Pineapple Chunk Northern Alberta Outdoor

@Todzilla, cool, thanks for the info. I have to do fresh frozen this year and I also want to make piatella style hash so should be interesting and fun.

@Northern_Ent, sorry for the late response, traveling for work this week. I just throw the buds in a deep freezer for a few days and: Lay a layer of ice, layer on buds, cover with ice and then fill with water (in washing machine). Then let it melt. I am in no way an expert like others, BUT I can say that I do fully saturate the buds before agitating and I’ve found that waiting until the ice melts and washing with no ice results in less chlorophyll and green matter in the final product. Note I do add more ice between washes, but I found less ice equals less green hash. Which IMHO is much better as far as the results. Just wash until you get junk. Then stop. I love the end product but sometimes get a little discouraged with 10% yields on the hash. It’s a lot of work but I do this outta love, not profit

@Todzilla, I love making hash, and yes I use a standard (not pharmaceutical) Harvest Right freeze dryer. Previously made hash using freeze dried flower which worked well but I want to try fresh frozen this year. My question is do you use frozen buds in washing machine or do you hydrate them first? I suppose I could just throw fresh from the plant buds straight into the washer? I was reading some articles yesterday by a guy who sounded like he knew what he was talking about, but he contradicted himself in different articles. So, not clear on how to handle fresh frozen. Check out my Golosa diary for my hash making from a couple years ago.

@Northern_Ent, sweet!! Let me know how it works for ya!

@Hellishjam, got the Gaiagreen soluble seaweed extract. Thanks for the tip. The 300 g jar should last a while considering you only need a 1/4 tsp per litre as a foliage spray. I tried finding something like this a couple weeks ago and ended up with Big Bud which is good but at this late stage I mostly just want some K to keep the leaves from yellowing too much.

@Northern_Ent,try looking for the Gaia green soluble seaweed extract I think it’s called, 1-1-17 I just picked some up can use it as a soil drench or Foliar. The Langbinite has 22% sulphur that’s seem like a lot and scares me and it’s slow release.....

@Northern_Ent, Good luck mate 👍👍

@DILLIGAF, thanks. Definitely disappointing. A lesson with this one is that with the legal four in Canada I was too worried about the smell being a problem outdoor. The farm where it was is in a bit of a valley near a big river and it would have been even more cool and humid than here in Edmonton. A couple cold nights (3 C) really yellowed the leaves and that likely slowed ripening too. Next year will be all autoflowers (Fastberry, Grapefruit, Jack-47 and Mohan Ram) and hopefully the weather will be better than it was this year. 😎.

@Northern_Ent,good to have the extra help

@Cannibalgardens, thanks. I miss having it in the yard. It’s an hour drive out of town and my helper tends to it maybe twice a week. So far so good. 😎

@Northern_Ent, ok mate remember to put it into darkness at the same time every day and should be fine hope I answered your question and good luck

@DILLIGAF, thanks, eh? I decided I have to force flower it. All my plants are getting pretty big I think but I certainly don’t want to blow it on this Pineapple Chunk. It’s a great plant so I really hope it works...😎

@Northern_Ent,I know just want to start and grow 20 plants..

@Cannibalgardens, thanks, I’m starting to think this might work out better than average. 😎. Not bad for the first legal four in Canada. 🇨🇦

@Ageddd, thanks. It is the prettiest of my four plants. I miss it being in n my back yard, but it seems okay so far. I’m excited to go check on it in a couple weekends.

@ThatoneAKguy, Thanks. This plant was supposed to go to my brother in laws house for some neighbourly discretion (this one might get a bit too stinky) but so far so good and with having to maintain the force flowering schedule think I’ll hold on to it. These plants seem big when I compare to other outdoor grows so I’m getting pretty excited and I really hope it works out. This plants seems the most vigorous of the four, and is highly rated, so I’d recommend you give it a go. 🤠

@ThatoneAKguy, yes it’s pretty far north here which means if you time it right you get a lot of 17+ hour days of light per day around the equinox and then decently warm July and August. Basically great summers here. I think I timed it right on the first try for the three autoflowers but I realize this Pineapple Chunk will have to be force flowered to finish by early to mid September. 12 h in total darkness per for two weeks should do it. Thanks for the reply.

@Stick, thanks for the help. I decided I had to force flower this one because the fall will close in too fast otherwise. 12 hours in darkness for two weeks should do it. I could probably wait another 2-3 weeks but I wanted to start it a bit early.