Harvest - Different ways to harvest, process and store. (Feel free to showcase your artisan methods!!!)

[acespicoli]

Same, used to dry in front of a fan or AC unit clothes lines across the house or paper bags one the stems close to snapping. Really depends on your situation. This last two weeks is the first time in months the humidity has been below 75% def prefer the cool 60F and 45% RH

The plants dont seem to mind much either way, the occasional mold magnet you just can let go....
I dig my imperfect world, so new drying methods and long term storage methods will prevail
Took some getting used to the weather patterns.

The cold highlands and the desert folks seem to have no issues
Coastal Maritime ...

Attached Dimensions of Ripeness Parts 1 &2

WW123+Dimensions+of+Ripeness.pdf

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WW124+Dimensions+of+Ripeness+P2.pdf

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[Old Piney]

I will use a paper bag for small batches and a jar for the cure

 

[PlastikeRubba]

The effect of high drying temperatures on cannabinoids and terpenes requires further investigation. To minimize loss of volatile terpenes during heating, another method for cannabinoid and terpene preservation is freezing by sublimation, which takes 10 to 20 days.

As oxidation occurs with the presence of light, heat, and oxygen, degradation of major cannabinoids is minimized after drying by storage in cool and dark places. Fresh products must be stored between 1˚C and 5˚C and frozen products must be kept at −18˚C to −20˚C for long-term storage [21].

So is oxidation good or bad?

I've been trying to tell pot growers for half a century that their dreaded hay smell is hexanal, from linoleic acid, (from oleic acid), not chlorophyll.


So oxidation bad? No, because hexanal is broken down into hexanoic acid, the precursor to the major cannabinoids and many Cannabis esters.

So why the hell is the cannabis industry acting like they are concerned with preserving isolated test tube cannabinoids and bullshit children Tylenol terps in a lab setting?

In the real world, with properly grown medicinal grade cannabis, hexanoic acid is being produced, post harvest, just as fast as thc is breaking down, or faster. In any acceptable crop, the quality is determined by fatty acid and protein content. The same way soil health is measured. Cannabis is not any different. Every useful Cannabis metabolite is the result of organic acid oxidation that continues long after harvest.

Hydroponic growers don't understand that, as they completely missed the narrative behind "pharmaceutical grade" inputs; organic acid chelated nutrients, not nitrate and sulfate crap. They wanted to look like drug labs without having any basic understanding of drug chemistry. (The only sulfur your plant needs is cysteine, methionine and glutathione, and the only way sulfur is being utilized by cannabis is by degradation of those aminos/peptide..

Growing weed in the 2020s is like cooking meth in the 1990s. You supply ephedrine, the lab techs still think they need to convert it from pseudofed. My role in the drug world is apparently to be dumbfounded by incompetence of drug producers,who insist on waste and poor quality rather than a basic 6th grade understanding of drug chemistry.

How many times do we have to hear the Ganjier-Curaleaf-GW-Jazz crew proclaim cough syrup to be an enjoyable flavor, before we catch on to the agenda? Every decent producer is behind bars or NDAed by the DEA, no compete clauses tied up with pharma giants.

Tldr

Organic acid metabolism is all that matters in Cannabis. What's the difference between linoleum flooring and thc? Chemistry. They both come from linoleic acid.

Quite literally, no one growing Cannabis in America is qualified, as they readily produce plastic toxins through total ignorance of organic drug chemistry. The Marijuana plant is a drug lab. Federal regulations will reflect that. The FDA has been presented with a solid case that Xanax dealing Instagram models should not be involved with legal drug production.