Sweet Seeds Femme Fatales

Harvest: Ice Cool Auto I harvested the three remaining plants over the weekend. I switched the light off on Saturday morning, which was 77 days since they all sprouted – 11 weeks of light. I trimmed leaves off over Saturday, Sunday and Monday, before I chopped them down and hung them up on Monday evening, day 79. She looked just about perfectly ripe to me when I checked the trichomes. Most of the trichomes are milky white, there are a few still developing but there’s at least as many that have reached full maturity and have started to die off. I hope it will be the knockout smoke that it looks like it should be. She looks very similar to the one I grew last year with these very big calyxes stacked up, covered in frost. The smell is similar too, sweet and sugary, almost vanilla, but this one has a slightly lemony edge I don’t remember. Vape Report including Making a Dynavap Stem I wrote vape reports, not smoke reports. I have not smoked for nearly three years now, although glass pipes used to be my main method of consumption. Dynavap must really take the credit, I am not sure I would be able to say the same thing if I had not bought a vapcap. I have other vapes but I use vapcaps by far the most. I have a small collection of different tips, stems and caps. I think it’s great how George embraced the development of third party accessories for the vapcap, and nowadays there are all sorts of different stems available in different materials. I have spent too long on places like Instagram, Etsy, eBay, vape dealer websites, Reddit etc essentially looking at these tubes, and too much money having them sent to me. I have metal stems, glass stems, wooden stems, even a meerschaum stem. When I was harvesting my plants, I had an idea. I thought it was strange how I had never seen a stem made of, well, a stem. There is someone who posts about their quince stems, but I hadn’t seen anyone using our favourite plant. My plants always seem to have a hollow centre to their stems, and they did again this time. I kept the main body of the Ice Cool Auto once it had dried and the buds had been chopped off. I saw there were two decent sections I might get from the main stem – a knobbly section which showed the scars of supercropping, and a smoother section from the node below. I got my sharp knife. I trimmed down the sections carefully so as not to split them, and to try to cut them straight. I managed to get both sections fine, so I used the straight piece, and kept the knobbly one as a backup. To attach a tip I used a short steel collar, from an old metal hash pipe from back in the day. It’s a bit wider than a Dynavap stem, so I added a couple of extra fat o-rings over the existing ones on a tip. To get a good fit around the top of the stem I wrapped some degummed hemp fibre around it. The collar has a thread inside it, so it could screw onto the stem, and the tip could then be gently twisted into place. My real aim was to make something which looked cool for the photo, I wasn’t sure it was really going to work very well, however I was pleasantly surprised when I covered the top of the tip with my finger to test, and the seal was virtually airtight. So I loaded it up and tested it out – it actually works very well! The stem is 92mm in length so it’s a bit longer than a usual vapcap, which helps with cooling. The material doesn’t really absorb much of the heat so the vapour is still a bit fresh and warm. The biggest problem is that it’s a bit fragile, and could easily split if crushed (e.g. with your teeth) – if it wasn’t for that I’m sure I’d be linking you to my new shop now. lol