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[Burque]

SCROG update. About 4 weeks into flower. Looking like I might end up with a decent yield this time

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I'm excited to see your results versus regular non screened growing.

 

[truthbedamned]

I'm excited to see your results versus regular non screened growing.

It is looking like I will about double the yield of last year.

 

[ytsejam]

I'll probably cut off about 25% of one of those to start with.

 

[Ares]

Getting high af @ytsejam

 

[ytsejam]

1/4 of one of those indica caramels did the trick and made me pretty sleepy.

 

[RacerX]

So I threw in 3.5 ounces of trim/bud into a 5-gallon bucket, added dry ice, covered and shook the bucket for 4-5 minutes to freeze the trichomes/resin. I inserted the contents of the bucket into a 73-micron bubble-hash bag and then shook the bag over plexiglass so that the magic dust would fall from the bag. I collected the dust and used a pollen press to compress it into hash pucks. Got 7 pucks out of it, so a half-ounce per puck and they are approx the diameter of a nickel and twice as thick.

Turns out making hash is pretty damn easy.

 

[ytsejam]

^ Rawr!

 

[truthbedamned]

Had a neighbor come over last week and tell me the oil I made with 99% alcohol and coconut oil helped the pain he had in the ankle he broke a year ago (dumbfuck drunk). I had ruined the rest by trying to heat it up and the jar broke losing the rest. So I made some more and my wife tried it on her sore elbow and said it really does work. So now all of her friends want some too. I think they are wasting it by rubbing it on the skin but oh well.

 

[truthbedamned]

So I threw in 3.5 ounces of trim/bud into a 5-gallon bucket, added dry ice, covered and shook the bucket for 4-5 minutes to freeze the trichomes/resin. I inserted the contents of the bucket into a 73-micron bubble-hash bag and then shook the bag over plexiglass so that the magic dust would fall from the bag. I collected the dust and used a pollen press to compress it into hash pucks. Got 7 pucks out of it, so a half-ounce per puck and they are approx the diameter of a nickel and twice as thick.

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Can't you afford more than a 99 cent putty knife? Would be my pleasure to donate on to those who can't afford one.

 

[Myk]

So I went to a Windy City Cannabis dispensary yesterday.

I am going to describe the experience so @truthbedamned or others in 420-legal states can tell me if they are just as odd.

First, you walk up to the location and they have a line formed outside, complete with rented crowd control barricades used to make a snaking line. This might simply be the case until the surge of customers normalizes. No one nor any signage indicates what you're waiting for... is everyone waiting? Is this a line for specific items? I keep seeing people walk in, ignoring the line... are we just f***ing idiots and the security inside is waiting for us to figure it out? Nah I keep seeing the line-ignorers show a card... must be a medical card... they don't have to wait in line I suppose, seems logical.

So I wait.

The store has security, and they all appear to be police (county?) whom scan your license when you enter. Combined with the line outside it basically feels like waiting to get into a college bar at 11pm.... security checks your ID and only lets in a certain number at a time.

Once inside, you enter a waiting room kinda like a doctors office waiting room, with a front desk that just says Registration while other workers also do Registration in the waiting area using tablets.

A line has formed leading to the Registration desk, and the tablet-wielding employees call the front of the line as they finish registering people, so I know I'm in a line that goes somewhere this time.

Each person who "registers" shows their ID which is scanned by the tablet and put into their system, and then they tell you what they have available and they order what you want, and ask you to take a seat in the waiting area.

I take a seat and the lady next to me has a number she is waiting to be called... I did not receive a number... wtf?

Not 30 seconds later, another security guard sitting at a door across the room from the door I entered from the outside, calls me and the lady next to me to go in.

I go in and there's just 3 people standing behind counters with screens in front of them, but again no signage and they are chatting to eachother... lady in front of me isn't sure what to do... I figure just go talk to one of these people, they at least seem friendly.

I go to the one on the left... he asks me nothing and just starts reading off my order... perhaps they have the orders and your license photo? Either way, he knows what I want so I confirm.

He walks to the other side of the room behind the counter to boxes on the floor and grabs my items from said boxes. Then he puts them in a small paper bag and gives me my total. I pay him and he gives me my change, and hands me the bag. No receipt (it was in the bag), and I just turn and make my way back thru the doors I came in... which feels odd... to have a line leading into this destination, and then you just kinda have to weave thru that line of people to get back outside.

I mean I get this is a newly legal product for recreation, but they've been selling medical for a bit now, they didn't just open these stores... yet it feels like they moved into that space yesterday, threw boxes and furniture down, and just started operating.

I don't grasp why you need to check IDs at the door, then at registration and someone has to order the things I want for me on a tablet, and then I wait for a mystery summoning by a security guard, who sends me into a room where people read that electronic order off a screen and go get the stuff.

Couldn't you just have people in the spot you pay with tablets and whatnot... scan my license, take my order, go fill it, take my money.... and have a path to the outside from said room that is exit only.

Seems like it would still fulfill whatever documentation they are required to do by taking your info before the order, while cutting the wait from ordering to paying and gtfo'ing.

Anyone in any other states find dispensaries to be kinda oddly/vaguely organized like this?

I was at my IL dispensary on January 3rd. I walked directly to the door, showed my card, was let right in, waited a bit to get checked in. Went back and got my internet order. 1% tax.
Suckers.

I haven't been back since. I was only there because they finally had popcorn 1:1 of a variety I liked. It's been around since, and about the only thing they've had. I'm a lightweight but nobody can afford 6% at $75/quarter. After I harvest Gobbstopper (10" around, unpruned, 3" tall with 2 50w LED floodlights, changed to a Spider Farmer today) my next one will be a high CBD variety. When I can actually afford to smoke like it was 1979 maybe I'll stop having migraines like I did in 1979.

Got some Gorilla'd Cheese yesterday. 31% THC, very heavy indica body buzz. Smoked some with my girl last night. Knocked her the **** out. She fell asleep putting kiddo to bed. Haha!

I think I saw this episode of Dragnet.

 

[Spunky Porkstacker]

I was at my IL dispensary on January 3rd. I walked directly to the door, showed my card, was let right in, waited a bit to get checked in. Went back and got my internet order. 1% tax.
Suckers.

I haven't been back since. I was only there because they finally had popcorn 1:1 of a variety I liked. It's been around since, and about the only thing they've had. I'm a lightweight but nobody can afford 6% at $75/quarter. After I harvest Gobbstopper (10" around, unpruned, 3" tall with 2 50w LED floodlights, changed to a Spider Farmer today) my next one will be a high CBD variety. When I can actually afford to smoke like it was 1979 maybe I'll stop having migraines like I did in 1979.





I think I saw this episode of Dragnet.

Buying the card does have it's benefits.

 

[Myk]

Buying the card does have it's benefits.

I'm borderline for saving enough in taxes with the $100/yr. But homegrowing on the other hand will definitely save $100/yr.

Friend wanted me to "avoid the lines" for him. And I think taxes because then he said "I guess you have to pay for that". He's also a flower guy so there wasn't anything he'd want in stock anyway. I've been telling him since the shortage hit before legalization was signed to keep his street guy. It will be years before IL gets this working right.

 

[Burque]

I'm borderline for saving enough in taxes with the $100/yr. But homegrowing on the other hand will definitely save $100/yr.

Friend wanted me to "avoid the lines" for him. And I think taxes because then he said "I guess you have to pay for that". He's also a flower guy so there wasn't anything he'd want in stock anyway. I've been telling him since the shortage hit before legalization was signed to keep his street guy. It will be years before IL gets this working right.

This is no joke, any place that does a shit job legalizing but then overextending controls will always have a fucked up shortage of legal places to get product.

 

[Tater]

I'm borderline for saving enough in taxes with the $100/yr. But homegrowing on the other hand will definitely save $100/yr.

Friend wanted me to "avoid the lines" for him. And I think taxes because then he said "I guess you have to pay for that". He's also a flower guy so there wasn't anything he'd want in stock anyway. I've been telling him since the shortage hit before legalization was signed to keep his street guy. It will be years before IL gets this working right.

I doubt they ever get it right. It's supposed to be for medical purposes yet they make it expensive with taxes...
Of course it would be taxed, but to start out that high and you know it will only up.

 

[Myk]

Looks like the NFL may be finally coming around. https://merryjane.com/news/its-official-the-nfl-will-no-longer-suspend-players-for-cannabis-use

 

[ytsejam]

I've been looking at dispensary websites all over and I can't find seedy Mexican Brown brick bud anywhere.

 

[Burque]

I've been looking at dispensary websites all over and I can't find seedy Mexican Brown brick bud anywhere.

You need to travel further south.

 

[Myk]

I've been looking at dispensary websites all over and I can't find seedy Mexican Brown brick bud anywhere.

Columbian Gold isn't gold any more either. The smell is different but the high is the same.

 

[truthbedamned]

I've been looking at dispensary websites all over and I can't find seedy Mexican Brown brick bud anywhere.

Why would you want to?

https://forum.growweedeasy.com/forum/growing-community/15616-what-strain-is-mexican-brick

It isn't even available in California which tells me it isn't very popular

https://www.leafly.com/dispensary-info/serra-eugene?strain=mexican

 

[ytsejam]

Was a joke yo.