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400W Medicine Cupboard

indifferent

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Tips like this are one of the many reasons I love this place.

Cheers!

Try it for yourself mate, it's dead simple and you can make oil from any trash - mouldy buds even. I like to put all the little stems from the middle of my buds in a half pint glass on my desk. When it's half full, I pour in some ISO, stir it with a pencil for 30 secs then strain it through a hanky onto a plate, purge it for half an hour et voila - a nice little bit of oil, maybe only 0.2-0.4g, but it's turned useless stalks and stems into pure headfuck mindcandy. Any qs you have about qwiso, fire away, I've been making loads of it lately and got my technique down pat pretty much. One other thing QWISO is good for is turning bad commercial or unflushed, badly burning bud into something highly desirable.
 

Blimey

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Thanks for the advice, indifferent.

I will certainly give it a try with my twigs and popcorn when my Free Tibet finishes up...all in the interests of documentation, of course, as I'm doing a far-too-detailed thread on it in Somaland.

Plus...my germination problems are now over, and I'm sure I'll have a few males to dispose of in a few weeks.

Is it worth processing males in this way? Previously, I've just been smoking 'em - usually a mellow buzz, but I get concerned about all the ferts etc that are still in the plant, as they aren't flushed in any way...

Also....what brand is best? I hears hazyfontazy mention Maplins - but like anything, there's always a choice - and we're talking Isopropyl alcohol, right?

Hahaha....once I start asking questions.....it never stops.

Thanks again for your help...and inspiration.
 
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DoffCocker

Lovely balls. :)

Just hope the plod havent got your finger/palm prints on record. :p
 

indifferent

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You need Isopropanol, also called Isopropyl Alcohol. You need at least 96.9% pure, preferably 99%, not sure where is best to get it, I got a 5 litre size for a tenner from a friend, not sure where he got em, somewhere online I think.

Got a link to your Free Tibet work? Never seen that strain grown out.

You can use the QWISO method on males, I have done. I had two PA x OG males, I flowered em for 6 weeks then turned em into oil, two small batches, this allowed me to determine which had the greater resin content as one produced a fair bit more oil than the other.
 

indifferent

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Hope that Free Tibet turns out nice for ya, looks good so far. I highly approve of all ghetto growing methods!

I took some snaps of the LED light now the lights have come on, it's a nice pink/red colour when it reflects off the duct and the mylar, I think it looks like it will do a good job of filling in the missing light intensity down that end of the box under the duct.

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I've mounted the 160-LED 12W panel down the other end, I'll wire up the driver and get it running after I've had my onion bhajis for supper. I love me onion bhajis so I have begun trying to make my own, these ones look nice, have to see how they taste!

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I placed a Highland Oaxacan Gold cutting right in front of the LED lights, see what effect they have on her. Quite frankly, I fucked this plant up, it seemed to find my soilmix toxic and while the growth tips stayed lush and green, everything else went yellow and lots of leaves were lost, which stunted her into a small plant, and the yierld is gonna suck compared to what she's capable of, so I have deemed her to have 'experimental status' and will be the recipient of whatever experimentation I deem valid between now and whenever I decide to kill her. She's at 42 days and should take 90-100, but looks like she has a couple of weeks left, perhaps the shocks and stresses she has had and general ill health has made her finish up real fast? I'm keeping her going a good while yet though to see what effect the LEDs have on her and to experiment a bit with some exotic feeding.

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You can see the pink/red of the LEDs reflecting on the left hand side of the buds, looks pretty to me, just hope it makes them buds grow bigger!
 

englishrick

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you guys ,,,,you guys,,,,,makin your own LED`s.......sh111t,,,,..fuk,,, you allways do things beffore ive had a chance to even start plannin,,

1 thing i will say is,,,,with the oil,,,,technical grade iso makes me feel sick,,,,,,,and 99.9% iso is available from Hyperclene UK,,,,ive got the phone number and address if any1 wants it,,,i whent through a phaze of wanting to do iso washes all the time,,,,,but in the end irelized the only way to preserve the taste is to use a nonpolar solvent like butane or hexane,,,,,,pure butaine [davifoff] is 1 of the best
 
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Hope the bhaji's were nice man, did ya add any canna-oil lol?!!:yes:

How long did it take to solder all them bits??:chin:

stay cool..!!::
 

Elevator Man

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That pheno of the OGK X PA cross (have to write it the right way round!) is looking absolutely splendid so far - super-bushy with many, many branches, tight internodal length, and dark green, waxy leaves - awesome. If this flowers like it vegges, it's going to be killer - physically at least. More pics soon...
 

indifferent

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Look forward to seeing some pics of that PAxOG, they think they have fixed me car, have fitted a new crank sensor and hoping that does the trick. If so I shall have to come see her for myself. The pheno I have is cured for 2 weeks now and smells and smokes good. I can't wait to run her again and get her dialled in properly so I can properly assess.

Bhajis were not great, 6/10, will have to keep workin on it!

The soldering took forever, I soldered about a thousand of the little bastards, I'll show you the other panels and what I'm gonna do with them shortly, I have a madcap experiment planned.
 

Elevator Man

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The soldering took forever, I soldered about a thousand of the little bastards, I'll show you the other panels and what I'm gonna do with them shortly, I have a madcap experiment planned.
Not the time-machine again. I know it's tempting to try Colombia, circa 1979, but you do need to get back in one piece...;)
 

indifferent

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Actually I was aiming for 1915, sonora desert, watch Pancho Villa start the revolution while picking up some of that proper crazy weed the yaqui indians were growing and perhaps grab a fat sack of peyote buttons too lol

or maybe The highlands of the Sierra Madre, spring of 67, sampling the best from the crop of 66, then stuff a van full of it and drive north to Monterrey to catch Hendrix rofl

Just a small insight into my madness - I've been wantign to investigate the effects of different wavelengths of UVon flowering plants so I've made two panels with 380-385nm LEDs, two with 390-400nm and two with 400-410nm LEDs, each panel consumes 6W and has 60 LEDs, which means I've soldered 360 UV LEDs just to be able to assess the effects of UVA light. Then there are the 7 or 8 other panels with white and blue LEDs.

Guess you can say I've had the time on my hands.

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Hazyfontazy

Wind and rain are both in constant plentiful supply round ere! lol

funnily i just done power generation this week at college ,it aint that hard to build a hydro or wind generator ,hydro is best if u live on a hill lol ,,fuck it build it nuclear ,,anybody got any uranium ?
 

indifferent

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funnily i just done power generation this week at college ,it aint that hard to build a hydro or wind generator ,hydro is best if u live on a hill lol ,,fuck it build it nuclear ,,anybody got any uranium ?

It ain't hard - wave a few magnets at a coil of wire et voila - elastic trickery.

The issues are to do with where to mount a wind turbine, how to connect it to the mains, or indeed, whether to not connect it to the mains and instead connect it to a series of accumulator batteries and store the power.

I'm thinking a small, 60cm 800w turbine on my roof connected to an old UPS from ebay and bob's your mother's brother!
 
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