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Beneficial nematodes and sticky traps will kill your gnats.ordered mine from natures good guys.we always put nematodes and predator mites down in New dirt. We use the same pots and dirt over and over though.whenever we build a new one it gets the beficials.then we just add them every other run unless something comes up.
 
Moe.Red said:
These roots were small and not a good indicator. On the next grow I’ll be growing alongside soil so the roots should fill the bucket and I’ll test then.

Frigging bugs already.

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If it is fungus gnats I recommend “General Hydroponics Defguard”. I probably spelled it wrong but it is an organic bacillus bacteria that eliminates any chance of a home for these things. I have found just a couple of treatments is all it takes.
 
What temp did you press at?
I've been a real slacker and have been putting off pressing for weeks now.
No good reason and basically out. Well out of rosin...🥴
 
Garbage_bear said:
If it is fungus gnats I recommend “General Hydroponics Defguard”. I probably spelled it wrong but it is an organic bacillus bacteria that eliminates any chance of a home for these things. I have found just a couple of treatments is all it takes.
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^^ Good to see a second choice using BTI.
I use Mosquito Bits.
They are BTI and easy to use.
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steamroller said:
^^ Good to see a second choice using BTI.
I use Mosquito Bits.
They are BTI and easy to use.
summitchemical.com

Mosquito Bits® - Summit® Responsible Solutions

Mosquito Bits® When sprinkled into standing water where mosquitoes breed, biological Mosquito Bits® Kills Mosquitoes Before They’re Old Enough To Bite®! Easy to use – sprinkle or broadcast over standing water to kill mosquito larvae Quick acting, starts killing mosquito larvae within minutes...
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Wonder if agent orange is the active ingredient?
 
So on the press, I have been having some problems with efficiency. I was getting 7 - 9% output. Pretty low. Run the same stuff thru the rotovap and getting easily double.

This time I used "fresh" weed that has just come out of dry. I used a smaller round prepress which gives better PSI on the puck, and less distance for the wax to travel. I upped the temps to 215 and time to 130 seconds. That got me up in the 15% range, I can live with that.

I'll continue to tweak it as I learn more. I think I have room for more heat and pressure, the result is quite blonde.
 
Moe.Red said:
So on the press, I have been having some problems with efficiency. I was getting 7 - 9% output. Pretty low. Run the same stuff thru the rotovap and getting easily double.

This time I used "fresh" weed that has just come out of dry. I used a smaller round prepress which gives better PSI on the puck, and less distance for the wax to travel. I upped the temps to 215 and time to 130 seconds. That got me up in the 15% range, I can live with that.

I'll continue to tweak it as I learn more. I think I have room for more heat and pressure, the result is quite blonde.
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There's a few adjustments to get the blonde...Lower temps and longer pressings usually do it for me

This is a 185*F, 5 minute press resulting in a blonde crumble/budder. Flow usually stops between 3.5 and 4.5 minutes but I go for 5 just to get as much yield as possible and hits around a 25% return

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Between 170 and 190 will bring lighter color. Anything above 200 will usually turn dark amber to chocolate. The lower the temp, the lighter the color but also let it press longer than normal for best yields.
Strain and moisture content always play it's role as I'm sure you know, just always a crap shoot there, but you have a freeze dryer so a blonde live resin should come ez at the lower temps. 😉
 
Bandit420 said:
There's a few adjustments to get the blonde...Lower temps and longer pressings usually do it for me

This is a 185*F, 5 minute press resulting in a blonde crumble/budder. Flow usually stops between 3.5 and 4.5 minutes but I go for 5 just to get as much yield as possible and hits around a 25% return

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Between 170 and 190 will bring lighter color. Anything above 200 will usually turn dark amber to chocolate. The lower the temp, the lighter the color but also let it press longer than normal for best yields.
Strain and moisture content always play it's role as I'm sure you know, just always a crap shoot there, but you have a freeze dryer so a blonde live resin should come ez at the lower temps. 😉
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Interestingly enough, "rehydrating" buds meaning putting them in the jar at 68% for a couple weeks had no impact on older buds. I thought for sure it would help. I guess once they get too dry for pressing, you missed your opportunity?


I've never even gotten close to 5 minutes. I'll give that a try, thanks.

Do you use bags?
 
Moe.Red said:
Interestingly enough, "rehydrating" buds meaning putting them in the jar at 68% for a couple weeks had no impact on older buds. I thought for sure it would help. I guess once they get too dry for pressing, you missed your opportunity?


I've never even gotten close to 5 minutes. I'll give that a try, thanks.

Do you use bags?
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Yeah I use bags now. I once used a prepress but I like what bags deliver but there's tricks to using them.
To match size I go with a width that's half my plate size and height equal to plate size so for my 4"x4" plates I use a 2"x4" bag. The drier the weed the tighter the micron is ideal but I find a 120 micron is a good all purpose mesh.
The bottom corners also need to be folded in to prevent bag blowouts so until a routine is developed it can be frustrating dialing in bags.
The drier the weed, usually the more it will come out of a bag natually dewaxed and in a ez to handle crumble state while moisture results in waxy oil
 
This is only time i use boveda to rehydrate and i use the 72.
I have found the shorter the cure the blonder the finished product

Edit: if using bags, make sure the seam is on the outside, you may have to turn the bags inside out
 
Bandit420 said:
Yeah I use bags now. I once used a prepress but I like what bags deliver but there's tricks to using them.
To match size I go with a width that's half my plate size and height equal to plate size so for my 4"x4" plates I use a 2"x4" bag. The drier the weed the tighter the micron is ideal but I find a 120 micron is a good all purpose mesh.
The bottom corners also need to be folded in to prevent bag blowouts so until a routine is developed it can be frustrating dialing in bags.
The drier the weed, usually the more it will come out of a bag natually dewaxed and in a ez to handle crumble state while moisture results in waxy oil
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I run the 120 as well I turn my bags inside out so the stitching is on the outside the theory is it traps flow if left on the inside .
 
Moshmen said:
Nice u like that round press don’t ya? , did ya see an increase ?
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Too many variables to say for sure, but yes the round pre-press was at least partially responsible for doubling my output from 7% to 15%.

I'm also using different bud that just came out of dry, and higher temp longer time.

I think the biggest difference was in the bud personally. Need more time with the press to be sure.
 
Bugs are getting out of control. DE is not getting it done. Once wet it is pretty useless.

Got the other suggestions on order and will be here tomorrow. I'll do a closeup on what works to kill MFing fruit flies. All bugs can eat shit. Except for the predatory ones coming in the mail. They cool.
 
Moe.Red said:
Bugs are getting out of control. DE is not getting it done. Once wet it is pretty useless.

Got the other suggestions on order and will be here tomorrow. I'll do a closeup on what works to kill MFing fruit flies. All bugs can eat shit. Except for the predatory ones coming in the mail. They cool.
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What did you order for predatory bugs.
 
Moe.Red said:
I thought catching them on the yellow traps would help. Gonna have to get them at the source I think.
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Sticky traps are good to monitor a situation, but they don't seem to control gnats.

If nematodes are part of your beneficials package, they seem to take 1-2 weeks to really start bringing the population down.
 
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