Official "420" thread [No Political Talk]

[Myk]

Apparently Boomers can learn new tricks.

I was at a friend's house and she has a stoner 21 year old son taking college courses from home and he and I have discussed weed in the past so he was comfortable in sharing with me that he was enjoying some killer wax. That's an area previously far outside my weed radar and experience so I asked him to describe the entire wax and dabbing thing to me. So he goes to his room and returns with what I thought was a small bong, so he corrected me and showed me how a "dab rig" operates.

As a backstory, this kid is a trust-fund baby and has vast financial resources. He proceeded to tell me the rig - excluding the bowl - cost about $1,500 which blew my mind. He then told me the bowl was quartz and he paid $2,000 for it, so the combined rig cost him $3,500. He then took a dental pick and scooped out a nugget of the wax while he heated the bowl with a butane torch, dropped the nugget and took the rip.

He then offered one to me, I don't have the highest tolerance limit so I literally asked him to hit me with a tiny dose which was smaller than a teardrop.

That's all it took, fantastic buzz which lasted about 2 hours. These kids today have really taken shit to another level.

I'm a boomer and amazed at modern growing. Why couldn't we grow like this back then? Outdoors, 1000w, hydro, didn't matter it wasn't like this (breeding I guess). I was amazed when I figured out how to get trichomes in the 80s.

I vape bud so that's modern, have no tolerance to try anything stronger. I haven't even done anything with my own grinder hash.

 

[ThatGuyRyan]

Since pot is legal now in many states I thought it would be a good idea to have an "Official" pot thread so growers and enthusiasts as well can share tips, stories, and generally discuss the benefits of cannabis. It is now scientific fact that cannabis helps with nausea for chemo patients as well as CBD's helping with chronic pain. As an example I am curious if folks know how CBD's are made from pot? Or the importance of decarboxylation before making cannabis butter or other edibles. When do you harvest my plants for the highest potency? What kind of nutrients and how much. Inside vs outside. Questions, answers, opinions are many.

Let's discuss:
Mods...please block Ommy from posting in this thread so we don't halve to listen to his drivel

I will start out with some pics from my latest outside grow. I wrongly called these Quantum Kush in another thread. That is wrong and I disliked myself. These are actually Mama Mia. They were topped about 5 times and because they were threatening to outgrow my greenhouse I employed a method called "supercropping" to control the height

Here is a pic of supercropping As you can see the stems have been crushed gently and the stem bent over 90 degrees. Shotens the plant and the bent stems will turn and reach for the light again giving you two and maybe three new colas instead of one.
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Here are some pics of the plant in flower. These should be done in the second week of October. Because of the topping and supercropping I expect about a pound and a half yield from each plant
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Those yellow and white things at the top of the pic are called YoYo's They keep branches that are to heavy with the cola from breaking. The more I need the happier I am. You will also notice some leaves turning yellow. This is because the plant is using all of it's energy to feed the colas and the fan leaves slowly die off once they are no longer needed,
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Post your pics. Let's discuss

Can I come over?

 

[Tater]

I cleaned a bowl and saved a few globs of resin on a paper towel. Is there a good way to use them?
Asking for a friend.

 

[Burque]

I cleaned a bowl and saved a few globs of resin on a paper towel. Is there a good way to use them?
Asking for a friend.

Only if you are hard up.....

 

[Spunky Porkstacker]

Only if you are hard up.....

Thanks a lot, not really a very good reply. Doubtful this was helpful for Mr. Tater.

 

[Myk]

Thanks a lot, not really a very good reply. Doubtful this was helpful for Mr. Tater.

To be fair he did ask for a "good" way.
I've heard of people doing alcohol washes with resin but it still sounds bad to me. If it was vaped bud reclaim that would be good.

I can't say if I had it all to do over again because I did try to get growing going before I got my card (plus having my card and dispensary variety did let me find what works for me) but I would start growing and not worry about resin ever again. At this point I'm probably not going to care about my dry vape reclaim (it's ISO, I may keep it when it's Everclear).
I'd be a little more careful with odors that I am in many other situations but with minimal effort I'm keeping much better much less smelly now than in the 80s (with no effort).

 

[Burque]

Thanks a lot, not really a very good reply. Doubtful this was helpful for Mr. Tater.

what do you want from me?

 

[Xuder O'Clam]

With weed being legal and adundant now, scraping your pipe and smoking the gunk is not worthwhile. Never was really. A lot less THC in that tar goop, and it tastes like hell.

As Burque said, unless you're desperate, treat that paper towel like dirty toilet paper.

 

[Tater]

With weed being legal and adundant now, scraping your pipe and smoking the gunk is not worthwhile. Never was really. A lot less THC in that tar goop, and it tastes like hell.

As Burque said, unless you're desperate, treat that paper towel like dirty toilet paper.

Thanks, I appreciate that.

 

[RacerX]

With weed being legal and adundant now, scraping your pipe and smoking the gunk is not worthwhile. Never was really. A lot less THC in that tar goop, and it tastes like hell.

As Burque said, unless you're desperate, treat that paper towel like dirty toilet paper.

Agreed, though the High School me also suffered through Mexican dirt weed where we had to use a double album cover to sift and roll out/separate the seeds. Resin scraping was not frowned upon back then.

 

[ytsejam]

Once a friend rolled up a bunch of seeds into a joint and tossed it to his little brother and said "Smoke that." "By myself?". "No you idiot. Spark it up."
He did, got that nasty seed taste, gave joint WTF look, then hit it again.
He wasn't very smart.

 

[Burque]

Agreed, though the High School me also suffered through Mexican dirt weed where we had to use a double album cover to sift and roll out/separate the seeds. Resin scraping was not frowned upon back then.

Like I said originally... Only if you are hard up.

 

[Xuder O'Clam]

Agreed, though the High School me also suffered through Mexican dirt weed where we had to use a double album cover to sift and roll out/separate the seeds. Resin scraping was not frowned upon back then.

We weren't completely human as teenagers. Joints of roach ends saved over time (delicious), and I even had a buddy cut a piece of his jeans off, and smoke it because he dripped oil on them.

 

[Myk]

Thanks, I appreciate that.

Note what I said about dry herb vaping reclaim. If you want something as a backup that's still as good as it can be that is it.
I don't think it would be any different than any other oil concentrate.
You could also smoke the Already Vaped Bud or use it in edibles. It will be about half strength.

Agreed, though the High School me also suffered through Mexican dirt weed where we had to use a double album cover to sift and roll out/separate the seeds. Resin scraping was not frowned upon back then.

Someone asked how to harvest their seeds (IL law allows for seed sales from dispensaries but they can only get product from in state cultivators, who aren't about to let people grow). I told him to get an album cover. I expected him to not know what an album was but he was old.

 

[Spunky Porkstacker]

I cleaned a bowl and saved a few globs of resin on a paper towel. Is there a good way to use them?
Asking for a friend.

It's a good question, back in the day we tried that once or twice when our area supply was barren, but the taste, not good.

 

[Myk]

It's a good question, back in the day we tried that once or twice when our area supply was barren, but the taste, not good.

Burning it also not so good. It sucks through the pipe screen, joints don't burn. I don't think I ever tried it with a oil pipe (80s version of a dab rig, and hash oil was 80s street RSO/FECO). That's all I can figure could work, and very high heat.

 

[Myk]

Big dense buds with LED. A lot of fluff but I think that's the 2:1 variety and not being able to train properly early on. Since it's my only "free" CBD I'll be cooking with this run. Doing a 1:1 run now which will become my primary edible variety and I figure I can squeeze another trained run of the 2:1 before it gets too hot.

Bud rot was lessened but not eliminated with the silica additive and fans.

 

[ytsejam]

Back in February I was at dispensary putting in my order. Dude looks at my ID, hands it back and just sits there looking at me. Say's "You know who I am? It's John!"
So like holy shit, my homie John I used to work with is working at dispensary now. Cool, right.
I text John later and tell him how good it was to see him. He's like "WTF? Wasn't me."
So now I'm confused. Is he fucking with me? No wait! It was Brian that I've been to a bunch of Dream Theater shows with. **** no! It's not him either!
So I see this dude not every but almost every time I'm there. Always comes over for fist bump.
Same today, but I got to ask the guy at the counter who he was.
"That dude in the brown? Who the **** is he? He knows me but I can't place him."
He looks at my ID and says "You guys related?"
It's my (2nd) cousin John! Holy shit!
He used to be a huge motherfucker now he's slimmed down to almost my size.
No wonder I didn't recognize him. Probably haven't seen him for 15 years.
(I can't keep track of all my cousins. I have like 20 first cousins and my John is the youngest of my dad's 75 or so first cousins)

 

[Ares]

Back in February I was at dispensary putting in my order. Dude looks at my ID, hands it back and just sits there looking at me. Say's "You know who I am? It's John!"
So like holy shit, my homie John I used to work with is working at dispensary now. Cool, right.
I text John later and tell him how good it was to see him. He's like "WTF? Wasn't me."
So now I'm confused. Is he fucking with me? No wait! It was Brian that I've been to a bunch of Dream Theater shows with. **** no! It's not him either!
So I see this dude not every but almost every time I'm there. Always comes over for fist bump.
Same today, but I got to ask the guy at the counter who he was.
"That dude in the brown? Who the **** is he? He knows me but I can't place him."
He looks at my ID and says "You guys related?"
It's my (2nd) cousin John! Holy shit!
He used to be a huge motherfucker now he's slimmed down to almost my size.
No wonder I didn't recognize him. Probably haven't seen him for 15 years.
(I can't keep track of all my cousins. I have like 20 first cousins and my John is the youngest of my dad's 75 or so first cousins)

John definitely gonna poison your weed now.

 

[truthbedamned]

This is an autoflower seed my son gave me. No idea what strain. Obviously sativa dominant. Will be ready in about 3 weeks.