Governmentchz
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Me too. I'm chopping one plant in the next 36 hours and am already setup to embark on my own first bud-washing adventure. I'll have harvest pics and washing pics in the next few days.
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I tried water washing some already dried and not cured very well.
I'm going to assume because the buds were already dried is why it did not turn out well.
I used fairly warm water, but not HOT, let the buds soak till the water was cool, rinsed with fresh cool water and repeated the whole process.
The first soak water turned amber, I was hoping that didn't mean my precious trich's were being knocked off.
The second rinse was almost colorless.
Next I hung the buds up over a bowl to catch run off then set a fan directly in front of them to dry.
As I suspected, a LOT of the trich's were lost in the water.
The smoke was for lack of a better word, "blan".
Before the soak there was a small bite from improper cure, but good flavor and stone.
After, not so much.
I'll try on some fresh cut next harvest (Sept.) to see if it helps.
I really do like the idea of cleansing my "salad". lol
I washed my entire harvest. Three basins, the first with lemon juice and baking soda as per Doc Bud. The flowers were perfect in every way after the wash. They dried faster than the same strain last harvest. They have been in the jar for only a week now but the smells are amazing, Certainly not muted in my opinon, as compared to last time. I haven't even smoked any yet but I will tell you unequivocally no harm came to my months of effort.
When we poured out the first and second tub of water my wife said "ewww that's what your breath stinks
Like after you smoke!" I am looking forward to my breath not stinking like that when/after I smoke this harvest!
I thought the first rinse was supposed to be 3% peroxide/water, and the second baking soda/lemon juice, and the remaining rinses in RO/purified water. I'll re-read the thread again.
I have NEVER ever done this. I do not spray anything on my gurls! have a sterile room. so, seems risky to agitate them around.
maybe 1 day I will give it a go.
my final Ro flushed, then jar cured product so smooth!
I do spritz suspected bud mold spots with Hydrogen peroxide.
Slag
Only on 420 mag are we talking about cutting edge stuff like this! And sorry I never followed thru with any other bud washes.
I can say the bud I washed with Doc Bud's method wasn't harmed in any way and smokes good. So does the bud I washed in RO/peroxide only, so does the unwashed bud. I only did a small sample and there wasn't much foul on the buds anyway. So mine isn't a solid test to report back on, but I can say to any naysayers (are there any?) that bud washing isn't gonna harm your harvest.
An interesting note is that my trim, bubble hash water was very dirty looking. None of the trim was washed.
I'm going to try this. I'm tired of smoking fruit flies and ghost turds.
4 buckets total. (5 gallon buckets are perfect)
Bucket 1: 3 parts RO water to 1 part 3% H202.
Bucket 2: 5 gallons of RO with 1 cup baking soda, 1 cup Lemon Juice
Buckets 3 and 4: RO only.
Cut down plants, pull off fan leaves by hand, remove any necrotic leaves. Leave sugar leaves and anything with frosting on the plant.
Fully submerge in bucket 1 (H2O2) for 30 seconds. Submerge for a full minute if you had ANY sign of PM or bud rot. Let water drip from buds and then.....
Fully submerge in buckets 2 through 4 for 30 seconds each...lightly agitating the whole time.
Allow produce to drip dry. You can blow a fan on it if you like, just make sure it's blowing clean air.
Hang and dry per usual.
Yea this will be my absolute first time attempting to wash my buds, it's only on this site where I first heard of the method, and by the sound of things, I won't regret it. But with all things new for me, I like to take things one step at a time as I know if I 'jump in both feet', I might miss key elements to the process.
I'm going to have to take back what I said, and will have a smoke report sooner than April The results of this will decide whether I scale this test up to half of my flowering crop. The only reason I am kind of 'iffy' about the whole method is the fact it can potentially reduce overall yield, and not all of my smoke is personal. The trichome test is being done as pure gain for knowledge; I know it has been discussed in the past pages over this topic, so I thought it would be a good idea to get some more facts
Nice! I see you have Barney's well known strain. I've been meaning to check out the Liberty Haze...don't mind if I have a peek at your journal!