Yeah, thinking about just getting an automatic trimmer - my local shop has them for $900, so it might be a good investment.
Gonna beat that last grow for sure Bob. Its funny my man, we got a lot on common. I am currently 4 or 5 weeks into flower...not sure which. If I dont keep an online journal I too will lose track of where I am in my grow. At least some dated pics on the PC..something. Anyway, great part is it doesn't really matter cause them little ladies got no problem telling when they are done.
Lol, at least you've got pics with dates..........I don't even have that.
Im not sure how many batches of butter or hash you have made, with with me the numbers are flipped. I made butter on 4 previous occasions with results below what I expected. Each time I used a garbage bag full of good quality trim and only made 1-2 pounds of butter and every thing I made with itt was fairly weak. The cookies I made every time took a minimum of 2-3 cookies just to get a good buzz. So on the last harvest, I said screw it and made bubble hash. This was my bigest harvest so there was naturally more trim this round(3 garbage bags). The first set i did was of strait leaf trim and I got 28 grams of hash, the second batch was all popcorn nugs and I got 36 grams, and I still have to do the third bag which is all leaf trim again, and I expect to get about an oz of hash from that as well. So off a a 2 pound harvest I got roughly 3oz of hash. I dont know about you , but Id take 3oz of hash over butter any day. The main reason being, every time I made butter, it was always moldy before I could use it all. The hash has a much better shelf life. And I was sick of having to eat several cookies to get a good high, so I decided to give it a shot with my hash. I put 3.5g of hash into 2 sticks of butter(what the recipe calls for) and used it in the standard recipe for chocolate chip cookies on the back of the chocolate chips bag. I must say, doing it like this, I got the best cookies I had ever made, and the feed back from my friends was it was the best eddible they had ever eaten. Eating an entire cookie was 2 much. It made my wife sick and my buddy got to sick and missed Skybox Blackhawks Final playoff game from one. Got it figured out that 1/4 of a cookie messed you up in a real nice way and lasted for 4-5 hours and 1/2 of a cookie turned you into a total zombie and left you messed up for up to 8 hours. So personally, I like hash because it is more versatile(can be smoked or used in cooking) and has a much longer shelf life and is easier to store just on size. Hope this helps with your decision. If you use my hash cookie recipe, I hope your ride is as epic as mine was.
Shitty about the clones. Did you try lowering their pppms and re-adjusting the ph? I know whenever my clones arent rooting, I cut the ppms in half and ensure the ph is proper(5.8 for me) and then I usually have roots in under a week. Kick ass on the bubble bags, If the washer doesnt work out, just use a regualr hand mixer(kitchen appliance) on the lowest speed. If you want to know exactly how I do it, let me know and I'll give a detailed description. Cudos on the harvest, much better than last time. Did this run give you a better idea on how many clones you want to run per batch? Ant that cooling sounds like it might just do the trick and be a whole lot cheaper than your last couple of ideas. I hope that works out for you. Keep up the good work Bob and find your damn camera, I want to see that set up of yours full of bud on the next round. I just wanted to throw a couple of pics of my hash in here...
