Spent the day playing around with little bolts to put this together. Should extend my growing window by a month, won’t be able to extend end of season I think though.

Still not out of the woods for frost, but I transplanted the non hardened broom corn and planted some more seeds with them. I also transplanted a couple Marigold and Nasturtium starts with some seeds as well.

I left some space between the tall ornamental grasses as I’ve gotten a cold frame to install on the block above this narrow bed.

Consequences of still going hard, but not being able to install a greenhouse this year. These have taken over two 3x3 grow tents and then some.

There’s more germing on some heat mats too!

These are a collection of flowers; marigolds, aster, lupins, nasturtiums, straw flower, corn flower, decorative grass.

There is also for veggies; peppers (9 types), tomatoes (9 types), onions and leeks.

On the heatmat, there’s the 4-6 week starts, so cucumber, melons, more flowers and some cucamelon.

It’s my understanding that a bunch of root vegetables like carrots, daikons, turnips, parsnips, rutabagas, etc. all grow their first year to store energy for the second years seeding.

Parsnips and turnips/rutabaga iirc say to harvest after a frost or two to sweeten them up, so I missed a bunch.

These are onion starts that I planted last spring in a garden bed I hadn’t properly cleaned up last fall.

Of course these are doing better than the actual spring onion starts I germed this year -.-

In the picture there’s a good assortment of 6-8 week starts. In no particular order there is; marigolds, nasturtiums, onions, broom corn (6” pots), zinnias, 8 or so tomato and pepper variety’s. Some of the tomatoes and peppers are mixed between the domes and the cups.

The other tent will be available this weekend, still have a window of starts. Still can’t work the soil, but this weekend I should be able to start spring cleaning if it doesn’t snow again.

LFG growmies!

Nothing special, just some potting soil and some cups.

Fill up with dirt, make a hole and drop the Brownies in and water lightly.

Flowers starts are starting fantastically!

In the back row are lupins and Asters in rockwool. I’m surprised the Lupins have sprouted, supposed to take 30+ days.

In the middle the left is Nasturtiums, cat grass and Asters sowed in dirt.

Front row is Zinnias and Marigolds in rockwool and another direct sow Asters.

I also have a few heat mats of tomato, pepper, onion and leek starts!

I’m in the midst of getting my planning done, 8 week starts need to get started next week for last frost at end of May.

This way I’ll know approximately how many seedlings to start and I can keep track of which ones we enjoy. With the layouts, it will allow me to keep track of crop rotations to minimize nutrient depletion. I most likely won’t do a round of cover crops though, I can always just throw some of my other nutrients to top up when needed.

Edit Link to the Libreoffice and Excel doc the file was just saved as excel format, so there is likely formatting issues. If the link reaches its limit send me a msg and I’ll make another.

Grabbed some seeds during a valentines sale, they are just pricey otherwise (over $10 a seed for decent genetics) it still came out to $255Cad.

Haul is all fem:

10x bubble kush from RQS

10x Powerflower from RQS

3x legendary OG Punch RQS

5x White Widow AUTOs RQS

And the freebies which appear to come From Canuks seeds are:

2x Strawberry Banana

2x Fruity pebbles.

I mainly picked RQS as I got them in my last round and was happy with the genetics, they were also one of the 40% breeders, so bonus. The Kush is just for some nice dense buds, the power flower seemed like a nice hash producer and the White Widows were only available in autos, but I like messing with them once in a while.

The Legendary OG Punch is just a beautiful strain, and paid out the butt for these ones.

I’ve grown some Canuk seeds before, the autos went south on me, but that could have been grower problems, but free is free.

Processing about 2.4kg of fresh frozen cannabis.

My technique definitely needs to be improved, but that’s why we do this stuff and learn right?

I’m washing it 4 batches of 600g each. Next time I’ll probably make them smaller still.

I also feel like I am adding too much ice, even though I add less each time… the stuff frosts up and I’m sure it’s not getting the stuff in between the denser buds.

Even though, the returns are decent I would say, and I’m saving the washed bud for edibles, so nothings wasted. I’ll dial in the technique for next run. I collect the trichomes from the 25 and 74 micron bags, I’ll keep them separated and from there I’ll press it into hash rosin.

Picture is from batch 1/4

Got 4x 2ml carts from 7g of Rosin. I had to use some liquidizer to get it more flowable, it was liquidy at 50c, but it would probably gum back up when coming down.

So if my math is right, I added about 1ml of liquidizer (instructions say 2ml/g but that’s uncarbed as well) so per gram they want you to be 1/3 concentrate, so I’m not expecting it to taste much like the “strawberry” it’s supposed to. So with their instructions I should come out with 21ml or 10 full carts. Shit would be weak, but we will see if it’s even smokable at this consistency.

I’ve made some posts throughout the journey, but any specific Qs feel free and I’ll try to answer them, but I ain’t no expert here.

Winded up taking about 3 hours at 200f until I didn’t see any more bubbles forming, it doesn’t appear to have recrystalized. So today I’m gonna warm it back up and get it into some carts.

It’s cold from the fridge, so not very flowable right now, so will likely need to use my flavored liquidizers, but the terpenes all didn’t boil off, still has a beautiful smell.

Bubble hash

And the resulting Rosin. Winded up looking more like butter though.

This is about 30 minutes into a potentially 30 hour process.

The oven is set to 200f, and you put the Rosin (or any concentrate of your choice is my understanding) in a mason jar and let her rip until all of the CO2 bubbles stop forming. This turns the crystalline thc-a into the liquidy thc.

From there I’m going to do a few carts a few different ways, I have liquidizers to flavor and help thin if needed, but in theory I should be able to put the decarbed rosin liquid right into a cartridge and go.

It’s “Live” rosin because I froze my cannabis immediately after harvest. The “Fresh Frozen” cannabis was than put through a bubble wash machine to get Bubble Hash. From there the Bubble Hash was dried and cured and then pressed into rosin. And from Rosin to here now.

Going to trim off some growth sites today and install the second trellis.

She filled the tent out beautifully though, still another week of stretch I’m assuming (hoping?).