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The Home Grower's Thread

Day 50 from seed. Purple Kush


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hey all, croptober is here. I can offer to do an ethanol extraction on your sugary cuttings if you have no other use for them. It makes a nice concentrate that is smokable or to mix in for edibles. I would charge only the cost of the ethanol and maybe a little bit of the product. Hit me up if interested. Happy growing!
 
Bowling4Bikes said:
hey all, croptober is here. I can offer to do an ethanol extraction on your sugary cuttings if you have no other use for them. It makes a nice concentrate that is smokable or to mix in for edibles. I would charge only the cost of the ethanol and maybe a little bit of the product. Hit me up if interested. Happy growing!
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So I do dry ice extraction hash with my sugar and trim... hell, anything I don't want to waste my time harvesting.

Is there a big volume difference?



Looking good budgie!
 
Yakoo752 said:
So I do dry ice extraction hash with my sugar and trim... hell, anything I don't want to waste my time harvesting.

Is there a big volume difference?



Looking good budgie!
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you'll have more volume by stopping at the dry ice extraction, primarily because there will be a bunch of plant matter in the hash mix. ethanol extraction will separate much of the plant matter from the good stuff. It will be more of a shatter or thick syrup texture (depending on how much decarboxylation occurs/is planned) and taste cleaner. But there will be less of it.

EtOH extraction can be thought of as a cleaning and concentrating step. Besides just using straight on flower, it's also used to clean product from other extractions like dry ice and butane. It's product in-product out, meaning the better stuff you start with, the better the end product is. I've ethanol-extracted from dry ice extraction before. It's a better product than just extracting straight from the sugar leaves. I've also then extracted from the post-dry ice sugar leaves, and still got a good amount of product because there's always stuff left after dry ice extraction.

With a lot less plant matter in the mix, one could make a decent shatter, a butter, or make vaping cartridges.
 
Harvested all three plants (two seed, one clone) yesterday. Learned a few things this year (year 2), although will have to see actual results after cure/trim.

All three are indica-dominant. Used molasses in the soil this year (supposedly firms up the buds), and was earlier with the BT spray (caterpillars got to some of my buds last year).
 

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Mike95060 said:
Nice Work Jimmy!!
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Thank you sir! Here is my friend in the pic, for size reference lol. To be fair, he's standing about one foot behind the plants, so picture is slightly deceptive (plants relatively larger than actual).

I wish I had a sativa-dominant (last year one of each), but only indica was available at the time....
 

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Trimmed last night, got through all three plants (with help from like 8 friends for 3-4 hours). Boom!
 

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Finished canning this AM, about 2.5 lbs. Will give away 95% of it lol....
 

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jdhu said:
I did not; could estimate that the larger seed plants weighed something like 25-30 lbs each...? Why weigh?
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I weigh at harvest so I can determine when it’s dry enough. I would have to look at my notes but I think I shoot for 40% reduction in weight.
 
Yakoo752 said:
I weigh at harvest so I can determine when it’s dry enough. I would have to look at my notes but I think I shoot for 40% reduction in weight.
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Ahh, got it, thanks for the insight. I'm still a noob (this was second year), but I suppose it's not all that difficult (just add water, lol).
 
I’m very much a noob as well. Still trying to time harvest right

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Thoughts? I’m thinking 2 more weeks?

And of course, like last time, I’m out of town this week so if it reads peak maturity while I’m gone… I’ll miss it. :laughing
 
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Wow, gorgeous. It looks ready to me, but again, I'm noob.

Mine were outdoor plants, and because of the heavy rain back in October, I didn't have much of a choice but to harvest (although I think they were ready anyway).
 
You want ~60% of the trichomes to be milky white starting to turn amber.

I think I’ll move to water / clear only this week and harvest when I get back.
 
Yakoo752 said:
I’m very much a noob as well. Still trying to time harvest right

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Thoughts? I’m thinking 2 more weeks?

And of course, like last time, I’m out of town this week so if it reads peak maturity while I’m gone… I’ll miss it. :laughing
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Good time to give them some
Molasses nice looking plant
 
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