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Jgrowlove said:
Hey @Norcaliwood I'm sure you've answered this before but do you dry trim? And what temps/humidity do you usually dry at? I'm having issues keeping the terps on my buds after they go into the jars. I usually dry for a week then jar them up and burp them for a few days until they feel crisp
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I'll let NCW give his technique but it sounds to me like your drying too long and burping too short.

Dry until the buds are at, or just under 70% RH after being jarred for about an hour. If RH goes above 70%, put buds in paper bag or cardboard box overnight and re-check next day. Usually, it's about 5 days of drying but that is dependent on the climate so it will happen quick in Arizona and slower in the jungle! :D

You then want to burp the jars a few times a day for the first few days, then maybe once a day for the next week, or so, until the buds get down to 62% RH. At that point they're good for long-term storage.

When the RH hits 67%, the buds will be in the "cure zone" and will continue to cure in the jars as long as the humidity stays above 55%. Once RH drops below 55% buds stop curing and won't cure any further even if rehydrated.

The smells & flavors evolve and improve over time, but you really want it to be a relatively slow process or you'll never get rid of that "hay" smell.
 
My Bad... Spun it. Mister @Jgrowlove sometimes you gotta hit the record player,,, they get stuck??? Need a kick..

But @Mr. Krip is about spot on... and I wrote all my shit before I read all of his responses....... SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO



Missed the question,,, my bad....... But as soon as we take a branch, the trim starts. So much easier to finish off a sun leaf than a fast snap with them fingers. Bout that elementary, my dear Watson. Now you got secondary leaf sticking out all over the place. All the main ones,,, one can pinpoint the stem back to the mainstem and can be dispatched with a simple snip aimed at the base. Practice makes perfect. Then just a tight little haircut of stragglers?? That's my method... All the main buds go on a tray... Now smaller plants are hung on the whole,,,,, with only sun leaf snaped off,, because they going to need all that moisture possible to slow the drying process..


Now Drying times.. You gotta look at the size and density of the buddage..... That plus ambient R/H are main factors........ i like 10-12 days for a big bug indica... Till I get a stem to almost snap in half... It'll snap anyways. Then into your storage Now a fine buddage sativa,,, she might only be able to handle 3-4 days in the nets come winter or low humidity weather and that might fry the plant matter and the stem ain't even close... Them,, I chuck in the bag... Brown paper bags..... Rolled up and checked every 4-5 hours,,, If it get soaked again open bag for the night than rerolling tight.. Alot of the airier buds from sativa's,, once jarred,, the only source of moisture is the main stem. Don't cut them up in small pieces....

But each bud is different. Like said,, some buds don't develop their tastes till cured for acouple months... Some don't till a year? I've had old ass BB I forgot about.. Found and I KNOW I'd have never lost anything that smelled like that.......

And I hate to see a plant dried enough that it doesn't need burping before 2 weeks or jarring..... sure going to taste bright green????

But a plant has to have them terpenes at peak when cut... Most flower cutters using their product for scents,,, cut flowers early in the morning when levels are maxed..

Now I'm a much smaller Mom and pop thing than the past. 3-400 plants 8-10' tall all hanging at once...... Man does one need friends......... Least to take the big finger pulling sized ones. Them times,, Good Bud?????? Acouple little secondary leaf to droop down and cover the bud and protect it against the bouncing she'll be doing soon enough.. Kick em a extra 1/2 oz for waste.. People happy.

Acouple little dried ugly ass leaf wrapped around a tasty ass bud to protect it,, don't equal a hill of beans come the scales... Just looks alittle prettier without????? Save alot when talked alot of poundage.....

Well, my "rat" is sick again... Only 8 years for him is young. Vet's say pancreatic problems.. He is a fat little bastard....... I don't know..

I sure can't afford millions of dollars on a 'rat'.... 8 years he been sleeping ontop of me. Ah, he'll be ok.... Can't replace his character being a grade A asshole,,, like me....... I taught him well...
 
I harvested a Strawberry Amnesia what???? Jarred what,,, 3-4 weeks back,, smelled great at harvest,, smelled like hay, or chloroform, for acouple weeks, and I just cut a 1/2 gram bud and is starting to develop a smell i can ALMOST smell... The smell from the chloroform is dissipating? But she's a heavy sativa that wood've dried to quickly IF I didn't put a halt on it with a paper bag.... And prolonged it for abit............. Well I'm off to burn that 1/2 gram dubie rolled in a
tight ass Zig Zag.......
 
Sorry to hear about your rat woody, my dog is circling the drain now. He's half choco lab and half American bulldog. His back legs are failing and he's slowly becoming the old pedophile from family guy's dog (where's the paperboy) his dog, lol. It's sad to watch life you care about fade in a withering body, but such is the circle of life. It's sad, but it's expected.

I can't fathom why it takes you west coast peeps so long to dry, and here I am at the end of the jet stream (higher RH) and can get my crop dropped, chopped and out the door in a week and nare nada complaint about hay smells or tastes. I send one out about every 3 weeks now. I wash, then immediately trim, hang branches on hangers, then hang the hangers from my light fixture in the empty bloom room and let the oscillating fan work them for about 3 days. The smaller thinner branches I take off the hanger and put into a long tote to sweat for a day while the fatter donkey dicks stay hanging on the coat hangers. I then rehang the skinnies and put them back with the donkey dicks for another day, then take them all down and put the branches in the long tote with a meter to measure the RH. I aim to get it down to 65% or less and snip all buds off the branches. The buds are then in a small tote with the RH meter. I can pop the lid or toss the contents with the lid on. This gets me right to 62% right quick, then it's into sammich bags to cure.

I'd like to hold them in sammich baggies for a week, but my peeps are like freshly hatched chicks with wide open mouths screaming for a worm. I'll let them go w/o a proper cure, but still, not one complaint about hay. I'm in the northeast where ambient RH is now @51%. That's go up and up in the coming months. Last summer, I surprised myself when I was able to dry a chop in 80% RH when we had an awful week.
 
I've never washed my buds but I've heard it helps make the dry cure time faster for some reason! Not sure why but maybe I'll try it on a plant or two. Dealing with 65-70 percent humidity in my grow during spring it's harder to dry. I usually have an easier time when it's winter and the humidity is around 40-50 percent. I'll definitely be using a tote to sweat them and use a thermometer to check them from now on. I usually just jar them after a week or so and burp them when they moisten up for a few days then they usually are fine for long term (or more likely smoked up)
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Yea Sky my rat is too young for these problems... Too much table scraps for sure........... But he's doing good now.. Loud as ever..........

I don't wash my buds at all... I don't spray after the first week so shouldn't be shit on my buds but maybe alittle dust???? I could see it if you had caterpillers or being grown outdoors where you end with abit of bird shit as well too........

Couple fast pic's these are about 60Days in and they are getting their final flush on the table..........

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This is just one.. I do have 3 coming out tonight........ Then I'm down to 4 rather large plants... Having a problem with the clones... Temps are abit warm......... But I do have strawberry amnesia and acouple puppies.......... And I will move the cloner to the office where it's abit cooler....... I need cuts from the Plants I got up the hill.. I got to get afew Cripits and Marion Berries.... Atleast;

Keepem Green
 
@Pennywise that Cripit is huge already... Got HUGE ass indo leaf. I just hope it was stabilized enough for me to get a similar plant to what I had. They are big enough now to give up acouple clones......... All them plants are really good sized.. I got them in the 2 gallon White Pot's I got from @lazyfish''

but it's time for an upgrade in the pot department. I'll end up in 35-gallon pot for finish..... Maybe even put the Marion Berry in the ground inside the greenhouse........ But for now,, they are going in some 7 gallon pots I got laying around somewhere..... Hell I must have 200 pots on the side of the house up to 35 gallon.......

But here's acouple more of the SA hitting the flush table.. I grow on these table too.. IF the plants are small. I had these under that 1500 watt HPS lamp, and I put two to a table for plants this size. Put a bucket underneath and your set.....

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I'll get pic's of my outdoor girls today when I up pot them......
 
I was just about to suggest trying to dip a branch just before trimming, but then ya'd have drips constantly and give you a wet lap, but if you can shield yourself just to try a wet trim, I suggest you do so to try it out. The shears glide right through the outer regions of the bud surface and do not collect sticky mess along the way. In fact, after trimming about a half pound's worth, my shears still don't have any sticky on them.

When growing organically, do your leaves naturally fade at the end of her cycle, or do you do some flushes that initiate that response? In all of my years, my plants hardly ever faded like that till very recently and I'm trying to understand more of what's going on in the root zone when that happens and how my feed might influence that. I suspect my borderline calcium deficiency is sent into full def a day into flush, but that just doesn't sound feasible. MY PC is now on day 3 of flush and is beginning to express like your Strawberry Amnesia by yellowing just a leaf or two.
 
Well, I do part organic's here.. I do use my formula. Guessing. But I do flush plants every now and then. The tables make it easy to get say acouple gallons runoff. But then I 'juice' my plants 3-4 time during flower with good old GH ferts. But straight water for at least a week before harvest. 2 weeks? Depends on the plant.. Some don't kick out the weight till the last few weeks..

I like the sticky shit. I do keep my trimmers soaking in some cooking oil in case that problem arises... Finger hash is a perk for Miss J

I do use the flush from GH too.

Well took inventory of the yard... Tons of FULL ass pots of soil...... I'll figure something..

But I did snap afew fast pic's of whats happening out there..

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and my Cripit... I have to say look at the size leaves on that Marion Berry..

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Beautiful buds and plants Woody! That cripit sounds good! Gotta love it! Keep on growin on my friend
 
Back when I first got genetics from Stoney Girls,, people were misled but the flowering claims.... And the THC levels.. Well, he does have test results I've seen in person. And I've heard it was too strong from some.. That is an easy problem tho,, smoke less??

I figure the flowering times are from the onset of flowers,, not the total days in. But most of these plants are well acclimated to Oregon when you really need to harvest the first few days of Oct when the rains starts and molds run amuck...

I've grown that Sugar Plum before........ it was a keeper,, but I never saved it.

I've grown all of these before except the Haze plum. I don't remember why I lost that Cripit I had 3-4 years back,, but did. The one I grew had wicked buddage at 35-40 days in...... but hit full potential at 50-56 days total in, I was impressed with it..

I do plan on clones from these...... Depends on how fast they run away in the size department.

If I was to let them go,, which I'm not,, they all easily hit 10'+.. Alot of work. More than I care to do anymore. I'll leave the big ones to the youngsters to grow that are able to get out and work with..

Alot of tieing up and all that. I'd rather have a workable 6-7 footers. Well, I have most of them upotted in the intermediate size pots.

Thanks, peoples for stopping in and having a peak... I hope alls gardens are growing well out there... Keepem Green
 

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