Hi all, I would like to know why you should hang your finished plant upside down to dry.

Could you not get to the end of your flowering cycyle and just leave the plant the right way up in it's soil untill it's dry? Say you timed your waterings so that when your at end of flower the soil is almost dry then just leave the plant in dry soil till the plants dried out properly.

I hope that made some sense and look forward to as to why upside down.

Makes it easier to hang

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Cause it will fall the other way, unless you tie it. That is called tyeing it up.

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Hi thanks for your time and help

Is there actually any benefit to hanging upside down apart from maybe making space in the flower area?

Does hanging upside down help the drying plant or change some properties within the plant?

Say I took two clones from the same plant, vegged them for however long then put them through flower to the end. I chop one, tie and hang upside down to dry, the other, I let the soil go dry and leave the whole plant intact in dry soil, roots, stem etc, would one plant be any better or worse than the other due to the chosen drying method?

I never researched that but I assumed it would keep the internal resins from draining back into the stems. It makes for a straight bud too. Like others suggested it's easier to hang that way too.

i heard all the "juices" go into the bud tht way. it makes sense i mean when u cut it down the stem still has nutes and thc and all tht good stuff in it, so y not let tht little extra bit go into the buds.

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nothing happens to the bud its just eaiser to deal with. read the indoor bible

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lol, the juices get you blazed.

The advantage is the water in the stem helps it to dry slower. With giant colas we hang them rightside up with unbent paper clips as the hook to hang them by. The big buds can rot from the inside when you dry real slow. The small regular size buds go upside down. The big buds dry faster and open up allowing air to circulate and not rot. The big and little dry in the same amount of time this way. It helps when you have 200 outside plants to dry and want them out of the way for the next load to be brought in. First load gets trimmed and finished in paper bags as 2nd gets brought in and dried, then ready for trimming, etc., etc.

Resin DOES NOT TRAVEL BACK DOWN OUT OF BUDS!!!!