Wow! What a concept. I wonder what would happen if we did something similar with low and slo dried? If you had to guess, what humidity level do you think the plants had when you sealed them up?
I would say in low 60s I use the boveda 62% packs
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Wow! What a concept. I wonder what would happen if we did something similar with low and slo dried? If you had to guess, what humidity level do you think the plants had when you sealed them up?
I'm enjoying the Talking Heads production Stop Making Sense, one of Dale's favorite pieces of music. This is the first time I've been able to play it since he hit the death spiral. Suddenly it was what I wanted filling the empty spaces in my home. Wasn't certain as to what my reaction would be, but I'm happy to report it's been nothing but pleasure.
Sure is nice to put most of grief behind me.
Sue I washed with fan leaves still on and dried till stem snap. Then cut the plant into 8" sections with fan leaves still on. Put these sections into turkey bags with labels. Put turkey bags into gamma seal buckets. Burped for a day or so till stable snap then sealed 2 months. When I opened the buckets I got SMASHED in the face with terps. Like never before. Overwhelming and so concentrated if it was someone else's I would have been skeptical they weren't sprayed with terpenes.
I would say in low 60s I use the boveda 62% packs
Sue...I would think terpenes expressed keenly because of the enclosure. No escape. Just like opening a can of paint.
Or...a cooler with a fish in there a few days after you get back from fishing.
I'm thinking a couple possibilities.
1.I believe the bud and stems were at about 62 after burping. Maybe if they were a touch higher it may allow the big branches to provide a slow source of humidity to the buds. But everything was dry not damp at all. That could have been due to the 2 way action of the boveda.
2. We trim dry and most connoisseurs do. Because it preserves the quality better. Whenever I have trimmed fresh I really saw a big reduction in terps. That's what made me start trimming dry. Well here the only cutting happens after 2 months of curing. Except for the branches being cut into 8" pieces. But the buds are whole including fans. No place for rapid loss of plant fluids.
I'm still trying to think of other reasons. But I am surely going to continue doing it this way.
Did you remove any larger fans before washing, or was it truly the whole plant? I have two coming down this week, three in all within the next two weeks, and I'd like to do a little experiment of my own. Just trying to get the process as close to what you did as possible.
Truly the whole plant Sue and I did check a few more days in to make sure that they were actually dry and not going to mold on me. I so hope that it works as well for you.
I guess one possibility is that this past grow was twice as good as any I have done but I don't think that's it lmao. Maybe a little bit because I am a super stellar number one major official sparkly unicorn grower!
I so love these discussions about strains and terpenes. One of these days there will be efficient and low cost testing available. That's the only real way of knowing the facts.
I sure love ShiggityFlip and don't doubt for one moment what he said about his experience.
What the human has available to him is that sense of smell used as the tool for evaluating and all of one's previous evaluations. Add to that what the expectations were. I remember my first grow and I ate the first topping of White Widow. It was peppery. Surely that taste was also partially accompanied by some terpene.
A high terpene expression could result in an undesirable taste or smell when burned.
Testing....and also apply what the high was like.
Smoking mama Blue Dream this morning so don't take me too serious.
Grieving is a process. You were given a lot of years and have a lot of years to process. Bless you.
It sure is. After I lost my closest friend throughout a long life to suicide, it nearly broke me. It took several years before I got my ass off of the ground and started functioning again. It's so hard
Heres some Sue
Cannabis relevant because if you could see my shadow I have a big spliff in my mouth!
Hi there woman....long time.....no chat.....wtf!Hope you have been....and are well!