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SmichiganOG

SmichiganOG

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Minnegrowta said:
I'm doing this for the moment while I sort my options. Not gonna lie, I'm 50% to throwing it all outside. I feel really unwell. I'm not mentally handling the idea of feeling this way for weeks
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I'd hang them under a roof somewhere and sort things out.
 
DarkWeb

DarkWeb

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I've only done it once and definitely not an expert on this but how about a bud wash?
A few years ago I had a few plants outside and a really wet end of summer. It's when I learned about regalia from @manfredo @curious2garden I tried to stop it and ended up chopping. I threw a lot away but some where totally fine. So to be safe....safer? I did a h2o2 wash.....they came out really clean and so much other stuff came out. Hope someone else knows more about it.
 
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mandocat

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Minnegrowta said:
My mother was a florist for 23 years and I never had an issue in her flower shop, this is something else.

"So most guides on cure will tell you to go slow with the humidity reduction, but recent research has shown that a quick crash in humidity to like 40% rh and then a slow cure is best to reduce the chance of increased mold and yeast counts" - text message from Denver lab guy. This person is my husband's childhood best friend, he's been working in the cannabis industry since it was legalized there, so I guess I figured I should use his advice.
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Makes sense! I have thought about doing that for that very reason for drying outdoor.
 
natureboygrower

natureboygrower

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DarkWeb said:
I've only done it once and definitely not an expert on this but how about a bud wash?
A few years ago I had a few plants outside and a really wet end of summer. It's when I learned about regalia from @manfredo @curious2garden I tried to stop it and ended up chopping. I threw a lot away but some where totally fine. So to be safe....safer? I did a h2o2 wash.....they came out really clean and so much other stuff came out. Hope someone else knows more about it.
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I'd guess it's too late for a bud wash, that should be done immediately after harvest.

Sounds like an allergic reaction to the plants drying. I have a family member who it bothered and i believe I've read a few member's post about the same thing while trimming/drying.
Maybe some benadryl would work.

I've dried bud in an unheated barn during very wet conditions, but it was seeded bud, not chunky buds like in this situation. If it all goes outside I would definitely get a couple oscillating fans on them if conditions aren't great.
 
Minnegrowta

Minnegrowta

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So I've just been wearing a double respirator about the house, and sealed the air vent in the room. I'm okay if I'm away from it, but it looks like it takes half a day for symptoms to ebb. I've been at the jeweler since 930 and the last thing to go away was the sore throat, it is almost vanished now. We'll see if all the ick comes back when I get home.

Eta: I had too many people squirm uncomfortably at the idea of giving up and throwing out everything. Too many other people are invested in my success, I guess. I cannot abort the baby but if push comes to shove I have a lot of prospective families ready to adoptSnapchat-403305990.jpg
 
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curious2garden

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DarkWeb said:
I've only done it once and definitely not an expert on this but how about a bud wash?
A few years ago I had a few plants outside and a really wet end of summer. It's when I learned about regalia from @manfredo @curious2garden I tried to stop it and ended up chopping. I threw a lot away but some where totally fine. So to be safe....safer? I did a h2o2 wash.....they came out really clean and so much other stuff came out. Hope someone else knows more about it.
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I wouldn't risk smoking anything with PM or budrot. Autoclaving can't kill spores and you won't know if you were inoculated until your immune system gets older.
Minnegrowta said:
So I've just been wearing a double respirator about the house, and sealed the air vent in the room. I'm okay if I'm away from it, but it looks like it takes half a day for symptoms to ebb. I've been at the jeweler since 930 and the last thing to go away was the sore throat, it is almost vanished now. We'll see if all the ick comes back when I get home.

Eta: I had too many people squirm uncomfortably at the idea of giving up and throwing out everything. Too many other people are invested in my success, I guess. I cannot abort the baby but if push comes to shove I have a lot of prospective families ready to adoptView attachment 5334441
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Put your harvest in a tent with a charcoal filter attached to a blower pulling through your tent, use the room as your lung room, negative pressure in the tent and pull into the tent so the voc's stay in the tent or your charcoal filter. The lung room you keep to the right humidity and temp and you just pull fresh air in and exhaust scrubbed air into the lung room and repeat.
 
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TCH

TCH

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curious2garden said:
Put your harvest in a tent with a charcoal filter attached to a blower pulling through your tent, use the room as your lung room, negative pressure in the tent and pull into the tent so the voc's stay in the tent or your charcoal filter. The lung room you keep to the right humidity and temp and you just pull fresh air in and exhaust scrubbed air into the lung room and repeat.
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This is how I did my first couple batches. Works great.
 
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mandocat

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Minnegrowta said:
Well you know when you're this unwell is hard to smell subtleties. Chemical smell is gone, I walk in the room and it's more of that familiar more mild skunkiness with a hint of that fresh cut lettuce/grass/picked plant smell that's hard to describe.
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Sorry, I forgot you were ill! And the aroma will probably change some.
 
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