Washing your buds at harvest.

Illuminati85

Illuminati85

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Today at dusk i'm calling it a season. I'm working on some type of box right now to hang them in. I have a shoebox set up right now but it's not near big enough to hold all the buds. I have two limbs hanging in it right now that I cut off Friday. probably close to a quarter pound with these two ladies I have. I harvested an autoflower in August only got about 7 grams off it. And then I harvested another plant in September and it only produced about 8-10 grams. Still racking my brain on what to hang them in but i'll figure it out.
 
Heil Tweetler

Heil Tweetler

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MasterpieceNutes said:
I think it's stupid af. But seen the vids too.
Biggest rationale: wash off powdery mildew. (Cervantes did it.) My criticism is : throw if fucking out man and improve ventilation.

Other reasons: washing off chems. A lot of knuckle heads using tons of foliars and stuff.. I bet the stuff crackles without a wash.

Saw some people soaking and drying.. Even saw one guy take his hose to each bud.. I am gonna assume they are washing of pesticides or such. Lot of outdoor stuff.
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Bud washing threads always seem to draw a clot of gas bags talking out their asses.

#1 rule of useful post if you have zero experience shut the fuck up. Why would someone give a fuck about your clueless musings?
 
newgrow16

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Ash and dust from firestorm on both sides of the canyon have been falling on flowers for three weeks. Did a little rain making with RO water to rinse leaves and flowers. Under microscope i am able to see damaged trichromes, trichromes with black spots and some black spots on leaf matter, and a whole bunch of milky trichromes that are worth saving.

How to wash flowers after harvest? Carbonated water? RO Water twice? RO water and lemon? I plan to trim branches so that a swirl in water would be easy to do.
 
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paraordnance

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newgrow16 said:
Ash and dust from firestorm on both sides of the canyon have been falling on flowers for three weeks. Did a little rain making with RO water to rinse leaves and flowers. Under microscope i am able to see damaged trichromes, trichromes with black spots and some black spots on leaf matter, and a whole bunch of milky trichromes that are worth saving.

How to wash flowers after harvest? Carbonated water? RO Water twice? RO water and lemon? I plan to trim branches so that a swirl in water would be easy to do.
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1 cup of baking soda and 1 cup of lemon juice Real brand per 5 gal of RO. Make your first rinse 30 seconds in bs&lj by swirling your branches around in bucket fully submerged. Rinse in same fashion in second bucket filled with RO. You can also use 3rd bucket for final rinse. You will not notice any trichomes loss but the buckets do get sticky.
 
too larry

too larry

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Last season I had three plants in my FP patch that were bud worm whores. I sprayed Neem way past the 3rd week or flower, so I washed my buds in warm water, then rinsed in cool water to help with the Neem taste. This year I have had tons of bud rot, so I added a capful of H2O2 per gallon to my wash water. Used 2 buckets of rinse water this time. @BobBitchen, good idea about the salad spinner. I was tying up a handful of buds in a bugnet and slinging it around on a cord.
 
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Melli

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paraordnance said:
I just washed my buds, you guys crazy to tell it doesn't work without trying it first. You should see the water after washing couple plants. And I grow organic no till. Never spray anything. The point is, your smoke will be so smooth after you wash your buds with lemon juice and baking soda when harvesting, you will simply never smoke unwashed buds. Try wash half of your harvest and don't another half and try it side-by-side. Simple!
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I washed the tops I took off 10 days ago in 3-5gallon buckets the first with 3/4 cup of baking soda and lemon juice and the bud are dry now and theyve got sparkly tricombs when I use my flash on my camera. If it affected it I can’t tell as I stole a bud and smoked it and it was extremely smooth not harsh at all! And it’s a creeper cuz I got stoned while smoking it but about 15 mins later I was in heaven haha.ill be washing the rest of it when I cut them down for sure. I had catapillars problems and it helps get all the dead buds out and the catapillars poo
 
BobCajun

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Melli said:
I washed the tops I took off 10 days ago in 3-5gallon buckets the first with 3/4 cup of baking soda and lemon juice and the bud are dry now and theyve got sparkly tricombs when I use my flash on my camera. If it affected it I can’t tell as I stole a bud and smoked it and it was extremely smooth not harsh at all! And it’s a creeper cuz I got stoned while smoking it but about 15 mins later I was in heaven haha.ill be washing the rest of it when I cut them down for sure. I had catapillars problems and it helps get all the dead buds out and the catapillars poo
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Did you also wash it with plain water after the lemon juice and baking soda? I've used club soda before, slightly acidic from the CO2. Didn't seem to be much different than just deionized water but was fizzy. Never tried baking soda. Maybe a very weak solution of it would be good. The baking soda should help prevent mold if you slow dry it after that. People whose weed tends to mold as it dries could probably avoid it with baking soda washing. Sometimes powdery mildew will grow on hanging weed and you can't see it but when it's dry and you flick a bud with your finger a cloud of mildew spores will go up. Must be kind of hard to wash a whole plant though. I guess you could spray it while hanging it over a tub or something.
 
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Wizzlebiz

Wizzlebiz

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GreenBean 420 said:
Have seen a couple people online doing it in videos. I'm assuming you loose some trichomes. Anyone have info on it. Does the theory hold any water (pun intended). Or is it just a laughable matter haha?
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Here ya go.

H2O2 wash/Fresh water wash

Did a wash today with H202 warm water followed by a fresh cold water wash. Here were the results. As we can see the H202 took care of the bulk of the crap from the ash and such. The fresh water rinsed the 1st wash off and offered additional cleaning. But look how clear that second bucket...
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I shake it out after the wash to rid it of all large droplets of water.

Then I screen dry it back to where it was before the washing and hang it to dry.

Dries well. Never had a mold problem and the results speak for themselves.
 
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Melli

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BobCajun said:
Did you also wash it with plain water after the lemon juice and baking soda? I've used club soda before, slightly acidic from the CO2. Didn't seem to be much different than just deionized water but was fizzy. Never tried baking soda. Maybe a very weak solution of it would be good. The baking soda should help prevent mold if you slow dry it after that. People whose weed tends to mold as it dries could probably avoid it with baking soda washing. Sometimes powdery mildew will grow on hanging weed and you can't see it but when it's dry and you flick a bud with your finger a cloud of mildew spores will go up. Must be kind of hard to wash a whole plant though. I guess you could spray it while hanging it over a tub or something.
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Yes I had two more 5 gallon buckets of clean water to rinse them. I haven’t smelled or seen any mold at all and even tho it’s not cured it is really smooth not harsh at all
 
tkufoS

tkufoS

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BobCajun said:
Did you also wash it with plain water after the lemon juice and baking soda? I've used club soda before, slightly acidic from the CO2. Didn't seem to be much different than just deionized water but was fizzy. Never tried baking soda. Maybe a very weak solution of it would be good. The baking soda should help prevent mold if you slow dry it after that. People whose weed tends to mold as it dries could probably avoid it with baking soda washing. Sometimes powdery mildew will grow on hanging weed and you can't see it but when it's dry and you flick a bud with your finger a cloud of mildew spores will go up. Must be kind of hard to wash a whole plant though. I guess you could spray it while hanging it over a tub or something.
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This is the guy who cures fresh plants in 2 days ? With the shiznit tech no one on earth has heard of ?
 
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