Monday, November 26, 2007

your cannagarden

In order to reach a garden, the light must be reflected downward using a large, bulky reflector. Manufacturers have developed elaborate and innovative hoods, still they cannot reach the light delivery efficiency of a horizontal lamp.

Horizontally held lamps have several other advantages over verticals. They take less vertical space, which is crucial for short gardens, and the reflectors are much less bulky (feminized marijuana seeds). All in all, horizontally held lamps are considered the best configuration for the closet garden. Aluminum reflectors deliver the most light, more than white ones. Stainless steel reflectors absorb some spectrums of light and should not be used.

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Monday, November 19, 2007

A very hardy semi-weedy variety of cannabis, ruderalis, is found in the northern Steppes and is still used as a animal food grain. This variety also has a variable amount of THC. Marijuana can be defined as the varieties of the cannabis plant cultivated for the psychoactive substance THC and its analogs. Marijuana is one of the most widely distributed plants in the world. It is grown in every county of the United States. Traditionally it has been grown in areas from the 30th parallel to the Equator and then to the 30th parallel S. Since the 1960’s it’s range has been increased to the 60th parallel. Marijuana and hemp are varieties of the same species cannabis, and are sometimes interbred to develop new varieties. Most of the chemical and morphological differences and the extremely diverse gene-pool are artifacts of cannabis’s symbiotic relationship with humans. Humans carried cannabis seeds all over the world, and bred the plant to meet particular needs. This process continues today.
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Monday, November 12, 2007

This letter comes from Joe in Massachusetts and inquires on a subject that many others have also asked about. When Iso hash is prepared with an oil-to-powdered-material ratio of less than 20%, the material does not bind together and is more the consistency of dark kif. As most hash, especially that from the Middle and Far East, has traditionally come as blocks and lumps (due to the high resin ratio), many people have sought for an additive to cause Iso hash with a lower oil content to bind together. The best binder yet discovered seems to be an extract of lettuce made by drying the lettuce and then extracting it in the semi di marijuana. After the solvent is evaporated, the tarry extract is scraped from the reaction vessel. A small amount of the extract is added to the Iso hash when it is worked with the thumb of one hand in the palm of the other. Be careful not to overdo the amount of lettuce extract used.
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Thursday, November 8, 2007

I kid you not, Jack, I can make hash out of good regular Mex that any Colombian, Thai, high-altitude snob has to admit is better than his shit at a minute portion of the price. This stuff is far higher quality and much more pleasurable to taste, smell and smoke than that greasy, black, tarry. The way I make this stuff is with what I call the  system. This marvelous hash making system was born when I found a scientific paper in one of the chemical journals that discussed the whole decarboxalation trip, but at the same time said that if you make marijuana tea, boiling the shit out of it in lots of water for one hour, you can throw away the tea, dry out the semi marijuana, and it will be considerably better than before. This pisses me off a bit because I have been drinking grass tea for years and throwing away the weed. Anyhow, I can see how the oils can be insoluble in water, unlike some of the tars and waxes, but I would sure think that all that violent boiling would loosen up the oils and mix them with the water. But they had analysis graphs that showed this was not the case.
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Monday, November 5, 2007

getting more out of cannabis

It should be mentioned that each time you pour off and save the green solvent, the total amount of solvent which contains the oil increases. These combined extracts, when poured into the reaction vessel, should not fill it to a level above one-half inch below the soxhlet basket. If there is too much solvent/oil solution, simply operate the machine in the normal manner for removal of solvent and concentrate the solution down to the prescribed several inch level. The

following letter was received from an experimenter who has been successfully using petroleum ether.I have been using petroleum ether (30 to 60° boiling point) to refine my isomerized oil and would like to know if you think my method s safe and efficient. Here’s what I do: After soxhleting and neutralizing, I remove the solvent until there is about 6 ounces of green solvent/cannabis oil solution remaining. I pour this into a quart-sized Pepsi bottle, half filled with water. After the solution has cooled to room temperature, I add enough pet ether to raise the level in the bottle by one inch.

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Thursday, November 1, 2007

The chamber is filled with the powdered cannabis, and clean solvent is added to the cannabis until it is saturated and several inches of solvent, which have run through the cannabis material, are in the bottom of the drum. The apparatus is reassembled and the water in the bath is brought to a boil. The fumes of the solvent in the lower drum will rise, recondense to liquid in the copper tubes, and fall into and run through the cannabis, washing out the remaining cannabis wiet zaden oil. After several hours of soxhieting, all the oil will be dissolved in the solvent. The cannabis oil/solvent solution is distilled and collected as before. The oil remaining in the drum is dissolved in alcohol and removed. This solution is added to those collected after each refluxing and combined in a large metal pot, the weight of which has been noted. The pot is placed in the dry bottom of the lower drum and the apparatus is assembled for distillation and collection of the solvent. The solvent is removed and the product remains in the pan. If further purification and chemical alteration is desired, the methods given earlier are applied. 

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