Getting Moisture off the Branches - Finger Flick or ZZ Top or 1812 Overture ?

[St. Phatty]

I was just outside doing pre-dawn moisture control on 4 small plants.

The one night they started the evening wet, I brought them inside
and they spent the night in darkness, with a big fan blowing on them.

It's real easy to flick moisture off with your finger if there's only 10-20 main bud branches to deal with.

But what about people who have plants with thousands of big bud branches - and got moisture to deal with, plants covered with dew or light rain ?

I imagine they give the plants a good shake. With a bigger plant, that could be some serious exercise, x25.

I guess some people harvest when moisture is a concern.

There's probably tree-shaking hardware that the ag. industry has.


But, for the My Favorite Idea of Bud Branch Shaking - can playing music really loud work ?

Unless that's a really dumb idea, I imagine that there's some larger scale growers blasting away with big speakers in the wilderness, to help keep their buds dry.

 

[fonzee]

Some bud shapes are moisture hardy than others - tight Indica buds don't have much air exchange, but long and segmented Sativa buds do have some air exchange.

In a moist environment I would start by choosing strains that do well with moisture.

 

[St. Phatty]

Thanks for the reply !

I let the 3 plants that were getting covered with water drops every morning go as long as possible. No mold.


I thought that water condensation could be a problem for big commercial grows.

 

[amanda88]

when I was little my uncle called in a local helicopter owner to hover over his cherries orchard, to blow the frost/ damp of them it was great ....until the bill arrived ..lol

now old and wise he covers the trees with sheet plastic if frost or a storm comes

 

[fonzee]

Water droplets on the plant encourage fungal pathogens growth.
In a greenhouse you can use fans to stay below dew point but outdoors people usually don't tap their plants every morning, no only because its a lot of work, but also because it will just move the water inside the buds :-/

 

[St. Phatty]

no only because its a lot of work

but also because it will just move the water inside the buds :-/

it's one of those things that could be delegated - or automated.

DEFINITELY don't want to move the water down inside the buds.

I'm not talking about a casual flick, to really get the water off you have to shake it or flick it a few times, AND be gentle with it. Or an oscillating fan.

Again, not as an example of my passion for the old Rastafarian art of Plant-De-watering.

From watching the outdoor harvest this year, even though it was fairly benevolent weather (lots of Sunshine I thought, compared to past years) you had to harvest around October 15, or get mold.

Unless you did something to remove the water. I spent maybe 2 extra weeks de-watering them, so they could enjoy a few hours a day of sunshine.

At the time, they looked healthy, the red pistils didn't have that "plant decay" look, and there were still white pistils. So, keep going, I thought.

Just got the Hortilab Starbud dried.