Bud Washing

[ProperGreen]

Thanks For Sharing Brother! Care To Drag The Update Out A Bit If You Can Find Time?

If you don't forget and you have the time, would you mind continuing this post all the way thru?!
As in how long before you herb was ready to dry, and some shots of the finished product?!
If it's too big a deal no worries!
It's like one minute I'm telling my self I'm gonna wash the buds, and then the next minute I'm thinking twice about it, and this is on reply lol.
I imagine it being this way until I harvest sometime in May!
And just thinking about how much time I'll be in limbo is a bit stressing lol.

But thanks again brother! See ya around the forum

& Blessings

Ps, I know there are already a number of reviews on this thread, but another wouldn't hurt!
Plus if I'm not mistaken, you're one of the guys who work closely to the pioneer of this particular method?!
I wish I would have signed up here a long time ago so that I wouldn't be so far behind on your guys high brix conversation. Seems like interesting stuff that I hadn't really taken the time to look into, but sooner than later I'll catch up.

 

[Curso]

Re: Thanks For Sharing Brother! Care To Drag The Update Out A Bit If You Can Find Tim

If you don't forget and you have the time, would you mind continuing this post all the way thru?!
As in how long before you herb was ready to dry, and some shots of the finished product?!
If it's too big a deal no worries!
It's like one minute I'm telling my self I'm gonna wash the buds, and then the next minute I'm thinking twice about it, and this is on reply lol.
I imagine it being this way until I harvest sometime in May!
And just thinking about how much time I'll be in limbo is a bit stressing lol.

But thanks again brother! See ya around the forum

& Blessings

Ps, I know there are already a number of reviews on this thread, but another wouldn't hurt!
Plus if I'm not mistaken, you're one of the guys who work closely to the pioneer of this particular method?!

Yep no problem it's all in the jar curing (aside from what I made butter with) once it's ready I'll take some nice macro's for you

 

[ProperGreen]

Cheers And Thanks Brother!

Yep no problem it's all in the jar curing (aside from what I made butter with) once it's ready I'll take some nice macro's for you

Cheers and thanks brother!

& Blessings

 

[Doc Bud]

Re: Thanks For Sharing Brother! Care To Drag The Update Out A Bit If You Can Find Tim

If you don't forget and you have the time, would you mind continuing this post all the way thru?!
As in how long before you herb was ready to dry, and some shots of the finished product?!
If it's too big a deal no worries!
It's like one minute I'm telling my self I'm gonna wash the buds, and then the next minute I'm thinking twice about it, and this is on reply lol.
I imagine it being this way until I harvest sometime in May!
And just thinking about how much time I'll be in limbo is a bit stressing lol.

But thanks again brother! See ya around the forum

& Blessings

Ps, I know there are already a number of reviews on this thread, but another wouldn't hurt!
Plus if I'm not mistaken, you're one of the guys who work closely to the pioneer of this particular method?!
I wish I would have signed up here a long time ago so that I wouldn't be so far behind on your guys high brix conversation. Seems like interesting stuff that I hadn't really taken the time to look into, but sooner than later I'll catch up.

Just wash a few buds and you'll kick yourself for not washing all of them.

We're not lying. We're not hyping....we stand to make ZERO from people washing their buds. This technique is done because:

1. It is healthier and safer than not washing
2. It tastes MUCH better.

There really isn't a good reason to not wash buds. Try it once and you'll never go back. Promise.

 

[Curso]

Re: Thanks For Sharing Brother! Care To Drag The Update Out A Bit If You Can Find Tim

Just wash a few buds and you'll kick yourself for not washing all of them.

We're not lying. We're not hyping....we stand to make ZERO from people washing their buds. This technique is done because:

1. It is healthier and safer than not washing
2. It tastes MUCH better.

There really isn't a good reason to not wash buds. Try it once and you'll never go back. Promise.

I agree with this 100%

If you plan on making edibles with your trim or bud it's a pretty good idea to start with some clean material. Just saying.

 

[ProperGreen]

Cheers Doc Bud

Just wash a few buds and you'll kick yourself for not washing all of them.

We're not lying. We're not hyping....we stand to make ZERO from people washing their buds. This technique is done because:

1. It is healthier and safer than not washing
2. It tastes MUCH better.

There really isn't a good reason to not wash buds. Try it once and you'll never go back. Promise.

Cheers brother!

The only thing that I'm struggling with at this point, is just exactly how much my buds will benefit from being washed, for a couple reason:

1. I stop all foliar spraying once I notice pistils starting to occupy budsites, which is usually around the 2nd week of flowering, and I continue to foliar with plain H20 about a week after that to be sure that I've rinsed everything
2. My tent I clean monthly, same with my fans, so I keep it as clean as possible at all times. Also my plants occupy a tent in a room by themselves with really nothing else in there.
3. I'm 100% organic and the aromas and flavors are so much more pronounced that I'd ever imagined, so I don't know how they could get much better. My fear is in losing some of the aromatics after washing the buds
4. My herbs burns super clean and easy, with white ashes as soon as they're dry, so I really don't know how it could get any smoother.

These are really the only things that I'm struggling with to be completely honest. Any input?
And I don't believe you're lying or hyping anything at all, so please don't take my being skeptical person.
It's only natural right?!
Like I said, I imagine myself struggling with the choice for a couple months lol. Only because it's something very new, and something that I've only heard of here. Also because I don't want to spend all this time growing and ruin the end product. But it's really nothing personal. Just a little first timers skepticism.
As it stand, I'm 99% sure that I'll give it a try! It's just that that 1% of saying hmmmm, is enough to make me mull it over that much ya know?! But it's all love.
Thanks for taking everything into uncharted waters!

& Blessings

Ps, See ya around once I catch up on the high brix reading!

 

[DrZiggy]

As mentioned, try a taste test.. When you can, take 2 buds from same branch, or take 1/2 of same bud, wash one bud and dont wash the other.
Doc bud and others have some of the cleanest growing environments you can have and they still wash em.
What do you think happens when it rains on these buds in nature, and it rains much harder than I swish. Every girl I know loves her bath

 

[Doc Bud]

Re: Cheers Doc Bud

Cheers brother!

The only thing that I'm struggling with at this point, is just exactly how much my buds will benefit from being washed, for a couple reason:

1. I stop all foliar spraying once I notice pistils starting to occupy budsites, which is usually around the 2nd week of flowering, and I continue to foliar with plain H20 about a week after that to be sure that I've rinsed everything
2. My tent I clean monthly, same with my fans, so I keep it as clean as possible at all times. Also my plants occupy a tent in a room by themselves with really nothing else in there.
3. I'm 100% organic and the aromas and flavors are so much more pronounced that I'd ever imagined, so I don't know how they could get much better. My fear is in losing some of the aromatics after washing the buds
4. My herbs burns super clean and easy, with white ashes as soon as they're dry, so I really don't know how it could get any smoother.

These are really the only things that I'm struggling with to be completely honest. Any input?
And I don't believe you're lying or hyping anything at all, so please don't take my being skeptical person.
It's only natural right?!
Like I said, I imagine myself struggling with the choice for a couple months lol. Only because it's something very new, and something that I've only heard of here. Also because I don't want to spend all this time growing and ruin the end product. But it's really nothing personal. Just a little first timers skepticism.
As it stand, I'm 99% sure that I'll give it a try! It's just that that 1% of saying hmmmm, is enough to make me mull it over that much ya know?! But it's all love.
Thanks for taking everything into uncharted waters!

& Blessings

Ps, See ya around once I catch up on the high brix reading!

that's good you clean your tent. It gets dirty, doesn't it?

Buds are sticky....all that stuff you need to clean out of your tent monthly is stuck to your buds.

Organic lettuce and carrots get washed.....why not organic cannabis?

I'm all organic and I get flavors too....but there's no way I'd ever serve, sell or ingest in any manner bud OR TRIM that isn't washed. I'm into health.

 

[Icemud]

Re: Thanks For Sharing Brother! Care To Drag The Update Out A Bit If You Can Find Tim

Just wash a few buds and you'll kick yourself for not washing all of them.

We're not lying. We're not hyping....we stand to make ZERO from people washing their buds. This technique is done because:

1. It is healthier and safer than not washing
2. It tastes MUCH better.

There really isn't a good reason to not wash buds. Try it once and you'll never go back. Promise.

I too 100% agree with this!! I will always wash my buds after harvest!

 

[Icemud]

Re: Cheers Doc Bud

Cheers brother!

The only thing that I'm struggling with at this point, is just exactly how much my buds will benefit from being washed, for a couple reason:

1. I stop all foliar spraying once I notice pistils starting to occupy budsites, which is usually around the 2nd week of flowering, and I continue to foliar with plain H20 about a week after that to be sure that I've rinsed everything
2. My tent I clean monthly, same with my fans, so I keep it as clean as possible at all times. Also my plants occupy a tent in a room by themselves with really nothing else in there.
3. I'm 100% organic and the aromas and flavors are so much more pronounced that I'd ever imagined, so I don't know how they could get much better. My fear is in losing some of the aromatics after washing the buds
4. My herbs burns super clean and easy, with white ashes as soon as they're dry, so I really don't know how it could get any smoother.

These are really the only things that I'm struggling with to be completely honest. Any input?
And I don't believe you're lying or hyping anything at all, so please don't take my being skeptical person.
It's only natural right?!
Like I said, I imagine myself struggling with the choice for a couple months lol. Only because it's something very new, and something that I've only heard of here. Also because I don't want to spend all this time growing and ruin the end product. But it's really nothing personal. Just a little first timers skepticism.
As it stand, I'm 99% sure that I'll give it a try! It's just that that 1% of saying hmmmm, is enough to make me mull it over that much ya know?! But it's all love.
Thanks for taking everything into uncharted waters!

& Blessings

Ps, See ya around once I catch up on the high brix reading!

I too have very smooth buds even before washing and with my natural/organic soil I have run in the past I too have had unbelievably smooth buds, even before the wash...But the reason I was my buds....DUST

Have you ever looked at your circulation fans in your grow room, or ran your fingers across the top of one of your reflectors....DUST! This stuff is everywhere and also gathers on your leafs and buds. This alone was enough reason for me to try washing and I have to say, even though I had smooth buds before, the washing seemed to make the smoke even more enjoyable, didn't ruin the flavor (actually seemed to make it more intense and slightly more complex) and gave me the confidence that my buds were free of dusts and grime from foliar sprays as well. It also seemed to help my buds dry more evenly, as well as seemed to promote better "bag appeal" to the looks of the buds after curing. Like Docbud mentioned in the past...We wash our veggies, so why not our buds!! Like Docbud mentioned, try a few buds in the wash on your next harvest and compare the results for yourself...I can almost promise you will like the results of the wash

 

[ProperGreen]

Nice Responses Gentlemen! It's A Done Deal!

Thanks gentlemen , It's a done deal!

I will start with a few branches from the first harvested, and do a side by side to decide whether or not if I'd like to rinse all of them! I really feel like I'd be doing myself a disservice to at least not give this a try!
Hopefully I like it enough to never go without again like you guys do.

Also, you guys all mention that it doesn't diminish the flavors a bit, but what about the aromas?!

& Blessings

 

[Graytail]

Re: Cheers Doc Bud

... It also seemed to help my buds dry more evenly, as well as seemed to promote better "bag appeal" to the looks of the buds after curing ...

This is what doesn't get talked about very much. It's a positive difference in my own drying and curing environment - maybe not yours, if you're anal about your cure. But I believe the plant draws water into its tissues and it cures better internally. The produce I wash in hot and cold water is more pliable and crunchy than non-washed bud. Cured sugar leaves sort of bend before they snap off the nugget, and they don't crumble when you crush them. The nugs feel springy before they crush. I'm convinced that washing gives a better cure.

 

[Doc Bud]

Re: Nice Responses Gentlemen! It's A Done Deal!

Thanks gentlemen , It's a done deal!

I will start with a few branches from the first harvested, and do a side by side to decide whether or not if I'd like to rinse all of them! I really feel like I'd be doing myself a disservice to at least not give this a try!
Hopefully I like it enough to never go without again like you guys do.

Also, you guys all mention that it doesn't diminish the flavors a bit, but what about the aromas?!

& Blessings

I'm a fanatic and a snob when it comes to weed.....a fanatical snob....that describes me to a tee!

I get off by people smelling a jar, watching their eyes bug out, seeing them smell again, look at me in disbelief, smell again and then say, "what strain is this?"

I get a mental boner watching someone take a hit of my produce the first time.....it pretty much follows this script:

1. they don't think they're getting a hit because it's so smooth.
2. They blow out a huge cloud of smoke and say, "damn, that's smooth! I've never tasted weed like that."
3. they ask what strain it is.

It doesn't matter what i serve them.....that's what they say.

Washing makes it taste and smell BETTER. It's not a negative....it's a good thing.

You'll see.

 

[Teldren]

I'm on it ran into this in time. Cutting harvest in two weeks or so and seen some hairs on my buds. I think this is a great idea Docbud!

 

[ProperGreen]

And Thanks Again Brother! From A Fellow Pot Snob!

I'm a fanatic and a snob when it comes to weed.....a fanatical snob....that describes me to a tee!

I get off by people smelling a jar, watching their eyes bug out, seeing them smell again, look at me in disbelief, smell again and then say, "what strain is this?"

I get a mental boner watching someone take a hit of my produce the first time.....it pretty much follows this script:

1. they don't think they're getting a hit because it's so smooth.
2. They blow out a huge cloud of smoke and say, "damn, that's smooth! I've never tasted weed like that."
3. they ask what strain it is.

It doesn't matter what i serve them.....that's what they say.

Washing makes it taste and smell BETTER. It's not a negative....it's a good thing.

You'll see.

Awesome response brother!

Maybe you should look into sales lol!
But all jokes aside, really, thanks and thanks again!

Another question for you, during the drip drying process, do you use fans in your drying area to help enrue that you don't get any bud rot/mold? This question goes for all of you lasses and lads who've done this!

I only grow for myself and my lady at this point (but I do have aspirations), so I prefer quality and a variety of quantity all day.

But with the said, over the past 3/4 harvests, I've gotten continually better results in drying the herb slower, by keeping the drying area at room temps(which happen to be about 65F on average), without a fan on the drying herb. But I imagine you'd need a fan in the space to move the air a bit, with the buds being very wet and everything..

So what do you do when it's time to dry them? And have you noticed that the herb dries faster or slower? Or are then any mental notes that you've taken that you care to share?!

& Blessings

 

[Graytail]

Re: And Thanks Again Brother! From A Fellow Pot Snob!

...I only grow for myself and my lady at this point (but I do have aspirations), so I prefer quality and a variety of quantity all day.

But with the said, over the past 3/4 harvests, I've gotten continually better results in drying the herb slower, by keeping the drying area at room temps(which happen to be about 65F on average), without a fan on the drying herb. But I imagine you'd need a fan in the space to move the air a bit, with the buds being very wet and everything..

So what do you do when it's time to dry them? And have you noticed that the herb dries faster or slower? Or are then any mental notes that you've taken that you care to share?!

& Blessings

I have exactly the same goal - just a nice variety of herb, better than I could ever buy, much less afford, for the two of us.

So, since I don't have customers, I can be as anal or lazy as I choose. I've been lazy about curing and I love the results just fine. I have an enclosed concrete 4x4 room with RH ranging in the 40s and 50s, higher after I water, lower in the middle of the night. I have a small 6" fan moving air in the room - not much movement, just circulation. Temps run low 60s to high 70s, and the buds cure fast. In 3-4 days they're down to 70% RH. At that point, I cut the nugs off the stem and jar them with a Boveda 62. I check the Boveda every few days to see if it's dry or plump and adjust accordingly.

I never get any hint of mold or fungus anywhere in that environment, summer or winter, but my climate is rather inhospitable to mobile spores and fungi. I'd like to do the dry slower, but I'm happy with the fast washed dry and the slow jar cure. The terpenes develop really fast once they're in the jar.

 

[ProperGreen]

Nice Graytail! I Wonder About Drying Dripping Herb Without A Fan Tho?!

I have exactly the same goal - just a nice variety of herb, better than I could ever buy, much less afford, for the two of us.

So, since I don't have customers, I can be as anal or lazy as I choose. I've been lazy about curing and I love the results just fine. I have an enclosed concrete 4x4 room with RH ranging in the 40s and 50s, higher after I water, lower in the middle of the night. I have a small 6" fan moving air in the room - not much movement, just circulation. Temps run low 60s to high 70s, and the buds cure fast. In 3-4 days they're down to 70% RH. At that point, I cut the nugs off the stem and jar them with a Boveda 62. I check the Boveda every few days to see if it's dry or plump and adjust accordingly.

I never get any hint of mold or fungus anywhere in that environment, summer or winter, but my climate is rather inhospitable to mobile spores and fungi. I'd like to do the dry slower, but I'm happy with the fast washed dry and the slow jar cure. The terpenes develop really fast once they're in the jar.

Haha nice!
It's it lovely being able to choose from several different strains, each with a different effect for the most part!
And the variety of tastes is like my little slice of heaven for sure! I also love the hell out of those Boveda Humidpaks, and will never again cure without them!

But good to hear that you use a fan and your buds dry in 3/4 days! That's not bad at all, but I like to dry for at least a week you know?! 5-6 days at the least. I wonder what might happen if you dried the drip-drying herb without a fan?
You think they might be a little more susceptible to mold, or no different?
I've never gotten mold during the drying process, but I once lost a good bit of Super Lemon Haze from jarring it too soon. Lesson learned lol! DO NOT jar damp buds! This was a maybe 6/7 harvests ago tho, and it hasn't happened since. Cheers Graytail

& Blessings

 

[Skybound]

Having only a single harvest that I washed with DocBud's 4 stage recipe to draw information from, I am still in the learning curve. To start, I did begin with not trimming before the wash, though others have trimmed first and had great results. I know now that I was a bit liberal on the use of H2O2 which I believe lead to a quicker drying time before the jar curing process. I did NOT use a fan on the hanging buds at all during the dry and after about 18 hours I noticed that most of the water had fallen. The dripping from the buds had stopped completely and the outer most layers were already beginning to get slightly crispy. I then trimmed what I could in the short amount of time I had, but exigent circumstances kept me from trimming all of it in a timely manner. After trim (or not trim), I hung the buds back up in the closet from coat hangers for an additional 2-3 days where they became very crispy on the outside. In this time I scratched together enough time to trim the rest, but compared to everyone else's time frames, I see that it was mostly already too late. These same exigent circumstances (a new job with very long work hours) pretty much killed my first washed harvest, but necessity forced me to stick with the job and neglect my harvest. I was able to learn some things from the washing process though and they include;

1. Buds opened and were more airy (not sure if this is good or bad?). I started with very long fat and dense sativa buds
2. Strong H2O2 wash will lend toward a faster drying time and if not kept in jars to lock RH at desired levels, will continue to rapidly lose moisture.
3. Before I lost all that humidity, the flavors were so very pronounced with fleeting nuances throughout every toke.
4. Any possible molds that my untrained eyes missed were likely killed off by the H2O2 wash

If I would've used a fan, I believe I would have lost control much sooner as my pretty dry environment (NE USA) would have been amplified, so if you do use a fan, I'd think the user should be more equipped to adjust more timely which means more experienced than a new grower such as myself.

Don't know when I can even start my next grow, but when I do get around to it, I plan to wash my 2nd harvest as well!

 

[ProperGreen]

Thanks Skybound

For the response and the information in regards to not using a fan to dry your harvest!
Hopefully you get to get another on in here sooner than later brother!
Until then my friend!

& Blessings

 

[ColoradoKid]

I plan to start another grow in the next few weeks if everything goes well. I am eager to try out washing my product. I think that there is enough evidence here to prove that it will be the best thing for my girls. Thank you everyone for the information.