Harvest and bud wash question

[dogg91702]

Happy Friday,

I am going to chop my trees tomorrow and do a bud wash. Question on the drying after bud wash, how long do you allow to hang before putting them in your final drying place? Also do you use light dans while you hang dry immediately after washing your buds? Also there is a lot of dry brown fan leaves should I cut them off or let the bud wash do its job and dry them that way? Thanks

 

[Ninjadogma]

Happy Friday,

I am going to chop my trees tomorrow and do a bud wash. Question on the drying after bud wash, how long do you allow to hang before putting them in your final drying place? Also do you use light dans while you hang dry immediately after washing your buds? Also there is a lot of dry brown fan leaves should I cut them off or let the bud wash do its job and dry them that way? Thanks

Wow Dogg that plant really came through for you! Before you chop, please hang some ornaments in it and snap a Pic, will ya.

Leave those yellow fans on, they help slow the dry for you and protect trichomes underneath.

Okay so a couple Ninja suggestions. Chop in the morning before the sun comes out. Do your post harvest dunk and hang the wet branches outside in the shade to dry all day. Then in the evening move it all to your climate controlled drying space if you have it. For no other reason I think this is why I might be ready to buy a tent.

Some goals to shoot for: RH 50-60 and temp 60-70

A minimum of 5 days hanging before buds snap off easily

Get everything regulated between 58-62% with jars before you move to cure or grove bags. I do it over about 3 days moving the lid partially open to what it needs to stay in that sweet range, shaking the jar periodically for a more even consistency throughout. There's other ways, some people sweat them with paper bags and I've done it that way too. Don't forget to save your trim for rosin, hash or edibles!

 

[dogg91702]

Wow Dogg that plant really came through for you! Before you chop, please hang some ornaments in it and snap a Pic, will ya.

Leave those yellow fans on, they help slow the dry for you and protect trichomes underneath.

Okay so a couple Ninja suggestions. Chop in the morning before the sun comes out. Do your post harvest dunk and hang the wet branches outside in the shade to dry all day. Then in the evening move it all to your climate controlled drying space if you have it. For no other reason I think this is why I might be ready to buy a tent.

Some goals to shoot for: RH 50-60 and temp 60-70

A minimum of 5 days hanging before buds snap off easily

Get everything regulated between 58-62% with jars before you move to cure or grove bags. I do it over about 3 days moving the lid partially open to what it needs to stay in that sweet range, shaking the jar periodically for a more even consistency throughout. There's other ways, some people sweat them with paper bags and I've done it that way too. Don't forget to save your trim for rosin, hash or edibles!

Thank you sir, I have the tent and jars ready. I am going to buy some buckets, baking soda and lemon juice tonight. Set up a string line and be ready in the morning, just got 2 so it should be too bad

 

[F1cultivator]

Thank you sir, I have the tent and jars ready. I am going to buy some buckets, baking soda and lemon juice tonight. Set up a string line and be ready in the morning, just got 2 so it should be too bad

Don't forget the peroxide

 

[dogg91702]

Don't forget the peroxide

Got it. Is that necessary?

 

[dogg91702]

Don't forget the peroxide

I found some food grade peroxide at sprouts

 

[superchola]

Sorry you live in such a consumed environment you have to wash your buds with peroxide buds looked beautiful a gain sorry you live in such a consumed environment you have to wash your buds with peroxide

 

[superchola]

Sounds like your place is consumed

 

[superchola]

Negativities of hydrogen peroxide washing including damage to delicate trichomes, potential loss of potency, flavor, and aroma, increased risk of mold if excess moisture is trapped, and a harsher smoke.

 

[superchola]

Lol do you cook with backing soda or diesel ???

 

[dogg91702]

Lol do you cook with backing soda or diesel ???

So peroxide is a no go?I dont have aphid damage or bud rot, no caterpillars or honey dew, they are pretty clean. Just been outside since June

 

[MrBeach]

Uh, yeah. Use peroxide. It's really not all that dramatic. Do you wash your food that was grown outside before you eat it? Yes. I hope it was yes. Wash your food. Wash your herb. Think about it. your dunking it in a diluted solution for a few seconds. Does rain wash of terpenes?

This recipe is for 2 quarts of water. Scale to your needs.

1st bucket: 1 qt. of 3% H2O2 and water, 2nd bucket: 1/2 c lemon juice and 1/2 c baking soda + water, 3rd bucket: plain water.

Gently swish fresh cut herb in bucket for 15-30 seconds. Repeat. Shake off and do the same for all 3 buckets. Then do what Ninjadogma said.

 

[MrBeach]

When you see how dirty the buckets are after you'll understand.

 

[Ninjadogma]

Thank you sir, I have the tent and jars ready. I am going to buy some buckets, baking soda and lemon juice tonight. Set up a string line and be ready in the morning, just got 2 so it should be too bad

Let me know how that baking soda lemon juice thing works out for you, or peroxide for that matter. Scares the crap out of me I'd be stripping resin and other oil solubles off the plant so I stick to plain water. So if you get some good results, maybe I'll give it a try. I'm outdoors like you and around here we get zombie mites that can't be killed by anything you can only control them. So I give my plants a water dunk for one last chance for them and their eggs to abandon ship before they become part of my floor kief. Hey I don't press it I make edibles with it... extra protein!

 

[MrBeach]

Your plant looks amazing, btw!

 

[dogg91702]

First one is done. Will do the 2nd one tomorrow. Thanks for the advice

 

[Ninjadogma]

First one is done. Will do the 2nd one tomorrow. Thanks for the advice

You didn't do a "Christmas tree" pose with it before you chopped? Missed opportunity!

Looks like you got a nice little yield off her. I might have broken the record for lowest yield on one plant. It was a total runt and I'm being generous if I call it a 1/4 oz after I picked out all the seeds (deliberate run). She fuzzed up so nicely I decided to try a reveg and I marked that seed container, "The GOOD Alien."

Doesn't look it through all that fuzz but she's starting her flip. Nice patch of fresh green starting to come up.

 

[dogg91702]

You didn't do a "Christmas tree" pose with it before you chopped? Missed opportunity!

Looks like you got a nice little yield off her. I might have broken the record for lowest yield on one plant. It was a total runt and I'm being generous if I call it a 1/4 oz after I picked out all the seeds (deliberate run). She fuzzed up so nicely I decided to try a reveg and I marked that seed container, "The GOOD Alien."

Doesn't look it through all that fuzz but she's starting her flip. Nice patch of fresh green starting to come up.

Nice alot of frost on her. I have one more I can do it with. I felt a bit rushed and had to figure out my drying situation last minute but tomorrow I will be more ready, thank you for the help

 

[Ninjadogma]

Nice alot of frost on her. I have one more I can do it with. I felt a bit rushed and had to figure out my drying situation last minute but tomorrow I will be more ready, thank you for the help

Hey I just thought of this, not sure if you can use the suggestion but if you reuse your dirt a good way to get all the roots out is flip the bag over and remove the whole thing intact, and then just start tickling the bottom dirt with your fingertips. The dirt will fall free and the roots stay out of it. Once you start tickling, you'll figure out how to finish the job all the way up so you are tossing a root mass without wasting the dirt and the dirt you have won't be root ridden that you later have to sift or pick through.

 

[dogg91702]

Hey I just thought of this, not sure if you can use the suggestion but if you reuse your dirt a good way to get all the roots out is flip the bag over and remove the whole thing intact, and then just start tickling the bottom dirt with your fingertips. The dirt will fall free and the roots stay out of it. Once you start tickling, you'll figure out how to finish the job all the way up so you are tossing a root mass without wasting the dirt and the dirt you have won't be root ridden that you later have to sift or pick through.

Thanks. How many years do you reuse dirt? 5 years?