Its the OG, with two tents and the amount I smoke I needed the bigger plates.
I get the handle as far as I can with my hand, then I grab a towel and hold on to the back of the unit because its hot, then press the lever down with my heel until it stops budging
1-2 stomps and likely its at 12 ton max pressure, all 200 pounds of me won’t move it after that.
I got spider mites, so I released a small tub of ladybugs.
I think I should have just dumped a few, because now they are everywhere and they don’t seem to be eating the mites.
Will these die or are they going to mate and I’m gonna have an insect terrarium instead of a grow tent?
still been fighting the borg, I think I won
I took the plants into the shower and blasted them off for 3 days straight with the shower head.
They kept coming back so I got some habeneros and blended them up and simmered it for 30 mins, mixed with some dish soap and sprayed the plants, due to inexperience I did during lights on so a bunch of leaves got burned up and died… which actually might be good since the little fuckers breed on leaves.
Also got some Green Cleaner stuff it was way too expensive but after spraying it the mites seem to have gone.
well shit, my spider mitemare was just beginning. First grow was a vacation compared to this
I’ve been hosing the plants off every few days but I didn’t defoliate as heavily as I did the first grow so the mites have tons of leaf to breed on below the canopy.
Been spraying every morning at lights off, only a few more weeks now. I could just chop them now and be done with it but I’ll let them finish and just make fresh frozen hash out of it for pressing.
I found some mites on the auto in the veg tent too, more ice water hash
I also found an old 8qt stand mixer and used that and a 5 bag set to make bubble, pressed the armageddon resin at 170 for 4 minutes. Tasted like grape candy. Has a reddish hue to it, really unique flavor, might be from the fertilizer salts though I heard they make the resin taste like that.
once I chop these clones and clean the tent I’ll have to defoliate the younger autos and spray the hell out of them , I can move them to the clean tent and watch for any more mites. They don’t seem to be infected yet but they probably are.
I’m sorry about your mites. I have yet to deal with them. I had an old timer talk to me about them and he said that if I ever get them. To buy these
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Cut to fit around stem and leave it. He claimed yellow attracts them and when they go down into the soil the will be stuck.
Also leaving some on floor of tent.
I never had the issue. But he said he saves him money on chemicals
Hitting them with a spray of water keeps the webs off the buds and blows a lot of mites off, the sprays and ladybugs are helping control them but they have too many places to hide down low.
Best way to deal with them is never get them, once you got them depending on where in the cycle and the severity, either start over or do what I’m doing and just salvage what you can. Ice water hash sounds good cuz it will wash the buds and strain the mites out.
I’ll look into those yellow strips.
Defoliated autos.
Bubblegum auto, about another week. Hairs are all orange but not very many crystals.
Some spider mites in here but nothing like the flower tent. Removing the leaf should help prevent an infestation.
I read when you chop the plant the mites go to the site of the cut to suck up the moisture and you can kill most of them then. Doesn’t seem to be that many but they are there, I guess I’ll find out.
Thats a lot of bud for a small plant, nice job 
shame about the spider mites.
This went into freezer bags, I got 5 of them total.
Two freezer bags worth of fresh frozen bubble hash.
Scuff went into some butter.
Was gonna run the other three bags tonight but I cut the ever living fuck out of my thumb throwing away some broken glass, sapped all my energy. I’ll get to it in the next few days.
Autos under 540w 4k Quantum Boards
Blueberry Auto
AK-49 Auto
Lemon Auto. So much for 60 days.
Two more freezer bags of FF bubblegum hash.
I got an egg beater attachment for a power drill and used that for the first wash then subsequent washes I put it into a 7qt stand mixer on speed 2. That last run was about 7g, looks about the same here.
I’m guessing but its probably a pound of fresh frozen per freezer bag, low yield but this stuff is tastier and headier than anything I paid <$50 a G for.
White Widow FF bubble.
7 washes
From left to right 90 70 40 25 micron.
Looks nice, I understand the process of bubble hash and dry sift, but what is the difference that makes all the extra work of bubble hash worth it?
Main draw for me is it is ‘solventless’ extract I can press and turn into a product I can enjoy using at home with relative ease.
This seemed like the path of least resistance as I didn’t want to use hydrocarbons and vacuum pumps.
If there is an easier way to make hash let me know, this was the best option in my situation.
I could just press my flower but this is much cleaner, higher potency, better flavor, etc.
these plants were pretty messed up and filled with spider mites. They were clones I cut, I used soil that had been sitting outside, must have had mites in it. Still got three bags of haze clones in the freezer waiting to be washed.
This process washes the mites and their excrement off the bud, strains them, and leaves me with what you see above.
Thats a good enough reason by itself.
We’ll start them in 1 gal fabric pots with Roots Organics soil as @cannacrab suggests
Autos
I moved the two smaller plants into my closet tent in my room so we got room for the new kids.
I cleaned it really well with ISO soap/water and its been a few weeks of total darkness so I doubt there are any mites left in here, but nature be a like that so I’m expecting the worse again. I’ll take em all down.
HPXG13 '88 #1
(cherry?) ak47x(9lbHammer+starfighter) #1
100% germination on the seeds. The AK crosses are taking their time to open up, hard to see in the pics but both have taproots on the way down.
Blueberry Auto
AK49 Auto
60 Day Lemon Auto
Blueberry looks almost ready but ak49 and Lemon need some time.
So both hashplants are male and both the AK seedlings died. Old seeds maybe
The HP got thrips somehow, must have been in the bagged soil, oh well they both got balls.
Going to pop Trainwreck and Gorilla Glue #4 Fems tonight, will update with pics
3 of these are GSC, one is trainwreck and the other is GG#4 all fems.
Next 3 are GSC fems I got for free with a seed order, I popped 4 one died.
5 plants is gonna be a squeeze for the amount of space but I got 4 in the 2x4 last time, 3 gal pots should do fine.
I’ll keep the strongest GSC as a mother.
2nd pic onward Trainwreck, GG#4, GSC 1 & 2.
been about 30 days now from sprout. I’ll trim again in a few weeks and then into flower.
Are you watering from the bottom?
When I saw the second pic I thought, looks like over watering, and then as I scrolled down I see they are sitting in water, which may be causing the lime green color and puckered droopy look on the leaves.
I water my smaller pots from the bottom but remove any water not absorbed after a couple of hours. I have had a lot of problems when I leave them sitting in it, especially with fungus gnats, and root rot.