Harvest & Curing harvest THC crystals from plants as they are growing?

[hedgeraider]

Someone asked me about fast automatics that are finished in 56 days and i read that it just makes small low thc yields...

It makes more sense to leave the plants growing and to take THC from it with razor blades from the leaves, after 56 days ... so the plants still grow as fast, and the grower has more and more THC as the plants mature... perhaps THC cells refill themselves and the plant produces more thc from it. also to take a mirror and smudge it around the buds and then use the razor to make a joint from it ? :Hookah:

anyone want to scrape their plants and see how much they can get from one of them I cant because it's a joint project.

 

[namvet25]

None of this makes sense.Once you srape the resin off they will not make any more.If you want to smoke resin make hash from the leaves and smoke that.

 

[wwwillie]

Hmmm, you read it? Can you cite it for us please? Thanks!

 

[A Gardener]

I'm imagining your partner in the joint project strolling in to find their girl being scrubbed with a mirror......".....WTF!!!!"

unfortunately I don't believe we can 'milk' our ganja (yet... seedbanks MAKE this happen) and you'd likely just batter your lady for an amount less than yielded later via bubble etc. I try to have absolutely zero contact apart from necessary, and that means buds generally wont be touched until I manicure, and barely then.

That said........ if I ever have a field of the stuff growing I'll dress in a boiler suit and just run around collecting it all over me. I'm a Dreamer.

 

[NekoSempai]

I understand what your saying, I just dont believe it works that way.

At least I believe I understand you.
Someone asked you about fast Autos.
What did they ask you about them?
You read about it being low THC content at the 56 day mark
Yes, there are autos that can finish pretty fast ~50-60 days. Generally they take ~75-85 days on average. Some can take a tad longer.
You believe it would be more logical to let it grow longer to get higher THC content
This would be true since generally autos take longer then 56 days to fully mature.
You also are wondering if you can scrape some resin off the sugar leaves at the 56 day mark, and will the trics grow back and produce more resin.
I dont believe the trics will grow back. It still may produce more new resin glands if its not done yet but, those ones you took off wont refill back.


I hope I got what you were saying/asking?:Gary:

 

[Chester]

Interesting thought ... I can see fondling up a handful of finger hash on a weekly basis ... I wonder if the Trichomes would be replaced and if so how long ...

 

[NekoSempai]

I know the Jamacains make finger hash off plants during flowering a couple times. Then there is still enough resin to have some smoke. Idk how good it would be after that though. This is with Photoperiod plants though. So, not sure if it would work out as well with autos. Who knows lol.

 

[Jtsmoker]

Wash them upside down with some tane in a glass bowl out side by the way that will take the thc off lol

 

[BII]

in this context, seeking a renewable source of cannabinoids, what we really need is the ability (added option) to culture high-yield cannabis cell lines in simple desktop photosynthesis bioreactors (glass containers with light blasting on them). Why not have the option of "growing" cannabis, or rather making custom oils, through fermentation, more like making yogurt, beer, wine, etc.?

I want to be able to cut off some tissue, say trichomes, from a live plant, break the tissue down to individual cells (e.g., using an enzyme, ultrasound, etc. - common lab. methods) into liquid suspension (individual cells separated); culture the cells in a bioreactor (mix cells and nutrient solution with light); filter/separate/concentrate the cells (remove water); and get oil (or oily green glop) with the targeted cannabinoids/terpenes profile. It would't be directly smokable or maybe not even vapable but it would be nice to have, including for direct use in edibles. You could purify specific components and even isomers, such as by solvent extraction (e.g., alcohol, butane) or fractional distillation using a rotary evaporator. A "manufacturing campaign" likely would take at most days. The nutrients (culture media) likely simple and cheap. And there is no need for any genetic engineering, just ability to grow selected natural cells at high yield in liquid media.

Does anyone know the status of cannabinoids manufacture by such cell culture methods?