Who leaves or cuts of fans leaves before hanging and drying?

kingzt · Apr 14, 2019

Just curious to what people's preferences are when it comes to removing fan leaves before hanging a drying. I usually do a thorough removal of them but this time I left them on to see if I can get a more slow dry. If anyone wants to discuss the pros and cons to their research please post here.

kratos015 · Apr 14, 2019

People's preferences are usually dictated by their environment's and whether or not they have a dedicated space to dry and cure.

You want things to be around 70-75 degrees with the humidity around 40%. Not everyone has a room that has these temps and RH though, so they use the leaves to compensate.

I personally do not have a drying room anymore, and humidity where I live is pretty much never over 15%. This is why I leave the fan leaves on, it slows the drying process a tad because it's extra moisture in the plant that needs to be removed. If I removed all the leaves my plants would dry in like 2 days, WAY too quick. By simply leaving some leaves on, I extend the drying time to 5-6 days. Perfect.

Conversely, if I lived somewhere like Florida with excessive humidity I would be removing every single leaf on the plant. A fan for airflow also becomes much more important the higher your environment's humidity is.

This is why you see some people doing different things. Some people remove nothing at all, others only remove fan leaves, others do a full blown trim job before hanging.

It really just depends on your ambient RH and temps and doing what it takes to ensure drying takes ~7 days without causing any problems.

kingzt · Apr 14, 2019

kratos015 said:
People's preferences are usually dictated by their environment's and whether or not they have a dedicated space to dry and cure.

You want things to be around 70-75 degrees with the humidity around 40%. Not everyone has a room that has these temps and RH though, so they use the leaves to compensate.

I personally do not have a drying room anymore, and humidity where I live is pretty much never over 15%. This is why I leave the fan leaves on, it slows the drying process a tad because it's extra moisture in the plant that needs to be removed. If I removed all the leaves my plants would dry in like 2 days, WAY too quick. By simply leaving some leaves on, I extend the drying time to 5-6 days. Perfect.

Conversely, if I lived somewhere like Florida with excessive humidity I would be removing every single leaf on the plant. A fan for airflow also becomes much more important the higher your environment's humidity is.

This is why you see some people doing different things. Some people remove nothing at all, others only remove fan leaves, others do a full blown trim job before hanging.

It really just depends on your ambient RH and temps and doing what it takes to ensure drying takes ~7 days without causing any problems.

Thanks for the insight, you broke it down perfectly. I do have a dedicated drying room and keep it at 64-68F and 50% rh. I should of elaborated more in my original post but I'm curious if anyone notice any difference with like the flavor or aesthetics of the buds when it comes to leaving the leaves on or off. I've read before that people believe that keeping the leaves on makes the buds have more chlorophyll taste.

kratos015 · Apr 14, 2019

kingzt said:
Thanks for the insight, you broke it down perfectly. I do have a dedicated drying room and keep it at 64-68F and 50% rh. I should of elaborated more in my original post but I'm curious if anyone notice any difference with like the flavor or aesthetics of the buds when it comes to leaving the leaves on or off. I've read before that people believe that keeping the leaves on makes the buds have more chlorophyll taste.

Nah, leaving the leaves on the buds won't give more of a chlorophyll taste. The dry was done too quickly, or the plant was harvested too early. Those are almost always the reasons for the hay taste, dried too quick, harvested early, not dried in a dark room, or put into jars with too much moisture still.

Even if you were to remove every single last leaf from the plant (including sugar leaves) there would still be chlorophyll in the buds. Chlorophyll is in the entire plant, not just to leaves.

This is why you have to dry in a dark room, and this is why I personally harvest at lights off. Even after you chop the plant, it's still "alive" for a couple of days. So even after chopping the plants down, they will still be trying to survive. That means that, should you let the plants come into contact with light, the plant will still attempt to use this light and the chlorophyll to make food for itself in an attempt to survive.

Chlorophyll reacts with light. This is why it's important to harvest at lights off and to ensure you expose the buds to as minimal light as possible when getting them into your drying room.

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