Slavinsky88
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Will I lose any potency from my bud if I perform this wash before drying??
Thank you
Thank you
Washing buds before drying!!??
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Tracker
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I do a similar wash on my outdoor. I'm sure some trichomes are lost, but mine comes out pretty good. If you look at the stuff that comes off in the wash, you'll be happy you did it. I don't wash my indoor, but that tent is clean with filtered intake. My outdoor gets all kinds of dust and crap on it. When I do it, I swing the colas around to whip off excess water and spin the smaller pieces in a salad spinner.
Wizzlebiz
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Thc is not water soluble. Your buds will be fine. Here is my outdoor wash from last summer.
H2O2 wash/Fresh water wash
Did a wash today with H202 warm water followed by a fresh cold water wash. Here were the results. As we can see the H202 took care of the bulk of the crap from the ash and such. The fresh water rinsed the 1st wash off and offered additional cleaning. But look how clear that second bucket...
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Budget Buds
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I wash the outdoor too, no h2o2 or c6h8o7 though, just fresh water.... even in my area with no pollution or fires to contend with they still get dirty and a quick dip really helps
Slavinsky88
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I'm indoor too.. I want to wash the areas that might still be affected by PM when harvest.. I'm sure I'm not getting rid off it completely till then.. I'm in a war with it this shit sense veg
Wizzlebiz
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1 cup of h202 in 5 gallons of water. Dip, swish, spin to get the excess water off and hang to dry.
The peroxide will help with the pm.
MeToe
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So I'm struggling with PM as it happens.. Outdoors.. I've sprayed with baking soda solution and 2 days later it came back I sprayed with milk solution. I still have a good 30+ days if the weather cooperates. Trying to avoid getting the Safer's Defender Fungicide or 3n1 spray if I can help it. I know I'm going to need to do a bud wash after harvest. Can you be a bit more specific on how you do yours?
Clean water - tap water? spring? distilled? does it matter ?
Do you dip/swish/spin from one bucket to another consecutively? For how long each stage? What's the baking soda/ lemon or lime ratio to water?
It's been a while and this is my first grow in several years, and the last time I didn't wash. So this is all new to me.
MeToe
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? you lost me, safer's sulphur dust?
Zephyrs
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Yeah, Jjgrow likes to try and throw wrenches into Peeps threads sometimes.
Rurumo
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I wash my outdoor buds too, but skip the lemon juice, I just do the h202, baking soda, and rinse. I've also used aspirin water when I thought the bud had a high likelihood of botrytis/pm. If anyone is interested, just google something like "postharvest salicylic acid study" or something similar. They treat grapes with it a lot, among other things, to prevent botrytis once they are harvested. Aspirin is an outstanding preventive measure while the plant is still growing too, I always treat mine twice, both root drench and foliar.
Dank Bongula
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Just be gentle and don't bang your tree against the side of the bucket.
Wizzlebiz
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Better than losing the whole plant to mold.
Jjgrow420
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Ya sorry not to wash with to spray with to kill pm