Rumple
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I agree, three days is too fast to dry out your buds, they will still have lots of moisture. I have not seen anyone who does that.
Simple Harvest and Cure (Step By Step)
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STEADY BLAZING
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so does it have anything to do with the chlorophyll coming out? can hang without a fan if i know it wnt mold? everytime i use a fan it dries to quickly and i dnt put it directly on the buds either.
Ganjahoarder
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I too will be curing in an attic. One question: will the attic be to cold in the winter time for curing? Our winter temps may go as low as in the teens. Thks
k0ijn
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Rumple
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Well you need to read the whole thing in order to understand this method. You can't stop reading half way and tell us whats wrong with it.Maybe I'm misunderstanding something but you wrote:
Three days hanging to get a lot of the water out of the branches and make it easy to trim, then three or four more days drying in the bags of paper strips. Six or seven days total dry time if my math is correct.
k0ijn
Scientia Cannabis
SFguy
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ummm.. i trim wet and dry in a brown bag in the closet for 6-7 days, i open and shake the bag around though so it desnt clump together.. i like this.. mine alo dry too asy if i hang them up i live @the coast and have large fluctuations of himidity and heat so its more constant in the bag..
pacificarage
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Excellent write-up! Thanks, Rumple!
rocknratm
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xmillion +
Frawsti
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I like this topic way better than the sticky, however I have a small question. I'm using paper bag the same size as you but I'm have aWAY smaller harvest, it only fills one layer. Since there's less bud, less moisture, should it be in the bag shorter? After one day its already very dry (the buds are smaller).
RockCreekRanger
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Great post, I like the bag method idea as opposed to hang-drying, since reading somewhere here that it's a myth that it gives more potency. Seems it would take longer to dry due to moisture in the stem seeping into bud. Anyway, years ago I saw in High Times where a guy dried in the little brown lunch bags, hanging the individual nice sized buds by there little stem inside the bag, folding the top of bag over, and staple. Then he hung them with clothes pins on the barbed wire fence. This only works when you know it won't rain, and you don't have nosy neighbors, I guess. My MI-5 is due week 10 now and am just waiting for this semi-flush to dry out soil and then......I will try the little brown bag method, without hanging them outside of course! This will be my first real harvest so the pics here on the trichromes color will help.
k0ijn
Scientia Cannabis
The image about trichome colours is not completely accurate.
A lot of people think that wether the trichomes are cloudy or amber when harvested will determine wether an energetic high or a couch lock effect is achieved.
What really determines wether you get an energetic, head high or a couch lock effect is the species of your strain.
Indica strains (and Indica dominant hybrids) produce a couch lock effect.
Sativa strains (and Sativa dominant hybrids) produce a more energetic, head high.
This is of course not rock solid, since many other substances produced in Cannabis can affect the high you get from smoking / ingesting it.
CBD, CBG, THCV, CBN (etc. etc.) all influence the high in some way, but the species of the strains is what underlying determine the effect you get.
Another valid point is that when you get amber trichomes, the THC has broken down into CBN, which is not as psychoactive, and it produces an unpleasant, sometimes described as sickly, high (like your head feels when you have a bad cold).
You want to harvest with as close to 100% cloudy trichomes as possible.
This will ensure fully realized THC, at it's peak, and give you most out of your crop.
Back to the image posted in this thread.
It was made a while back by a guy who didn't really know what he was talking about, it has been fluctuated around the internet many times and a lot of people think it's valid.
It isn't.
An updated a more factually & scientifically correct image has been made, but is not getting used as much as the older one, since people think the old image about trichome colours is accurate.
You want to use this to help assist with trichome colours:
You also need to look for receding pistils & swollen calyxes, and finally the overall look of the plant(s) before you can determine peak harvest.
This has been covered though.
RockCreekRanger
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Well I'm going out tomorrow to get magnifier to check this out. All I see is white hairs everywhere and shiny crystals covering it. When I try to take pic, it's so bright it glares the lens and I can't get decent photo.
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SimonD
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Rumple
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Thank you, I like the posts that have good written information as well as pictures. It gives a whole other perspective. The extra work is well worth it.
Small harvest will require less dry time for sure. Reduce the bag time by a day for smaller quantities.
Again, thanks for the kind words.
