Marzcanna

Good thing you doing bro respect.

Hard to tell without a closer look at the trichomes. Use a jewelers Loupe or mini microscope. Depanding on what effect you want from your buds, more amber trichomes, more of a sedative effect, more Milky more of a head high. You want a balance of most milky and a few amber trichomes for the right harvest time

They looking healthy

Yes the oil pump is a nice feature, it's like having a swimming pool to your house or sunroof to your car. Gota get the pump

That's the freeze dryer, its the cheaper version of the cryo cure machine if I'm not mistaken. This type of machines cost alot of money. Let me try the frost - less method, 3rd times the charm and I ll update

Looks good bru

Found a good video describing cryo freeze technology better its actually an ad for cryo cure Cryo Cure Video

In theory yes, compared to most techniques / curing methods yes

I dont think we allowed to link to other forums but there a certain international forum, with this same topic and people getting heated over it, its a few pages long but if you read through it, alot of the people who didn't think would work actually commented back saying it actually works. I agree with all of what you saying hence why i was one of the guys on that forum throwing smoke at the people for the same reasons as you mentioned, the truth is you have to try it, dont know why but it seems to work better than hang dry. And we all agree that slow dry is the way to go, no questions about it but for some strange reason this method has worked for many better than hang drying, and if im too judge on my 2nd try i will have to agree

unfortunately no links to such units, im fortunate enough to have bought a 2020 fridge with built in freezer which happens to be frost-less

agreed, water curing has its place to save some buds if you had powdery mildew, but I would also use it as a last resort, agreed smoke is smoother but taste is gone, worse case if you have no choice to either save bud or throw it away, than water cure it. Atleast you won't lose out on your hard work but if it's only a small batch than it's not even worth it. Give the frost-less freezer method a try, but I have to point out that is must be a frost-less freezer. Most modern fridges with built in freezer are frost-less but I'd advise anyone trying this to make sure of that first

Sounds about right almost how I cure my stuff. Let it air dry put in a jar once its around 65% Rh anything above bud must come out, keep burping as normal until it reaches 60%, 58% for long term storage. There's even a technique to jar them a day to bring out moisture if your buds dry out within two days. It will help but you will still except to get the hay taste. Which in some cases you can make it better with longer curing but it still stays, only thing that's actually improves is the smoke, once the chlorophyll locks due to quick dry you will always have that hay smell and taste. I have tried the fridge cure, I think it's more of a preference. Dry ice and water cure is something I won't be doing again

It's probly the same way how cryo freeze preserves the weight and taste with full cure within 24hrs. You will have to do some research on cryo freeze to understand the reasons for frost-less freezer, there's a book out covering it very well as on the international forums. I'm not on how's and whys it works except it does. it's a highly debateable topic all over due to its nature. At first I also thought what alot of BS, 15 years growing, I've tried all the curing method out there so ofcuz I thought this was too good to be true but you have to try it to be able to give an opinion so that's what I did and after trying the first time with fail you would think that was enough, however I found out I did a few things wrong the first time, so I did it a 2nd time, I found out why some swear by it , take a gram and try it for yourself and let us know here. I will try it a 3rd time and if it's anything like the last cure, I will only cure this way . If you want to further understand this method search Sublimation using a frost-less freezer, and cryo freeze

Doesn't increase the intial yield it preserves the wet weight of your buds. When you hang dry you can lose up 50% of your weight

Yes you can do it with the dry ice but the outcome is far from each other in terms of taste and smoke, hang dry cure vs dry ice vs water cure, hands down dry cure is best. Hands down frost-less freezer above it all. I only got it right the 2nd time of trying but if my third time is the same as my 2nd time, I will cure all my buds this way, the taste is nothing like anything I ever tasted. According to the original source, leaving it an hour a day is achieving the condensation & defrost steps

So what is Sublimation? Well in short, sublimation is a process during which a solid is turned into a gas, skipping the liquid stage in between. Controlled radiant heat is applied during this process, converting the frozen moisture in the product directly into vapor. Okay, but what does that actually mean? It means you can cure your cannabis through freezing technique, one such famous technique is cyro cure / cyro freeze. "Cryo Cure’s patent-pending cannabis drying and curing process gives harvested cannabis that “fresh from the farm” feeling, preserving the color, smell, and texture lost during the typical weekslong curing process. By skipping the hanging drying process, “Cryo Cured” cannabis evades human error that could ruin a harvest, increasing yield while delivering product to retail shelves faster than ever before in the cannabis industry." HOW DOES THE CRYO CURE CANNABIS CURING MACHINE WORK & CAN YOU STIIL DO IT WITHOUT ONE? STEP 01: FREEZING The first step in the Cryo Cure process is to freeze the cannabis or industrial hemp to -20 to -30 degrees for no less than 10 hours to preserve the shape and integrity. Select Cryo Cure models have a built-in freezer for this purpose, or you can use a separate freezer that’s the right size and specifications for sub-critical temperatures STEP 02: VACUUM PRESSURE The now-frozen product is placed into the material chamber under vacuum pressure in order to facilitate sublimation. STEP 03: SUBLIMATION We already touched on this, this is when sublimation occurs STEP 04 CONDENSATION: The vapor is condensed back into a solid and collected in the ice bank STEP 05 DEFROST: The ice in the ice bank is melted and drained from the ice bank in the form of a hydrosol liquid. Any terpenes lost in the sublimation process can be reclaimed from the hydrosol to be used in other processed products such as vape pens and oils. THATS ALL GREAT BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR THE AVARAGE JOE As promising and innovating as that all sounds, not all of us have the financial backing to invest on a cryo-freeze machine. BUT that's not the end of it, we can actually take the same principal and apply it using a "FROST-LESS" freezer. The outcome when done right is bigger and fresher bud with enhanced terpene profile & smell. SO HOW CAN WE TRY TO REPLICATE IT? This is what you wanna do.... Grab something like a small cardboard box or plastic container & place under your buds leaving buds open to air. Do not lay it on bare plastic, most of today's plastics aren't breathable in certain temps. Use some type of breathable material. Leave it in the frost-less freezer for two weeks. Don't touch them, if anything grab some tongs(lunch lady style) turn them each side one week each so both sides are exposed(VERY GENTLY TRICHS WILL FALL IN THESE TEMPS). Third week take it out a hour a day before returning it into the freezer, after the 3rd week you may remove it OUT FREEZER & into jars to continue cure for a week+ or as normal This method doesn't not replicate the cyro freeze in terms of speed that cryo freeze achieves at full cure in 24hrs, but it does somewhat replicate the preservation of weight and taste that you will never achieve with hang drying NOTE: A "FROST-LESS" freezer is required, normal freezer will build-up frost on your buds damaging them & I would suggest you try it out with a small batch first

Good on you man, taking that step foward in changing the mindset around cannabis and showing your work to people of cape Town. I'm all for the movement of changing people's mind set of cannabis. Because let's be real there's still alot of people that associate cannabis with the wrong ideas and it's our duty as caltivators to change that mind set. So good one man

No, not dried ice altho it goes on the same principles. I ll post a thread tonight about how to do it and the science to back it up. Short summary, you need a "frost-less" freezer to be able to do it, you hang dry for a day or 2 than (I now cut and straight into freezer) throw them in a shoe box or plastic container with some bratheable material at the bottom, leave in there for 2 weeks after that, remove it from the freezer and let it stand out for an hour a day for a week, after that jar it and continue curing as normal. There's a thread on the international forums stating the process better , it's there I found out about this, after the 2nd try, What I found was that my buds lost almost no weight and the trepen profile was out of this world. Note: you need a frost-less freezer. Do not try with a normal freezer, save your bud

All the above sounds about right. There's anther method more advanced curing called "Sublimation". I got this right the 2nd time around , the best tasting buds i have tasted and amazing bag appeal. It baiscly takes the same principle of "cyro-freeze" cure but with a frost - less freezer. Dispite the grim idea of it, like I said it's probly the best cure I have ever done, first time was not so good, yet way better than "water - curing". I encourage people to do some research on it, if you have hot temps and bad RH with buds drying up as fast as 2 days than this method will work for you. Once you perfect it, you probly won't hang dry again

Do we have a coco section on the forum? Would be nice to have if we dont, theres alot to cover on coco especially for new growers trying it out, would be easier for them to find coco related threads. Just ask if you need further assistance, I've grown in all types of medium and systems (Even Hydro) coco is by far my favorite & and i hope you will enjoy growing in it, It can be confusing and at times seems complex, in reality its quite simple once you have it dial in. Whatever you do in coco the principal to remember when coming across problems is that you are feeding the coco and not the plant, cocos caution exchange capacity is significant because it is a measure of the quantity of nutrients the media is able to hold on to before nutrients start leaching out. Plants are able to access the cations attached to the cation exchange capacity, eg cal-mag deficiency is common due to this, it holds on to calcium and magnesium until those cation exchange capacity is met and than makes it available to the plant. So for that reason i would advise feeding cal-mag in all feedings. Once you have everything dialed in the growth rate will surprise you

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Unfortunately I haven't had the pleasure to try your seeds. Maybe hit me up a private so I can organise some. It's unfortunate but you will always get negative people especially around the net. If there's any constructive criticism, take it if not just shrug it off, unfortunately there will always be one or two of those reviews from time to time especially when people start taking about what you doing and providing. Keep you head up and wishing you all the best

You better off investing 1-3k on a par meter or the cheaper alternative, a lux meter for around R400 Your phone will never be able to read accuratly the high levels of par/lux admited by grow lights. Even a lux meter won't work if you using burple lights It maybe an expensive piece of equipment just to do one job but it will take your grow to the next level as you are providing the best lux/par levels of your leds to every stage of your plants cycle

Just to add to what my buddy @The_StonedTroopersaid too much watering can and Wil make your medium saturated and muddy, even in coco, especially if you brave like me and use amendments with Coco. However with coco/perlite you need runoff to push out the salt build up in your medium and most "importantly" you want to keep your EC/PPM/PH in check at all times, coco is an insert medium, you can treat as soil or treat it like hydro, so you need to measure those of your input solution and runoff. With good quality coco and perfect ratio of airation, you can actually water/multiple times a day, quality coco fibers doesnt break down as quickly and with the right amount of airation the medium doesn't get as saturated as long as you don't go crazy with the run off 10-20% is enough. Wish you a good grow buddy

Looking good bro