A Patient's Guide to Mold, Mildew and Mites

[quetzal]

Releaf,

I like your style, offering good info like this to patients.

Maybe in a followup you could talk about best practices for storing bud, in order to prevent mold issues, etc. And as copobo says, some tips on using scopes to check product. These are common questions I seem to hear.

Also, someone mentioned a hay smell... the hay smell can also be caused by a poorly cured/stored bud. I've seen it at a few centers.

peace

[TheReleafCenter]

That's a great idea. We're going to do something on scopes and advanced purchasing, talking about what to look for in terms of trichomes, a good cure, soil vs hydro, etc. I'll post it up as soon as I have it.

[khyberkitsune]

That's a great idea. We're going to do something on scopes and advanced purchasing, talking about what to look for in terms of trichomes, a good cure, soil vs hydro, etc. I'll post it up as soon as I have it.

If you would like, I will do a video review of the scope I recently bought. I am frankly impressed with the quality, and those in less-crowded rural areas should get much better range and detail because of this - I'm picking up X10 cameras inside other apartment homes within about 500 meters across two channels specifically - so I've had to tell the complex management to tell everyone to change their channels or call me so I can fix their stuff to some degree.

Those of you with fewer people around should get a near-perfect video signal from 5-7 meters away.

[puntacometa]

That's a great idea. We're going to do something on scopes and advanced purchasing, talking about what to look for in terms of trichomes, a good cure, soil vs hydro, etc. I'll post it up as soon as I have it.

I always bring my Dino-Lite with me along with a laptop.....

Dino-Lite Digital Microscopes, Coin Microscope at Microscope.com

......when doing center-to-center business. I was pretty amazed that some centers still don't have something along these lines to eyeball their purchases.

[MMJinColorado]

We just published a pretty comprehensive scoping guide, including advice on which ones to buy and actual scoping technique. It's talking about mites only for the moment, but we're working up the mold and mildew installment. Here's the link: KindReviews.com Spider Mite Guide Part 2: Scoping Your Meds

I haven't actually used Dino-Lite scopes, but I took a quick look and it seems that they're heinously expensive for the resolution and scoping specs from what I can tell... the Veho 200x is only $60 and does everything we possibly need to scope all the samples that come into KindReviews. Dino-Lite has a model selling for $129 that's only a 0.3 MP camera (didn't even know that existed)... the one I found that has similar specs to the Veho 200X is a fairly insane $399.

[MEDEDCANNABIS]

We just published a pretty comprehensive scoping guide, including advice on which ones to buy and actual scoping technique. It's talking about mites only for the moment, but we're working up the mold and mildew installment. Here's the link: KindReviews.com Spider Mite Guide Part 2: Scoping Your Meds

I haven't actually used Dino-Lite scopes, but I took a quick look and it seems that they're heinously expensive for the resolution and scoping specs from what I can tell... the Veho 200x is only $60 and does everything we possibly need to scope all the samples that come into KindReviews. Dino-Lite has a model selling for $129 that's only a 0.3 MP camera (didn't even know that existed)... the one I found that has similar specs to the Veho 200X is a fairly insane $399.

$60 and up man those are paychecks for us working class grunts. $399 would take me two weeks without any bills to pay for. gotta love full time with no benefits.

[copobo]

from what I've been reading here and on another forum - there needs to be a growers union in CO.