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how do u dry yours ?
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G
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if trichs are clear, it's not ready to harvest yet.
here are some pics of when to harvest.
here are some pics of when to harvest.
It will if you take it out when the light comes on,
HID lights will degrade the active cannbaniods (need to check spelling) that are present.
Me I just hang mine between 5 to 10 days untill they feel like popcorn and the stems snap, then they are ready for the jars.
Once in the jars for the first day you should open the jars and check the buds
they will soften up quit abit as the mosture from the inside of the bud starts to come out.
after a couple of days then you should only have to open the jars once a week,
for about 20 minutes then close them back up.
EDIT I also agree with Dirty about the trichs not beeing ready yet.
HID lights will degrade the active cannbaniods (need to check spelling) that are present.
Me I just hang mine between 5 to 10 days untill they feel like popcorn and the stems snap, then they are ready for the jars.
Once in the jars for the first day you should open the jars and check the buds
they will soften up quit abit as the mosture from the inside of the bud starts to come out.
after a couple of days then you should only have to open the jars once a week,
for about 20 minutes then close them back up.
EDIT I also agree with Dirty about the trichs not beeing ready yet.
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Formaldehyde
Member
Besides the light ruining THC, a super fast dry is not a good idea also. The longer it takes to dry (1-2 weeks), the better it will taste. Well, that's what everyone says anyway.
deefirl said:
Yes . . somewhere dark and have a small fan going , Not blowing directly on ur bud but moving the air... you will have to remember that they will smell while drying so do it somewhere where u have ventilation so as not to arouse suspicion
Dry for a week to 10 days then but it in glass jars , opening the jar for 10 minutes each day for about a week or two. then somke ur brains away
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Yea that sounds good, just make sure it is dark.
also have a fan in the room blowing, but not directly at the plants.
The longer it take to dry is better.
also have a fan in the room blowing, but not directly at the plants.
The longer it take to dry is better.
G
Guest
I love cracking the door to the garage when theres bud in there drying!
hang upside down in a cool dry place with air exchange such as a closet with the door open. in a week they should be dry enough to break the stem if not let em go a few more days. after they are dry enough to break the stem you put em in jars and open the jars once a day for 20 minutes for another week. at this point they should be dry enough for storage in the jars for a long term cure.
G
Guest
Hard to say without a pic. If they are all clear, but mature. maybe 3 weeks. Just a guess without a pic I cant tell.
J
Jack Crevalle
For me trimming, drying, and curing can make or break good herb
The answers here are right on about slow drying and hanging them for a week at least in the beginning. Trimming wasn't mentioned tho:
I trim 3 times:
First trim : when I cut them down - Tim Large fan leaves
Second trim : when bud has been hanging a week -Trim large semi-frosty leaves, keep in a separate jar as they can be used to eat or hash/honey oil. At this point I also cut off most major stems and sticks and put buds closely together in a glass pyrex dish for a few more days or in a paper bag if they are still too moist to smoke clean and if the stems don't snap.
Third trim: when buds are ready to go into jars after drying about 10-12 days - trim smaller sugar leaves and save in leaf jar. Leave no more than 20-30% of sugar leaf on buds and put into jars to cure for best flavor, opening them once a day for a week to let the "curing" air out.
That's just my routine. Eventually you'll find what works best for your temperatures and humidity. Indica's dry differently than Sativas too. Some longer than other depending on density etc.
Remember also that each plant matures differently and not all strains form the same kinds of trichs. Some varieties make trichomes that never do turn fully amber or the best high is when they are harvested before amber, when cloudy etc. There is no set rule is the bottom line.
Of course I have a general guide in terms of expected flower times for an Indica vs Sativa etc, but I also look for signs such as how mature the plant looks in general:
has it stopped growing? has it let out it's mature "smells", has it stopped throwing out white flowers etc. I also look at trich color as a main signal. Many factors affect when bud is ready including financial issues.
I would highly recommend drying 2 buds 2 different ways and testing to see what comes out better. Let one dry a week longer before jarring, or cut one a week earlier than the other to see the difference. Also colas tend to mature faster than lower buds.
Cut those a few days earlier and the rest will get light and mature over a few days. Soon enough you'll find a routine that works.
peace
The answers here are right on about slow drying and hanging them for a week at least in the beginning. Trimming wasn't mentioned tho:
I trim 3 times:
First trim : when I cut them down - Tim Large fan leaves
Second trim : when bud has been hanging a week -Trim large semi-frosty leaves, keep in a separate jar as they can be used to eat or hash/honey oil. At this point I also cut off most major stems and sticks and put buds closely together in a glass pyrex dish for a few more days or in a paper bag if they are still too moist to smoke clean and if the stems don't snap.
Third trim: when buds are ready to go into jars after drying about 10-12 days - trim smaller sugar leaves and save in leaf jar. Leave no more than 20-30% of sugar leaf on buds and put into jars to cure for best flavor, opening them once a day for a week to let the "curing" air out.
That's just my routine. Eventually you'll find what works best for your temperatures and humidity. Indica's dry differently than Sativas too. Some longer than other depending on density etc.
Remember also that each plant matures differently and not all strains form the same kinds of trichs. Some varieties make trichomes that never do turn fully amber or the best high is when they are harvested before amber, when cloudy etc. There is no set rule is the bottom line.
Of course I have a general guide in terms of expected flower times for an Indica vs Sativa etc, but I also look for signs such as how mature the plant looks in general:
has it stopped growing? has it let out it's mature "smells", has it stopped throwing out white flowers etc. I also look at trich color as a main signal. Many factors affect when bud is ready including financial issues.
I would highly recommend drying 2 buds 2 different ways and testing to see what comes out better. Let one dry a week longer before jarring, or cut one a week earlier than the other to see the difference. Also colas tend to mature faster than lower buds.
Cut those a few days earlier and the rest will get light and mature over a few days. Soon enough you'll find a routine that works.
peace
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Jesusbuiltmygro
Member
drying is very easy
drying is very easy
But like most things you have to do it a couple times to fully get the hang of it.
However it's a very dynamic process and the only REAL rule is don't dry out your bud too much. While a slow dry is ideal I believe that the curing process is really where the bud gets most of it's desirable taste and increased potency.
It is at the curing process that the bud changes from a harsh vegetable matter taste and smell to a smooth aromatic flavor.
All in all I'd try to stick with the slower the dry the better, but if you are hard up you can do a branch or such. As the first guy said you need your trichs to be cloudy or some of them to turn amber. I would go with the cloudy trichs personally rather than amber. Amber is a later stage of the THC degrading process. Amber trichs produce more couch lock sleep stone while cloudy produce more of a uppy head high.
Anyway if you are desperate like that you can dry a branch faster and get it to cure ASAP. Just 1-2 days of cure can make ALL the difference in taste and smell. Obviously cure should last 2-4 weeks or more not 1-2 days but I'm just saying if you are hard up instead of slow drying a branch and then smoking it. Quick dry the branch, then cure it and then smoke it and you'll get way better stuff because you were 1-2 days more patient while it cured.
I think you could slow dry for 10 days and have vastly inferior bud to the stuff you quick dried and cured for 5-10 days. You can quick dry using a fan or such or even super fast methods such as steam drying in the microwave. The trick is to basically sandwich the bud in between two DAMP paper towels not dripping wet. If you are hard up try it on a couple suck buds. You put the bud in a tubberware, damp paper towel on bottom, weed on paper towel, damp paper towel on top and then put the lid on with one corner open to vent out steam. The paper towels should be pressed against the sides of the container not just thrown in there. They act as microwave buffers. Since they are wet the absorb the microwaves first and get hot creating steam. This protects the weed from direct microwave bombardment to some degree, which is the main reason people don't like microwaved weed. The trick is to use 30% or less power. I do it on 30% for three minutes then flip the bud and repeat the process for around 10+ minutes. The bud will actually come out still wet feeling but that's just because it was steamed dried. After 10 min or so let it air out and it should harden up and be smokable. If not it needs another round or 2-3 minutes or so. It's a matter of trial and error at first, but it's BY FAR the best real quick dry method I've tried and I've done quite a few. I would like to try a food dehydrator, but even that is slow compared to the microwave steam dry. A steamer however might do a better job with only a bit more time since it uses no microwave. Just like cooking vegetables steam is the ideal way to fast dry something that you want to preserve as much as possible. Steam is a fairly low temp drying process and since it's steam it keeps the medium moist while trying it unlike say the oven drying method. Anyway after that you can throw them in a jar and cure them for 1-2 days and have probably the most reasonable sample of your weed that you can get in the shortest amount of time. Unless someone knows a faster way to cure. Water curing is supposed to be pretty awesome, but you get less total weight I think. Real cool that it kills the odor while it's cured in water. Though with a decent carbon scrubber you shouldn't need that and everybody wants more weight. I'm gonna try water cure one day.
drying is very easy
But like most things you have to do it a couple times to fully get the hang of it.
However it's a very dynamic process and the only REAL rule is don't dry out your bud too much. While a slow dry is ideal I believe that the curing process is really where the bud gets most of it's desirable taste and increased potency.
It is at the curing process that the bud changes from a harsh vegetable matter taste and smell to a smooth aromatic flavor.
All in all I'd try to stick with the slower the dry the better, but if you are hard up you can do a branch or such. As the first guy said you need your trichs to be cloudy or some of them to turn amber. I would go with the cloudy trichs personally rather than amber. Amber is a later stage of the THC degrading process. Amber trichs produce more couch lock sleep stone while cloudy produce more of a uppy head high.
Anyway if you are desperate like that you can dry a branch faster and get it to cure ASAP. Just 1-2 days of cure can make ALL the difference in taste and smell. Obviously cure should last 2-4 weeks or more not 1-2 days but I'm just saying if you are hard up instead of slow drying a branch and then smoking it. Quick dry the branch, then cure it and then smoke it and you'll get way better stuff because you were 1-2 days more patient while it cured.
I think you could slow dry for 10 days and have vastly inferior bud to the stuff you quick dried and cured for 5-10 days. You can quick dry using a fan or such or even super fast methods such as steam drying in the microwave. The trick is to basically sandwich the bud in between two DAMP paper towels not dripping wet. If you are hard up try it on a couple suck buds. You put the bud in a tubberware, damp paper towel on bottom, weed on paper towel, damp paper towel on top and then put the lid on with one corner open to vent out steam. The paper towels should be pressed against the sides of the container not just thrown in there. They act as microwave buffers. Since they are wet the absorb the microwaves first and get hot creating steam. This protects the weed from direct microwave bombardment to some degree, which is the main reason people don't like microwaved weed. The trick is to use 30% or less power. I do it on 30% for three minutes then flip the bud and repeat the process for around 10+ minutes. The bud will actually come out still wet feeling but that's just because it was steamed dried. After 10 min or so let it air out and it should harden up and be smokable. If not it needs another round or 2-3 minutes or so. It's a matter of trial and error at first, but it's BY FAR the best real quick dry method I've tried and I've done quite a few. I would like to try a food dehydrator, but even that is slow compared to the microwave steam dry. A steamer however might do a better job with only a bit more time since it uses no microwave. Just like cooking vegetables steam is the ideal way to fast dry something that you want to preserve as much as possible. Steam is a fairly low temp drying process and since it's steam it keeps the medium moist while trying it unlike say the oven drying method. Anyway after that you can throw them in a jar and cure them for 1-2 days and have probably the most reasonable sample of your weed that you can get in the shortest amount of time. Unless someone knows a faster way to cure. Water curing is supposed to be pretty awesome, but you get less total weight I think. Real cool that it kills the odor while it's cured in water. Though with a decent carbon scrubber you shouldn't need that and everybody wants more weight. I'm gonna try water cure one day.
J
Jack Crevalle
That wasn't true in my experiences, especially airy bud. It will taste more like hay in my experience if dried in one day. I knew aguy who would dry in a dessicator then cure for a couple days then sell it. The bud looked better, because it was dried fresh, but the flavor and high was lacking big time.
I think it has to do with the sugars breaking down and the terpenes being created as the water slowly evaporates.
IMHO
Yellowmoon
Active member
1-2 days is enough for my plants. I don't know is the great ventilation in the growing space or what, but they've dried up totally in one day. Then they go to the freezer.
yeah my first grow i dried in a place with to much ventilation. It dreid the whole harvest in 2days, tasted and smelled like hay.
Curing it brought back the "bud" smell and flavor but i had to re-wet it in order to cure correctly cause it was so dry.
Dry longer and slower... lesson learned
Curing it brought back the "bud" smell and flavor but i had to re-wet it in order to cure correctly cause it was so dry.
Dry longer and slower... lesson learned
