DrZiggy's Low And Slow Drying: Maximizing Your Harvest

MrGreene said:
I'm at 46 degrees and 48% humidity at almost 8 days in the mini fridge. Maybe I need to turn mine down a couple degrees. IDK
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Give it a try, see what happens. Nothing will be harmed. :battingeyelashes: :Love:
 
Well fellow followers of this great thread! I am trying tgis great method early harvest. Took some lower buds and put them in a pkastic container with the top open in my dorm fridge. So here is some pics to document what i have going!

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I will leave it alone fir the next two weeksand hipe for the best. I will document my findings. My first final harvest will be in about two more weeks with a seven day flush. So what i find in my lil experiment will tell me how i should handel my first harvest!! Love this thread and m sure i will b going low n slow fir all my future harvest. Thanks to all contributers to this great thread and m sure after our findings everybody will b going Low n Slow!!!!
 
DrZiggy said:
kudos to all of you for trying this. :bravo:
it's a huge leap of faith and trust regarding your well grown herb and harvest.
similar to washing your herb. :)

Big thank you to Sue :thanks: for starting this thread. :circle-of-love:
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Thank you Ziggy, and thank you to all the intrepid souls brave enough to trust Ziggy and I. :hugs: :hugs: :hugs: We're both a little out there sometimes, so we understand it took a leap of faith.

When you first suggested this Ziggy I recognized the potential, but didn't understand at the time the importance of the terpenes. We've learned a lot more about that subject in the past year. This is about much more than getting higher, it's about potentiating the healing power of this plant we love and obsess about. It's about getting the most return on our time and effort and accelerating healing.


We're going to change the way our membership dries cannabis, and it's up to all of us to spread the word through the grow journals. We've already determined this is the way many of us intend to continue, and those of you just drying the first batch will understand when you test the first piece. It's too good a method to keep quiet about. Be loud. We know what it takes to grow the best. Now we know how to dry it for greater potency. :slide:
 
DrZiggy said:
kudos to all of you for trying this. :bravo:
it's a huge leap of faith and trust regarding your well grown herb and harvest.
similar to washing your herb. :)
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Now that you mention that, let me share something I stumbled upon yesterday. A repost from my grow journal:

SweetSue said:
An intelligent rebuttal to budwashing

I was enjoying Pigeon's wake 'n bake video and he started discussing a response to this his budwashing video posted the other day. It intrigued me enough that I wanted to bring the conversation here. If what he says is true, we need to rethink our practice.

"While I like the idea of this a lot especially for flavor and purity, as an actual scientist I simply can't let it slip! Let me explain people...

I'd simply just use a mild hydrogen peroxide water mix. It's just as natural and actually does what you want, is extremely effective at killing microbes, and naturally foams when it reacts with such helping to clear debris...this happens on a chemical level basically meaning every spot it touches is near instantly sanitized and microscopic debris lifts up with the bubbles. If this reaction is strong enough you see lots of bubbles, hence why your cuts foam.

The lemon juice as an antiseptic is not accurate. If anything the sulfur dioxide (sulfite) in the plastic bottle lemon juice is doing the sanitation. It's the same stuff erupted from volcanoes, burned off of petroleum, and is known as a mild nerve agent which blocks signals to the pulmonary system. I don't make this up look for yourself. If you're going for natural you need to stop using that. They are preservatives and fungicides, also likely why you don't mold when you do this , and why they dry faster. The sulfite so cause faster drying. You will not wash it all off, it's as simple as that. Actual lemon juice has an extremely mild effect on preventing further growth of bacteria due to its ascidic nature but will not kill anything directly unless extreme pH fluctuations (fluctuations being key) cause death but you would need much more concentrated solutions with 5 gallons of water. That being said, you're neutralizing the acid with the alkaline baking soda (sodium bicarbonate). Thus you are not sanitizing anything and the only effect you have left is the supposed "foaming" action. But the 1 cup of baking soda to 5 gallons of water doesn't come close to saturating the water. This means you have a full dilution and no granular to "blast" the dirt off. Unless you shake it like a mad man you will not create enough friction between the suspended particles and the water which means it won't bubble or foam enough to do anything widespread across all surface areas. Most of those bubbles are localized air bubbles you've introduced by bobbing the bud up and down. This is not an effective way to get dust and microbes off-maybe for large debris like bugs and dirt chunks. You'd really have to shake it and it won't work well, especially not that gentle caress you're giving it!

With that said, if you think it does all that then I won't stop ya! Right on brother!" - ACElectro Alex

I don't know about you, but it made me sit right up and rethink the process.

Peroxide is suggested for the first wash if mold is present. Could this be all we need, followed by the two plain water washes, and would the dilution suggested by Doc be effective? We have some scientists among us. :cheesygrinsmiley: Any ideas on this?
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Also Ziggy, I've been ripening my bananas in both flower tents, and the results are astounding. This is another practice I'll be continuing. You've had quite a positive effect on my cannabis cultivation and processing practices. Thank you for being this manic curious creature who rejects the status quo for the thrill of exploration. :hugs:
 
Dave Groomer said:
I am exactly where I was last night. 36 degrees and 56 rh. I will leave the fridge closed now for a couple days and see where it goes.:circle-of-love::peace:
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Hmmmm.... Maybe a small fridge should be on my wish list.
 
This is great timing for me. I have another 2-3 weeks before my next chop and it's sounding like you pioneers are on the cutting edge and will have everything fine tuned at the rate your going. :blunt:
 
SweetSue said:
Now that you mention that, let me share something I stumbled upon yesterday. A repost from my grow journal:




Also Ziggy, I've been ripening my bananas in both flower tents, and the results are astounding. This is another practice I'll be continuing. You've had quite a positive effect on my cannabis cultivation and processing practices. Thank you for being this manic curious creature who rejects the status quo for the thrill of exploration. :hugs:
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TY..its the HERBs fault! :rofl: i get creative with the sativas.. :)
 
Iam in :) I have a sour diesel ready to come down in mere days. As Iam out of weed ATM well just about out, I'll be doing 1/2 air an 1/2 fridge dry as I always do concerning new techniques. Last time was washing buds AN to my sensitive lungs a huge difference. So hopefully this will prove the same. But u gotta break a few eggs ya know ;)
 
Curly Beaver said:
OK, so what gives with the bananas? I missed that.
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when bananas (and some others) ripen they release Ethylene gas..supposed to stimulate flowering, ripening, etc..

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plus the banana scent itself is not the smell of ethylene gas(ethylene does smell slightly sweet tho)..its made of up to 40-45 different terpenes and terpenoids..:thumb:
 
Great thread! I'm 24 days from harvest and this sounds ideal for our hot conditions. Drying in winter is not a problem but creating ideal temps and RH in the summer is pretty much impossible where I am and even tho Super Lemon Haze has quite a good heat-resistant terp profile, I can definitely tell the difference between winter-dried and summer-dried herb. I will be drying half on a wire shelf in the fridge - the rest will be out into paper bags in the fridge.
Re the bananas: are they used to hasten the onset of flower or to speed up the entire flowering and ripening process (so one could reduce a 70 day flowering plant to say 65?!?)
 
SLHLover said:
Great thread! I'm 24 days from harvest and this sounds ideal for our hot conditions. Drying in winter is not a problem but creating ideal temps and RH in the summer is pretty much impossible where I am and even tho Super Lemon Haze has quite a good heat-resistant terp profile, I can definitely tell the difference between winter-dried and summer-dried herb. I will be drying half on a wire shelf in the fridge - the rest will be out into paper bags in the fridge.
Re the bananas: are they used to hasten the onset of flower or to speed up the entire flowering and ripening process (so one could reduce a 70 day flowering plant to say 65?!?)
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You'll be surprised at the terp retention with the lo and slow SLHLover. My first attempt was a Carnival, and the limonene expression was like lemon flavoring. Mmmm....... I have one coming down the beginning of next month that I'll be drying completely in the fridge. Can't wait to taste this one.

The bananas are supposed to be for mid flowering on, I believe. DrZiggy will chime in I'm certain. :battingeyelashes: I have a plant just going into flowering in one of my tents and one I'm running like an auto in the other. I have two small flowering tents. Each has a plant in late flower and a plant just getting started or not there yet.

The bananas are apparently causing major explosion in pistil development. The colas are beefing up much faster, but that hasn't necessarily made them move along the maturity trail any faster. My CBD Critical Cure is actually the longest running of the many I've grown, and still has a couple more days in her. The Carnival looks to be right on schedule, if not a little slower to the finish herself.

I'll continue keeping bananas in the tent, but I may go to one tent for early flower and the other for late. :hmmmm: Hadn't thought of that possibility until right now. :laughtwo:
 
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