3rd Grow: NYC Diesel & LA Confidential, Using Geoflora Nutrients

So I'm planning ahead to the cure right now. 2nd flush happened yesterday and final flush is thurday. I made a little dark box to stick my plant in for 48hrs and I'm gonna use the same box to dry the plant gonna hang plant upside down in box since I can't hang in tent to dry right now. Last grow I dried for 10 days then put in brown paper bags for a few days then jars burped daily for 2 weeks and then jars sealed for 4 weeks. I didn't like the cure using this method so I am thinking about what method to cure this plant. Looking into Turkey bags right now and I do have large mason jars if all else fails. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
 
I'm likely going to give grovebags a try for my next harvest. The local growers I know apparently made the switch. Might be something to look at. The bags burp themselves. I find the jar thing tedious and error prone and it certainly doesn't scale very well. I cured a qp or so in some smellyproof bags last year and it worked pretty good as well, just need to burp manually still occasionally. Turkey bags would be pretty similar I think.
 
I'm likely going to give grovebags a try for my next harvest. The local growers I know apparently made the switch. Might be something to look at. The bags burp themselves. I find the jar thing tedious and error prone and it certainly doesn't scale very well. I cured a qp or so in some smellyproof bags last year and it worked pretty good as well, just need to burp manually still occasionally. Turkey bags would be pretty similar I think.
Yeah from what I've read most of the larger growers just throw the buds in large bins lined with the oven bags.
 
I'm likely going to give grovebags a try for my next harvest. The local growers I know apparently made the switch. Might be something to look at. The bags burp themselves. I find the jar thing tedious and error prone and it certainly doesn't scale very well. I cured a qp or so in some smellyproof bags last year and it worked pretty good as well, just need to burp manually still occasionally. Turkey bags would be pretty similar I think.
I just bought some of those grovebags.
 
Diesel 2 has been chopped. The buds were a lot heavier and denser than I expected. Filled up 3 tiers of the drying rack. Bought a wood moisture meter. Gonna dry for 7 to 10 days and then sweat in paper bags. Will check stems with moisture meter and place in bags to cure when moisture is at 11%
 
Plants drying for 2 days now. Moisture meter arrived and took a little test reading even though it wont be done for at least a other 7 to 9 days. Stems closest to buds are reading 43%. Gonna take them out of the mesh rack when they get down to about 20% and then sweat in paper bags until they reach 11%. Not trying to jinx anything but I feel a lot better prepared this time around and glad I bought the meter
 
Diesel 1, LA, and Maui buds starting to finish developing. Gonna feed for another 7 to 10 days and then start a 2 week flush and they should then be in the harvest window. Took a trich shot of one of the diesel 2 buds drying I think this one couldve been harvested a week earlier but the lesson was learned.
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I read a ridiculously long article this morning on it and watched some bruce bugbee video on it earlier and it makes sense I just saw others call it bro science and say it was useless and figured I would ask what you guys thought. I'm still flushing her right now, I flushed on Friday and again this morning and I'm getting a runoff of 450 so I'm gonna flush once more on thursday and then sat and sun night I'm gonna put her in darkness for the weekend
C, it's real science, AND it's bro science, ie, science by easy and direct observation repeatedly. On both counts it works. If you can do it, it will improve the bud. Noticeably. If you want, set a bud up so you can take the exact spot on it both before and after and take a closeup picture, then do the same with the scope. You will see the difference after 48 hours. I'm moaning cuz the Strawberry Lemonade is too big and it's physically impossible to darken her, so she has to get the standard treatment. Oh well. And btw - first time I ever used the FF system completely with every piece, for the entirety of a grow. So now I've done just the first three, the first three and last three, and the entire system. I will tell you from my experience that each of those steps up made a significant difference. Systems are systems, and are intended to be used as such. Will it work with only part? Sure. But the whole system works the best, and no, it is not in place just for Fox Farms to sell more nutes.

My two cents on this very interesting discussion.
 
Diesel 1, LA, and Maui buds starting to finish developing. Gonna feed for another 7 to 10 days and then start a 2 week flush and they should then be in the harvest window. Took a trich shot of one of the diesel 2 buds drying I think this one couldve been harvested a week earlier but the lesson was learned.
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Yup, you got your fair share of amber there, don't you? You're like me, you like up weed, didn't we talk about that? So I hear you. But it's hard, right? I mean to look at those buds they look as if you could let them go yet, but the trichomes tell a different story. Interesting. I find in LED grows that the trichomes usually trump all other indicators.
 
Btw - here's an alternate thought on you impending cure. Assuming the plant is still hanging, you *could* chop her down to individual branches, don't remove anything, and place the entire plant in branch form into a small container that seals. Burp it as you would a jar for five days. Then take it out and trim it up and jar it.

This is a method taught to me by my Yoda in Oregon on my first grow, and it works spectacularly well. If the plant is voluminous enough, ideally I go hang > burp in one large plastic container as individual branches > trim branches to fit in 5 gallon food grade buckets and fill and burp them (each container is 5 days of burping, both the large and the 5 gallon buckets) > final trim and jar.

This "jump starts" the cure like you wouldn't believe. There's something about leaving them together with all the sugar leaf and the stems for that long "pre-curing" if you will, that makes it so that when you final trim them after ten days of the two container burp, it's as if they have already been jarred for a month. If the plant is not big enough to justify the single large container (you gotta fill it 80% or so to the top, like you would a jar, to get the proper effect) I skip the large container and go right to the five gallon buckets. The food grade ones have those spinning plastic lids that makes burping them a breeze, and it is during that burping ten days, especially the first five, that you "tune" the moisture level in the buds to where you want it. By the time the first five days is over and they move to the buckets they should be pretty much at 62% or whatever your target is, that's mine. I use Infinity natural moisture exchange packs in my jars instead of Bovedas cuz I like the all natural, but same thing.

That works very well for me, for what it's worth.
 
Btw - here's an alternate thought on you impending cure. Assuming the plant is still hanging, you *could* chop her down to individual branches, don't remove anything, and place the entire plant in branch form into a small container that seals. Burp it as you would a jar for five days. Then take it out and trim it up and jar it.

This is a method taught to me by my Yoda in Oregon on my first grow, and it works spectacularly well. If the plant is voluminous enough, ideally I go hang > burp in one large plastic container as individual branches > trim branches to fit in 5 gallon food grade buckets and fill and burp them (each container is 5 days of burping, both the large and the 5 gallon buckets) > final trim and jar.

This "jump starts" the cure like you wouldn't believe. There's something about leaving them together with all the sugar leaf and the stems for that long "pre-curing" if you will, that makes it so that when you final trim them after ten days of the two container burp, it's as if they have already been jarred for a month. If the plant is not big enough to justify the single large container (you gotta fill it 80% or so to the top, like you would a jar, to get the proper effect) I skip the large container and go right to the five gallon buckets. The food grade ones have those spinning plastic lids that makes burping them a breeze, and it is during that burping ten days, especially the first five, that you "tune" the moisture level in the buds to where you want it. By the time the first five days is over and they move to the buckets they should be pretty much at 62% or whatever your target is, that's mine. I use Infinity natural moisture exchange packs in my jars instead of Bovedas cuz I like the all natural, but same thing.

That works very well for me, for what it's worth.
I was unable to hang the first one since the other 3 are still going so I chopped them by each branch took the big fan leaves off and kept the smaller vegetation on and I have then sitting in a 6 tier drying rack with the room set at 66f and 55 -60rh. Not really ideal I would prefer to hang in the tent like the other 3 will be done.
 
Btw - here's an alternate thought on you impending cure. Assuming the plant is still hanging, you *could* chop her down to individual branches, don't remove anything, and place the entire plant in branch form into a small container that seals. Burp it as you would a jar for five days. Then take it out and trim it up and jar it.

This is a method taught to me by my Yoda in Oregon on my first grow, and it works spectacularly well. If the plant is voluminous enough, ideally I go hang > burp in one large plastic container as individual branches > trim branches to fit in 5 gallon food grade buckets and fill and burp them (each container is 5 days of burping, both the large and the 5 gallon buckets) > final trim and jar.

This "jump starts" the cure like you wouldn't believe. There's something about leaving them together with all the sugar leaf and the stems for that long "pre-curing" if you will, that makes it so that when you final trim them after ten days of the two container burp, it's as if they have already been jarred for a month. If the plant is not big enough to justify the single large container (you gotta fill it 80% or so to the top, like you would a jar, to get the proper effect) I skip the large container and go right to the five gallon buckets. The food grade ones have those spinning plastic lids that makes burping them a breeze, and it is during that burping ten days, especially the first five, that you "tune" the moisture level in the buds to where you want it. By the time the first five days is over and they move to the buckets they should be pretty much at 62% or whatever your target is, that's mine. I use Infinity natural moisture exchange packs in my jars instead of Bovedas cuz I like the all natural, but same thing.

That works very well for me, for what it's worth.
I'm gonna stick them in grove bags once the moisture gets to around 11 to 12% in the stems. Was all set to use Mason jars again and been reading up on these grove bags and I'm really intrigued by these things could be a game changer
 
I'm gonna stick them in grove bags once the moisture gets to around 11 to 12% in the stems. Was all set to use Mason jars again and been reading up on these grove bags and I'm really intrigued by these things could be a game changer
Cool. Yeah I've read alot about them too lately and may go that route myself next time. Sweet.
 
Ok so today I've been faced with a slight dilemma. Been planning on taking these buds out of the drying rack and into paper bags to sweat at 11% moisture but here is the issue the buds are reading between 10-12% moisture but the stems are at 22-23% moisture. Not sure if I should bag these up to start sweating now or wait until the stem moisture drops a little but I'm afraid my bud moisture will be too low. Leaning towards going into bags to sweat today but figured I would see if anyone has any helpful advice.
 
Ok so today I've been faced with a slight dilemma. Been planning on taking these buds out of the drying rack and into paper bags to sweat at 11% moisture but here is the issue the buds are reading between 10-12% moisture but the stems are at 22-23% moisture. Not sure if I should bag these up to start sweating now or wait until the stem moisture drops a little but I'm afraid my bud moisture will be too low. Leaning towards going into bags to sweat today but figured I would see if anyone has any helpful advice.
Hey @Costanza Hope you are well my friend.
I'd error on the side of caution.
If you overdry there is no coming back.
But Imdon't do this method so I can't say from experience.
Let's see if someone who has done it before can say.

Stay safe
Bill
 
Hey @Costanza Hope you are well my friend.
I'd error on the side of caution.
If you overdry there is no coming back.
But Imdon't do this method so I can't say from experience.
Let's see if someone who has done it before can say.

Stay safe
Bill
My thoughts exactly Bill. They're going into paper bags to sweat for 12 hours then into the bags to cure. Now the issue is finding paper grocery bags every place near me uses plastic only. I currently have my neighbor driving around searching for paper grocery bags for me, and I'm gonna owe him a big favor if he finds them.
 
My thoughts exactly Bill. They're going into paper bags to sweat for 12 hours then into the bags to cure. Now the issue is finding paper grocery bags every place near me uses plastic only. I currently have my neighbor driving around searching for paper grocery bags for me, and I'm gonna owe him a big favor if he finds them.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Stay safe
Bill
 
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