I find limp trimming to be the worst, rather have loss of smell early on an ease of trimming; the smell eventually will return, the time wasted trying to neatly trim limp fan and sugar leaves cannot be regained.
I didn't quite get that either. If the leaves are limp, the plant isn't dry. Although, on my first plant, everything was pretty dry and brittle but I did notice a FEW fan leaves that were limp.
My leaves were crisp at 5-6 days, by 7 I could feel a lot less moisture in the buds when squeezing them. This particular harvest is all small buds, had I decided not to top the girls and get big buds I would leave them to hang for longer. I believe the science behind this method is that while the plant dries the cells begin to transfer sugars and other things into the stem. If you were to trim everything wet and cut the buds off this would lock in all of the sugars and chlorophyll.
This is a great post!
I just followed this method myself and after 7 days trimmed and jarred. Literally 5 minutes after jarring I have nothing but piney citrus smell and its amazing, I can already tell this is going to be really great. The ONLY downside to this is trimming becomes a bit more difficult, you get a little more sticky in the process
My last harvest I had chopped the girls, trimmed all buds, cut branches/buds off into smaller portions and hung them all to dry. After about 3-5 days I migrated the buds to jars for curing. The result was terribly green smelling bud that only gradually got better with curing. It was no where near what it could have been had I just hung the whole plant without removing any foliage.
A+ METHOD. THANK YOU!
EDIT: My temps for the recent whole plant dry were 60-70, RH at 45-55% for 7 days.
I have an update on my experience. Since jarring overnight I'm sad to say that the dreaded green smell has arrived. I'm thinking maybe I jarred too quickly. Thankfully this is only one plant and since they all seem to be finishing at different times I'll have the opportunity to try again and again and again
My understanding is ....it USES the sugars and they transpirate into energy to keep it alive while off the bush.{IF CERTAIN TOLERANCES ARE MAINTAINED!!!!}
For the green smell I'm leaving my buds out for maybe an hour every 12 hours, ensuring they're crispy before I re-jar. I'm slowly noticing a nice smell return. More to follow.
Nice tip. I like it.
Yup, this is exactly what happened to me. I think a longer dry with a humidifier will help. That's what I'm doing now, in addition to finishing the plant with 48 hours of darkness to hopefully consume some of the excess sugar.I have an update on my experience. Since jarring overnight I'm sad to say that the dreaded green smell has arrived. I'm thinking maybe I jarred too quickly. Thankfully this is only one plant and since they all seem to be finishing at different times I'll have the opportunity to try again and again and again
