LSTTT: Low Stress Twisty Tie Training

[psteve]

psteve,
So you're saying the T-8s fit in the T-12 fixtures? That would be better, if they only had some around here.

If they're the shop light style (two posts on each end of the bulb), then yes. If they're the old style (one post on each end) then no.

[GrowMe]

THanks MVP!! Awesome job you did there..read her through and through and going to experiment now...

I'm actually going to use trimmings from my recent harvest as well as a quarter or so of vaporized buds we've kept..

Guess i'm just going to grind up the leaves real well and throw the duff in there as well and see what happens...

:thumbsup:

[GrowMe]

Hey opie a few questions for ya..

When curing in mason jars is it ok for them to be packed to the brim or should they be like half full or something?

Also is 3 and half days ok for drying?? The smaller buds seem pretty damn dry.. The bigass cola seemed dry and after being in mason jars for only an hour or two they seemed to moisten back up so i pulled the bigger thicker buds out to dry for a few extra days...

I guess a week is about right for thick dense buds? THanks for everything.. :thumbsup:

[Opie Yutts]

For curing you pack less tightly than for storage. You want some air flow around the buds. For one thing, if they get packed together too much the chance of mold increases. Half is good I think. Yeah probably about a week drying for the really dense stuff.

You're going to use vaporized buds to cook with? Isn't all the THC out of them after being vaporized?

[Opie Yutts]

PS. Don't forget to turn the buds whenever you burp them.

[GrowMe]

We've been doing research about using duff in the kitchen and people claim to have success..I read somewhere that theres a 70-75% thc loss in the vaporization process...I have no idea how true or untrue this is..It makes sense to me that the majority of it would be gone..maybe something closer to 98-99%..either way we figured we'd give it a try..

We made up a batch of butter last night with about 11 grams of duff and a bunch of trimmings(no idea the weight).

Think it came out pretty good actually for the first time and using a bunch of scraps and salted butter...very strong cannabis flavor..i think thats probably from the leaves more than the duff...

We didn't even eat that much but def felt the effects even into the next morning...very groggy and hard to wake up..Seems like i feel very "burnt" the following day of injesting cannabis... :wtf:

So we really aren't sure where most of the potency came from..but seems we had success yet once again.. Thanks to everybody on this message board!!! THanks for the kind words in my other thread opie..Much appreciated!! And thanks MVP for the cannabutter recipe!

:S5:

[Opie Yutts]

The results are in for sickhead. She's dried and weighed in at 0.30 oz, or 8.7 g. Wow, a third of an ounce out of one plant.

[Rock.Steady]

ok, sickhead is not a 'star', but holy crap dude, the rest looks great so far. nice job:thumbsup:

[Hennessy1414]

how much did u get from all the lsttt clones? :rastasmoke: how many were there?

[Opie Yutts]

OK, the 3rd batch from this grow is up and hanging to dry. The dried mid health ones weighed 116.9 grams. That plus the yield from sickhead makes 125.7, and I'm assuming (looks like) the 2 healthiest plants will equal about 75% of that, so 125.7 so far, 220 grams or 7 3/4 ounces total estimated for this grow. 1 sick plant, 5 fairly healthy ones, 2 very healthy ones, for a total of 8 plants in 3 gallons of nutrients (2 reservoirs).

Holy cow, holy crap, and good night. I can't believe how friggen sticky the last 2 plants are. How sticky? Sticky enough to trap insects in the resin, just like they get trapped on those gross, sticky roll out fly strips. My wife got one of those in her hair one time, complete with flies. It was extremely difficult to untangle her without puking. There were two flies just stuck to buds, which is kinda weird, because I didn't even know we had any flies in the house. They must have been attracted to the scent and went directly to my grow once they came in. Come to think of it, it does smell kinda like a pitcher plant, (which is designed to lure insects with smell) only a lot more weedy smelling, and better. If I pressed a bud together, it felt like a hard sponge, and it stayed together for awhile, then slowly expanded back to normal. I can easily say this is the most dank dense, resin filled bud I have ever grown. Heck, this is the most sticky bud I have ever seen anywhere.

I'd better give credit where its due. Fox Farms 3 stage bud enhancement series. Since I've never used it before, that must be the reason. The main bud food was Supernatural's Bloom Aqua. I wouldn't exactly say my buds were real big, but that's not Fox Farm's fault. That's mine for creating 6 billion of them. If you want to skip the 3 stages and just go for stickiness, you could just use the last stage, but here's how it's designed:

Open Sesame - designed for rapid onset of buds. Use the last week of veg until the middle of bud.
Beastie Bloomz - designed to pump up the volume of the buds. Use the 2 middle weeks of budding.
Cha Ching - designed to totally fill your buds with oozing sticky goodness. Uh, I mean essential oils. Use at the end of budding, the last 2 weeks before the flush.

I didn't just stop one and start another. When it came time to switch I mixed the two for the first feeding, so Beastie Bloomz ended up getting used for 4 weeks instead of 2, and Cha Ching got used for 3 weeks instead of 2.

I tell you what (as they say down south), I am one happy customer. So why did I already buy Advanced Nutrient's 3 stager, Bud Blood, Big Bud, and Overdrive? I guess I'm just kinda in an experimental stage, and 2 of my hydro guys say that they absolutely would not do with out them. I want to see what works the actual best, except for trying Connoisseur. I told one of my hydro guys that I'm doing an all Dutch Master grow, according to their schedule. He told me I could not be more satisfied with the results from a different product, except Connoisseur, but I just aint spending that kind of money. I plan on reducing recommended PPMs during budding and mixing the Dutch Master stuff with the Advanced Nutrients stuff.

The healthy 2 drying: