Woah! Nice! That is cool. You made that from 34g of flower?
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No, that was the yield. I’m not really sure how much material I started with, but I’d say around 3oz. I need to weigh the spent material and figure out the percentage.
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Wow that’s be a nice return!
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I just weighed the spent material and together it came out to 129g. So 26%, which isn’t bad.
Now I’m amazed by how I was able to fit so much in my column. I started packing it a new way. I add a little material and then stab an arrow inside of tube a bunch of times until it is compacted. I also rock and softly slam the whole unit to help pack it down. This way there are no air pockets. Apparently it works much better than I expected.
Next time I’m going to attempt to use dry ice in the column’s sleeve to give it a thorough dewaxing. I just started using this tri-blend of gas now instead of straight butane, so it can handle colder temps.
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That’s pretty wild! Here’s me over here with my bucket, ice and wooden spoon 
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There’s nothing wrong with that. I love bubble hash. My dad makes it from the wet trim material during harvest. I’ve been trying to get him to try using dry ice. I’ll buy enough for both of us to experiment with.
Which is funny now that I think about it. One of my oldest memories is me, my sister and my dad watching a segment of Mr. Wizard where he was doing dry ice experiments. My dad thought it was cool so he drove us all over town trying to find dry ice, but sadly we could not. I bet I could find that episode of Mr Wizard on the internet somewhere and we can finally conduct the experiments.
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You should definitely do it. There is no time like the present to spend time with your parents, you will not regret it later.
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Doggo?..OK
I moved the plants into the flowering tents because the weather has been swinging like crazy and it’s harder to control the environment in the veg room. The roots look nice, but the leaves were getting worked by highish heat and low humidity. That’s causing the plants to grow slowly. I noticed there wasn’t any purpling, so that’s good.
I cut up a couple slabs to 4x6 so that they were as thin as the 4x4 cubes and fit the sides of tray to help stabilize the plants.
Tomorrow I’ll cut up little cubes to fill in between the plants. I think I might line the bottoms of the trays with strips from fabric pots. They have plastic screens, but I want something that will hold the water a little. I also have a big roll of coco mat that I might use. That might work better.
After that I’ll put on the lids and hook up the automated watering tubes. I’m still trying to understand this water sensor’s data. I’m working with 3 different ECs. One is the trencheon’s reading of the res, one is bulk EC and the other PWEC (or pore water EC.) they are all different and it’s kind of confusing. I think I’m supposed to be targeting the PWEC because it’s based off of your medium. But it’s way higher than the two others. The bulk EC is the lowest. The res is about .4 lower than the PWEC.
Anyways, I got a lot done today. At some point this week I’m going to start cloning my oldest mothers to give them a new fresh start and also some sort of automation.
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I also got the JT DuPont minijet lighter that I’m calling Stoney the Lighter. AKA Pretty Stoney. Shoutout to Ghostface.
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That’s a great return and your shatter looks great.
Could you share a pic of your column? Or setup for making it.
Something I’d definitely be interested in doing.
Thanks.
Love the puppers 
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I have it hidden in my cat / junk room and it’s not all hooked up, so the photos aren’t great. The next time I do a run I’ll document it.
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Wow, that’s quite the setup. Did you make that yourself or store bought?
I see another toy in my future 
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I built it piece by piece. I have a jacketed middle section for the collection pot and a bigger 3" column that I don’t currently use. I also have burly 1.5" and 3" ball valves so that I can soak the material in the columns. They are super hard to open and close when frozen up, so I haven’t really messed with the idea since discovering this during the first attempt.
I recently bought the pressure gauge and ball valves on the dome so that I could start doing closed loop extractions instead of open blasting with one of the sight glasses removed.
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Love the innovation and build. 
Way beyond my pay grade 
for safety reasons alone. Apartment life sucks for things like this.
This is BHO correct?
Now that I’ve got another dragon to chase. Woohoo 
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This Pulse hub has helped me understand the interplay between water, nutrients and temperature. Which is basically the VPD of the root zone.
Rockwool is so porous that the roots have extremely easy access to the nutrient solution. The warmer the water, the more access. A small cube of rockwool warms faster than a big slab. The causes already easily accessible nutrients to become even more so. If you couple that with low humidity and high environmental heat that causes the plant to drink more, you end up a plant frying / lockout scenario even at a relatively low EC.
I need to clean / break out my humidifier because that’s the only real solution to swings of low humidity.
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What do you use to control the humidifier?
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