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I don't know about PM but gray mold likes acidic conditions, it actually exudes oxalic acid to acidify the area around it. That's why people use alkaline spray, like potassium bicarbonate. It can cause some damage though, a little browning of some calyxes. UVB is supposed to be good for killing...

Forget about trichome gazing and just mark 15 weeks on your calendar. Those pics right there show a plant that has just started budding. Isn't the idea to get a bunch of bud and for it to be high quality? Well neither of those will happen after 6 weeks of flowering, not a chance in hell, you're...

Pretty sure it's the short grow time, 10 weeks is nothing. There's 3 things you need for optimal quality, 15 weeks flowering time, leaving the buds on the stems for the first 24-48 hours after harvest at least, and using bottom lighting in addition to top lighting. The entire grow space should...

To make gold weed what you do is after cutting you keep them in a humid space, like about 80-90% RH, and increase temperature to about 105 F. The curing processes double in rate when temperature is raised by 10 degrees, but after a certain point it kills the enzymes so you don't go above 100-110...

I usually let them get pretty dry in the pots too. You need to rinse out most of the salts though, if it's not organic, because the drier it gets the more concentrated the salts get and that could make it pretty harsh.

They really start fattening up in week 14. Before that the calyxes aren't fully expanded. I have a batch at 11 weeks right now and it's nowhere near filled out or potent enough. Needs another month. It would be crazy to chop at 8-11 weeks like almost everyone does. They're kidding themselves...

Actually last time I did something close to stalk curing, before I even read about it, just a weird coincidence. I cut all the stems as close to the base as possible while still being thin enough to cut through with clippers. The actual stem base was too thick. So I did that while the plants...

I definitely flowered long enough, 15 weeks, it had to be the harvesting/curing method. It came out harsh, and now it's obvious why, all the crud was locked in there. The stalk-curing would definitely increase quality, considering it removes 10-15% of the weight in useless and harsh crud, how...

You don't filter it when you pour it through the bud, you filter the alcohol AFTER it drips out of the bud, which btw takes a few hours. I actually don't even filter it then, because no debris ever comes out, but if it does then that's the time to filter. You also do it frozen, or else you'll...

I was just searching about tobacco curing and found a reference to "stalk-curing". Apparently it produces a high quality cigar tobacco. I then searched about stalk-curing itself and found that it causes weight reduction of about 11-12% compared to cut leaf dried off the stalk. They found that...

It's not the harvesting and curing that's the problem, it's believing seed packages and other amateur growers when they tell you 8-10 weeks is long enough for Cannabis to ripen, when in fact it requires at least 13 and more like 14-15. In short, your weed sucks for the same reason that 99.9% of...

Personal choice of course. I don't know if unripe weed would be uplifting or not, the only difference I ever noticed was that it was harsher and weaker. I've found from experience that ripening times are vastly understated by seed companies and Internet tutorials. You could get high off it...

Way too early. Mine took 15 weeks but any hybrid strain would need at least 13 weeks. People who grow indoors and harvest after 8-10 weeks are replicating the growing season of northern Europe. Why do you think outdoor weed sucks, other than maybe in southern California or Texas? Because they...

Magnesium silicate, interesting. If it absorbs crud while not absorbing THCA it might be a good thing to use. Kind of expensive but might be worth it if the difference in quality is noticeable. I doubt if butane would pick up much water soluble polar stuff anyway but alcohol might, so it would...

All it does is cause severe stretching. You don't need 14 hours of light anyway, just 13 the entire flowering phase. You wouldn't use 12 because you would get lower yields and ripening would not be sped up anyway, same with fewer hours. There is no benefit from using fewer hours than the...

First you need a humidity dome, or a sheet of clear plastic over the top of a container like I use. Don't use rooting powder because it will dry out the tip, use gel instead, powder is for rooting trees mainly. Finally, you don't start them in peat, you use perlite. Peat is too wet and not...

I've found that 65% is just right. Less than that feels too dry, more is too moist. 62% is noticeably too dry. What I do is dry with calcium chloride, Damp Check moisture absorber refill pellets, in a closed container on a heat mat with parchment over it and set on 1 the full duration, which is...

I can tell you why you're getting low yields, you're not growing to full maturity. You mentioned 10 weeks in one of the videos and 56 days in the latest one. It takes a good 15 weeks. 10 weeks is a joke. When a plant looks like it's ripe, it ain't. When it's really ripe it looks like it's on...

Visible light will bleach chlorophyll, converting it to an unknown aldehyde and and unknown oxidizing compound. At least they were unknown when the article I read was written, 1914. There may be more recent information somewhere. UV light has no effect, so no need for sunlight, as you showed by...

To be honest, I think most amateurs SHOULD press rosin instead of doing any kind of solvent extraction. It's hard to kill yourself with a hair straightener. If a solvent is in any way flammable, and they all are, you can be sure that at least one numbnutz out there somewhere will burn themselves...