[GainGreene]

"Finally, a water dripper is needed to ensure a slow, steady drip of water on top of the lava rocks." This makes me laugh. BBQ buds

[Tangwena]

Originally Posted by GainGreene

"Finally, a water dripper is needed to ensure a slow, steady drip of water on top of the lava rocks." This makes me laugh. BBQ buds

Reserve you judgement lest you feel less than informed later on, this is based on sound practice.
open your mind

[GainGreene]

Smoke your buds and some ribs at the same time? Is this a good or bad idea?

[Tangwena]

My friend history is being made here remember people laughed at Columbus too

[baduy]

Hi Log roller! Looks very interesting and promising. Outside the box stoner thinking at it's best.
Do you by chance have any links to provide about tobacco flue curing?

Super cool process! Definitely not happening in my apartment, though.

I wonder if you could rig up a portable induction cooktop as your burner and dispense with like half the complexity? Some of those have pretty low temp settings and would be 100% consistent in terms of temperature. Keep the water drip, get a big ass pot with a vegetable steaming rack and a vented lid and you could conceivably be able to achieve the same results, and more consistency, with perhaps better safety/portability...if I understand your process correctly.

Something like this induction burner (and pan!) is relatively cheap and has a very wide temp range at 10 degree increments (tho I have no idea if you can run those things for hours/days at a time):

https://www.amazon.com/NuWave-30242-...uction+cooktop

[log roller]

Originally Posted by thesloppy

Super cool process! Definitely not happening in my apartment, though.

Yes, you're right, one thing I forgot to mention is this is a super stinky process. Totally not viable for anyone who is living in tight quarters with anti-weed types, especially in non-legal states. The steam given off smells like straight skunk and after you have been tending this thing for a couple days, you will be soaked from head to toe with skunk odor. I actually got pulled over and written a traffic ticket one night while in the middle of this experiment, and the cop said he smelled "polecat" (skunk) and he knew that smell well cause he had been sprayed by one once.

For apartment dwellers, closet growers, and others working on a small scale, I recommend using Tangwena's process instead, which will give you excellent results with no smell. This process is more meant for people who might be curing larger amounts of weed. You can also put the barrel inside of a larger structure and use it to heat/humidify that structure, which is my plan for the next experiment a few months down the road.

It's important to note that steam will only be coming out of the device if humidity reaches above 95-99%. Under correct conditions there should be no steam at all. If you stick your hand in there it will just feel hot and humid. Humidity and temperature gauges are a must, but digital gauges will tend to cloud up as the moisture gets inside and it will ruin them. You need some kind of gauge set that is usable in moist conditions.

I wonder if you could rig up a portable induction cooktop as your burner and dispense with like half the complexity?

Perhaps, however, I believe the flue gases being given off by the burner are a critical part of the process. Inside the barrel is a CO2-rich, oxygen-poor environment, and I believe this is largely responsible for the changes seen during the coloring stage. In my experiment, almost all of the change was seen during coloring, and after the log was rolled and placed back in the chamber, not much further change occurred.

It could be that the log rolling step could be skipped completely. You could do the coloring and colorset, and when the buds are at the right moisture level, take them out of the barrel and hang them for a short time to equalize, and then jar them. Doing that you could shorten the process to as little as 24 hours from live plant to jarred buds! I like the logs however as it's a good way to store and handle the end product. Much more experimentation is needed to figure out all the ins and outs of this process.

If we were to do things your way with an induction burner, the coloring process may or may not proceed the same way. I'm not sure, however, it would be a very good idea for someone to try this and see what the results are! That would definitely help us to understand the process better. Once the log is rolled and sealed up then the induction heater would definitely work from that point on.

[log roller]

Originally Posted by baduy

Hi Log roller! Looks very interesting and promising. Outside the box stoner thinking at it's best.
Do you by chance have any links to provide about tobacco flue curing?

Hi baduy, thanks for stopping in. This experiment was conducted back in January and that's when I was reading up on tobacco curing. Don't remember the sources I read from, however, if you search for "tobacco flue curing pdf" on Google it will bring up page after page of PDF files on the subject. I'm downloading some of those papers now and will do some reading on them this evening.

[log roller]

Originally Posted by Tangwena

My friend history is being made here remember people laughed at Columbus too

Tangwena, one thing that always impressed me about your thread was the polite way you handled and turned away the doubters and naysayers. I will try to follow in your footsteps so this can be a thread of learning for us all rather than yet another hate fest full of arguing and insults.

[mushroombrew]

I am still not sure what the benefit is?

Like the "gold" varieties of old. The buds are left on the plant and they stop watering. The buds dry "on the vine" and turn golden yellow. But it's mainly a novelty.

I am just not sure why you would do this to quality smoke?

Not trying to piss on your parade I just think it is an odd practice?