Preserving stem and roots?

[Huckster79]

Ok I'm a sentimental dude- just finished my first grow - micro grow one plans in a freezer that turned into a real Frankenstein - was fun.

Just harvested and I wNt to save my main stem and roots (though separate) for nostalgia... I'm going to turn stem into the stem of a pipe- nice bend as I LSTed heavily.

But wondering if I could save root mass... Here's the thought- it was grown In a perlite/vermiculite blend. Try washing the medium away and put it in a nice container and fill with that "fake water" that dries hard.....
Could this work or was the scissor hash too good?

 

[Stoner4Life]

stop sniffin' glue and have a Merry Christmas.......

 

[floralheart]

you can, but it'll just be some dusty old crap in 5 years. just my 2 cents.

 

[PoweredByLove]

for the stem just let it sit out somewhere till it dries. for the roots you can soak em in a tub of water till the media washes off, or let em get dry and shake it off. you might have more success with washing them off. I dunno about this fake water, do you mean like rosin/epoxy that they use to make those "crystals" with roses incased in em and whatnot. like acrylic? I don't see why it wouldn't. but you should look into how they preserve plants "encased in glass" I think there might be some steps you have to follow to make sure it doesn't continue to decompose inside the resin/epoxy/acrylic.

 

[Tonygreen]

i thought this was gonna be a root cloning thread!

 

[Mikell]

Powered is on the right track. Or I should say, we're of the same mind here.

I say do it. If it works it'll be a nice souvenir. If it doesn't, try again and forget that it was the second attempt when you tell someone the story.

 

[bakedline]

i totally thought i was going to tell you to reveg

 

[mr.brunch]

Clean and dry it and dip it in varnish?
It is wood after all, clear varnish should do

 

[St. Phatty]

but you should look into how they preserve plants "encased in glass" I think there might be some steps you have to follow to make sure it doesn't continue to decompose inside the resin/epoxy/acrylic.

Getting rid of the oxygen, basically pulling a vacuum while the plastic is still wet.

If you can find a shop that does investment casting for jewelry or whichever application, they would normally have a vacuum.

Basically you just let the clear plastic stuff cure in a vacuum.


No water either, but it sounds like you're drying it out.

You can do a very decent vacuum de-gasser sort of 'ghetto' or McGyver style. Just need a vacuum pump and a cavity to put the curing plastic in. Connect the 2 and make it air-tight.


Another possibility is having the root mass plated. As in gold or silver plated.

For that you need to establish a plastic surface on the dry root mass, which hopefully is not all droopy and LOOKS LIKE a root mass.

Once you have a plastic surface, it can be electro-plated using 'conventional' plastic plating techniques.

If you plated it with copper, over time it would pick up a nice blue green patina. So it would look even more like a little tree.

 

[Mate Dave]

Take a picture.. Then dump that shit bro... Not worth the hassle

 

[stoned-trout]

I saved a bigass stem and roots once.. I put it in my cockatiels cage as a perch.. he munched on a lot of it...he always did like his weed.....yeehaw..I miss the little guy

 

[Huckster79]

Yea the resin stuff like powers was thinking. I'm going to give it a shot...

But I'm for sure planning on drying stem and using it as a stem on a pipe- going to carve a bowl out of rosewood I think it is the websites sell in blocks for making a traditional tobacco type pipe out of... If it smokes like crap idc itll b cool just to hang up...

May not be worth th hassle but something to do at night for the hell of it....