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Post by ToNoAvail on Dec 30, 2016 16:40:36 GMT -5
Trimming is a ton of fun for about the first 20 minutes.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2016 18:51:02 GMT -5
Nowadays you could probably charge a premium to the hipsters for hand trimmed. Hipsters can't afford what I'd charge them. There's currently no price difference between hand or machine trimmed. Hand trimming is more expensive and time consuming. Not worth it.
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Post by Angelo on Dec 30, 2016 19:51:51 GMT -5
Nowadays you could probably charge a premium to the hipsters for hand trimmed. Hipsters can't afford what I'd charge them. There's currently no price difference between hand or machine trimmed. Hand trimming is more expensive and time consuming. Not worth it. That's why you set up a market for it. Hand trim like 5% of your product and mark it up 50% as a premium line.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2016 12:30:10 GMT -5
The problem with hand trimming is that it entails either hiring a trimmer, or making one of the current dudes do it- and they would hate me within a week of starting to trim. And thus far, I've seen nothing to indicate that there are weed snobs on the level of being willing to pay significantly more for the same THC/CBD/CBN content, flavor and terpene profile as machine trimmed buds. Employees are generally a lot more expensive to a business than machines are. It's much more cost effective to just machine all of it, and have one employee doing the work of 12 in 1/3 the time. The hard reality a lot of people are going to be facing in this industry is that antiquated methods are more costly from a financial and a time spent standpoint. Engaging in those practices puts you at a disadvantage in terms of turnaround time and operating costs. One hand trimmer might be able to get through a lb in six hours. A machine can get through a lb in 20 minutes. There's literally no comparison, and the only people you see talking about the virtues of hand trimming will stop talking about it when they learn they have to pay more just for how the product looks prior to you setting it on fire.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2017 11:22:18 GMT -5
White Widow Big Bud, doing really well under these lights. We're pretty impressed with how dark and healthy the leaves have gotten, and more impressed with the density of the buds. They still have a little less than two weeks to go. These above are Headband. Obviously not as big as the WW, but really dense. These are also the only plants in there that came from clones, and I suspect the clone it came from had some genetic degradation occurring. The top colas here might be some pretty potent stuff, but this is not the level of yield we're shooting for. I know Headband is a popular strain and I also know it can produce much better than this one did. We'll be doing our next batch of HB from seed, and chances are we don't get clones from this source again. More WW BB. Tossed the Sharpie in there to show scale. Pretty good chance we get some buds from this plant that weigh an oz by themselves. Hopeful we can get those results. Got the trellis all integrated. Really strong spectrum penetration here, which is why those lights are so expensive in the first place. Buds over on the edge of the tent are just as solid as the ones in the middle. Pretty uniform growth. It might not look uniform, but the size differences in there are a result of different strains. About the time Trump starts making America great again, these ladies will come up for harvest and a few days later they will help keep my evenings great. After that's done the next step is integrating the air-tables and Supernatural.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2017 13:02:16 GMT -5
Almost time.... This entire top cola = MINE. This is the same White Widow Big Bud plant. While the top colas are impressive, the plant is leafy as fuck and going to be a real PITA to trim. The cool part is that it's lesser buds are still bigger than some of the top colas on some of the other plants in there. This is the Headband. I've never seen plants grown indoors take on the darkness that the leaves of every strain in here have taken on. It's something else, and indicative of how healthy the plants are. The HB has really filled in a lot in the last two weeks and stopped being a disappointment. Unlike my sister, who is a huge disappointment. I groped this female. She won't be telling anyone. The bud behind the Sharpie is about the size of a tennis ball, but feels like it has the density of a baseball.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2017 13:04:24 GMT -5
VERY Nice!!!!
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Post by ToNoAvail on Jan 22, 2017 17:41:32 GMT -5
I quick look in that tent and yeah, growth looks pretty damn consistent.
Tony be sure to post the final dry weight please.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2017 12:43:17 GMT -5
This afternoon that Big Bud in the photos is being delivered.
Tonight I have a Selectmen meeting regarding cultivation within the town, but all they want to talk about is medical, which is fucking retarded. I'm going to have to paint the picture for them as clearly as I can, so they can understand that the medical side is what leaves the door wide open for the black market to continue to operate, even flourish (at least in my state.)
Here's where the pieces on the board sit.
On the Federal level you have the Roharabacher-Farr amendment, which prohibits federal agencies from using federal funds to enforce federal marijuana laws in states that have enacted medical marijuana laws. (So no enforcement from the feds.)
On the state level, that leaves the Maine State DEA to enforce the medical marijuana rules. But this is problematic on two fronts.
First. The Maine DEA lacks the resources to effectively monitor and enforce the medical marijuana industry. Second. The medical marijuana system within this state has several fatal flaws that create loopholes that the caregivers take advantage of.
In Maine, a medical marijuana caregiver can grow plants for up to six patients. They are allowed to have six flowering plants per patient, so 36 plants. As a caregiver you are allowed to sell each patient 2.5 oz. every two weeks. But what happens when you have a patient who only consumes an ounce in those two weeks? Most caregivers will sell the excess to people who are NOT card holders. If they keep records (and most don't), they list that the excess was sold to a listed patient. Due to this system being entirely cash based, there is no way to prove who bought what.
This allows the medical marijuana industry to act as "a front" in many instances. The money it generates only benefits those engaging in these back door sales of marijuana.
I see no effective way for the government to stop this practice by itself through the traditional enforcement measures. History has provided us with all the evidence we need to know that a government ban does not eliminate the product from finding a market.
The most clear path forward to stamping out black market activity once and for all is to open the market up to commercial producers who want to be monitored, who want to be regulated, and who want to pay taxes (as much as anyone could actually want to pay taxes, anyway.) It will be the commercial producers who put the black market out of business via providing better product at a lower price point. No government assistance needed. If the black market producers cannot compete on price point, they will find other business to engage in.
Evidence of this being true can be seen in Mexico, where several of the largest growers of outdoor marijuana found that there was no longer a market in the United States due to superior product being available. So they started growing tomatoes instead. It is my goal to turn every black market producer of marijuana in Maine into tomato growers within the next four years.
TNA: Dry weight yield should be confirmed by tomorrow.
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Post by agrappleaday on Jan 31, 2017 12:54:04 GMT -5
My first ever grow was a big bud x something (I'm trying to remember) that I started from seed and sexed out. The industry has come a long way since then. Your room(s) look great, I would volunteer to help if I could as it has been a few years since I have harvested myself. I will be curious as to what kind of arguments will be put up against yours. Please follow up with all of the details, the people will want to know. Politicians never cease to amaze me. Good luck!
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Post by HankPNW on Jan 31, 2017 14:17:35 GMT -5
Those are some fat colas my dude. Superb!
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Post by Angelo on Feb 1, 2017 2:44:43 GMT -5
This is supposedly 3,000 grams of Cannabis oil (about 6.6lbs) Damn!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2017 9:11:02 GMT -5
This is supposedly 3,000 grams of Cannabis oil (about 6.6lbs) Damn! That's a $180,000 marble you don't want to drop.
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Post by HankPNW on Feb 1, 2017 9:55:15 GMT -5
Are those the infamous dragon balls that someone made? I want to bathe in it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2017 22:17:13 GMT -5
Hyper-emesis is a new disorder being linked to overuse of cannibas. It is more prevalent in states where weed is legal. Be interesting to see if anti-pot people run with this...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 10:55:01 GMT -5
It's arrived in my smoking room. This is a little more than 1/2 oz. These things are dense. Lab testing shows the THC is at 26%. Still waiting on the final dry weight number, but it is definitely noticeably higher than the last run with the HPS bulb, and the THC content is higher as well. So these LED's are legit. I tried some last night for the first time. I was asleep by 9pm. Kicked the crap out of me.
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Post by agrappleaday on Feb 2, 2017 14:36:00 GMT -5
Looks good
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2017 19:01:54 GMT -5
Final dry weight: 1lb of bud from those plants in the pictures.
Still waiting on the trimmings weight, but that stuff is going to make either BHO or Rosen. Growers call since he's the one making it. Just got a Rosen press that he wants to try out, so we'll probably see how that goes. He loves playing with his new toys.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2017 19:02:54 GMT -5
Trying out the Headband tonight. Stuff is really noticeably sticky. You could hang a poster on your wall and use this stuff as the tape. I don't know why you'd ever do such a stupid thing, but you could.
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Post by peAk on Feb 9, 2017 22:20:33 GMT -5
Wow....just wow.
I would love to smoke some weed. It's been at least ten years.
Tony, that's beautiful.
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Post by HankPNW on Feb 10, 2017 16:26:26 GMT -5
Do you ship to WA? Just fill up a flat rate padded envelope for me.
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Post by locogato11283 on Feb 10, 2017 16:31:11 GMT -5
The weed is a gateway drug and should be illegal all over the world.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 17:10:28 GMT -5
The weed is a gateway drug and should be illegal all over the world. The gateway theory has been totally debunked dude. I've been smoking the stuff for 21 years now and haven't touched a single drug beyond it since graduating from college 17 years ago. Some people like to drink beer, and smoking weed is pretty comparable, except it's not as bad for you from a health standpoint. It was illegal all over the world. Still is in a lot of places. And if I had a time machine, I'd kill Harry Anslinger, because that pasty bastard is the reason it is illegal all over the world and part of the reason it remains illegal on the federal level, despite his fatass being dead for 41 years.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 17:24:33 GMT -5
If there is a gateway drug, it's good ol legal alcohol. And it always has been and it always will be.
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Post by locogato11283 on Feb 10, 2017 18:19:03 GMT -5
I actually don't care one way or the other.. I do know the drug war is a joke.
My brother is local drug strike force.. They're getting exactly nowhere.
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Post by mmaphreak on Feb 10, 2017 22:18:39 GMT -5
the whole "gateway" drug theory is bogus. deviant behavior (let's call illegal drug use deviant for the purpose of this discussion), starts far before kids are of the age to partake in psycho active substances. as with most things in society it's about parenting. you have that friend in 5th, 6th grade who's parents let them watch R rated movies. shit, i'm goin over his house. my parents make me eat my vegetables and limit my sugar. my buddy's parents let him eat whatever candy and shit he wants. i'm goin over his house. my buddy's parents let him stay out way late without checking in. my parents want to know my every move. i'm having sleep overs at his house (no homo). his dad smokes cigarettes. when my buddy turns 18, they let him smoke. my parents think down about anyone who smokes. i'm going over his house. my buddy's parents are borderline alcoholics and never miss when some is gone from the bottle. my parents never drink. i'm goin over my buddy's house. then we smoke weed, then we try meth, then maybe pills, etc.
what is the "gateway drug" in that scenario? i can make just as strong an argument for the ding dongs and snickers as someone could about the weed. tobacco and alcohol almost always come before weed. lame argument.
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Post by locogato11283 on Feb 10, 2017 22:41:02 GMT -5
the whole "gateway" drug theory is bogus. deviant behavior (let's call illegal drug use deviant for the purpose of this discussion), starts far before kids are of the age to partake in psycho active substances. as with most things in society it's about parenting. you have that friend in 5th, 6th grade who's parents let them watch R rated movies. shit, i'm goin over his house. my parents make me eat my vegetables and limit my sugar. my buddy's parents let him eat whatever candy and shit he wants. i'm goin over his house. my buddy's parents let him stay out way late without checking in. my parents want to know my every move. i'm having sleep overs at his house (no homo). his dad smokes cigarettes. when my buddy turns 18, they let him smoke. my parents think down about anyone who smokes. i'm going over his house. my buddy's parents are borderline alcoholics and never miss when some is gone from the bottle. my parents never drink. i'm goin over my buddy's house. then we smoke weed, then we try meth, then maybe pills, etc. what is the "gateway drug" in that scenario? i can make just as strong an argument for the ding dongs and snickers as someone could about the weed. tobacco and alcohol almost always come before weed. lame argument. Your post is kind of all over the place, but I'm glad you agree that weed is a gateway drug.
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Post by mmaphreak on Feb 11, 2017 1:24:19 GMT -5
nah. "gateway drug" is a made up term by parents who can't admit to their shortcomings. my kid ends up a tweaker? "it's weed's fault. that started it." my kid ends up a heroin junkie? "it's alcohol's fault! that started him on the road." nope. you failed as a parent. that's the point, and the failure started long before the kid ever took his first toke.
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Post by Premier on Feb 11, 2017 1:52:18 GMT -5
The weed is a gateway drug and should be illegal all over the world.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2017 15:44:01 GMT -5
Stuff just keeps getting better. Found out today that we have a right of way through the property next to ours, which grants us access to the natural gas pipeline which we wouldn't have had access to for another 4 years without the right of way.
So when all the other Growers have 20 or $30,000 a month electric bills, mine's going to be a lot lower. Have you guys ever heard of the Bloom Box? Surprisingly it has nothing to do with growing weed. LOL.
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