My first grow, and grow box build!

Hey fellow growers I'll be updating this by the end of February, apparently flowering takes forever...
and the curing method for premium is a long time lol.

But man the yield will set me good for a year even. All this time, and investment has actually saved me money on procuring my meds. Like that saying to teach a man... genius.
If people all knew how to grow their own consumables there will be abundance.

My quality meds will be premium cured-decarbed natural green goodness. Thank you God for your blessings lol.
Thank you fellow stoners for the information, and this wonderful site to put it in one perspective. Peace and love! Share the freedom!

On a final note, here are pictures of my final process. By the way, again I was very close to the flowering stage, but had to end the grow untimely. My mom killed my plants last week while I was away. I think she put salt in the soil. Wasn't cool at all, but I can imagine how shocked she was by my green monsters lol. ;)

Sigh, very unfortunate, but I will continue another time. The next time I should be able to follow it through to the flowering process.
All in all the yield is still pretty good, I'll be able to make the canna butter better. The last time I made it, it was only 1 plant and it was a good mild buzz. This will be 10 times the effect. :stoned:


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The first grow chapter concluded.

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I will be making the light installation more structurally sound in the future.

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Dried for a week, cool and dark. Finally put the air filter to good use as well lol.

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Trims were separated, the potent buds from the stems and leaves.

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Will cure these for 2-4 weeks, then decarb for the crockpot extraction. Awesome goodness canna butter! :clap:[/align]


Well this has made my holidays, hehe. Feel free to comment or ask questions. Thanks again and peace!

why didnt you flower because then you will have bud and butter

Yeah dude, my mom killed my plants when I was out for the day. I didn't know why they were drooping extremely when I came home late that evening. I had thought I had put too much phosphorous, but I knew I did it right. Internet was down, and I was frantically searching for causes.

I found out 3-4 hours later by the salt granules in the pot. So yeah bro it wasn't cool at all. I forgive her, she's so conservative. Shame I was in the third week of flowering. But the curing of the trims so far is coming along nicely I see a lot of crystals! So no harm really, just have to wait until I have my own secure place hehe. Ok, heading out for some cheese cloth, this butter is going to be insane! :dance:

What did you ever do for smell? I might have missed that somewhere but I like your setup its pretty haha.

Hmm, you've been banned already lol, sorry about that. However thanks for the compliment. The smell was really strong, a lot of chlorophyll with distinct natural ganja, I loved it. The smell was contained within the room. My room is very airy with many windows. And since I live in the remote part of town, the air is very clean!

My room has almost the perfect uncontrolled natural environment. Very well ventilated, and constant temperatures indoors. I only put one mini exhaust due to the heat from the cfls, other wise perfect. Just one more week for curing the trims then I can decarb for the final product. Sigh, I miss growing them, really were like pets, I miss them.


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The frosts are building up, very noticeable from the the stems.

sorry to hear about your mom killing them but how are you going to make the butter because i have made some from trim before and first batch didnt work because i used marjurine second time didnt work either i dont get why i used butter and even put 1tbl of alchohal and crock potted it for a day and reboiled it with more trim for another day it got my dog fu#$%ed up by accident felt bad for him but he was happy so it worked for him but wasnt strong enough for me

use clarified butter - unsalted. hell, I just made some by heating the butter in the microwave til it was boilingover, added about 2oz of fresh leaves (not eeven dry) added some italian seasoning to get rid of the chlorophyll taste and mixed it in with some salsa - then scooped it up with triscuits

its been 10 minutes and its already an intense feeling. but if your using trim from something thats only a few weeks old, dont expect anything. Like the OP has 'curing' (btw op, dont cure trim, just use it) I wouldnt expect much from that - I'm 6 weeks in, and 1-2 weeks from harvest

under my scope the leave trichs are partially cloudy, I wanted to trim some herb, but none is ready yet, so I settled for some salsa for the superbowl

good luck!

To the OP-

Sucks about the salt, but your not going to get much from those leaves by waiting, and light reduces the potency of THC over time (look it up) so I'd strongly suggest you use your trim asap!

Wanted to add that I didnt put the trim in the microwave, just the butter, then mixed the rest in while the butter was still hot

You know I'd love to see some of ur recipes!! You should join the taste buds group I'm in and post them!!! I'd love to have some new things to try with my cuttings and trim etc!!

As much as I want to cook them already, I can't I've got a medical check-up for my new job next week. Gotta be clean for the bullcrap test. There's a scientific report on the web about the THC levels being optimized for properly dried trims instead of fresh. Curing is not necessary, but drying and decarbing is for optimizing levels, and proper THC conversion for cooking. Since I've got to wait until the check-up is over I suppose the curing wait time would be a bonus. Yay, more THC levels in the decimal points. :stoned:

Right, I've kept them in a cool and dark place throughout the drying and curing process. This is the method I'm using --

Hang dried for a week with temperatures 65-75 degrees F, humidity I'm guessing around 50% since it's pretty cool in my room.
Stored in air-tight glass jars and airing them 30-40 mins twice a day for about 10 days. Would be a month of curing by the time I can use it.
I'll then decarb in a 220 degree F oven for 20 mins with foil on top.
After in the crockpot they go, moderate to low simmer with the clarified goodness, Lurpak is my favorite butter.
This is an extra step, after an hour I'll let it cool and freeze the mixture for about an hour for optimizing the THC infusion with the fats.
Thaw time, and I'll simmer again for the last hour. Let it cool, and strain. I'll be using panty-hose, cheese cloth is impossible to find. I hunted it down like a madman for the whole day through out the city, until I found out panty-hose works just as well lol.
Refrigerate overnight, and tada! Secret ingredient for hours and hours of pondering about life, and philosophy. :D