Why hang upside down?

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barbus

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Hi all, I would like to know why you should hang your finished plant upside down to dry.

Could you not get to the end of your flowering cycyle and just leave the plant the right way up in it's soil untill it's dry? Say you timed your waterings so that when your at end of flower the soil is almost dry then just leave the plant in dry soil till the plants dried out properly.

I hope that made some sense and look forward to as to why upside down.
 
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barbus

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Hi thanks for your time and help :)

Is there actually any benefit to hanging upside down apart from maybe making space in the flower area?

Does hanging upside down help the drying plant or change some properties within the plant?

Say I took two clones from the same plant, vegged them for however long then put them through flower to the end. I chop one, tie and hang upside down to dry, the other, I let the soil go dry and leave the whole plant intact in dry soil, roots, stem etc, would one plant be any better or worse than the other due to the chosen drying method?
 
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frmrboi

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barbus said:
Is there actually any benefit to hanging upside down apart from maybe making space in the flower area? Does hanging upside down help the drying plant or change some properties within the plant?
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I never researched that but I assumed it would keep the internal resins from draining back into the stems. It makes for a straight bud too. Like others suggested it's easier to hang that way too.
 
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TheGreenerTheBetter

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i heard all the "juices" go into the bud tht way. it makes sense i mean when u cut it down the stem still has nutes and thc and all tht good stuff in it, so y not let tht little extra bit go into the buds.
 
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budman56

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The advantage is the water in the stem helps it to dry slower. With giant colas we hang them rightside up with unbent paper clips as the hook to hang them by. The big buds can rot from the inside when you dry real slow. The small regular size buds go upside down. The big buds dry faster and open up allowing air to circulate and not rot. The big and little dry in the same amount of time this way. It helps when you have 200 outside plants to dry and want them out of the way for the next load to be brought in. First load gets trimmed and finished in paper bags as 2nd gets brought in and dried, then ready for trimming, etc., etc.
 
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gangjababy

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Resin forms on the outside of the plant and is not liquid, it doesn't "flow" anywhere! Stop making things up and spreading false information.
 
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beeker

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the old, tradional way of drying upside down ,is so that the smaller leaves that are not trimmed off , go limp as the plant dies ,and hang down to cover the flowers (pistols). This protects pistols and calixs from being broken off, to some degee.
 
Stoney McFried

Stoney McFried

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It breaks down the thc in the leaves.Thc is alcohol soluble,and the leaves have trichome heads on them that contain the thc.It takes a lot of leaf matter to get hash.Because it has far less trichome heads than the buds,and therefore, far less thc.But the stem doesnt contain anything usable, so hanging it upside down wouldn't cause any resin to "run"back down.If anything, all that would be running is plant sap.I'm not an expert, but there are a lot of them on here, and none of them say hanging upside down makes the resin flow into the buds.
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so when you ISO extract oil out of fan leaves where did that resin come from ??? :dunce: heheh :lol:
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barbus

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Thanks for the words of wisdom people, that's a little clearer now.

So, could one presume that hanging upside down is not compulsory and if space and environment allow you could in theory let the plant sit in dry soil for a week or so to allow the plant to dry some with no detrimental affect on quality of the flower?

Anyhow, thanks for your help thus far boys and girls :)
 
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gangjababy

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frmrboi said:
so when you ISO extract oil out of fan leaves where did that resin come from ??? :dunce: heheh :lol:
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trichomes are also also are on leaves buddy. Like I've said stop making things up when you clearly don't know what you're talking about. THC is soluble in alcohol, read up.
 
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gangjababy

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barbus said:
Thanks for the words of wisdom people, that's a little clearer now.

So, could one presume that hanging upside down is not compulsory and if space and environment allow you could in theory let the plant sit in dry soil for a week or so to allow the plant to dry some with no detrimental affect on quality of the flower?

Anyhow, thanks for your help thus far boys and girls :)
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It's is a lot easier to trim when wet and a lot easier to hang upside down then rightside up, it's not rocket science, you're overthinking the whole thing. There is no need to reinvent the wheel.
 
crippledguy

crippledguy

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Stoney McFried said:
It breaks down the thc in the leaves.Thc is alcohol soluble,and the leaves have trichome heads on them that contain the thc.It takes a lot of leaf matter to get hash.Because it has far less trichome heads than the buds,and therefore, far less thc.But the stem doesnt contain anything usable, so hanging it upside down wouldn't cause any resin to "run"back down.If anything, all that would be running is plant sap.I'm not an expert, but there are a lot of them on here, and none of them say hanging upside down makes the resin flow into the buds.
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damn stoney, took the words right out of my mouth!

damn no other "WOMEN" has ever done that to me!

thats why you gotta love da Stoney! :hump:
 
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