Live Stoner Chat Live Stoner Chat - Apr-Jun '25

[Frankthetank]

asks for advice and then pushes back on the advice s

Hmmmm…..I’m the same way with doctors

 

[Lil Dab]

I’ll be the odd one out and disagree….. I don’t even own a scope

I adjusted my thinking when I heard a cannabis scientist talking about how the amber is nothing more than enzymatic browning, and a poor predictor of ripening (her position is that optimal ripeness happens a little before a large portion of trichomes amber up).

I don’t know if she’s right, wrong or otherwise….but I’ve enjoyed my harvests more since changing harvest points….

Go ahead, lemme have it…

I’m with ya bro except I have a scope anytime I leave mine too long my return from pressing drops way off and terps are gone too

 

[Frankthetank]

I’m with ya bro except I have a scope anytime I leave mine too long my return from pressing drops way off and terps are gone too

Yep, that’s kinda what that lady said….terps are highest earlier in the window….

 

[WildBill]

This talking about stinky stuff has given me a flashback!....... Actually two flashbacks!

One led to the other!




You would never think that something that smelled sweet and delicious, would actually turn into something extremely nauseating.
I was traveling in the South Texas Valley during the harvest time of their cantaloupes. As I got closer to the farming area, the scent grew stronger. Now there are many many many sections(640ac/section) of farmland growing the exact same thing or some small variant of cantaloupe. I was going right through the middle of it too! It was absolutely insane how strong and intense the scent was!

And the other flashed back was my crop of Israeli Ogden melons that I grew on the property across from my farm. I don't know if you can still get that exact strain today. A simply amazing flavorful melon! About the only downside was that it's not a long distance carrier. It would be mainly for local farm to market. Absolutely insane production also!
I can still imagine that early morning smell of the melons as I'm getting ready to go to work. Not only was that a smell of something good to eat, it was also the smell of money. All the stars were aligned and it got rain when it needed it. I had to put my Uncle to work to harvest them all. He hired some locals that did the actual harvesting and I had local grocers from five different towns buying them, uncle also sold them roadside and on the weekends we sold them down at the farm to market. We had a good solid month of extremely high quality harvest.

I don't know how well they would do in higher latitudes but they definitely need a good sandy loam. If the same strain is still available, it is definitely worth the grow!

 

[Frankthetank]

This talking about stinky stuff has given me a flashback!....... Actually two flashbacks!

One led to the other!




You would never think that something that smelled sweet and delicious, would actually turn into something extremely nauseating.
I was traveling in the South Texas Valley during the harvest time of their cantaloupes. As I got closer to the farming area, the scent grew stronger. Now there are many many many sections(640ac/section) of farmland growing the exact same thing or some small variant of cantaloupe. I was going right through the middle of it too! It was absolutely insane how strong and intense the scent was!

And the other flashed back was my crop of Israeli Ogden melons that I grew on the property across from my farm. I don't know if you can still get that exact strain today. A simply amazing flavorful melon! About the only downside was that it's not a long distance carrier. It would be mainly for local farm to market. Absolutely insane production also!
I can still imagine that early morning smell of the melons as I'm getting ready to go to work. Not only was that a smell of something good to eat, it was also the smell of money. All the stars were aligned and it got rain when it needed it. I had to put my Uncle to work to harvest them all. He hired some locals that did the actual harvesting and I had local grocers from five different towns buying them, uncle also sold them roadside and on the weekends we sold them down at the farm to market. We had a good solid month of extremely high quality harvest.

I don't know how well they would do in higher latitudes but they definitely need a good sandy loam. If the same strain is still available, it is definitely worth the grow!

Next year I’m going to put in some melon patches

 

[WildBill]

I’ll be the odd one out and disagree….. I don’t even own a scope

I adjusted my thinking when I heard a cannabis scientist talking about how the amber is nothing more than enzymatic browning, and a poor predictor of ripening (her position is that optimal ripeness happens a little before a large portion of trichomes amber up).

I don’t know if she’s right, wrong or otherwise….but I’ve enjoyed my harvests more since changing harvest points….

Go ahead, lemme have it…

Well you're not really so incorrect.


For me Amber is an indicator to look for other things. Mainly what I'm looking for is the shape of a head of the tricomb.
I mainly started doing that because of what I read about making hash either with ice water or dry ice.
What I'm looking for is that sort of slightly mushrooming of the head and slight narrowing of the stalk just below the head. 'They say' That means the tricomes are ready to harvest and easily to break off during the shake process.

 

[Cerebral Goo]

seed company says at the earliest today at the latest in 14 days

Get one of these type microscopes. Will zoom in perfect on you trichomes. A lot of people here use them and like mostly cloudy trichs with 15% amber triichs. Genetics will determine most of the buzz type. The popular belief is, clear mixed with cloudy will give you more of an energetic buzz and more amber will lend to a more laid back/sleepy buzz. Frank put in his two cents and if you go that route, the scope will still tell you where you are in regards to the amount of amber trichs

just don't use it if you're trippin balls! You'll freak yourself out! Take my word for it!

 

[WildBill]

Next year I’m going to put in some melon patches

Do raised beds or at the very least mound them.

I miss my watermelons too. My mom always raved about yellow meat watermelons. Her grandpa was known as the sweet potato king, but he also grew some mean cantaloupes and watermelons. Evidently they had yellow meat watermelons back then and I guess he grew nice big sweet ones. I found her a variety that were seedless in ice box size yellow meat. Sometimes during the breeding, they could lose that certain type of watermelon sweetness, the stirring that I picked for her deftly was not the case. It was definitely not a shipper with its very thin skin, but it had a very unique flavor with a very nice texture.

The only time I've had to get up in the middle of the night, was when I had to eat one of those late at night!

 

[WildBill]

Get one of these type microscopes. Will zoom in perfect on you trichomes. A lot of people here use them and like mostly cloudy trichs with 15% amber triichs. Genetics will determine most of the buzz type. The popular belief is, clear mixed with cloudy will give you more of an energetic buzz and more amber will lend to a more laid back/sleepy buzz. Frank put in his two cents and if you go that route, the scope will still tell you where you are in regards to the amount of amber tr



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I second it!!!!

 

[Cerebral Goo]

Yeah but the guy is from Germany and I'm not sure if it's a language barrier thing but he asks for advice and then pushes back on the advice so we all have to chip in the conversation and nudge him in the right direction apparently