COorganics, try it again... Definitely a huge noticable positive difference
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I started washing my buds and I can notice a much cleaner difference and curing ability. Though I don't use Doc buds recipe, I use SNS-311 and it works like a charm. I use warm water for the initial dips, and then I rinse with cooler water that's straight outta the tap.
Aside the particulate debris and things that we effectively remove, it can also rinse away microscopic fungal spores that aren't visible to the naked eye. Just the air we breathe contains up to 10,000 fungal spores per square meter (source: biology textbook), and so that accumulation over the growing period can be rinsed away with very minimal trichome depletion.
I'll always wash my buds now that I know how it works.
I've also used the SNS produce wash and it works better than my DIY version, but not enough to justify the expense, IMO. However, I might use the SNS on buds I was going to enter in a contest. It is better.
Hey doc does bud washing remove mold?
Go back and read a bit and that very issue is discussed. It requires a peroxide soak...the recipe is back a couple pages.
I think it was more towards the beginning, but I agree, go back and read it, very educational!
Hey doc does bud washing remove mold?
The way I see it is that
Bud washing won't remove internal botrytis clusters, but it can really help with powder mold spores that are on the outside (via the hydrogen peroxide rinsing).
Any parts with internal gray/black mold pockets should be cut, removed, and thrown away.
FWIW, I washed my harvest a few weeks back as I had a bad case of mold.. After having it cured and I've smoked a bit, I've only found 1 bud out of about a half ounce that had a little bit of internal mold still, but I cut tossed that bud and chalked it up as a loss.. The washing really sped up the drying time, and it definitely cleaned a ton of cat hair, dust and bug carcasses/turds out of the buds, not to mention I had to use some spray pesticides to get rid of spider mites.. Super-easy and I think the actual set-up for the washing took longer than the washing and hanging did afterwards..
I will definitely be washing every harvest I do from now on just by the shear amount of stuff that came off the buds.. As for flavor, I didn't set aside any to do a post-wash taste test, but the bud is extremely flavorful and aromatic when it's being cut up.. Buds are still super-super sticky..
morning to all..... thanx Doc for the introduction of ''bud washing''
I read the whole thread and did the wash w/h202 , cause I had 3 small spots with the B-rot and I cut them out and continued with the washing, and that was that.....
i'll make this short and sweet, ''try it'' u may just like it, everything i read about ''bud-washing'' has come true,,,,it works.....
thanx Doc and everyone else who tried this method and reported on it , i know now what all of u were talking about, in the smoothness and it not being harsh.
i will say this, lol, i tried to explain to a few people about the ''B-washing'', and i don't think they really believe me, ya know , raised eyebrows and smart-ass remarks... lol well when they get to try it, then maybe they'll get it and try next season.....
it's ...thanx again
be well
fringe50