Monday, April 21, 2025

One Last Thought on Growing Weed

 In AZ we are allowed 6 plants per adult in the household. My tent and RDWC set up only allows 4 plants to be grown at a time. One crop of four plants and I have more weed and weed byproducts than I can use in a year even with very generous giving it away. In spite of that fact, old habits die hard, I really have a hard time wasting weed by smoking joints or other forms that use a lot of product for little high. I guess it is true, Old farts are hard to change.

One More Bubble Hash

 I'm running the last of the 2025 trim through the Bubble hash Process:


 The process makes more sense the second time, still pretty simple. Here is the first run, I expect there will be two more runs before I'm finished with this bio-mass:


 This finishes the 2025 crop. It is all harvested, dried and cured, the last of the trim has been processed into Bubble Hash. We will have to see how the Hash is used, I expect some vape, some gummies and brownies will follow.

Thursday, April 17, 2025

Making Bubble Hash

 I made "Bubble Hash" for the first time. Interesting process, not hard, just steps that need following. Per suggestions from the folks that know what they are doing I ran three wash cycles. You can see the results going left to right and top to bottom on the drying screen:


 All the usable production is from the 120 micron and the 25 micron bags. There was almost nothing from the 73 micron bag. 

From this years crop I have ~1 pound of top shelf flower, almost a pound of not quite top shelf but good flower (still tests to 24% THC) and I didn't weight the trim but three more bags of trim that should each make about the same amount of Bubble Hash as the first bag did. 

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

AC Infinity and Gorilla Grow Tents

 Gorilla grow tents have one big advantage over other small (5'X5' or less) grow tents. Gorilla tents come with a two foot height extension, 8' v. 6' for other small tents. You run out of headroom very quickly with a 6' tall tent. The RDWC buckets are 15" tall, the LED grow lights need ~1' of headroom for cooling, with a 6' tent that only leaves 45" of grow room for your plants. Bottom line with a 6' grow tent by the time all the height needs are added together you end up restricted to ~3' of plant growth. With a 8' tall tent your plants can approach 5' if needed.

One problem with a 8' Gorilla tent is no mid level bracing so the tent feels a little unstable to side pressure and for an old fart like me there is nothing to hold onto when moving around inside the tent. AC Infinity has come up with "Mounting Bars" for 4'X4' and 5'X5' grow tents that work with Gorilla tents and they make the tent feel more stable plus give this OF something to hold on to and help maintain balance went working in the tent. 


The mounting bars are hard to see but they run alongside the 6' zipper seam. Now if Gorilla tent would add a controller mounting plate on the front like AC Infinity has or if AC Infinity would offer a two foot extension  I could have a near perfect grow tent.

One Last Thought on Growing Weed

 In AZ we are allowed 6 plants per adult in the household. My tent and RDWC set up only allows 4 plants to be grown at a time. One crop of f...