So here goes, my first attempt at a grow and I’m going for it. Currently still in the military so I won’t even be able to reap the benefits (for a couple of years) but my husband, who has never even smoked, wants to start on very small doses of RSO when he retires in the spring (just overall health benefits as a preventative) and thinks he wants to smoke a bit. By the time I retire in a couple of years I should have a handle on this! Or I hope.
So the girls are about three weeks old and currently in the air conditioned garage, because we live where it is still hotter than hell and lesson learned for next year…don’t start seeds the beginning of September.
Currently growing
2 white widow autos
1 AK47 photo
3 Bubble Gum photos
3 Girl Scout Extreme photos
All ILGM seeds
Tomorrow they will be moving to their permanent home that is setup and waiting for them.
Autos are already in their 7 gal pots and the photos will all go into 15 gal tomorrow (we have the room so why not?)
They are in a basic organic soil (no notes); have been feeding cal/mag and just started on FF Trio. Fed week two at 1/2 strength a couple of days ago.
I plan to attempt LST with the autos and tp the photos!
We have a second room, just a bit smaller than the one pictured for different stages
When done correctly, this recipe will take 10 days
First you must decarboxylate your raw material. Use the whole plant minus the roots. This will give you the highest medicinal effect.
Heat oven to 200-212 degrees. Put desired plant material in a mason jar and seal the top. Put jar in oven for 45 minutes.
After decarboxylation remove from oven and let it cool over night. This will allow the terpenes to absorb into the plant material.
Fill this jar with Organic Coconut Oil. Fill to the top of the jar covering all the plant material.
Cook in a water bath at 118 degrees for 5 days. Stir occasionally.
Remove from water bath and filter Coconut Oil. Squeeze the material to remove all the oil.
Re-fill the jar with new oil and heat for an additional 3 days. Remove from water bath and filter.
Now add Sunflower liquid Lecithin. Add 1 to 2 tablespoons to one cup of coconut oil.
This can be used as an oral or topical solution. Enjoy.
You know it! I was a total pothead 32 years ago before I signed up but my husband has never smoked. Been thinking for a bit on how I would convince him that we needed to grow. When he brought it up after visiting some friends who grow back home in MA, I was like “ LETS GO!”
Welcome @AfgVet. I’m a Reagan era Navy vet myself and I started growing a couple of years ago because I got hooked on opiates because of severe pain at the bottom of my back and I knew it would kill me sooner or later and I had researched that high CBD strains can be very effective for pain. I got some high CBD/THC from a friend in Colorado and it relieves about 60% of the severe pain and it’s not addictive. Except for the growing part. You can get hooked on it for sure. I started in soil and I just recently built this because I use edibles for pain and it takes a lot for that.
Wow! @OldSkunk beautiful clean set up. Addictive? I’m already there! I’ve been on leave after returning from my last deployment and have to go back to work next week. Not sure what I’ll do not being able to check on the girls 35 times a day. Lol
I’m ready to be out and partake again. For now I’ll just grow for my husband and enjoy it through him. It won’t be easy
@OldSkunk when you said it releives 60% of mates pain, is he using any other meds, at all,? have been looking at controlled testing done on this with oils,smoking the lot, but not much info, tks again. i am very interested in this.
Glad to have you guys here and thank you both for your service! Looks like you’re off to a great start and are very knowledgeable can’t wait to see the results that follow.
tks again. i am very interested in this. 
