Archiweedies - Grow III

[Archiweedies]

Holyeee crap those are some beautiful photos you just dropped on us man!! Amazing!

I tried my bags once before. I didn't mix long enough or let it sit as long as you say. Now I know why I thought my yield was rather poor lol! I also used like all 7 bags or whatever it was.

 

[Archiweedies]

I decided to chop the rest of HBSS. I may not be good at growing this stuff, but my skill at trimming is getting better and more efficient.

I decided to use quite a bit of these fresh buds for oil, so I roughly chopped them with sugar leaves intact. Right into a freezer bag and into the freezer. I saved a couple of the larger buds for my personal vape stash. No clue what the weights are yet. I'll weigh the fresh stuff before I make oil. This is easily the smallest of my plants.

 

[bignstrange]

I decided to chop the rest of HBSS. I may not be good at growing this stuff, but my skill at trimming is getting better and more efficient.

I decided to use quite a bit of these fresh buds for oil, so I roughly chopped them with sugar leaves intact. Right into a freezer bag and into the freezer. I saved a couple of the larger buds for my personal vape stash. No clue what the weights are yet. I'll weigh the fresh stuff before I make oil. This is easily the smallest of my plants.

Very nice man! I like your trim job .

 

[bignstrange]

same.

Pm'ing my address so you can mail it too me, I need to verify that's actually hash your making .

nice job man I've seen a lot of hash making in my day and i can see the quality just by looking at that pic

 

[Archiweedies]

Without a doubt. It's beautiful!

 

[pino0911]

Great trim job Arch looks dank as hell!! Keep things rolling!!

 

[Akornpatch]

Heya Akornpatch! Typically I would clean all that up on a photoperiod plant but I'm hesitant with autos. I suppose it's my lack of experience, mostly. What do you do with those trimmings?

If it's pre-flowering it ends up in the compost or if I'm lazy and it's baby buds its budder, coconut oil, or test smoke.

 

[Akornpatch]

Hi!.Thanks!..
That hash, is made from HQ lowers, the kind that most folks would smoke. Quite a few pounds worth. That said, you absolutely can get AWESOME hash from any decent lowers or trim.

ALWAYS. FRESH. FROZEN. TRIM.

Bubblebags: 220/160/73/25

Ice to trim ratio: 2:1, then add water until you've got stir-able soup. GENTLY (using a big spoon if 5 gal bags, or a raft paddle if 20 gal bags.) stir for 30 minutes. Let sit one hour. (I probably don't need to explain pulling the bags-but do remember to RINSE each screen with clear cold water before you scrape your trichs onto your mesh scrap.

Aaaarrgghh! . Tbh, this'd be an all day post, if I went into detail. Sometime later this season when things are slow maybe I'll do one. Any specific questions, feel free to ask.

Mid-way through...

After micro-planing but before final pressing:

Eventually it rests in rough cedar humidors, until it gets smoked. .

Edit: Finished:

Damn, I miss the awesome hash from back in the day. Yours looks amazing.

 

[Dank Purple]

Nice bro! looks amazing! I would love the all day version lol.

 

[Skunkworkz]

Damn, I miss the awesome hash from back in the day. Yours looks amazing.

Thanks! .
It's a labor of love really, as it's NFS.
All in all, what started out as many (wet) (fresh,frozen) pounds of lowers & trim from a Chem's Sister run. I (both) hand ran with 20 gal. Bubble Bags (or) I used the ever-handy compact washing machine w/an aftermarket 5 gal., 220u work bag, multi-rinsed, filtered through the above bbags. Fun shit, until you've got 40 hours in, just running the trim. Before any other steps. Then it's "rewarding" in a "spiritual" sense..

 

[Archiweedies]

Alright so Mephisto Genetics HubbaBubbaSmelloScope is in the bag!! Literally haha. So I took a couple primo buds for myself to dry.
A sample:

I'd say I only kept between 1/4 and an 1/8th for vaping, the rest went straight into freezer ziplock so I can make oil. I intend to get a Magical Butter Machine sometime soon. Meanwhile I have about 110g frozen bud and trim. Is it beneficial to separate the different strains for oil? Even if it isn't I probably will just cause of my control issues lol

I plan to chop at least one Tyrone and maybe NCH tomorrow.

I'll be sure to do some glamour shots before chopping. Cheers all!

 

[bignstrange]

Looks good! Might be worth separating strains to isolate medical benefits but either way homegrown oil will sort you out

Some tasty looking buds you got there!

 

[Derbybud]

Looks like you getting busy Archi

 

[bignugz420]

I hope you didn't chop those Mephisto Genetics down they still had a little time I think I tried to look at trichs by zooming in but couldn't tell for sure I know they usually run a little longer than Breeder so def look at trichs with 100x scope before chop

 

[Archiweedies]

No worries bignugz420! The HBSS was up there in age almost 80 days. I had to harvest her in stages. The main two colas, from where I topped her and stunted her clearly lol, were harvested and thoroughly tested!!
Then about 5 days later I chopped the rest of her after two more flush sessions.

Everybody else is still alive!!

 

[Archiweedies]

I was looking at the trichs on one of the Tyrone's and I may have pulled the trigger too soon on flushing her. I underestimated how long it would take for the rest of the trichs to cloud up.

Live and learn I guess. She's got plenty of green left in her leaves so she may be in for a longer ride than her sister.

 

[bignugz420]

I was looking at the trichs on one of the Tyrone's and I may have pulled the trigger too soon on flushing her. I underestimated how long it would take for the rest of the trichs to cloud up.

Live and learn I guess. She's got plenty of green left in her leaves so she may be in for a longer ride than her sister.

I would guess by looking you have 2 weeks about you'll get a nice swell right before chop check out this lemon haze and it was chopped early

 

[Archiweedies]

So I should start feeding again? They're in coco, the Tyrone's that is.

 

[Archiweedies]

Mephisto Genetics Northern Cheese Haze - Day 70

She's all cloudy with about 5% amber. Being my only plant left in soil, I'm conflicted about my experience growing in soil. I like flushing in soil better and I think I have a better understanding of watering in soil now. A couple times I just let her drool from understating on purpose. I noticed some of the sugar l aves purpled a little, always a nice touch.

As far as growing her goes, she's a treat! She has zero smell almost. Until you ruffle her feathers and she has large spacing between nodes so light penetrates very well. I can't wait to take her for a spin after a proper dry in the brown bags.

I got a nice morning of coffee and trimming today. I could this 8 days a week ..

 

[Archiweedies]

Got all major fans trimmed and most of everything that doesn't have trichs on it.

I mentioned a couple times in this journal that this was my favorite plant this grow and I feel like a kid on Christmas. The smells have erupted and she has now defined "cheese " for me.

It is glorious. .

Sadly she must wait a bit longer. Daughter left something she needs at home so I can zip over to the school lol.