Fastbuds Smoothie

Ok so I know, I have slacked huuugely with this diary. It’s amazing how when I had three plants I was like ‘this hardly takes any time to look after, I could easily do double this’. So I double it and Jesus, it’s SOOO much more work! I mean it’s all gone good, it hasn’t been neglected or anything but the diary for the plant has! Clearly…. Oh well! Not the biggest harvest ever, in fact quite a small harvest, however, considering it was grown in a super small container it’s not bad. Also it has finished so quickly! I planted it at the same time as the Afghan kush plants and they are still a couple of weeks away yet! All three of these were a tiny bit less looked after than the OG Kush and the Blueberry. For quite a while I had them on a dripper system but when I came back to look at them they were really dry so I don’t think it was working properly, probably had a clogged tube or something. I have been hand watering/feeding for a week or so now and they generally look much better. There were a lot of leaves that were obviously being used as a nutrient store as they were frequently going yellow and falling off (and not from them being at the end of their lives) so I was obviously under watering and feeding quite a bit. Anyway I guess all that can go into the Afghan diary. I think iv said before but I grew this plant specifically to make rosin from. I told the guy at FastBuds I had just bought a rosin press and he sent me some smoothie seeds because he knows I like indica’s and thought it would be a good presser! On that note, Iv been pressing quite a bit of the blueberry flower into rosin. I was having issues with the rosin coming out too runny - like sap! Doesn’t matter in terms of taste but it’s stupidly hard to handle and pick up to put in my smoking device. I was looking at videos on YouTube of people making rosin and I saw that they were ‘curing’ their rosin after having pressed it. I was amazed to see that simply manipulating the heat it is stored at after pressing you can manipulate the consistency. I was a bit hesitant to press my last harvest into rosin due to this. It was just so annoying wasting loads of it because it was too runny to pick up. Iv worked out that if I stuff fresh pressed rosin into a silicone tub and either stick it in the oven for a couple of hours at 100F or put it between my rosin press plates to 100F. I did this last night and it worked SO WELL. I am so too and because the runny consistency was really putting me off making it because it was so hard to get off the parchment. Pressing rosin DEFINITELY is an art. It obviously has some science to it but there is an art form in there somewhere for sure. I’m really happy I have discovered this because I spent all this money on a rosin press and barely used it for months because I didn’t have lots of buds and obviously needed daily medicine out of It so it left me very little to play about with. I really feel like I am getting the hang of it now so it’s really amped me up. I’ll be so happy when I have pressed all this smoothie flower into rosin! Should last me at least a….day? Lol