@Pigeonman haha ya man, pretty much the perfect gif. These little bastards are so grossā¦ def have to make sure none find their way to the flower tent.
Damn, thatās crazy. Iāll be real careful if I do the dry dust method. I mixed mine with water so I havenāt noticed anything like that so far.
Great work getting those aphids under control. 
We that is a burning man of sorts 
I just starting playing around with Dalle 2 this wk! Itās very fun and super super cool. Iām just getting used to figuring out what to type. Did you ask for a particular artistic style with those images? Like ā3D renderā or anything like that?
Love the one with the elves! You use Midjourney right?
@NorthNorthNugs Welcome to the AI fun zone, I use midjourney, nightcafe and Dalle-2. All the AI systems work in the same manner, words are triggers for different kinds of art work. This is start line for the campfire:
People smoking cannabis around a campfire, sunsetultra high definition 8k cannabis, photo realistic marijuana, hyperrealistic, unreal engine, octane render, reflections smoke and mirrors, v-ray fog and light rays, photorealistic blue flames, ray tracing neon red, detailed
being able to insert artist styles like Dali or Rembrandt will change the final picture.
Adding Salvador Dali to the phrase creates:
Absolutely amazing! Thanks for explaining. Ya, Iāve been having a really fun time with it and am just getting used to the phrases and how to write out what kind of image or art I have in my head. Itās neat to think youāre communicating with AI. I often wonder how much they are learning just from letting people interact with it. Pretty cool!
Just thought Iād write about the experience Iāve had with a few new vape devices Iāve tried recently.
I was looking to upgrade from my pen style vape battery to something that had better air flow and more importantly, a variable voltage function. After looking at a bunch of options, I decided on the Vessel Compass. It was priced nicely for Black Friday ($69 pls shipping) or I thought so at the time. More on that in a sec. Itās a nice little device with great airflow and 4 different voltage settings which allow you to experience more flavour in the lower settings (2.4V and 2.8V) and more vapour and harder hits with the higher settings (3.6V and 3.8V). Personally Iām loving the 2.8 setting the most.
After receiving the item I learned about a new device called the Yocan Kodo Pro. Itās tiny and has variable voltage in more ranges. Not only that, this thing cost me less than $12. Yes you read that correctlyā¦ less than 12 bucks!! This thing RIPS, is tiny, comes in a bunch of fun colours and is too much value for the price. Hereās a Canadian source where I purchased mine. I got a few other items and shipping was $12 on top of the order: RTL - 510 Battery Vaporizer Kodo Pro | thejointcannabis
Hereās a side by side image.
The Vessel is sleek but I canāt justify the price difference. It also doesnāt stand up on its ownā¦ which is annoying to have to get the oil down on the atomizer when you donāt use it for awhile. That Kodo is a great product for the price. If you smoke carts, I highly recommend it.
Anyway, I think Iām going to flip my plants soon and forget about rooting the clones. This is the slowest grow Iāve ever experienced and anxious to get this rolling.
Merry Christmas yāall!
Nice, I used to have a small rechargeable one like that. I canāt remember what happened, I think it broke when I was screwing a tank on. Now I use one of these with carts
I wish I could get the Arizer XQ2 for at home, would probably quit smoking joints entirely and just vape.
Me tooā¦New years day? Lol
Happy holidays brother! 
Ya you gotta be real careful screwing in those carts. I honestly much prefer smoking flowing but these little gadgets are excellent while Iām out walking the dog, out for dinner, out with friends or need a break in the washroom from my wife nagging me 
Iāll have to look up the XQ2! I have a really small flower vape but a 510 flower vape would be very interesting 
I still need to up pot but ya, maybe! If they recover fast enough that sounds like a plan!
Have a great holiday and Merry Christmas OTUG!
Hey all!
Lots to update on in here.
First off the seed project is coming along. I decided just to transplant the seed plants and take clones from them to save. Shit was getting out of hand and taking forever. Iāll need to dial in this process in the future. Screwing up the clones on the first opportunity was a huge set back. You live and learn.
I believe I defeated my aphid issue! Happy fkn days. No bugs in site for the last month or more!
The plants bounced back nicely after the first chop but they started to out grow my veg space so I needed to transplant them to the 2 gal container and place them in the flower room.
They look very straggly but I know theyāll fill out nicely. Iām going to wait a week, take clones, wait another few days then flip. Iāll plan on doing lots of pinching and LST to help keep things even.
Took pics of each plant at transplant for documentation purposes.
Headband x Chem D (these plants seriously stink so damn bad! All of them absolutely reek like trash can barfā¦ so exciting)
#1 - the most variegated and looking an absolute messā¦ Iām calling this one āWild Childā
#2
#3
#4 - looks like a stretcher
Guerilla Fume (nice dark green leaves on these beauties. Most vigorous of the bunch! Smells good but not like pukeā¦ just pungent in a way)
#1 - forgot to take a pic of this one dammit
#2
#3
#4 - the tallest plant of the lot
And finally,
GMO x Obama Kush (very small and slow growing plants. I have a feeling these might surprise me and dazzle in flower)
#1
#2
#3 - I accidentally snipped the smaller branch when trying to clean up the bottoms 
I already have a clone of it but it canāt hurt to take another)
Iāll report back once these babies get comfy in their new home!
So Iāve been messing around with hash making! It is both a hell of a lot of work and very fun. I can see why they consider some hash makers as āartisanā. Iām a bread and pizza guy so I know the time and effort it takes to hone those crafts and this is no different. The good thing is that I feel like this is right up my alley so Iām going to keep practicing to hone this craft. It amazes me that there are just so many factors that will determine the final outcome of the hash. Itās actually mind blowing if you think about it.
First of all, I finally bit the bullet and purchased one of those small washing machines off Amazon. It took me forever to select the right one but I ended up going with the Costway Mini Washing Machine. I believe I selected this one because it looked identical to one of the machines I saw Frenchy Cannoli use in one of his videos. If itās good enough for him I figured I couldnāt go wrong.
First thing to do was to change out that corrugated drain hose. This proved to be a lot more challenging than I was expecting. So FAIR WARNING to anyone who decides on this machine. Every guide I could find online explained to use a 3/4ā inner diameter hose. Well, this particular machine has an extruding piece of plastic at the bottom that is also 3/4ā! So hereās what you get:
Major pain in the ass.
My solution was to use a 1ā inner diameter hose and run it through a down size adapter to then attach my 3/4ā hose to.
Here you can see that set up:
I needed to keep in mind the small amount of space for the new hose. Placing a piece of 3/4ā hose on the end of that adapter was going to bend it too severely, so I needed to come up with a solution! What if I add a 90 degree elbow?! Everything was way to long so each piece needed to be meticulously measured and cutā¦ So I have a small piece of 3/4ā hose to connect the adapter and elbow together and a few clamps to hold it all together! hereās what I ended up with:
I attached my 3/4ā inner diameter hose to the end of that elbow and everything JUST fit together once I put the machine back together. This was a long and tiresome process and a bit of a setback when I was basically just ready to start my first ever wash.
Iāll write more about the washing experience in another post.
Nicely done, itās definitely a bit of work getting that hose sorted out but so worth it, had the same issue happen with the hose diameter. Good luck on the hash run!
@NorthNorthNugs what did it end up costing you?
Too much. I definitely got ripped off on this but after searching pretty much every corner of the interwebs for months on end I found out that every machine was pretty much the same price. At least with Amazon I have Prime and shipping was free. I paid $159.99 pls tx. Iāve had this item on my shopping list for over a year and Iāve seen it jump from $69.99 to what I paid for it and what it currently costs today. I figured it would go down but it just kep going up and up!
So more on the hash making processā¦
What a fun but also a bit exhausting process. Hash making is legit! Itās a lot of work but also super rewarding (most of the timeā¦ more on that in a bit). I canāt imagine washing by hand with a paddle. After the hose debacle, I was finally ready to wash some buds!
I went with the bags from The Press Club. I picked up a bunch of supplies during their Black Friday sale. I hold off on a lot of big purchases in the weed game on 4/20 or Black Friday, it always seems to pan out.
Since I live in the good old north, creating a cold room was as easy as opening the window in December. It was a balmy 8 degrees in there. I used a water filter on my garden hose for the water and had the sink close by for rinsing. Not the best set up but it did the trick just fine.
The first strain I washed was my Afghan Lemon hashplant. I was super jazzed for this one but it was a major disappointment in yield (as mentioned in my outdoor thread) but really outperformed in the smell department! I canāt wait to dab it. When I see how much it yielded and think about the time and effort I put into this grow all the way from seed, all the feedings, waterings, teas, care, trimming, processing, washing and siftingā¦ it kind of blows my mind. All that time and effort for this (1/4 teaspoon for scale):
A few dabs!!! Lol
I know thereās a method for testing strains where you can shake a few grams of buds in a mason jar with ice water to see if itās worth your time but obviously I didnāt do that. I figured āitās a hash plant, itāll produceā¦ā hahaā¦ at the end of the day I had a ton of fun throughout the entire process of growing this plant and washing it. Iām experimenting, learning and smoking a few bowls here and there along the way. Either way, fresh frozen is now my unicorn. Gotta figure that one out.
The second time I washed I decided to do it outside. I waited for day where it was near 0 degrees out and went to town. I washed a huge mixture of buds. I had some dry cured stuff and some fresh buds too. A mixture of four strains I grew outside last summer: Sour D x Sweet Skunk, Snow G, Japhy and some Goji OG I believe. This wash DUMMMMMPED, it was nice to see! This is the first run:
Giving off major Juicy Fruit gum terps!
The way I would work was Iād process the hash in the bags while the machine ran the next wash. Itās time consuming and a lot of work but I had a lot of fun doing it. Itās a bit of a learning process and Iām sure Iāll get more efficient with a bit of practice.
The more difficult part for me was the sieving process. Iām not quite at the level yet when Iām buying a freeze dryer so my option was to sieve this onto parchment paper thatās sitting inside of a pizza box, then into the freezer for a week. It took a bit of trial and error to get the chunk of hash cold or just frozen enough that it would sieve well without clumping or sticking to my strainer. This was the hardest part IMOā¦ I can totally see why people just splurge for that freeze dryer. Either way, I had to work pretty hard for this hash! It was very sticky and my hands were cramping but I got all the hash sieved into pizza boxes. Having the sieve and spoon in the freezer helped a lot. I guess I was too busy with that I forgot to get pics but hereās the result after a week in the freezer.
Sadly, I couldnāt press it right away so I had to vacuum seal it and store in the freezer for a few wks during the holidays. This made it completely clump and bind togetherā¦
Iād love to know whatās going on at a microscopic/scientific level there, itās amazing. Brings me back to my hash smoking days when I was a teenager, only we never smoked anything close to this quality level. I wanted to eat it! This was right before I pressed it.
So this was basically a large bar of hash. I cut off about 20 grams to the size of my rosin bags and just went for itā¦ again, just sort of experimenting here but it totally worked out.
Rolling this into a ball was super difficult and an interesting learning experience. I did this in my kitchen and I wonāt be making a habit out of that unless itās super cold in there. I got this hash EVERYWHERE!! Lol literally everywhereā¦ itās just amazing that it would just turn into syrup in my hands suddenly, then Iām sitting there with my hands in the freezer trying to cool it off until I could roll it back into a ball. Obviously I was wearing thick black nitrile gloves for this but stillā¦ having a cold room would have been a lot easier. Iād cool the hash ball enough that it would pick up the stickiness off my gloves but made the mistake at times touching the fridge and freezer door handles, all over the counter and floors and stepping in sticky hash with my socks was a lot of fun. Good thing I had a lot of iso on hand lolā¦ anyway it was an interesting learning experience. I did two presses of a little over 20 grams each and ended up with two nice hash balls. I put them into this stupid jar for some idiotic reason.
Hereās a pic of the last hash ball that I decided to weigh without a piece of parchment under it. This ball absolutely melted to the surface of the scaleā¦ it was fun!
I used the thread by @ReikoX called ReikoX's Solventless Hash Rosin Cartridges for the next process of getting this hash into carts. Thanks again for posting that homie! If you havenāt checked it out yet I highly recommend it.
I used a sous vide method to heat the hash to 140F for about 36 hrs. I also didnāt do this the most efficiently. It I did it again I would use a Ball or Mason jar with a metal lid and I wouldnāt vacuum seal it. Iād submerged the jar in the water just enough so that the water level in my sous vide vessel was just above where the hash came up to in the jar.
Here it is after that process:
The hash got a bit darker than I wanted but Iām sure it will improve in time. Itās terpy as all hell!!! Like flavour explosion! It almost tastes like soap hahaha itās strong too! Iām loving it so Iām chalking this up to a win.
This post is getting a bit long but I wanted to tell this tale in full. If youāve been tossing around the idea of making hash, I highly recommend you try it! Some of you will love it, some of you will hate it. Itās a lot of work but the results are worth it or will be worth it if you take the time to practice and learn. I canāt wait to try to make a temple ball and smoke some bubble hash out of a chillum!
If youāre just getting started, here are the resources that helped me get prepared for Hash making:
RESOURCES
The kingā¦ Frenchy Cannoli. watch this guy wash and explain his process. Some very valuable info here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdz6GX4tiTlK6NN3y2_wQDG-WTYBcReiX
This Build a Soil video with Pedro and Jeremy is really great and will get you started quite well in the right direction: https://youtu.be/ObWhj2QiONo
Read this entire blog (seriously): The Ultimate Solventless Rosin Pressing Resource ā The Press Club
Then read this one: Solventless Processing
Then this one:
Some helpful stuff here:
A very thorough guide:
Typically Iāll read through just about as much info as I can and note down the similarities in the procedures. I also note down the things that arenāt similar and try to figure out if theyāre useful to try or leave out of my own procedures, what procedures and practices are best, why and why notā¦ then Iāll try them out if I think theyāre beneficial. For instance, the video with Jeremey from BAS and Pedro. The way he explains how he folds and tucks his rosin bagsā¦ thatās very valuable info that a beginner could use. Instead of wasting time blowing out bags while pressing. Little things like that.
My next experiments will be temple balls, curing bubble hash and rosin, jar tech curing (cold vs hot), whipping vs not whipped, etc etc. If you have any resources youād like to share, please donāt hesitate to post a link, share some tips or whatever you think I might be interested in.
Thanks for reading!
Hot damn @NorthNorthNugs !!! 
Thank you for all this detailed info, your results look spectacular!
Where did you get your press if I may ask?
Thanks bud!
I went with the 6 ton Dabpress with the bottle jack. There was a Canadian warehouse so shipping was free. After looking around, this was the absolute BEST VALUE in Canada in my opinion for a rosin press. Itās a quality unit. Eventually Iāll upgrade to the 10 ton with hydraulic hand press but considering I was just starting out, I couldnāt justify the extra $300 it costs for that combo. The thing I love about these presses is that they have these ādrip techā extended legs you can screw in and tip the unit forward to allow the rosin to flow directly into a glass jar. Iāll be playing with that on the next round. Other comparible units were pretty much 1.5 to 2-3 times this price. I donāt really know how they get it to be so cheap but the 6 ton is a really well made press for someone just starting out. Heck, you could even go for 4 ton and get pretty great results if you were just producing head stash.
The seed project plants (Headband x Chem D, GMO x Obama, Guerilla Fume) have rebounded nicely in the flower tent. Still keeping them at 18/6 while they settled in and grew a bit more material for me to take more clones. Theyāre looking a lot healthier now. A few compost teas really had them rebounding hard. The HB x Chem D plants are wild and stinky! The G Fume plants are monsters, itās my opinion Iām going to have one or two males in that lot and the GMO X Obama Kush plants are very lush with thick, dark green fans. Theyāre filling out nicely.
Iāve top dressed with earth worm castings, ground malted barley and my home made Bokashi bran at transplant and a few weeks later. Seems to be helping getting things cycling.
Iāll take clones tmrw morning after a watering tonight. I stepped up my clone game and bought some Flora Flex incubator plugs made from coco, peat and bio char. I also picked up a small jar of Rootech cloning gel. Iām done messing around! Getting so frustrated with my lack of success with cloning and think it has something to do with those terrible jiffy pellets!
I also started a micro grow last week in the 2x2. I got a heater for the lung room along with a humidifier so I should be in better shape this winter. Since Iām still testing this process and this is the first time using these small pots, I popped a bunch of Attitude Seedbank freebies and a couple seeds I had plenty to spare.
Hereās the list or brave souls for the micro grow test run:
When I got the tray of seedlings in the tent I figured I might as well pop 10 more since I had room for another tray! I meanā¦ why the F not right?! Lol I hope I havenāt but off more than I can chew here but these plants are basically going 12/12 from seed so they should be pretty manageable in that space.
For the next tray I popped:
I had to look up who Lone Star was and ask around. Apparently he was this badass old school grower on IC Mag and he had this plant he found from a pack of White Widow seeds that was mind blowing. I looked it up awhile ago so I kind of forget the details but I think he named it after Sharon Stoneā¦ I could be totally wrong here. Anyway the plant is legendary 10 or 20 yrs agoā¦ Duke decided to throw some C99 pollen on it so letās see what we get!
2 weeks later I ended up with a 38/40 germination rate! The only seedlings that didnāt make it up were 2 of the Trumps Candy x Obama. The second tray was 24hrs behind the first and you can really notice a difference in growth rate. Since I had to keep the light on 24 to let the second tray of seedlings break the soil, the first tray got a few days of extra light and it really made a difference. Once they all broke soil I flipped to 12/12. Theyāve been flowering for about 7 days now. I think thereās something to be said about letting them establish themselves for a day or two, then flipping. Iāll make a note for next time. I didnāt intend to pop more seeds but itās just so damn fun! Lol
This was after about 11 days:
Here we are after 14 days:
