way too small.)

You need to add exactly 1" to all measurements of the 1/2" pvc for everything to come out correctly. If people cut according to your plans they'll be running back to the hardware store to get more 1/2" pvc. The dimensions given for the flowering units were dead on though.

For example.... the veg unit plans read:

Step 1 – Cutting the ½” PVC Pipe
1)Cut seven 7” lengths.
2)Cut 1 10” length.
3)Cut two 1½” lengths.
4)Cut one 17¼” length.

and should read:

Step 1 – Cutting the ½” PVC Pipe
1)Cut seven 8” lengths.
2)Cut 1 11” length.
3)Cut two 2½” lengths.
4)Cut one 18¼” length.

Same for the cloner plans....1" to all. You may want to correct the plans you have linked/posted here.

either way, I'm almost set to get rolling.... thanks so much for all the info! and if this all was corrected and I missed it, my apologies. I looked, but this thread is just way too damn long lol.

here are a few pics, nothing is fully seated \ glued yet but almost there....

DIRTHAWKER said:

How much are the clippings worth? My club just asked me what i do with all my clippings. So far i have just been storing them. ( I have 6 big zip lock bags full in the freezer) He asked if he could buy them from me, i said how much? He said i dont know? i said i dont know either..lol anyone?

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Go on Fleabay and buy some bubble bags for $50. I use a 4 bag setup.

Take your frozen trim and put it in a 5 gallon bucket with some ice. Fill it to about 2/3 full of water.

Now take a piece of fence post and start mixing like you are churning butter. I sit in front of the TV and do if for an hour.

Now take your bags and stack them together in an empty bucket. Pour the trim/water into the bags.

Drain the first bag of trim and save it to rinse again later. What's left will be Bubble hash. Pull the bag tight on the bucket like a drum. Now scrape off the hash with a spoon.

Put the hash between 2 coffee filters and put that in a towel. Press the water out with your hand. After you get most of the water out roll the hash up into a ball and put it back into the coffee filters and towels.

Now beat the fuck out of it with a rubber mallet! That will press all the water out. Take your disk of hash and put it on a plate to finish drying.

Follow the same steps with the other bags. They will give you a different type of hash.

After you are done take the used trim and do the whole process again. You will usually end up with almost as much hash on the second round. I'm too lazy to do it 3 times!

After you have all your hash be sure to play with it like clay. I like to make little hash animals. I always like getting a little head, so I made one out of hash.

My friends once made an entire chain link necklace complete with a giant disk on the end!

If you use frozen trim your hash will be so pure it bubbles when you smoke it.

It also makes great medicine to take orally. Just cut off a small piece and swallow it like a pill.

You can also dissolve it in rubbing alcohol and use it topically for Arthritis.

Try it bro! You will be glad you did...