How To Dry?

Smokeblunts&makepants

Most of my indoor plants are about 3 to 4 weeks old and i was wondering when i should start to harvest them, how big should i let them get? And which way is the best to dry them? A friend of mine said hanging them upside down will make them more potent, and another friend of mine said that drying them in a bag was better. So if anyone could help me out that would be awesome.

thx

videoman

You didnt mention what type of lighting you are using, but you shouldnt flower til your plants are sexually mature.

There are 2 features that distinguish mature veggie plants from immature ones. They are alternating nodal arrangement and leaves with 5 or more blades. You can flower before those features are present, but the plants perform a whole lot better if you wait. Most strains except for equ. sats have these by 12" or so. Personally, mine have always had these features before they reach 30 days old.

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green_nobody

first of all - if you flower them since only 3 to 4 weeks you still miles away from the point of harvest! 7 to 8 weeks is the minimum of the fastest strains i know.

Now to drying, before you dry you trim them down a bit by cutting all fan leaves and leaf tips you see - don't through them away, dry them too for hash!

now, you can either hang them up side down or cut em up totally and spread them on net trays or hanger as i use them,
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now have a oscillating fan in a corner to keep the air moving in the room - the closer you put this fan to the buds the faster they dry and the harsher the smoke will be!

but ventilation is also key or the mold will love to rape your crop!!!

now if the twigs snap they dry enough for curing them in an airtight jar - always use glass if possible, i strongly believe that plastic and metal will leave a taste on bud as with beer. for that look the threads about curing and storing of buds up.

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Mogie

Curing and drying.

For personal stash, I got rid of the tupperware and paper bag stage a while ago. This method for glass canning jars gives the strongest aroma and best texture for smoking. Here's the procedure, it couldn't get much simpler..

1) Cut, manicure, hang your plants in a cool, dark place until totally crispy and smokable in a joint-- usually 5 to 8 days. Optimum conditions are 68-74 degrees F and between 50% and 60% RH.

2) Place gently into wide-mouth glass canning jars. Close the lid until buds sweat, usually 2 or 3 hours the first time. Open jars and let buds dry to crispy again. I only bother keeping large buds for personal stash but if you do this with shakier stuff, you have to get some air in there and turn the buds over. Larger colas usually have enough flow around them so you don't have to mess with them unless they are really touching each other inside the jar. I don't worry about "ooo damaging the ever so fragile buds" by turning them in the jar. Who cares if you lose 2% of the trichomes to the bottom of the jar, big deal... be gentle but if you have to move them around, so what.. just collect your skuff on the bottom of the jar and enjoy.

3) Repeat the sweating process-- open the jar until crisp, close until sweated. After about a week of this (depending on location), you get to that perfect point of curing where there is enough moisture to keep it smelling strong but as soon as you take it out of the jar to smoke, it crisps up and can be rolled.