GrammaDube
420 Member
I bud wash like this:
Trim off all the fan leaves first.
Three 5 gal homer buckets
1st bucket is the wash bucket with 1/3 cup lemon juice (store bought in a bottle) and 1/3 cup baking soda in full bucket luke warm water.
Dunk the branches (sized to fit bucket) like 10+ times then let water drip off for several seconds.
Pro tip: cut 3 branches at a time and dunk them together. Its much easier with 3 branches. Once you go to hang and you have more than 3 branches it becomes diffucult to manage the hanging process. I string a line and use that for hanging.
2 rinse buckets luke warm water - dunk again each bucket 10+ times each rinse bucket then hang dry on a line for 3-5 days depending on your room RH.
If the RH in the hanging room is low the dry time will be less. If you room RH is high say over 60% it will take longer to dry. IF you RH in the hanging room is over 70% RH the flowers wont dry you will need a de-humidifier to get it down below 60% RH.
Once dry - trim and into containers and burp daily for a week them good to store/cure.
You do not need to use h2o2 in the wash bucket.