Mephisto Genetics The On-going Mephisto farm thread!

[mephisto]

Hey people,

I wanted to start this thread as a continuation of our introduction thread, where we can document the week to week or month to month goings on at our little farm.

We still have a lot of renovation, building work and improvements to make to our setup out here to get things running like clockwork how we like them

I'll aim to make some little tutorials from greenhouse construction to room building, and then also any smaller but fun sideprojects we have going.

Hopefully this thread can give more of an insight into what our day to day processes are involved in making seeds.

Winter/Spring projects for M.G include:-

1) Converting our 'pig shed' into a dedicated Mephisto breeding space, with a segregated male area. (Winter)
2) Building a double sized wooden framed greenhouse on a budget. Any land prepwork involved will be shown too. (Spring)
3) Developing year one greenhouses and outdoor spaces with autowatering systems. (Spring)
4) Continual development of our hash making and de-seeding processes.
5) Development of our organic vegetable patch.
6) Outdoor AF plot developent.
7) Dedicated indoor photography room.

That's all my brain can muster right now, but i'll be back later on with pics.
Peace Mitch

 

[mephisto]

So tonight we had a play at testing out Tim's new creation: The De-seed-a-tron 3000 v2.0

You perhaps wouldn't imagine it at first, but de-seeding in mass, has actually been a big and tricky process to figure out.
In winter we spent 12 hour days sat at our dining table for what felt like an eternity de-seeding several tents worth of buds, needless to say, it was a very labourious and monotonous process, we didn't want to repeat anytime soon!. When it came to summer time and tents were replaced with greenhouses worth of buds to de-seed we were really scratching our heads about what to do.

We tried to think how on earth the big companies do it, it either had to be whole groups of people employed doing it by hand the same way as us.., or it was a mechanised process.
neither of those were really a viable option as expense and security is always a concern.

We had done all this processing shortly before Spannabis, so at Spannabis in Barcelona, we tentatively asked some questions to seed companies who had stands. (Not knowing if it was a trade secret people would keep close to their chests or not) Two people that we discussed the process with were Scott from Rare Dankness who we met at a friends house, and Eric from Humbolt Seeds. (both good guys!)
We borrowed some ideas from each of them and settled on a method of our own to use when the next seed harvest was due.

There is a lot of work here for two guys, so any methods we can employ to speed up processes and our efficiency are a complete godsend.
So if anyone is interested to see, here's a brief step by step of what we do. I'll try and get my best Blue Peter style of writing on

Step 1) Plants with visibly mature seeds (lower and upper buds are checked) are brought onto the outside table. Here they are stripped of all fan leaves apart from ones with traces of resin on. The buds are then snipped off the plants and go into a work bag, and on to a drying tray shortly after.

For display purposes here they were placed onto a large paella dish! It may not look like much, but here is the seeded wet flowers from around 16 AF females.

Step 2) Dry until buds are dry and crumble very easily. inside and out they must be dry! Over dried in comparison to usual curing and then smoking practices.

They will look like this:

and here is a close up of the buds containing seeds:

Step 3 - (sorry no image) The buds are placed into a 110 micron bubble bag, and are crushed by hand so to not damage seeds until we have a fine green powder. this is done over a large glass table so any crystals that make there way through the bag can be scraped with a credit card and saved to be pressed at a later date.

Step 4 - Introduce your crushed product to a de-seed-a-tron! It is wooden framed with aluminium mosquito mesh attached, and angled so the seeds roll down into a collection pot. It has a hinged top panel where the powdered greenery is sprinkled on to, gravity lets the seeds roll down whilst the plant matter sticks to the mesh and is then tipped into a collection tray, a small handful works best otherwise the mesh gets clogged and seeds are trapped.

Hopefully these pictures illustrate better than I can describe:

It has reduced time from 1-2 days to about an hour with us working it in tandem.

The resulting seed pot will look a little like this:

Some immature seeds will make it through, and also some seeds will still have their husks attached, however it's perhaps only another hour to remove them and have them completely cleaned.

The process needs some tweaking and ideas are already flowing for version 3.0, but right now we are happy boys!

Hope you enjoyed. Cheers, Mitch and Tim.

 

[Celestial]

I couldn't imagine how tedious it must be deseeding mass quantities of bud! Glad you found a way to speed up the process

 

[evol]

thanks for posting this!

 

[Epic Genetics]

dude , the palms of your hands are black , ur gunna have a brick in no time :stylez rasta smoke:

nice little diy

peace :Cool:

 

[DIRT]

I need one of these in a big way..thank you for the post.

repped.

 

[Bromeo]

:Cushty:

 

[mephisto]

No problem guys, happy to share.

Ours was designed to fit over the big piece of glass we found in our garage, it measures approx. 100 x 150 cm or very roughly 3 x 5 ft. For us, the bigger the better, but the idea can easily scaled down to suit your requirements.

It was strange at first getting our heads around not trying or wanting to trim , dry, and smoke like we would for sensi, as a big pile of buds, when powdered looks scarily small! but you will be rewarded with some fine hash at every stage as compensation

 

[mephisto]

I couldn't imagine how tedious it must be deseeding mass quantities of bud! Glad you found a way to speed up the process

The first hour or so is not too bad (the old way) , get some music on , smoke a few etc. It's just after that you would wish you had a dozen helping hands

 

[Duggy]

Keep the interesting updates coming MG..:group: