Rap_a_cap

This was an organic cultivation in plain soil without the use of any fertilisation or pesticides in a latitude similar to Cali. Plant was protected by transparent plastic roof and open on the sides. Soil was prepared for the previous 8 months with a mix of supersoil, worm humus, perlite and volcanic gravel. A thick drainage layer was placed 20 inches under and the cultivation hole had 40 inches of diameter. I always waited the soil to dry before each irrigation with 6.8 pH water. As this plant, at beginning of flowering, was heavily attacked by Fusarium Oxysporum spp. cannabis I've watered her 3 times with 1.60 gal of 3% hydrogen peroxide solution (1:4 to water). Also I've applied hydrosoluble mix of mycorrizzae/tricoderma/bacillus. It was an incredible achievement to have kept this plant alive for two months. With great buds. Cookies Gelato is a very vigorous easy-to-grow plant, hardy and pests resistant. Also hasn't showed any sign of botrytis (it has been raining for 7days, RH 90%). She has a very short internode spaces until flowering then she has stretched of 250%. This plant don't stinks too much so is a good choice for stealth cultivation. Buds have a fantastic shape, are grey/pale green coloured and are covered with orange pistils.

There are 2 reason to wait for curing resin before processing : 1 scientific and the other both scientific and historic. Is scientifically proven than at 12°C glands loses 15% of original size in 6 months. Traditionally kif is drummed in mid September than stored until January when in those mountains temperatures drop to 10/12°C. The cold restricts matter for another 15 %. So the goal is to process and press the resin when it loses about the 30% of size. Here the magic happens. Smaller (but not lighter) glands stick and melt together much better when pressed and because nothing is destroyed but is transformed, the magic of hashish perhaps it resides precisely in that volume that was lost with aging and that turns into something special. Here some interesting readings links https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7148385/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276123397_Size_matters_evolution_of_large_drug-secreting_resin_glands_in_elite_pharmaceutical_strains_of_Cannabis_sativa_marijuana AFGHANI Typical Afghan hashish is processed using mechanical friction, water or tea and lot of heat but isn't pressed, the melted pasta drips into a mold (500 gr/1Kg), it is simply pached after cooling LEBANESE After been crushed kif is roughly hand sieved with tumbling sieves. Jute or cotton bags are filled usually with 200 gr of matured dusty resin and then, 10 or 20 a time, heavily pressed at 7/10 tons. ONLY PRESSURE MORROCCAN Here the final product is processed and packed in two ways: the resin after seasoning is hand kneated often with tea or water, it is given a cylindrical shape, to which the film is wrapped and then softly hand pressed without using forms. This results into dark red/brown soft, sticky and gummy plates. The most common type is made by fulfilling pre-formated plastic bags that after sealing are pressed homogeneously into steel forms usually up to 3 tons. Commercial 100/200 slabs are pressed 5 together often adding some heat getting darker slabs. This results green/golden slabs, less or more hard. HAND WORKED PRESSURE HEAT Everyone of us is capable to do hand worked sticky hash but if U want to obtain a pollen like chunck that crumbles like flour and on the touch feels like velvet the secret is to press homogeneously by using a metal or wooden form, this us more important than the pressure used. For physic laws without a form the pressure energy will be dispersed in the sides resulting uneven. Applying the same pressure into a form it will results homogeneous in each point. This let the trichomes melt together and decarb.