ECSour Diesel clone Harvest/drying thread

[Crazy Composer]

It's my pleasure helping folks enjoy better herb, don't worry

Well, It has happened! I smoked my first joint of ecsd grown organically, and by yours truly. What a load of fun that was! I got utterly confused for a good 10-15 minutes. It'll just get better as time goes by. I still have to try the willams wonder! It's loaded in the bong, let's see... Hmmm, very indica/old school tasting.

• Here's some ready-to-smoke ecsd.

• I wish I could share the smell wafting up from this bag!

 

[friendlyfriend]

Nice one CC

 

[mrwags]

I usually must go to my local video store and dig around in the back where it's dark to see porn like that. Reminds us why we come here to learn from the best. All of you guys are great and your pics are amazing. It's just not fair.


Mr.Wags

 

[Rolando Mota]

Thanks for the explanation Crazy Composer. A little different than how I dry now, I'll make a couple changes and give it a try next round. Great info!

 

[Guest]

What happened to you CC? After you smoked that ecsd you havne't been back. Well how is it?

 

[Crazy Composer]

^^^It feels like Sharon is in town again! Whenever I have Sharon around, there's weeks of blurred memories. This is very similar in that respect. Very toxified by this smoke, I always feel baked, even hours after I smoke. (I'm usually that way anyhow - more so right now).

I've got a Sharon a few weeks from harvest right now. It's going to be a crazy 2005!!!

 

[Guest]

It's always nice to have a big sack of The World's Best Pot at the holidays.

:brainfart:


That's just My Opinion.

We cut two very nice ECSD's tonight,that'll be good for NYE.



Nice work,as usual,CC
:friends: Cheers! :friends:

 

[Crazy Composer]

So, as for the ecsd smoke. What do you say... It's like smoking hash. The resin is so thick on the buds that the flamability is almost the same as hash. The smoke is very heavy and smooth (an ecsd trademark trait). The stone creeps up for about 15-20 minutes. Before you know it you're in a different universe and everything's chill. The fact that you can sit around and smoke it all day (because of the great taste and superb smoking experience) can get a little taxing on the ole gray matter!

 

[Crazy Composer]

Excellent
That'll be good fun.

It's always nice to have a big sack of The World's Best Pot at the holidays.

:brainfart:


That's just My Opinion.

We cut two very nice ECSD's tonight,that'll be good for NYE.



Nice work,as usual,CC
:friends: Cheers! :friends:

 

[Guest]

Yeah,it can wear ya out,sort of,IF you have enough of it....and w no ceiling for tolerance that I've found,it can REALLY f*ck you UP :bigassSmile:

 

[fiendish]

Drying up, getting ready for the rest of the process

People often ask me how I get my buds to dry up so lime-green, and look more like they did while alive than most buds they see. It's all for the same reason that our herb burns and tastes nice... The process...

I like to cut buds off the plant to dry them. This allows a 3-4 day dry. The 3-4 day drying time will help keep the herbs looking, smelling burning, and tasting better than a long dry. Long-dried herbs (week+) are usually a darker green, and don't taste as nice - especially if the herb is dried on the stem. I remove the buds from the stem because the stem contains moisture (which slows the dry too much) and plant resources (nutrients and starches which reduce the taste and burn quality). Most plants will move starches and nutrients down to the roots during the dark period (night). That's why I like to harvest first thing in the morning, before the lights come on - before the plant's internal resources move back into the stems and the buds. Killing plants while asleep is much more humane and respectful anyhow.

The English use an extreme version of this harvest method for rhubarb. They call it "forcing". Rhubarb is put into complete darkness where it lives out its entire life. The lack of light almost entirely eliminates the presence of chlorophyll (the green stuff in plants that burns like shit). Leaving a plant in the dark for 12-24 hours will effectively move the chlorophyll and starch levels (in the buds) way down. Some people like to go 48 hours or more! It's all for the same purpose - tasty, great-burning buds.

Another trick for producing the greatest herb is: harvest only dry plants. A plant that has been allowed to dry out completely, will have no moisture with witch to move plant resources to the buds, AND the distress caused by the dry conditions will spark the cannabis plant's #1 stress response - RESIN PRODUCTION!

So, a plant that is allowed to dry out completely (leaves begin to droop) that is put into at least 12 hours of darkness, harvested before the lights go on, cut from the branches and allowed to dry in warm garden-like conditions for 3-4 days, will yield a superfine product As long as the soil is nearly devoid of nutrient at harvest time.

After the 3-4 days, I will check to make sure they are dry enough to go into a curing box. Dry enough means that there is still a barely noticeable amount of moisture in the very centers of the stems - we don't want it too dry before going to the box. The curing box is NOT A SEALED CONTAINER. It's made of wood and can breath through the walls. This is what we want now - we want to slow the drying process to a crawl for a couple days. The slow drying in the box will cause the remaining moisture in the stems to move outward into the rest of the herb - which is good since the outsides of the nugs are already completely dry before going into the box, and need some moisure replenishment.

After a few days of letting the remaining moisture do it's magic in the box, and ONLY after the moisture is equally distributed throughout the buds in the box, it's time for a long-term, sealed cure, or to place in storage containers for use. A long cure is preferred, but let's face it, most herb will never get a chance at a perfect cure before it's smoked.

This method makes for tasty, smokeable herb in about a week. Herb that will cure up into magical little nuggets of supreme happiness

thats some good tip's there!!! thanks for sharing them!!!

beautiful plant & bud..

 

[Crazy Composer]

I've been rolling some monster ecsd joints recently MONSTER! Big, fat baseball bats with a filter-end. Burns like a candle Beautiful. Now I want to smoke one...!!!

 

[zeppelindood]

drying now for the holidays

drying now for the holidays

 

[Crazy Composer]

DSD is kick ass smoke bro!

I just wanted to say HAPPY YULETIDE!

Today is the winter solstice, like Christmas for us Pagans

I will smoke a bunch of sour diesel jernts today to celebrate!

 

[friendlyfriend]

Smoking some cough as i celebrate with you my brotha! Happy Yuletide :wink:

 

[Harry Gypsna]

Got me drooling

 

[friendlyfriend]

New Years Bump for a drying method I'm currently trying out...

 

[Guest]

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