r/mainetrees

I've found it extremely rare to find citrus dominant strains to have any sort of potency. This one is an exception though. I have a strong hunch many people chop this early and as a result it gave the strain a bad reputation.

It looks almost "done" at 45 days. I will take this plant to 65. Those extra 20 days make it much more potent; not only in immediate effects but also how long the effects last.

This is grown all organically under LED, however there is still 1 HPS in the back corner of the room you can kinda see in the picture. Grown with Living Acres soil as the base mix, then I add some dry amendments to the bottom of the final pot before flower to help keep it green thru mid flower.

Pressed some Strawberry Guava along with some Envy x Grandpas Gun Chest rosin today… Envy x GGC in the video. Something about watching the rosin flow out onto the parchment, pretty satisfying

Months of hard work from the crew rolled into a log that I can hold in my hand🙏🙌🙌

We’re going to be putting this rosin in gummies soon too! They’ll be made with pectin, so veg friendly if that’s your thing. Hopefully those will be out within the next few weeks. No ‘food grade’ rosin in these gummies!!

It can be painful chopping the buds off at harvest just to freeze and wash ‘em, but the end results are always satisfying

The owner of captains cannabis, at the most recent Sanford town council meeting, calling for the town to rewrite the medical cannabis ordinance so that many caregivers would not be able to meet patients in a safe and effective way.

I wish business owners weren’t so lazy nowadays and would allow capitalism to drive the market instead of calling for the local government to rig it in their favor. Sounds more like a mso than a caregiver to me.

Well this was their response to me blowing up the states rampant remediation issue I guess haha.

I try to let the public know that remediation is happening RAMPANT to the point where even as the owner, I didn’t realize it’s happening with many brands remediating EVERYTHING before testing. And I know I still don’t know the full story either about who’s doing it because you only know what you’re told and see

Again it’s up for you to decide if that’s something you want to smoke or not, that’s why I think Maine had it right requiring the labeling of remediated/treated cannabis flower… but they’re not enforcing it officially now

Now this is the latest from the state, they’re allowing transfer for remediation excise tax free (making the transfer to the remediation not the trigger point for the payment of excise tax). This will directly lose money for the state since what you start with is less than you actually package (letting boof pushers save more money and pay less excise tax since what they send over vs what they package in 1/8ths is less)

Basically excise tax is $223/lb now. We normally have to pay when we transfer it out of the grow, either selling it to a store or sending it to a manufacturing license (where they also can remediate)

Ultimately that pushes the tax burden on everyone else when the states bitching next session they need more money so they raise the sales/excise tax again. It’s all trickle down, and this DIRECTLY impacts the excise tax income for the state

This also greatly complicates the excise tax system in general for the state. It should be black and white, what’s transferred out in METRC is what excise tax is owed on. That is not the case anymore with this new tax rule made for the bros that probably don’t even smoke what they grow… clue #1 it’s fucked

‘Let’s make it even easier and more profitable for them to sell shit weed Brad’

But really wtf, yeah I’ll be the first to say weed never killed anyone but does anyone really know what’s happening long term? I’m not even talking the remediation used necessarily, but what about the chemical changes from zapping the mold dead, or ingesting higher than normal levels since the original levels were off the charts knowing they’d remediate anyways

I hear of the scromiting thing and think wtf this is like the old propaganda… then it’s like wait, is it possible there’s something to it… is there any possible connection to remediation?

Growers pack the plants in the room way too tight, no proper airflow, lots of micro climates with high humidity from pockets of dense leaves. Microbial counts THROUGH THE ROOF, putting in way more plants than the hvac can Handel. But hey if you’re gonna remediate everything you’re better off growing 2x the weight selling $25 eighths retail vs $35 eighths retail

100 eighths at $25 = $2,500
50 eighths at $35 = $1,750

So you can see it’s less profitable to grow cannabis correctly if it means sacrificing yields… AND the market wants the cheapest product when not informed, so not only are you running a better business model, but you’re going to sell through quicker.

I can tell you, I could double my yields with less manual labor if I wanted to be a dirtbag and remediate everything, but I take pride in what I do and the weed I grow is for myself, the community, my friends and my family

It’s fucked, And fuck OCP for not enforcing the rule to require remediated flower be labeled as such. Even in 6 point font?!? Haha “na 6 point is too much Chad, we need zero point font here”… It’s so safe we’d rather the public didn’t even know it’s happening, because people are not capable of making the correct choice, the choice we want them to make… So better if we make it for them to avoid them having free will

And yeah I don’t think weed has killed anyone but again look it up and do your own research. Mycotoxins, chance for respiratory irritation (I know you’re smoking anyways so again ask yourself do you care), and the unknown, the one lesson we have learned over the many years of health… we don’t know what we don’t know (think things that get banned when they find out the health risks)

I’ve got a store inspection coming up with the state, it should be too soon for them to retaliate and not make it seem like it’s retaliation… I give it 6 months till they start busting my balls haha🖕🖕🖕

Anyone who’s saying this is ok to remediate flower should be focusing on growing a clean product and how they can do better. Fuck em. If they’re not telling you they’re not treating/remediating it, they probably are.

Ask the grower themselves because the budtender only knows what they are told, and sometimes that’s true for the owners of the dispensaries selling the product too.

Oh yeah, for all the bros making the milk pasteurization claim… Check your milk. It’s a statement they put on the label, crazy idea… To inform the consumer… Why do you want to hide this if it’s nbd?!

This rosin has a delicious cranberry type flavor backed by some creamy gas 🤌🏼

Been a minute since I’ve produced flowers but now I’m back full steam after realizing what I want is hard to find. Some decent possible winners so far in the hunt GMOxCheese and GMOxSecret cookie. Used skunktech gmo as my reversal on these crosses last fall. About 5 others so far with nominal terps nothing memorable about them. More to come

Hey guys some of you might remember I posted an early version of this around the same time last year- after talking with various people in the community, I realized that freshness and timing are critical to the experience.

So I started putting together a “drop calendar” that lets you see upcoming drops before they even come down and where and when they’re landing.

Is this something you’d actually find helpful? Definitely want to add more features and am all for ideas, suggestions and criticism.

These are real drops from Skunkfoot btw. If you want to check out the drops or the app in general here’s the link: https://www.greenmarketexchange.com/fire

Cobra cabana grown / trimmed by me, farmer dudes flowers.