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 Speed drying cannabis with a Bitcoin miner to harvest seed
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Demands of the homestead have pushed the cannabis harvest down on the priority list which means I have some catching up to do. 
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I saved an old stainless steel dishwasher and turned it into a Bitcoin mining cannabis dehydrator. 
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This can easily process a few pounds of finished cannabis per load in a couple days roughly.
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It's powdered by 2 s19 hashboards on 110v running one PSU at 12.5v for each board allowing for maximum hash at the best efficiency. 
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This load is the proto phenotype to Red Bud Haze. It has a super lemon haze high and smell a long with the pink pistils of pineapple pomegranate. It finishes earlier than redbud haze and has a more naturally airy canopy and bud structure helping to avoid mold. I'm interested in using a male from this batch of seed to pollinate the crop next year. 

If you want some of this seed or any of the other cannabis seed, comment or dm.
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 Sooo sick. 
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 I thought about doing that this year but the more I read about drying it sounds as if a slow dry was better for taste and smoothness of the toke. 
 Yeah, he's just drying for seed. All that plant material is going to be chaff anyways. 
 What is chaff? 
 As far as I'm aware, it's just the slang I've heard growers use for useless plant material when you're going specifically for seeds. 

Probably the most efficient way to harvest all of your seeds is to dry out your buds to an extreme point and then you just grind up that plant material and get the seeds out of it.  
 Wait what…Really? 
 That's the way every grower I've known has done it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  
 Is it just considered waste material? 
 No, you can make it into butter/oil, or tincture. Also it still smokes like the high mids we used to get in high school.  
 Awesome 
 Never infused lard before, so that's my plan this winter when I can render!  
 Nice… I’ve never infused anything before. 
 Really easy with butter!  
 Mom use to make brownies. 
 We infused whipped cream for pumpkin pie one Thanksgiving. Funniest game if cards against humanity.  
 When I got in trouble as a kid Mom would give me "timeout" and hand me the stash box so I could strip seeds out and roll joints. 

Piss me off and I'd "accidentally" leave a seed in the middle of a joint. 
 Another thought I had was using the heat output of my miner to help climatize a grow tent. Funny part is I used my tax return to get the miner. 
 Do you ship to europe? 
 No 
 Damn 😅 
 This is so cool! Thanks for sharing! 🙏 
 🫡 
 This man is not the rev. He is the mad scientist of mining secondary uses 
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 This is going to be some shitty weed dude. 

You don't speed dry weed and expect to get good quality end product. This is going to smoke harshly and taste like shit. 

You DEFINETELY don't speed dry using a fucking bitcoin miner, or anything except some drying racks and a fan on a low setting. Then move them into mason jars for curing and burbing for at least 3-6 weeks minimum. 

God knows what sort of other chemicals you are introducing into your weed by doing this either. Computer equipment contains lead and other harmful industrial chemicals such as BPA in plastics. Which will be exerted into the air and pushed through the flower. 

Before you smoke any of this potentially now cancer ridden flowers. Please for the love of god get them tested at a lab first. I am being sincere and genuine in trying to save your life and lungs.  
 Put some sats where your mouth is and pay for the testing as a bet cuz I guarantee this shit is fine.  
 Yup don't care what you think. Knowledge and years of state licensed professional medical cannabis production are on my side. 

Just trying to save a life. Not pay to help people confirm their mistakes.  
 How about recommending a testing facility then?  
 Do a basic web search in your local area. I'm not playing fucking child level logical fallacy games with you. I'm an adult. I have been on the internet long enough to know not to play them.

Either way I am done. I've made my peace here. My message had nothing to do with you.

They either take my advice which is based on logic and reason. By self verifying the quality through testing to ensure they aren't smoking contaminated plant material. Or they don't and play Russian roulette with their lungs after every bowl they smoke. 

A smart person would play it safe. Be absolutely that they arent smoking something dangerous to their health. Even for home grows getting a lab test for your batches is a wise idea. This ensures there isn't a contamination and you learn vital quality details too. 

A person who does not know anything about professional quality safe cannabis production (you), or simply has no fucks to give (also you) wouldn't. 

I'm not their parent. Just their guardian angel trying to save their ass by letting them know about the care about to hit them. You are the devil on the other shoulder saying there is no car whatsoever.

Its up to them to listen to their intuition and  step out of the way, or potentially take a life threatening hit to their one and only body.  
 Pardon the spelling mistakes. I'm tired. I'm done. Good the fuck luck.  
 I appreciate your concern but this speed dryer is for cannabis that is over ripe and not for smoking. I'm just trying to dry it fast so I can easily extract the seed. You can see the note below which shows examples of hand trimmed buds which are being dried and cured appropriately for consumption. 

You do have me wondering what some testing would reveal though.  
 Bitcoin mining is very useful clearly. 
 Bro this is so SICK!!! Are you running both the hash boards in one chasis with both of the PSUs? I’d like to see how they’re connected to the hash boards as APW7 or APW3++. Also would love to try some. How can I get my hands on it? 
 The setup is 2 hash boards in one chassis with a foam baffle for the missing board, a bunch of mismatched fans (lol), 1 control board with Loki, 2 psus, 1 apw7 for the control board and 1 hb and an apw3++ modified for 12.5v for the other hb. The PSU are wired directly to the hashboards from the psu with 4awg wire. This thing is like Frankenstein's monster. I have no idea how much power it's actually using because I burned up all my watt meters but from my experience it's dialed into the most efficient setting which is some sweet spot between 410-420mhz. I like vnish firmware.

If you want to try the cannabis you have to either come to Michigan and visit the homestead or buy some of the seeds and grow it! 
 Dude this is what mining is all about. Making shit work. That is so tight. If you want some fresh new uniform fans, hit me up and I’m happy to send you a set for free! Unless you’re using like Noctua for silencing or something. But if you want some fresh stocks, I gotchu. 

I’m not gonna order seeds because I can’t keep plants that are meant to never die alive much less a plant that needs a lot of attention 😂 But I’m in Denver, do you know if it’s distributed anywhere over here? Otherwise I’ll definitely hit you up next time I’m in Michigan. 
 No sweat on the fans, thanks though. I don't distribute the cannabis only the seed.  
 Loud and clear. Will keep you in mind then I’m out that way! Keep up the guerrilla mining! 
 I'm rather excited to setup my solar control system to turn on/off and vary power usage to maximise my excess solar (I'm off grid) this weekend! 
 I would love to see your system and how it works. So many cool solutions for integrating Bitcoin mining into solar power systems.  
 Are you mitigating the heat at all? Seems like it could over dry it or even start to decarb and disrupt terpenes with high heat no?