furrywall11
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I find using a heat gun around butane to be sketchy at best. I'm using 4 therapeutic heating pads from kmart to heat my 4x72" column.
I find using a heat gun around butane to be sketchy at best. I'm using 4 therapeutic heating pads from kmart to heat my 4x72" column.
The only thing I noticed running this heat tape is that the column didn't ice up. I am thinking if not for the thermostat the heat tape would make more of a difference. Also this heat tape uses 27 watts which should have been a dead giveaway of its efficacy.Unless this is some kind of kick ass heat tape it won't do any good to speed up recovery time. I've tried several heat tapes and found that I still prefer to use my heat gun to defrost the spool during recovery.
The only thing I noticed running this heat tape is that the column didn't ice up. I am thinking if not for the thermostat the heat tape would make more of a difference. Also this heat tape uses 27 watts which should have been a dead giveaway of its efficacy.
No appreciable difference in recovery time, bah.
From packing soil and plants full of nutrients including trace elements, we get MORE plant fats. A lot more actually. How much more? Is the question. . . I forget sometimes that talking growing with gardeners from other ways and walks is sometimes more than challenging. Ill keep the grow talk to the organic soil forum to keep it simple. Its all good. As long as everyone is happy with their harvest thats what matters most, lol. To each their own..
Respectfully,
FE
In your experience does a plant that ran out of nutrients towards the end of its life also yield more resin?Excuse me if I comment off subject here.
I do agree that if a plant has more nutrients it will be bigger and produce more, but is that really the goal? My goal is to produce herb that is the best tasting and most potent resin, and to be honest plants with excess nutrients are not the best tasting.
While growing the same clone I find that the best tasting plants are those that run out of nutrients 3/4 of the way through flowering, and begin to yellow. I have zero doubt about this, although I do grow organically/bio-dynamically in the ground, I am sure that flushed hydro plants are superior in quality if not quantity.
Think about it, to produce the finest wine grapes do growers pour nitrogen on their vines? Why not? Because although you will get more wine it is not as good as plants basically unfertilized as well as being heavily pruned to yield less but superior grapes. Cannabis is the same. I understand that many growers want quantity over quality, but I am not one of them.
-SamS
In your experience does a plant that ran out of nutrients towards the end of its life also yield more resin?
Also do you have any theories as to what makes a nutrient starved cannabis plant have superior taste?
The only thing I noticed running this heat tape is that the column didn't ice up. I am thinking if not for the thermostat the heat tape would make more of a difference. Also this heat tape uses 27 watts which should have been a dead giveaway of its efficacy.
No appreciable difference in recovery time, bah.
Not so sure about that, I would need to analyze the same clone running out of nutrients and not to find out if the THC % is higher or just better smelling and tasting.
I think a well fed plant has more nitrogen, which is good for growth and not good for taste. I have not proved this it just seems common sense. I have seen hydro give more herb and THC in total, but I like the taste of plants that are organically grown in soil and run out of nutrients about 3/4 of the way through flowering.
-SamS
How is the bag appeal and smell of plants that have been allowed to "yellow out"?This has been proven time and time again in my small circle of growers! Fine line between quality and quantity! Yellow is the new green{maximum senescence}. A plant that gets to yellow out super hard{inside leaves yellow too not just fans} is much much nicer then smoking a green plant IMO.
I tried the heat tape and didn't notice any time savings. The tape melted the ice on the column but not much else.
Does anyone have an idea how much butane is in the column once it is dumped? I'm wondering if the time it takes for the column to dethaw and recover that butane is it worth waiting.
Would it be a big butane or oil loss to close the valves and recover just the butane in the collection pot?
a kit? as in a IIIa to build? if so, hit me up as I over them. I'd avoid specialized for a plethora of reasons
How is the bag appeal and smell of plants that have been allowed to "yellow out"?