Do y'all wash outdoor crops?

[idiographicChronographic]

What about washing dry sift? Anyone tried this?

 

[iStruggle]

H2O2 on buds will ruin everything.

No it wont. Please dont comment on things you dont know about.

 

[OG_NoMan]

you use peroxide that time?

Yes at all different dilution rates right up to pure 3% with no water and I couldn't get the pm off the leaves. Hopefully you have better luck.

 

[tobedetermined]

I couldn't get the pm off the leaves.

I have tried the 3 step method that I posted above. My 1st outdoor crop had everything - PM, bugs and bud rot. 4 autoflowers. So I cut out the rot and washed them - baking soda wash for the PM, lemon juice/peroxide acid wash to kill anything left and a rinse wash to neutralize. I made some pretty good bubble hash from the result after it was dried and cured a bit. I used it again with a couple of Ayahuasca fems that had PM. You can see the wash setup in the pic. Again, it worked very well and the dried plants produced some great cured bud.

 

[OG_NoMan]

I have tried the 3 step method that I posted above. My 1st outdoor crop had everything - PM, bugs and bud rot. 4 autoflowers. So I cut out the rot and washed them - baking soda wash for the PM, lemon juice/peroxide acid wash to kill anything left and a rinse wash to neutralize. I made some pretty good bubble hash from the result after it was dried and cured a bit. I used it again with a couple of Ayahuasca fems that had PM. You can see the wash setup in the pic. Again, it worked very well and the dried plants produced some great cured bud.

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Must be because I only used peroxide as a wash. Now I just try not to get pm and if I do I can now get rid of it before harvest. I only washed this year to clean bugs and debris out.

 

[troutman]

No it wont. Please dont comment on things you dont know about.

Soak your buds in peroxide and tell us how great they are.

 

[slyman]

Soak your buds in peroxide and tell us how great they are.

It's not a soak, just a quick dip... And yea people clearly have done it and it's been fine. Thc/cannabinoids aren't soluble in peroxide

 

[slyman]

Well, it is done, upped the concentrations a little bit from that infographic. Didn't really seem like the water was penetrating the pm but we shall see. I'll report back when all is said and done

 

[NEED 4 SEED]

I've washed some live plants the other day which I had previously dusted with ground flowers from a feminizing experiment. I had to grind these flowers as they didn't open to release the pollen and then I didn't think of screening out the pollen. That's why I tried to shower off the residue after completely covering them in the ground flowers. The outcome is not too clean. The shower probably was able to remove some debris but not very much. A lot kept sticking on the plants. I am just hoping this helps enough to avoid mold in late flower.

 

[iStruggle]

Soak your buds in peroxide and tell us how great they are.

Already did in my first grow. You dont know shit lol

 

[troutman]

Already did in my first grow. You dont know shit lol

I've grown for over 30 years, sell 1,000's seeds a year and never had PM infection.
Guess, I know something.

 

[iStruggle]

I've grown for over 30 years, sell 1,000's seeds a year and never had PM infection.
Guess, I know something.

Nor have i

You could have been growing that long, doesnt make you good at it

 

[goingrey]

I've grown for over 30 years, sell 1,000's seeds a year and never had PM infection.
Guess, I know something.

Do you grow outdoors?

 

[iStruggle]

Blue gelato from my first grow a few years ago. Dunked in peroxide for 2 minutes and rinsed twice. Will still get me sparked. You can still see the trichs on there lol.

 

[troutman]

Do you grow outdoors?

Sometimes.

 

[Bona Fortuna]

H2O2 is a good wash, just as baking soda and lemon juice is. They both have different uses.

H2O2 is essentially fancy, oxidizing water. It’s a great as a surfactant and doesn’t produce any Ph related byproducts. It’s great for washing debris and detritus out of your buds in a non-invasive way. Doesn’t really wash away biological contamination.

Baking soda and lemon juice are meant for biological contamination. It neutralizes and ‘washes’ organic materials. Not a great surfactant, but it will get debris out to an extent.

To each their own. Some people will wash before they throw out bud and some people call it a wash and dump contaminated bud.

 

[Outdo]

Interesting conversation. I had no idea that there was controversy surrounding this topic. I assumed that everyone who grows outside washed their harvest on some level. I personally don't consume anything grown outdoors without some type of cleaning process first. Whether it be an apple or herb. It does not affect taste nor potency.

I use a qt. of 3% peroxide to 4 gallons of water as a disinfectant. I follow that with 4 gallons of water with a 1/2 cup baking soda and a 1/2 cup lemon juice as a detergent. I then rinse in 4 gallons of plain, filtered water. Thirty seconds to one minute of a gentle dunk/swirl in each bucket. As long as the water isn't too cold and you don't beat up the buds in the process no harm will come to the precious trichomes.

Now, if I were growing indoors in a clean room type environment I wouldn't see any use for it. I also wouldn't see any use for an IPM protocol in that type of situation either.