Cutting Your Buds Away from the Main Stalk to Dry!

LordWinter

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Nah, you didn't misspeak. Others have said that your drying method reduces scent and taste. I was just going on the record that it didn't really matter to me. I'm not growing for gourmets, I'm growing for meds and taste stopped mattering with meds when I stopped taking chewables as a kid.
 

stinkbudd1

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Nah, you didn't misspeak. Others have said that your drying method reduces scent and taste. I was just going on the record that it didn't really matter to me. I'm not growing for gourmets, I'm growing for meds and taste stopped mattering with meds when I stopped taking chewables as a kid.
Right on bro i justr like to clarify myself if in fact i do misspeak you know...here are a few pic's of the first chop 3 x Blue Diesel 2 different Phenos..

In the photos you can see the plants that i chopped all of them were singe cola plants with not very much side branching at all as you see i have a pic of the bud before i remove the stem portion from the and most people would just stick a paper clip in them and hang them up doing this will take at least 6 to 8 days to dry well!!i chop all the buds from the stems and leave only quarter size buds to dry or a lil larger..the pic shows the buds after chop down this is after day one of drying..

The thing i like most is that you get a real good judgement of your weight after i finished these they weighed in at just over 194 grams wet now with this method i should get a lil better than a third of the weight when dry works every time..so im looking for about 90 grams dry from these three plants after cure..
 

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stinkbudd1

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Ok so here are the harvest pic's after a 8 day cure not done yet with the cure but i thought id get you guys an acurate weight so it came in as follows..By the way i ended up chopping all four of the BD and just left the 2 CBH's to go later on..And the total wet weight came to just under 300 grams remember all the buds were cut from the main branches and dried for the three days and the to the cure jar for 12/12 in jar and then out of jar for the next 5 days after that i go ahead and store it as long as im happy with the dryness of the bud..My one Purple Pheno BD was the top yeilder she came in with just over 40 grams and some very nice tight buds the other three together came in at a grand total of 79.4 grams dried and cure for a 4 plant single colas grow with 119.7 grams....The smell is outstanding when you p[op this jar and break a nug open simply great i have yet to smoke any myself because i like to wait for the final cure but i know it put my old lady on her ass yesterday..:neutral:
 

stinkbudd1

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This is some fantastic bud and just for the record i think the proof is in the pudding as i stated at the beggining of the thread to me this is a fool proof way to get your buds chopped dried cured and ready for smoking all in about 14 days or so with fantastic results now i know you cant smell them or taste them so let me assure you that both taste and smell i have lost nothing they are ripe and taste amazingly smooth and fruity..and lets not even talk about the bag apeal thats another story so i hope this helped you all that were here and id love to see some of your results when some of you try this method..:peace:



 

Los Muertos

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This is some fantastic bud and just for the record i think the proof is in the pudding as i stated at the beggining of the thread to me this is a fool proof way to get your buds chopped dried cured and ready for smoking all in about 14 days or so with fantastic results now i know you cant smell them or taste them so let me assure you that both taste and smell i have lost nothing they are ripe and taste amazingly smooth and fruity..and lets not even talk about the bag apeal thats another story so i hope this helped you all that were here and id love to see some of your results when some of you try this method..:peace:



I'm sold. That shit looks great!!
 

stinkbudd1

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nice but are they dense or flufy?
I'm sorry you are not here to be able to touch them as well but yes they are not fluffy at all very nice and solid sticky and you can tell by the weight of the small nugs they all have a nice weight to them for the size of the nugs..Fluffy nugs have no weight to them..
 

beeznutz

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ima give this a go, im drying right now....quick question though, what was ur environment like? temp, humdity, etc?
i usually cut main stem and chop most leaves then hang and i check the stem [snap it] to see when done drying but
with this method i have to rely on other factors....right now i cannot get my humidity down, its been between 70-80
and the temp at 75. this is a basement setup, a new place, and it turns out that it retains a lot of water so its hard to
control humidity. i know getting a dehumidifier would help but the basement its pretty big and i would have to get a
pretty expensive one to actually make a diference- can't afford it right now.....
its been 8 days of drying on a rack surrounded by cardboard with a fan blowing on top and a fan sucking from the bottom.
popped a few buds last nite and still pretty wet....smoked it and was a good high but not a good burn, ashes weren't quite
gray....
 

stinkbudd1

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Hey glad to here you are going to try this out i wish you luck, as for my temps and humidity it was at right around 65 deg and the humidity was at 40 % with no fan on and then 28 % with fan running..75 seems a lil high but the good thing about this method is you dont have great big clusters of buds that will mold very easy on you i say try it with and without the fan and see how mush you can get your humidity to drop there has been times when we had lots of rain here i ran my fan on cycles to help with the high humidity..
 

beeznutz

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yeah man, it's been raining a lot lately so that makes it even harder...
do you wait to get a little crunch on those buds? what would you say it
tells you they're ready?
 

beeznutz

Active Member
so what exactly is the method ur using?
I was under the impression that it should b 16/8 in/out
but after going thru the thread again I also noticed uv
mentioned a few times that ur doing 12/12 in/out.

jus wanna make sure I got it right....
 

stinkbudd1

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so what exactly is the method ur using?
I was under the impression that it should b 16/8 in/out
but after going thru the thread again I also noticed uv
mentioned a few times that ur doing 12/12 in/out.

jus wanna make sure I got it right....
Hey thanks for the post and im glad you asked the question because i did not explain myself as i should have here is what i do as simply as i can state it but i must say the reason for the discrepencies is because i have had some buds that tok a lil longer to get to the dry point that i like and when this happens i go to the 12 in 12 out to assure that i am not putting my buds in the jar when they are still yet to moist..This has happened on two occasions to me and you can always tell when you open the jar after the first day or 24 hours in the buds will be really rehydrated once again..So if you have your buds dried to the point that there is no risk of molding then you will go ahead with this method that is to follow..Well here is what i do, when i get ready to harvest my plants i do avery good flush maybe at leats 2 weeks before harvest right before harvest i give my plant 36 hours of darkness to finish up, form here i began to chop my plant and i do so in a very dimly lit room and i only take off the Buds i take no stems or shoots along for the ride only quarter or more size nugs i place them on a lareg screen in my brying closet and run my small fan on low not dirrected at the buds themselves..I useally let mine dry for about 3 days only and then i place them into mason jars for 24 hours after the 24 hours are up i open the the jars and at this time some of the moisture will have returned to the buds..Here is the main thing i do differently now then i did before, i no longer just let the jar breath and then reclose it i actually let the buds rest out of the jar for the next 8 hours and then return them back into the jars for the next 16 and repeat the cycle for the next 7 to 10 days once im sure my buds are safe frommold and dry enough for my taste i then leave them alone to cure and with this ive had some real nice results not to mention i get a very honest reading when it comes to wet and dry weight on my nuggs it comes out to be something like 1/3 wet equals your dry weight..Buds get more solid and dence a lot faster and the cure proccess is for some reason speeded up nicely..The most important thing to remember is to get a very good dry on your buds from hanging but remember there is a fine line between jar ready and and not ready for jar..to me if your stem snaps you have over dried in this method..
 

kingofqueen

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Thats a good method . Especially for some one who is worried about over drying and fucking up the cure . I do a similiar method and it works great ! Dank , sticky buds . I keep em a little fluffy till I'm ready to pull some to smoke . I keep what I,m smoking in a baggie then they harden up nice .
 

stinkbudd1

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Thats a good method . Especially for some one who is worried about over drying and fucking up the cure . I do a similiar method and it works great ! Dank , sticky buds . I keep em a little fluffy till I'm ready to pull some to smoke . I keep what I,m smoking in a baggie then they harden up nice .
Exactly right you are, and thanks for the post i forgot to speak to that part of it because i dont doo it as often as i once did,but once your buds are good and to the point you desire you can easily rock them up into solid nugs simply by putting them into air tight sealed up plastic baggies..But i found if you dont want to do it this way then it will do the same thing if you just let your cure stay in the jar for at least a month..
 

SKandall

Member
So are you saying when trimming take the buds off completely from the stem put them on a drying screen for a few days then jar them up for a few days open let it sit out and jar up again? And this will make sure no hay smell?
 
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