Third times a charm….Tropicanna Poison

The week was good - not sure I’d take acid when harvesting again although it just started kicking in once I’d finished so that was good. Honestly, I’m really happy with my harvest. There is a lot of it, and more to come in a few weeks time. I’m trying to delay people coming into my flat to sort the damp out but it’s getting to the point where it’s going to be tight! Oh well Update since drying and am into curing - for some reason the place where it asks you to put your dry weight has disappeared so I just put it in the wet weight. I got 60g off of her - not counting the popcorn buds or the trim that I’ll use in my lab to make shatter and then i will at least know how much extract is in my oil. As opposed to just simple putting it into a round bottom flask bit by bit using a small quantity of oil - dacarbing as I go and then use the same oil over and over again until it’s all been decarbed into like 50ml oil or something. I know which one would take longer and I also distilled my own 100% alcohol (which is pretty hard to do as it pulls 2% water out of the air) simply from water, a bag of white sugar and yeast. It took three distillations to get to 100% with the use of molecular seives at the end. It makes sense to actually make use of it - it’s also ethyl alcohol so even if there is trace left and I don’t have a vacuum kit yet - I need a vacuum pulling machine or an air pump for my lab anyway so pulling a vacuum inside a gauged pot seems like a good thing to have around. I know typically people would use short path distillation for this but I don’t have the end adapter for that so I could connect 3 flasks to collect into. I’m just going to winterize it I guess. Anyway - my flat stinks I should probably hang the buds in the tent to be fair… I mean I have a prescription and so it is ALLOWED to smell of cannabis but it’s that chlorophyll, plant smell I want to get rid of — mind you, I guess that’s the whole point of drying and curing but still…I have a gas inspection guy coming tomorrow so it is a little worrying as it obviously fucking wreaks of skunk in this room! Also the guy who was my cover and used to smoke joints and stink out the whole building has moved out now so I can’t use him as an excuse, I’ll just have to boil some coffee, bake some bread and maybe make a stink bomb? Haha I do have a lab after all! Iv never thought of playing around with aromatics tbh - apart from the aldehydes, I’m more than familiar with them! Anyway this is a weed growing place and not chemistry so I’ll shut up. I do intend to try the isomerisation of CBD into the THC we all know and love. Trouble is there are side products and it needs to be thoroughly rid of the solvents used - hence also another need for that vacuum chamber.

I didn’t even realise this page existed, there should really be an option for it when you hit the + button, let’s face it though, who is going to even read this, let alone take on suggestions haha Okay so it’s too newly harvest to taste great yet but it smells absolutely dank. It really reminds me a lot of the FastBuds plant I grew - smoothie. Smells very similar - I made some banging rosin from that plant - manipulated consistency until it was like a batter type consistency. Anyway it really reminds me of that tbf. So far the taste doesn’t translate - it still tastes of chlorophyll but that takes a while of just opening and shutting lots of jars for a few weeks. If that….going by my previous experience. That chlorophyll taste - as long as you don’t jar it too early is pretty easy to get rid of, it just takes time. Unless you’ve dried it within like a day then you are never getting that bud to taste nice. It’s a huge factor in my consumption as I am a medical user and use a lot - I hate that hay smell and taste you get from badly dried and cured weed. It’s such a waste….its the sort of stuff that ends up in the hands of tanagers - or would have in my day before the internet!