Re Purposing

[BigBallzWillie]

So, what kinda stuff do you salvage to MacGiver with?

Those Tide Pod pumkins make excellent bud washers. An 80 count holds a gallon. I add 2 oz peroxide. I trim a branch, stick it in the pod and trim another. Then pull the first, put in the second, take the first to shower to rinse and hang.. You can get a large branch into this container due to flexibility. Repeat till done. Buds are squeaky clean. I don't wash everything, but if I sprayed the plant with anything other than water or it gets pm.........it gets washed. Harvesting a lot at once a 5 gallon bucket is easier (I would never need more than that) the 1 gallon fits me better.

 

[TerpyTyrone]

So, what kinda stuff do you salvage to MacGiver with?

Those Tide Pod pumkins make excellent bud washers. An 80 count holds a gallon. I add 2 oz peroxide. I trim a branch, stick it in the pod and trim another. Then pull the first, put in the second, take the first to shower to rinse and hang.. You can get a large branch into this container due to flexibility. Repeat till done. Buds are squeaky clean. I don't wash everything, but if I sprayed the plant with anything other than water or it gets pm.........it gets washed. Harvesting a lot at once a 5 gallon bucket is easier (I would never need more than that) the 1 gallon fits me better.
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I dare ya to eat one!! You won't!!

 

[TerpyTyrone]

I had pm early to mid flower. But after some changes I have stemmed the onslaught. Until I chop. Then I may do a dip-a-roo before they go to hang, eh?

 

[H.A.F.]

I like using a large dishpan or Rubbermaid tub, or just a bucket. Water's cheap, h2o2's cheap. A bigger container makes it easier for me.

 

[BigBallzWillie]

I had pm early to mid flower. But after some changes I have stemmed the onslaught. Until I chop. Then I may do a dip-a-roo before they go to hang, eh?

You will just to get all you sprayed on.......... off and it works marvelous. I was surprised by just how clean it got. That bridezilla bud I posted in the hbeans thread was washed and it had pm and I could see it in some buds. After wash, uh ah, nada.

 

[BigBallzWillie]

I like using a large dishpan or Rubbermaid tub, or just a bucket. Water's cheap, h2o2's cheap. A bigger container makes it easier for me.

Your way is more work. Who the hell is worried about the cost of water? lol
You can bend a bud into the pod container and follow the whole vertical circumference, jamb the back end of the stalk and walk away, all submerged, then I am free to trim another. In the bigger, flatter, tub, they float, and you have to be actively involved submerging them, seems more a waste of time. And less agitation is better here.
Trim, wash, rinse, and hang. Like I said, if I was doing a lot, I'd use a 5 gallon bucket. Notice both containers I use are way more vertical than a dishpan or a tub. That's why it works.

 

[Primo bozo]

I have a wife that I repurpose into a trimmer. She sucks, but that makes the job way way more enjoyable.

 

[BigBallzWillie]

Got cats? Then you have some type of container for litter. These are mine 2.5 gallons, polyethylene, fairly sturdy
Amazing I'm sitting out on the deck filling these @ 1 am this time of year.

 

[BigBallzWillie]

Those water jugs is empty now, lol.

 

[BigBallzWillie]

I finally slurped down the last spanish olive which now brings my gallon jar total to 5. I take some pride in the fact that I ate all 5 gallons worth of olives.

That's a half gallon jar on the left that's overly stuffed with Purple Punch. An empty quart on the right. I only use quarts early in burping/curing then to half gallons. I like the jars to be 1/3 to 1/2 air. The gallons then become the source for me, the apothecary. LOFL! The 5 flavors in stock in the gallon jars currently are
Dubstep
Purple Punch
Bounty Hunter
Sky Warden
Dinoberry Bites
There's a restaurant supply that I get them at...........I'm due for more now. Only the spanish olives come in glass. Quite a good deal too. Salad olives are $8, regular $10, and Queens are $14.

Big ole DBB bud on the lid.

 

[H.A.F.]

Your way is more work. Who the hell is worried about the cost of water? lol
You can bend a bud into the pod container and follow the whole vertical circumference, jamb the back end of the stalk and walk away, all submerged, then I am free to trim another. In the bigger, flatter, tub, they float, and you have to be actively involved submerging them, seems more a waste of time. And less agitation is better here.
Trim, wash, rinse, and hang. Like I said, if I was doing a lot, I'd use a 5 gallon bucket. Notice both containers I use are way more vertical than a dishpan or a tub. That's why it works.

"Cost of water" - all I meant was 1-gallon, 5 gallons - it doesn't matter cost-wise.

I guess I am more gentle with the buds. I rarely touch them even when trimming. I leave a long-limb-handle on the bud until I am done, then snip it off.

With a dishpan (about 2-3gal) it works just like the Jorge Cervantes method but he uses a bigger tub.

Doing 4-tops or manifolds, I usually ended up with hog-legs bigger than the dish-pan. That is when I would fill a 5gal bucket and dunk it.

 

[H.A.F.]

I think we can all agree that random empty containers of any size, shape, or material is a keeper for most stoners.
Glass is good, airtight is good. depends on what you might need it for.

Leftover/take-out trays with the clear domed lid attached are great for starting seeds.


I label everything with sharpie. A little rubbing alcohol on a paper towel and it wipes right off.