Wonder Pie

September 2 >> Well it was an eventful summer, pandemic notwithstanding. I harvested the big girl 8 days ago on Tuesday August 25th and she's been hanging to dry in my old grow shed (soon to be retired) until today - September 2. Today I harvested v2 late morning after disassembling my old grow tent to make room and keep her in the dark a few extra hours. I was planning to use my Trim Bag on the big girl when I de-budded her this morning but I decided that while she's ready for hand trimming she's not really dry enough to get good use outa the trim bag - which needs drier buds to be more effective. So I had the (I call it) brilliant idea of pulling out my hanging dry bag and throwing the big girl buds in there to dry for maybe a couple more days... (brilliant part ->) in my front bedroom which would have previously been a forbidden activity if my wife was still in the house. But she's not, and won't be anytime soon... and DAMN does my front bedroom smell nice. 😁 It's also a nicer place to start curing herb - never get's as hot as the shed outside. That's why I'm moving my (future upgraded) grow tent into my garage which also never gets as hot as that shed - because I have a foam roof on my house (with a few solar panels thrown in). 😎 =============================================== There will be multiple future updates as we trim and weigh things. I'm making up any effects or tastes at present. I wouldn't dare taste anything until it's had a few weeks to cure. 🙏 =============================================== September 5 >> I think I'm in something of a state of shock after hand trimming the big girl today in between horse races at Churchill Downs (It was Kentucky Derby Day today oddly enough). I probably have to go back thru my diaries to check this but I'm going to guess that in the past I've ended up with roughly equal weights of buds and trim on average. In this case - not even close... big girl yielded 443 grams of buds against 117 grams of trim. These nuggets are firm and dense, and after a couple hours, and a few fine Dutch beers, I was basically trimming these babies in my hand just rolling them around and plucking what needed to come off. Scissors be gone. That was freaking easy. Nearly a pound of herb outa that one girl. Yum. And hot damn that was only the first plant. I turned out to be correct in my assumption that using my TrimBag would not have been a help here. I'm going to assume the same would happen with v2... but we'll see how she makes it thru hang drying in the heat the next couple days. Unfortunately I have a golf tournament tomorrow in Napa and it's gonna be like 105 degrees. I usually melt around 90 so it's likely to be a struggle. =============================================== September 7 >> Happy Labor Day for those of you still laboring. Golf went well yesterday, I kicked some ass in the heat, shot 5 over and won our two-person team match 5 & 3. 😬 When I came home after that round it was like 108 in my shed, and as noted elsewhere the bud condition was "crispy", so I debudded her yesterday afternoon and moved her indoors, but just ran her thru the TrimBag today and then just hand trimmed the remaining quickly. So the final results.... in terms of weights... Big girl was grown in a 10 gallon pot and yielded 443 grams of buds and 117 grams of trim - trimmed by hand. v2 was grown in a 7 gallon pot and yielded 191 grams of buds and 130 grams of trim - trimmed via TrimBag. (I should note there was some significant spillage of trim here - see pics) I think I'll give this baby a week or two before we taste test her. Need to get a buddy or three involved. ================================================ September 18 >> Time to make some hash from the trim on these girls. Broke out the washing machine and ran two loads with at least 10 minutes of agitation each run. Gathered roughly the same quantity of hash on each run. Really just added another bag of ice for the 2nd wash. Chopped it up and letting it dry 72 hours in the garage - I'll weigh it all after that. September 21 >> The hash weighed in at just under 13 grams all dried out: 160 micron - 0.56 g 120 Micron - 2.29 g 73 micron - 5.34 g 25 micron - 4.79 g ================================================ I've been trying to study the taste of this girl but I sometimes wonder if I destroyed most of my taste buds at an earlier age. It's kinda like biting into pie crust and missing the pie... hehe ... I'm sure the manufacturer won't appreciate that... but's it's a very tasty pie crust all the same...and since I'm sitting on like a pound of this stuff it's a good thang she's tasty. I seeded a couple friends with samples here but I'm still awaiting results. Not exactly like waiting for Trump to tell the truth about something... but at least I can trust what they would tell me. 😷 October 7 >>> Notes from a friend... As requested, some tasting notes: Initially very pungent with a “licorice” note - aroma permeates everything and lingers for days. Faded out after a few days on Boveda. Now has a slight citrusy note. Nice tight buds with plenty of flower - red-purple color. Smokes very smooth, both vaping and in a joint, nice flavor. The high for me feels stimulating, creative, clear-headed. Nicely potent. No paranoia and no nausea. Excellent weed! ======================================================================= TWIAH >> hehe ... final installment. I received my 2020 ballot in the mail today (and filled it out while I was watching Kamala eat Mr. Pence during tonite's VP debate). Oh baby I've been waiting 4 years for this moment. I'm 63 now. I was a child when the Nixon thing went down. This is AT LEAST an order of magnitude, probably TWO worse than that, in terms of government malfeasance. We'll still be adding up the damage from this experience after I'm buried I'm fairly certain. We get what we deserve, and we deserve a pretty good kick in the ass. There is a chance after this jack&ss has destroyed so much of our government that we can repair it for the future, but this is the same thing that happened after Nixon. People put in place firmer rules that (cough) RELIED on the integrity of politicians (there's no such thing as integrity in TrumpLand). We got a vivid demonstration of that failure when the Senate Republicans balked during the impeachment hearings. So there's only one group left standing in the way. Those pesky voters. ......... Wish us luck please... I think we're gonna be OK... but you wanna be on the right side of karma don't you? 😁 ✊ 😎