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I tried it that way once.... Such a PITA to trim the small dry sugar leaves it took forever. It was almost easier to pull them with a pair of tweezers!
I do not load my drying racks very full I do not stack buds on top of buds. I feel that the drying time has increased synch switching to the racks. Before I would chop a branch off, wet trim, and hang from a string until dry, then cut off nugs and brown bag for another week or so the bottle. For a total of around 2.5 - 4 weeks process.
Yea man ditch the drying rack, its drying to fast. Next up, the paper bag thing is fucking stupid. ( nothing against you ) I've did it two. But it's fuckin retarted, and serves no purpose except to speed up the process which ruins the end product. Sounds like you need some patients. ;)
Even though yo dont pack the racks, the buds are still all trimed and small so it's speeds up the drying time major. That's not good. That style of drying is for huge ass comertial grows, guys that don't go e a fuck about quality. Sounds like you more ito haveing some head stash rather than some pounds of BS.
As far as the small buds, you need to trim those branches off before you flower. Sounds like you've been growing long enough to know whats going to happen in flower. The plant will still produce the nug wait from those small nugs, it will jus produce it at the tops. Don't even bother growin small branches, just chop them off. That should make trimming alot easier, since all you will have is fatty ass tops. It takes some practice, and I still have t even got it down A+ yet. But I know what ya mean about those small nugs it sucks trying to trim that shit dry.
It really comes down to what's more important to you speed and a easy work, or stinky firey ass weed.
I think a better way for you might be to trim the plant wet, the hole plant. Don't trim off any branches and hang to dry for 3 weeks, then jar.
The thing about trimming dry, is that your adjitaiting the nug and terpenes am makeing it stink. But you also loose trichs. If you were to trim wet and hang dry, it may stink a little less but be a little more potant. But make sure it's super dry when canning, after you can it don't burp, if it's dry you shouldn't need to burp. Burping is just another way to speed dry, which is bad. After you can it should slowly start to stink more and more and more, ounce you crack that jar, shit should ingulf the room.
The most important thing to drying and cureing, is dry the plant hole, or in large sections. Next is dry time, it should take close to three weeks hanging to be ready to trim. Maybe 2 1/2 but be carful on that, 3 weeks is a good number that's safe.
The best way is crispy dry, like crumble. If you break up a nug and it crumbles to keef it's perfect. Now you can either keep it crumble, or add rh back into the nug with a humidity pack. That's how you cure fire.
The best way to add back Rh is with those metal cans. I can't rember what there called, by there are tons of vids on them. I talked to the guy that makes them for like 2 hours on the phone about cursing and shit. I was looking I to those becouse Im a greedy fuck and I think I'm loosing money buy slanging to dry, I want my grams. But I also know that if the rh isn't fucki most fact yo can fuck up your stash.
But check this out, by going all the way dry, your going to get rid, of all the green smell. No clorifill. :) then you bring the rh back up, to get those grams and that little bit of squish that people seem to like.
Me personally I like crumble cuz I roll joints, and IMVHO crumble rolls perfects and burns great.
Only reason I haven't bought them yet, ( the cans ) is like I need a G worth am I ain't got it like that. Although I'm probably looseing that movein it so dry. I guess it's a catch 22. Lol