You don’t need to literally work in the freezer haha.
You can get the whole process done before it totally thaws at room temp, just try to work quickly.
I wrap the jar with a dish towel to insulate it, it can stay freezing temps for about 5 minutes, and then I just try to get it filtered reasonably quickly. It will be evaporating at room temp as well.
I just did it, @HorseBadorites, it was actually pretty simple. I asked my girl to hold all of the straining shit just to make it easier for me, but you could totally do it solo. I think… haha. If not, tell your wife to help you out.
I took pics of the whole process, posted them on my thread, but I’ll post everything here, too, once the Everclear evaporates.
Oh Good! We have some of those insulating wine jackets ya freeze… good excuse to finally use them! I amaze myself at how thick I can be
Ms H is a hog for the tincs, so she’d better help. And great, I am so much better with a pictorial
I’ll have more stupid questions soon… maybe even stupider 
So am I. I had to read and re-read zephyr’s description of the process like fifteen times before I was finally like,”Okay, I think I understand now…” haha.
finished my ethiopian afghani selective breeding project.
2 rounds of open pollination,
1 round of selective breeding with bushy sativa no apical dominance male #3,
2 rounds of selective breeding with vigorous growing resinous hybrid type male #10.
I kept male #5 for quite a while, but it kept spitting out flowers in veg so I culled it.
I’m holding on to the #10 male for now for further outcrosses and maybe backcrosses with some of the hybrids or pure f2s.
I’ll have a big photo update soon of the last cycle with the #10 male. The seeds look great.
If anyone has another original pack of bodhi’s God’s Paintbrush and is interested in selling it or trading it, please get in touch in PM. This has been a lifechanger for my medical needs so I would like to explore deeper into this line.
It seems like whenever I get my grow dialed in and running smoothly, I get hit with more health setbacks.
That last heat wave really messed up my health. My mobility has taken a hit again, I ended up getting another infection, and have been on antibiotics for a while now.
The antibiotics have a very unfortunate side effect- they give you a kind of vampire syndrome. If you’re exposed to strong light it causes chemical burns on your skin. So that really screwed up my ability to tend the outdoor and indoor gardens. Even just a minute or two of exposure to the main lights in my tents, and I start burning. I have to water and tend the plants at night when the lights are off, and some days I haven’t been able to. this has really sucked.
It’s just really hard for me to do the work right now.
the outdoor grow is fine. the ganja plants can take extreme heat and drying out, although I have lost some of the companion plants in the same pots with them. Usually I can keep my semi-domesticated california poppies flowering until fall, but they all dried to a crisp. should come back next season though.
Indoor I’m 2 weeks behind on flipping the next batch of flowering plants, and 2 weeks behind on transplanting my guava hashplant seedlings.
The veg tent is totally overgrown, and somehow thrips have shown up. I haven’t been able to spray often enough. The plants still look great overall, but for the first time in years, there are bugs in my tents. Yuck. I’ll have to defoliate and prune everything back, and I’ll have to spray a lot of essential oils.
If anyone has any organic and medical safe tips for killing thrips indoor, let me know. The neem and essential oils knock them back for about a week, then I start to see damage again.
Worst of all, I lost a whole seed starter tray of guava hashplants because I couldn’t transplant them on schedule. at least 15 seedlings in little starter cubes. It was way more seedlings than I actually needed, and I have plenty more of those seeds. I’ve still got two tents worth of guava seedlings in solo cups, so I won’t even need to replace those. but man it just sucks to lose little plants like that. so demoralizing lol.
Anyway, that’s just how it goes as a medical grower with no mmj caregiver, just occasional help from family. I’ll get back on top of it, but it’s a constant struggle. I don’t always share the bummer updates about my health, but maybe it will help someone else in this situation. Maybe someone who’s just starting out their first medical grow and wondering if they are up to it will read this. or someone who’s struggling to keep their grow going, or trying to save that one plant that works for you.
It sucks when your illness is interfering with your plans and killing your plants, but it’s all part of the game. Even the best farmers deal with crop losses and setbacks all the time. Just more hard work ahead.
Sorry to hear of your challenges man… that sucks! You’re right, that last heat wave was brutal, I’m not sure how my plants survived, but they hung in there. Your Ethiopian Afghani Strawberry (i think that’s right) is doing really well actually, stinking up the back porch already. Looks like she’s just starting to flower. Hopefully we can get some more nice weather to finish out the season. If you ever need a hand in the garden, please reach out…
Last time I had thrips I used protocol 0 to clone sticks and get rid of them. Tossed out all the plant material and moved the citrus plants temporarily. The citrus can’t get thrips from cannabis so it was fine.
Is that Ciprofloxacin they have you on?
I was sensitive but not as bad as you. That stuff works but it is tough on your system, glad I’m finally past that though.
Roll with the punches buddy, this too shall pass.
Cheers
G
Sorry to hear zephyr. I hope you get feeling better and able to get off of that stuff as soon as possible.
Sorry to hear about your health issues @zephyr 
, I hope you can get back into garden tending shape sooner rather than later. Keep your head up brother 
Sorry to hear about the health issues.
I was trying some of your Pure Lebs but the last one showed its balls a week ago. C’est la vie. Maybe next year.
Ugh… That sucks, sorry to hear that. If I lived up there, I’d swing by and give you a hand haha, but I don’t, so…
Just how hot is it getting? The first summer I lived there, it got pretty warm, even coming from Florida, but every summer after that was pretty dang mild, at least compared to Florida and also summers here in The Valley now.
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Thanks guys I really appreciate it. Things are starting to improve, I’m done with those antibiotics.
Here’s a shot of my out of control veg tent, things are looking pretty good overall.
On the right, we have Cangshan #2 in front of Cangshan #1. These mothers were supposed to be bonzai’d until next spring, but these have grown so fast I’ll either have to cut them wayyy back, or more likely clone them again and toss these mothers outside to flower.
that ethiopian afghani strawberry is looking great.
Yeah that’s what I’ve been calling it. for any kind of landrace hybrid where parent lines are named after the country of origin, it’s just easiest for me to use the countries as a compound name. For the individual phenos I named them after their smells, like bodhi did with the ethiopian banana.
these are from a hand labeled pack bodhi sent after I completed a few rounds of testing, before these were released as a supernatural selections line. It’s labeled ethiopian paintbrush x omg.
God’s Paintbrush is a cool name though, and definitely seems fitting with all the different fruit smells you can find in the line.
I hope it gets that strong strawberry smell for you. To me it’s like pure strawberry with some earthy moss and soil undertones. It’s the strongest smelling of the 3 phenos I keep, it might make some pretty special rosin.
I’m very curious what you’ll think of the high and potency level. I think I’d describe it as easy to control medium potency hits that add up to an escalating high with no particular ceiling limit.
Knowing you like the straight-up thc blast type strains more than I do, I wonder what the potency will be like for you.
I want to get you the cherry pheno next season. I think that’s probably the most potent of the 3, definitely the best headrush. The nectarine (ethiopian banana version) is the most medicinal and the most fun with a great upbeat high. The strawberry is the most intense aroma, with a sativa high that’s kind of mysterious.
I think the hottest so far this year was 106, but the kicker is that it’s staying in the upper 70’s all night long during the heat waves.
Hottest since I moved up here was 113 degrees in the back yard. The cangshans loved it, those clones will outlive us all.
Glad to hear you’re feeling better. Some interesting sounding plants and genetics you have going. Best of luck getting everything caught up!!
another batch of live resin
Ethiopian Afghani Cherry, this time from a very late harvest.
I was ripening seeds so I let it go very late, well past its peak smell. I let it go so late the flower was starting to dry out. the resin got more sandy and dry, and lost most of its stickyness. I think it actually yielded lower like this. it’s hitting really smooth with big clouds of vapor, and it’s nice and potent.
Bodhi’s Ethiopian Afghani (aka God’s Paintbrush) f1
selective breeding
resinous male #10 (ethiopian paintbrush x omg)
with
nectarine (ethiopian banana x omg)
cherry (ethiopian paintbrush x omg)
strawberry (ethiopian paintbrush x omg)
I’m going through this round from start to finish.
Here’s all 4 plants in veg, the day the lights were flipped (on 4/20)
These are all mother plants, about a year old, very tall, and kind of raggedy. but still happy and perfect for seed making.
This is the nectarine, ethiopian banana version. Very vigorous, very branchy.
This is the #10 male. Very vigorous, branchy vertical collumn structure. The male is much younger, but it quickly matched them in height.
Here’s the strawberry. stretchy sativa hybrid christmas tree structure that easily deforms from training or shading. This one is all upper growth from the lower branches being cut for clones for a whole year.
and here’s the cherry hiding at the back. Tight christmas tree hybrid structure, sometimes a lower branch decides to become a second top, and it v-splits into two christmas trees. This one isn’t as old.
So, wait… I’m unclear on what’s happening here haha. I think you’re making seeds? Or you’ve already made them and this post is just you posting pics starting from the beginning? What’s going on? Haha.
Either way, sounds cool to me.
that’s right, the round is finished, and now I’m posting the photos.
Hahaha… Okay, glad I was understanding. Definitely sounds very cool.
