[pipeline]

Everyone has their own techniques when it comes to harvesting and preserving the crop. Some may trim the plants apart and dry on screens with fans while others uproot the plants and hang it in the nearest tree.

What do you do to get the crop to the oh-so-sweet zone of moisture? What are the best cropping methods? What are the best storage methods?

To improve security, outdoor drying methods seem to work the best for our situation. Almost anything can be used to shed water. So long as the flowers don't get soaked with rain and have good ventilation, they are in a very interesting environment for curing.

With each morning comes heavy dew. Moisture fills the air and dissipates with the morning sun. Temperatures are constantly changing. This is the ideal environment for preserving cannabis because it allows the moisture to slowly leave the flowers during part of the day and then leaving more quickly during other parts of the day, when the sun comes out and teperatures rise.

Cut into arm length 2-4 branch sections. Trim fan leaves and some easy to access closer fans, not getting too picky. Hang over or tie to a tree branch with a rubberized canvas tarp covering the branch and anchored down. Camoflage is preferred of course. Hemp twine is preferred because it blends in well and desintigrates easily.

Allow to dry for 2 weeks. Depending on the weather an additional week of drying may be needed.

Stems near the flower should break, but this isnt always the case. If they are close to being at the breaking poing of moisture content, sometimes they just need to be jarred to accomodate for the next round of harvest. It seems like leaving some moisture in them works well to preserve the flavor and aroma of the trichome resin. But be careful here, more moisture creates a bigger risk for molds developing.

Trim into individual flower clusters and seal in jars. Burp jars every day or 2 for a week, smelling them each time to check for mold/ammonia smell. If the jar is too moist, leave the lid off for a couple hours and let it air out.

The crop can be stored in a number of environments. An attic, a closet, a chest of drawers, barns, cellers, in trees, in the ground..... How do you store your crop?

Buried mason jars have been a tradition since before the days of alcohol prohibition, why quit now... I've found 5 gallon buckets with rubber o-ring lids work well to seal out the elements from our sacred crop.

[OG bub]

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thank you pipeline!

Peace, bub.

[LLCoolBud]

Very nice pipedream this will be very helpful for my next harvest I find that proper dryin can make or break a crop my first time I harvested I had half my harvest start to brown cause it was too damp when i put in in jars and the other half was bone dry:P Next time im going for the sweet spot baby. Thanks a mil.

[pipeline]

No problem... Sorry to hear you had to learn from experience...

Who the heck's Pipedream? .............................. (I know pipedream)

[Igotyourback]

Originally Posted by pipeline

Everyone has their own techniques when it comes to harvesting and preserving the crop. Some may trim the plants apart and dry on screens with fans while others uproot the plants and hang it in the nearest tree.

What do you do to get the crop to the oh-so-sweet zone of moisture? What are the best cropping methods? What are the best storage methods?

To improve security, outdoor drying methods seem to work the best for our situation. Almost anything can be used to shed water. So long as the flowers don't get soaked with rain and have good ventilation, they are in a very interesting environment for curing.

With each morning comes heavy dew. Moisture fills the air and dissipates with the morning sun. Temperatures are constantly changing. This is the ideal environment for preserving cannabis because it allows the moisture to slowly leave the flowers during part of the day and then leaving more quickly during other parts of the day, when the sun comes out and teperatures rise.

Cut into arm length 2-4 branch sections. Trim fan leaves and some easy to access closer fans, not getting too picky. Hang over or tie to a tree branch with a rubberized canvas tarp covering the branch and anchored down. Camoflage is preferred of course. Hemp twine is preferred because it blends in well and desintigrates easily.

Allow to dry for 2 weeks. Depending on the weather an additional week of drying may be needed.

Stems near the flower should break, but this isnt always the case. If they are close to being at the breaking poing of moisture content, sometimes they just need to be jarred to accomodate for the next round of harvest. It seems like leaving some moisture in them works well to preserve the flavor and aroma of the trichome resin. But be careful here, more moisture creates a bigger risk for molds developing.

Trim into individual flower clusters and seal in jars. Burp jars every day or 2 for a week, smelling them each time to check for mold/ammonia smell. If the jar is too moist, leave the lid off for a couple hours and let it air out.

The crop can be stored in a number of environments. An attic, a closet, a chest of drawers, barns, cellers, in trees, in the ground..... How do you store your crop?

Buried mason jars have been a tradition since before the days of alcohol prohibition, why quit now... I've found 5 gallon buckets with rubber o-ring lids work well to seal out the elements from our sacred crop.

I just love to see Bud Hanging Out Side And It Looks Like Yours Are Doing Just Fine

[pipeline]

Cut and Hang.... Not much more to it than that....