Bud Washing

H2O2, the first bucket, is only required if the harvest was grown outside or otherwise suffered from any fungus, mold, and/or pest issues that would benefit from an application of H2O2. My first wash was with H2O2 and after learning about this, I left it out of my second wash with no apparent negative impact to my harvest's drying/curing/potency. Other than not using H2O2 unless necessary, I closely follow the procedure as laid out by Doc Bud.
 
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.
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has he since changed anything to this method or is this the current best way of washing? :D
 
The only changes I'm aware of is that you don't need RO water, water straight from the tap is fine and could help with the wash due to the chlorine it contains. Also, I know water temperatures were discussed and, if desired, you can use warm water for bucket #1, hot water (120°) for bucket #2 and cold water for buckets #3 and 4
 
I'm thinking the reason for using RO/distilled water is that either has very few dissolved solids therein that could deposit to the produce. Using tap or spring water "might" equate to swapping out one type of elements for another, whereas using RO would remove the most foreign material leaving the most cleaned produce.

Just speculation though.
 
Something new every day. I did read about this before the last harvest but I just couldn't bring myself to dunk my beautiful buds in water. Maybe I am missing the boat here.

I will run a test on the next harvest. It will be a small single plant but I will 50/50 it. This way and my old way.

Last run we cured at 62 deg. and 60%RH. Quite impressed with how the quality was. And this is a step up?

I don't use anything on the plants once in the flowering stage. Used SNS 203 in early veg.
 
thegreengrocr said:
Something new every day. I did read about this before the last harvest but I just couldn't bring myself to dunk my beautiful buds in water. Maybe I am missing the boat here.

I will run a test on the next harvest. It will be a small single plant but I will 50/50 it. This way and my old way.

Last run we cured at 62 deg. and 60%RH. Quite impressed with how the quality was. And this is a step up?

I don't use anything on the plants once in the flowering stage. Used SNS 203 in early veg.
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It's a big step. You'll never go back.
 
So I washed my buds just using the hottest water I could get out of the bathtub faucet and then the coldest water. Seemed to work well! The buds looked great after the wash. Will be washing all my bud from this point out! Will probably try something different next time, though.
 
TheBoogyman said:
So I washed my buds just using the hottest water I could get out of the bathtub faucet and then the coldest water. Seemed to work well! The buds looked great after the wash. Will be washing all my bud from this point out! Will probably try something different next time, though.
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I don't think extreme hot and/or cold is a great idea. Cold will definitely knock off triches. I use room temp.
 
TheBoogyman said:
is there any way to keep the purple color on my buds? they tend to fade during drying :( i kept them in a cold room, too.
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Maybe the hot water, cold water shock is what curso is talking about with buds with color. Works with produce..intensifies and locks in color when done correctly with vibrant colored veggies and fruit
 
Smoke report on all my washed buds.....amazing, so smooth!!!
It's great!
 
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