How do you flush organic soil? Isn't that not possible?

[Hammerhead]

you do it the same way as if you had used chems. Some don't do it at all. I do it to get the plant into senescence faster. I try my best to get the plant into this process. that's what cannabis does grows makes seeds dies seeds grow year after year. when the plants leaves have all yellowed this is a indication the energy is gone. If you read up on the subject it would help.. They only get a fan leaf trim. plants are hung dried then a final trim jarred.


Hope that helps

[Greenheart]

Originally Posted by chazz michaels

How do you flush organic soil? Isn't that not possible?

[supermanlives]

never done a side by side but the slower the better is my rule. so leaving plants as intact as possible works for me. don't always happen tho

[THC123]

7 days for the wet trimmed ones 8 days for the dry trimmed one

both only dried for 5 days before being jarred and where pretty darn moist

You know I miss your body language and facial expressions when you post something so never mind our previous "clash"

[St3ve]

Originally Posted by THC123

7 days for the wet trimmed ones 8 days for the dry trimmed one

both only dried for 5 days before being jarred and where pretty darn moist

You know I miss your body language and facial expressions when you post something so never mind our previous "clash"

Thanks for your response, and no worries man its easy to read into posts sometimes.

The point of my question was to find out if you were treating the untrimmed and trimmed the same when you were drying. I don't doubt your findings at all. From the sounds of it though, both were in the bins the same day, which would make the test not quite accurate. (in this context)

What I mean by that is we can all agree that, regardless of trimming, the slower you dry the better. That said, if you wet trim a bud and dry it in the same room, in the same conditions as the untrimmed bud, the trimmed bud will dry much faster. Since slower drying is better, the untrimmed will no doubt dry slower and produce a better taste and smell.

I know it sounds like I'm nitpicking here, but I am just trying to get all of the facts on the table for the discussion.

It`s all good guys.....This has been debated and heatedly argued over since weedsites began online......Hell.....

I even got some neg rep outta my earlier posts like l`m wrong about what I learned first hand over 20 yrs of croppin inside.....but.....

Bottomline......It`s all about the drying area environment and the "amount" of plant material yas`re tryin to process first and foremost , cuz humidity goes through the roof when yas hang buncha whole plants without any foliage removed , compared to bucked limbs with all the main fans removed and then hung......

Where I live RH stay`s 80-90% yr round , so my drying areas were outfitted with active intakes and exhaust/scrubber combo`s exchanging room air twice per minute WITH dehueys runnin 24/7 to keep RH dwindling down slowly till the room equalized at 60-65% anywhere from 7-10 days depending on time of yr , and then....

They went into 5 gal pickle buckets with rubber gaskets for sealing/burping/and curing for a month..... moral to the story guys is......

The "slower" yas pull moisture away from the plant material until they reach the equilibrium of perfect 62% where they can be jarred/bagged for curing or even straight to market , the better......period.....that said.....

Folks that live in drier/arrid lower RH environments can benefit from leaving foliage on the vine during the drying process to "slow" the rapid evaporation and will indeed produce a more flavorful and smellier product by doing so , so guys...

Wet trim/dry trim is relative at best to attain the same product at the finish line mainly due to where you live , and NOT what`s right or wrong I assure all here.....All about what works for you to produce the best product REGARDLESS of the process it takes to do so....

My buckets sat in cool dark basements for a month after the last burping , and guaranteed flavor and smell profiles couldn`t have been any better once opened even if I`d left the leaves on the plants during the drying process and why ?........

Cuz theyd`ve prolly rotted and turned to mulch before I got back to em a week later.....IOW......

Gotta dial shit where yas live and make the best of it guys......My 2 cents from all those yrs.....

Peace.....DHF...........

[bloyd]

I tried st3ve's method of keeping wet trim + 65% humidity to slow drying on my last harvest and the results were phenomenal. I have dry trimmed, wet trimmed without humidity control during drying, and now st3ve's method, and for me it will be st3ve's method from now on.

Like so many have said trimming wet is way easier, and with st3ve's methods terpene preservation is much better and there was little need for cure. The buds smelled great the first day in the jar and they still smell great ~1.5 mos later sitting at ~65%. Never got green/hay smell like I have in the past going into the jars on quicker dried wet trim.

I want to try freezing like thc123 has mentioned as I vape 95% of my herbs. Great information here.

[Bigge]

I had problems with mold during cure when I slowed the dry too much...but a friend hipped me to a trick that I don't see mentioned in this dry/curing process....before putting in jars I take the dried meds out into the sun for 30-40 minutes...no issues with mold during curing since. The reason for doing this is to blast any bacteria with UV before putting in non breathable jars. Anyone have experience with this? Please...no "sun is bad for THC" just because you read it somewhere...I have not had any perceptible reduction in potency and the smell/taste is great after my sun dipped batches are cured.

[noreason]

Originally Posted by Bigge

I had problems with mold during cure when I slowed the dry too much...but a friend hipped me to a trick that I don't see mentioned in this dry/curing process....before putting in jars I take the dried meds out into the sun for 30-40 minutes...no issues with mold during curing since. The reason for doing this is to blast any bacteria with UV before putting in non breathable jars. Anyone have experience with this? Please...no "sun is bad for THC" just because you read it somewhere...I have not had any perceptible reduction in potency and the smell/taste is great after my sun dipped batches are cured.

I think you should use UV-C lamp to sterilize the weed as the sun emits those kind of rays but they're filtered by our atmosphere thanks to oxygen (O2) that turns into ozone (O3) with UV-C.

But the UV-C acts only with contact, I think they can't pass trough the plant's tissues, so it would be an inaccurate sterilization for the form of the flowers. Rays can't reach the internal spaces.

It should be different with gamma rays....but hey...maybe it's better to reduce flowers size to minimize mold risk, no?

Btw...with the sunlight you are killing very few, most sensitive, bacteria. Nothing else. And probably degrading the resin, even if 40 minutes are not so many and you're not noticing anything.

Just my two