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Post by bballou on Feb 24, 2012 14:29:48 GMT -5
jp --it happens to all of us-----the older we get the more we realize it----I had a shelf full of all kinds of goodies----- dident have the shelf contents behind a door---and the squirrels got into my shop----nocked most of it off the shelf ---lots of good stuff that I can never replace was destroyed.--- because I was dumb. Asafoetida-- Amber --Catnip ---Sweet Flag ---Rosebud etc etc.----Crap Happens.
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Post by bballou on Feb 24, 2012 14:33:51 GMT -5
Sorry---I almost forgot-----My bottle (2 qt.) of red fox urine-----FROM 1947.----I did cry for a few days over loosing it.
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Post by papabear on Feb 24, 2012 16:39:22 GMT -5
Dear Friends, You ever try distilling catnip? Regards papabear
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Post by bballou on Feb 24, 2012 17:04:56 GMT -5
NO ---- not me ---but I did think about it more than once.----Along with several other plants.
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Post by jsevering on Feb 24, 2012 17:20:24 GMT -5
i checked into it one time, looked at the little stills and some set ups... volumes of base material needed and so on... think i bugged bill about it for a good month in pm's... then started thinking about the cost of the little stills they sell again and the volumes needed and talked myself right out of it... never even tried, figured as much as i would actually use it was way cheaper to buy or try to go with a tinctures of sort...
on a different note on the amber ... you guys notice a difference in amber... i have a hard time with it.. kinda smells different at different times to me, maybe its me.... jim
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Post by mole on Feb 24, 2012 17:50:42 GMT -5
My Aunt ran a still. ;D
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Post by papabear on Feb 24, 2012 18:10:25 GMT -5
Dear Friends. I took 1 pound of ground catnip and with a crude homemade version I ended up with 8 DROPS of nearly pure "nepetalactone" or cat crack.......figured it would take about a 100 pounds of ground materail to end up with an ounce of finhed product. Regards papabear
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Post by bballou on Feb 24, 2012 20:22:53 GMT -5
OK----ED---You GOT ME----I want to hear more about your aunts still----I am sure the rest of the guys and gals --- would also.
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