Just cut down what you guys think ?

ipeeinpools

ipeeinpools

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You wet trimming? That shit looks good dude, just don't spend all the time you did growing the plant out just to ruin it in the drying process.
 
ipeeinpools

ipeeinpools

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Marcuz516 said:
Yea wet trimming
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how you drying them bad boys? What I do is I chop my whole plant and just take off the big fan leaves that have been left, leave the rest on. I hang the entire plant to dry so long as its not so big that the middle doesn't stay too moist. I keep my temp around 60 and humidity around 60. That gives me 7 days usually on my drying process. bout as long as I can get it in this CO weather
 
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Marcuz516

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ipeeinpools said:
how you drying them bad boys? What I do is I chop my whole plant and just take off the big fan leaves that have been left, leave the rest on. I hang the entire plant to dry so long as its not so big that the middle doesn't stay too moist. I keep my temp around 60 and humidity around 60. That gives me 7 days usually on my drying process. bout as long as I can get it in this CO weather
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Nice well I cut branch by branch and hung em
 
kratos015

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ipeeinpools said:
I used to do single branch chops but I couldn't get enough time in my drying process. How long you planning on drying for?
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I sometimes found this to be true as well. If I had a bunch of smaller indoor plants I would need to leave everything on, fan leaves and all, in order to get the drying time I needed and this was with a controlled room to boot. However my outdoor harvests would usually be so big that even if they were single branch chops, the sheer amount of branches helped keep things perfect.

All about your location though, I was in Southern California at the time and summers can be pretty brutal. Some people need dehumidifiers in their drying room where as I've always needed A/C and humidifiers.

OPs bud looks really really good though, not just the color but the shape and appearance of it as well. I'm guessing if he was able to grow out buds like that that he'll be just fine drying them too :)

Good work btw OP!
 
ipeeinpools

ipeeinpools

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kratos015 said:
I sometimes found this to be true as well. If I had a bunch of smaller indoor plants I would need to leave everything on, fan leaves and all, in order to get the drying time I needed and this was with a controlled room to boot. However my outdoor harvests would usually be so big that even if they were single branch chops, the sheer amount of branches helped keep things perfect.

All about your location though, I was in Southern California at the time and summers can be pretty brutal. Some people need dehumidifiers in their drying room where as I've always needed A/C and humidifiers.

OPs bud looks really really good though, not just the color but the shape and appearance of it as well. I'm guessing if he was able to grow out buds like that that he'll be just fine drying them too :)

Good work btw OP!
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Same here lol....My outdoor I have to break down in branches mostly for traveling with (I have to drive 2 hours back home when I harvest my outdoor).

I would guess too but hell....I had a plant go anaerobic on my last harvest. Thank god it was my least favorite plant lol.,
 
kratos015

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ipeeinpools said:
Same here lol....My outdoor I have to break down in branches mostly for traveling with (I have to drive 2 hours back home when I harvest my outdoor).

I would guess too but hell....I had a plant go anaerobic on my last harvest. Thank god it was my least favorite plant lol.,
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That's the nice thing about outdoor grows, it eventually gets to a point where you have so much that certain plants you don't like don't get cared for. I had an outdoor plant that revegged and was just crappy overall, way more trouble than it was worth to harvest so I just let it be for a for weeks while I harvested the rest. I ended up chopping it all up, throwing it in trash bags, and freezing it and turning it all into concentrates. No way in hell I was trimming a re-vegged plant, would have taken longer than the rest of my crop xD

Drying over 7+ days is easy to do when you've got a grip of 2lb+ monsters, but when you've got 12-18 smaller sized plants maintaining humidity is a bit more difficult, even keeping all of the leaves/stems in tact doesn't help too much.

The only way I've managed to circumvent that was to create my own drying room, you can't really dry in the room you grew in unless it is very well insulated. Dried in a tent with an A/C and humidifier and could never get drying to last more than 4-5 days. But when I made a "room" out of rigid insulation foam boards and put my A/C and humidifier in that I was able to dry for 7+ days easy. I screwed up so many crops by having them dry out too quick, getting the insulation room built was the best thing I ever did. I mean, if we're spending hundred to thousands of dollars to grow out a good crop, what an extra couple of bucks to build a proper drying room? :P
 
ipeeinpools

ipeeinpools

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kratos015 said:
That's the nice thing about outdoor grows, it eventually gets to a point where you have so much that certain plants you don't like don't get cared for. I had an outdoor plant that revegged and was just crappy overall, way more trouble than it was worth to harvest so I just let it be for a for weeks while I harvested the rest. I ended up chopping it all up, throwing it in trash bags, and freezing it and turning it all into concentrates. No way in hell I was trimming a re-vegged plant, would have taken longer than the rest of my crop xD

Drying over 7+ days is easy to do when you've got a grip of 2lb+ monsters, but when you've got 12-18 smaller sized plants maintaining humidity is a bit more difficult, even keeping all of the leaves/stems in tact doesn't help too much.

The only way I've managed to circumvent that was to create my own drying room, you can't really dry in the room you grew in unless it is very well insulated. Dried in a tent with an A/C and humidifier and could never get drying to last more than 4-5 days. But when I made a "room" out of rigid insuation foam boards and put my A/C and humidifier in that I was able to dry for 7+ days easy. I screwed up so many crops by having them dry out too quick, getting the insulation room built was the best thing I ever did. I mean, if we're spending hundred to thousands of dollars to grow out a good crop, what an extra couple of bucks to build a proper drying room? :P
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I do the same, my 4x8 tent is used for "storage" in between harvests, I have totes of stems and soil that I stash in there until harvest comes around, then I clean it out and dry in the tent. typically don't need a dehumidifier, just depends how full the tent gets lol. I exhaust through a carbon filter into my big tent where the bigger carbon filter is. Typically don't run the humidifier for the first 24-48 hours depending, then its just a slow increase each day til its rdy. I do well staying around 60F and 60% humidity without adding much to the process.

I'll be turning the anaerobic plant into oil next week, hopefully it turns out decent.
 
GreenBean 420

GreenBean 420

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Does the darkness really pull all that color or do lower night temps paired with that help? Obviously if the strain has the color in the genetics
 
klx

klx

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Lovely colours. People really do try their best to over complicate things dont they. Grow the weed, dry the weed, job done. We are not splitting atoms.
 
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