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Oh, the other way I sometimes do it if the plant looks like it will be horrible to trim dry is to just trim em all and cut em from the stem and then toss em in a big paper bag. Assuming they aren't overly dense this works well. Dense nugs I might avoid trying it just because of the risk of mold.

I grow a lot of sativa doms I guess. I did toss my Bright Moments in a bag actually instead of slow hang drying and they turned out nice. They were dense (but not rocks). Again, no hay smell.

whodatnation said:

Perpetual per-smechual y'all are as crazy as this Bill-Cole-Hector guy is!


Move along now.

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not all of use have three flower rooms yet give us time and who the hell is Bill-Cole-Hector

Dr.D81 said:

not all of use have three flower rooms yet give us time and who the hell is Bill-Cole-Hector

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I dont have three flower cabs, yet. Iv never really dug perpetual either way, I usually like one crop chop and on to the next one because I like uniformity too much, the ocd part of me coming out for sure.

Im out of beer for tonight lol probably for the best.
Bill-cohl-ector is billcollector99, that guy let me tell you... lol he's good peeps.

right on i thought you had a flat grow going as well? i would love to have a uniform crop LOVE! and any thing i add will be a monster dog and blue pit in hydro with a six in the center will be great. first run will be Purple wreck #2 and Alligator kush.

yo wasup peeps, jus dropping in to holla an that lol. Princess is about 2.5 weeks to droppadge time. My dads just had a new hip and me mum needs one bad so im the only abl;e bodied person around lmfaro. Hatty is blossoming so much, shes two and a half now, propper mad woman now lol.

Cheers for the update west. Was thinking of LGP yesterday and was gonna message. glad you got the mental vibes.

Sending all our love for the easiest of births. And speedy recovery for the grandparents so they can help out a little. haha.

Question about drying too quickly.... if 5-7 days is too quickly, how many days should I be drying over?

And what is so bad about having buds smell like hay for 2 days? It's never bothered me.... should it? Am I missing something here?

Depending on the time of year jig, my plants only dry for 2-4 in the winter, and 5-7 in the summer most of the time. I have tried trimming wet, and trimming dry, and while I do think that trimming dry does give a superior final flavor I usually trim wet. I trimmed dry for a long time, but went back to trimming wet last year when I started fresh freezing the wet trim for my oil making.

As far as it smelling like hay for a few days jig, thats all about preferance. To some extent it not stinking to high heaven could be a good thing, but I know you don't sell and prolly don't transport it much so not a huge deal. I have been told multiple times that people had to take my bubba kush home before they did or went any where cus it stunk so bad, and that people still made comments about "that strange smell" after it was out of the car or their jackets. Since I didn't love the bubba smell this was almost a negative to me, had it been the Cindy or my White widow smelling that strongly it might have been cool. You are also fortunate enough to be able to let your buds actually cure Jig, and I can only assume they just keep getting better.

My preference is to have a great flavor rather then being concerned about the smell persay. Which you said your bud has which equals a win in my book!

hey jig make a dry rack with screen from a window or door so the nugs dont lay on top of each other and have room to breath. they can be make with a 2"x2" wood make a 12 inch square drill 3-6 holes each side for air venting cut screen same size staple on then repeat. then under is you want glass. this does 2 things. dries even no hay smell and any trics that fall will end up on the glass and you can smoke them. you would be surprised how many fall off. oh you can make it bigger or smaller add more holes ect. my last harvest my RH was 53% each day i would jsut lift the stacks up 1 at a time to let more air in and it took about 7 days then i put in ziplock for 6 hrs then back on the rack for 1 more day. i think its been over 4 years i think.

Edit: you can use 2x4 also for big fat ass cola's

jigfresh said:

Cheers for the update west. Was thinking of LGP yesterday and was gonna message. glad you got the mental vibes.

Sending all our love for the easiest of births. And speedy recovery for the grandparents so they can help out a little. haha.

Question about drying too quickly.... if 5-7 days is too quickly, how many days should I be drying over?

And what is so bad about having buds smell like hay for 2 days? It's never bothered me.... should it? Am I missing something here?

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Jig, I think that the matter is pretty clear. (tho I am taking a shot here ;0)

It must be the extremely low humidity where you are. 15% is just so
low that it alone causes a too-fast of drying.

I think that your solution is to use the paper bags. Go right to the bags after
just 3-4 days of drying....maybe even only 2-3. This will leave enough moisture
in the buds to allow for a slightly slower process.

It is my thinking that the Hay smell ought to be the first to go, that it is the
Chlorophyll that we aim to remove. A remaining Hay smell seems to suggest
a failed cure.

BUT there are surely hay-smelling breeds too, I bet!

Good luck,

JD

All this information is good.new ideas a plus.it helps us become a better grower.each one teach one.

For the record. Any buds of his i have smoked thus far have NOT smelled or tasted like hay. . I thjnk jig is refering to catching some hay smell for a short time between the dry and cure process.

So if I'm understanding, my buds will smell better at the end if they never smell like hay in along the way? I'm grasping there are lots of ways to avoid this temporary smell, but I'm not grasping why it is to be avoided.

Me either. When i get that smell it goes away after a few weeks in jars

mines gone in 2 days.

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So if I'm understanding, my buds will smell better at the end if they never smell like hay in along the way? I'm grasping there are lots of ways to avoid this temporary smell, but I'm not grasping why it is to be avoided.

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people dislike hay/mold smelling nugs..thats why.

but for a person keeping it for himself,it do not matter.

me,i remove all big fann leafs,then hang till they are dry as i want them,which in my space is around 5-10 days(nug size) at that point,i just knock off the sugar leaf,trim nugs in to jar,drop cure pack in jar.....
and BOOM!!! gos the dynamite.

sometimes that smell comes from choping to soon.

genuity said:

people dislike hay/mold smelling nugs..thats why.

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Well that makes sense.

I edited some pics into my last post before yours.

Wifey left at 5:30 today so it's gonna be a long one with baby. We're having fun so far.

Looks good to me man. Holy cow. Have fun w bubba! She looks happy. . We had to go to the dr w ours. Found out he is 15lb now. Its going by so fast. Im home today too. Too many long days lately.

I think it looks great man! Gotta love baby cheeks they are soo cute .

That jar of bud sure looks nice too ! I can't wait to taste it.

Its gotta be tough to dry well with that low humidity.
In my house right now 68% rh...buds hanging on stalks still for 11 days and still slightly spongy.
They will go into bage for a week or until I feel like trimming...no hurry as they dont overdry fast with these low temps and high humidity
No mold as I have moving air around them , and they are in the open.

They seem to be in stasis right now lol, but when they make it to jars and cure Ill have more taste/smell than I would from ones pulled in summer with 15-20% rh as they dry in 3-6 days.
I havent smelled any hay with the winter drying as I do in summer sometimes.

Hannah is looking so cute!

very cute.....