Again - you are nothing if not adversarial.
Do you know what I'd put in the category of 'absolutely will hurt'? Harvesting weeks before a plant is ripe.
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Thanks. When you first posted the buckets you were setting up with what looked like frozen hay-water I thought it was another one of your jokes
I'd consider it a bloom enhancer really. Although, you can amend with it from the start and touch up later if needed. It's good stuff. I'd just do what the bag says, it gives you a couple options.
I have dried a plant whole. Messy when you go to trim it up, but dry is dry imo. It does dry slower because there is more to dry and it wicks from the stems. You can use different methods for different things. Like say right now it is super dry where you live. I'd consider drying the plant more or less whole to slow down drying. If it's been rainy and super humid, I'd cut it up smaller so that it dries out faster. You don't always need to look for the one way to do something and do it that way all the time. Everyone has their own way of drying and curing. Now I just cut off a cola, trim the loose stuff off of it and put it in a hanging drier. 3-5 days later it's done drying and ready to smoke. I trim up the dry stuff and nug it out. I jar it up at that point and conveniently it cures at the same time. When I remember I open it up and feel them. They get wetter after sitting in there for a few days so I open up the jars and when I remember again I close them up. After a while I pop a boveda pack in there and call it good.
I've dried many ways too, and my little cedar closet helps with the humidity while they get there. I usually just hang the cola, but if it was better to do whole but there were tricks, I wanted to learn them
I agree trimming around the top would be a bear.
They sell big glass airtight latching jars at michaels here, pretty cheap. If you need some more storage space or whatever. They're nice in the kitchen too.I've dried many ways too, and my little cedar closet helps with the humidity while they get there. I usually just hang the cola, but if it was better to do whole but there were tricks, I wanted to learn them
This is what I ended up with from that monster-crop clone that was in with the contest plants. They all dried as cola, but for curing I snip them apart. Ended up with just under 100g, and it'll be cured in another 2 weeks. The center are 2 I left whole, left is the tops, and right are the nugs from those tops. About ping-pong ball size nugs.
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I bought a 6-pack of the half-gallon mason jars at Wally-world. We think alike in this, because I already have them in the dishwasher
Haven't needed them yet, but it is probably the cheapest/best way to store the 4 plants separately.
Do you have a light in the cab or are you drying them in the pots?I've dried many ways too, and my little cedar closet helps with the humidity while they get there. I usually just hang the cola, but if it was better to do whole but there were tricks, I wanted to learn them
This is what I ended up with from that monster-crop clone that was in with the contest plants. They all dried as cola, but for curing I snip them apart. Ended up with just under 100g, and it'll be cured in another 2 weeks. The center are 2 I left whole, left is the tops, and right are the nugs from those tops. About ping-pong ball size nugs.
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No lights just ventilation, so right now they are just sitting in the darkness. I think individual limbs will be less of a pain than whole plants, so i'll dry them regular.
Oh, ok. No, I haven't dried like that before. I thought you were talking about cutting at the base and hanging the whole thing upside down or something. I thought you put up a lights off pic until I couldn't see the lights.
I was - and it would be a pain - and that is not what is pictured
Here is a link to his April 16th post
So, 4 weeks and a day before he flipped them
I use a 5 gal bucket and boveda packs.I bought a 6-pack of the half-gallon mason jars at Wally-world. We think alike in this, because I already have them in the dishwasher
You can also trim it off as needed and let the lower canopy finish. Like grapes, you don't go pick every grape off when it is done, you pluck them off as they ripen. Grapes isn't a good example, corn might be a better one. Not seed corn that dries down to 20% moisture and then gets harvested with a combine, I mean sweet corn. You don't go chop down the whole field because some ears are done. Tomatoes might be the best example.
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Yes tomatoes compares to what you are saying. But not like the big tomatoes where you only have one or two in a stem, and they get ripe at the same time, but like cherry tomatoes where there's a bunch on a stem, and the top ones usually get ripe first... unless you sell to a grocery store and cut them when the first one turns so they are ripe by the time it gets to the store... Unless you are talking about the whole plant, where you only pick the ripe tomatoes - then you're spot on