Your tips and secrets

[nabzter]

This is a crucial make or break point in producing a fine and satisfying product.

Please share your methods and tips,
Let's spread the knowledge and share the love !!

[HUGE]

Don't bag it too wet.
Don't dry it too fast

[Boyd Crowder]

use the best genetics you can get your hands on

[nabzter]

use the best genetics you can get your hands on

So true but I have noticed even when purchasing beans from the most reputable companies you still get a range of different phenos when buying packs of the same strains .

[HerBnGorE(illa)]

Don't skimp on the cure. Good things come to those who wait.

[Outcold]

I finish in the freezer. Its the lazy way to perfection. Take a look and see if its for you.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=186222

[Ichabod Crane]

Good air flow around the buds with a long slow dry. Quick dry at first to take most of the moisture then slow and long.

[jewcebox]

craigslist is all bugs and mold.

[mufinman]

I have found that after hanging the just cut and rough trimmed branches/plants 10 days; final trim and put in closed brown paper bags for a while, (couplea weeks or more) before bottles. When kept in the bags, moisture content will stay consistent with ambient RH% and never get too dry. Burping and shaking each bag every few days is a good practice.. I keep 4-5 ozs in each grocery brown bag.

[ChingonLSU]

Hang dry, stick in jars with these Boveda packs. Done.

Easy and perfect cure, I spent years burping jars and paper bags before these.

[Ratzilla]

Well to begin with
when you hear of 24-48 hour of darkness before the chop?
First let me say that I found that it did little except maybe stealing some lights on time.
it is suppose to build extra trichome.
But not for me.
I often think it has to do with the plant sending it exudes down to the roots during darkness and the roots sending nutrients ions back up into the plants at lights on.
This fact I think just got convoluted and turned into a period of darkness before the chop For the wrong reasons I opine.
My biggest fear problem is fruit rot ,"Botrytis" so lots of air movement is needed especially if growing dense colas.
Picking the right strain can take care of mold problems.
I am talking indoors now.
I also like to time the plants chop to its watering needs.
Again because of Botrytis I want my RH under50-55% and not watering right before ,a day or so, helps with moisture control.
I hang manicured plants for like 7-8 days in the dark because light will degrade the THC then cut the nugs off the stems and place in brown bags for another 4 days before jarring.
After jarring I make sure to burp the jars a few minutes each day for a weeks or so.

I mean I grow these giant donkey dicks of colas.
I have taken to topping my plants to help keep the colas more manageable again with fear of the mold that comes and makes buds crumble and un smoke able.
I bet you can tell that I lost a few plants to this horrible grey mold.
I live in a swamp. Even with AC the humidity is thick,
Ratz

[mufinman]

Hang dry, stick in jars with these Boveda packs. Done.

Easy and perfect cure, I spent years burping jars and paper bags before these.View Image View Image

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[nabzter]

Hang dry, stick in jars with these Boveda packs. Done.

Easy and perfect cure, I spent years burping jars and paper bags before these.View Image View Image

I'm tempted to try these

[mufinman]

OK, I went and looked.. Boveda. I'll give them a try. Thanks.

[nabzter]

I finish in the freezer. Its the lazy way to perfection. Take a look and see if its for you.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=186222

Very interesting and worth a try