An American Dream - White Picket Fences and Marijuana in the So Cal Sun

Back after nearly a week in the hills with eyes

• Wizard
• Red Headed Step Sister-orig
• Mazar
• MVFT
• Blue Dream behind the door
• Fire
• New York City Sour Diesel
• Dark Goblin 5
• Dark Goblin 3
• Khalisi
• Bubba Baby 1
• BB 2

 

• Strawberry 1
• Strawberry 2
• Ravinus 1
• Ravinus 2
• Ashratu in the ring
• Haze
• RHSS - pink
• Minion City Diesel 1
• MCD 2
• MCD 3
• Chernobyl
• Blue Berry

 

• Phantom
• Jack
• Neon
• Darth Vader
• Blue Berry
• Dark Goblin 20
• Purple Kush
• BB
• BB
• BB
• BB
• BB

 

• Ravinus 1
• Ravinus 2
• Overflow plants
• Tray 1
• Tray 2
• Seedlings just popped.. 4 skunk and 4 Girl Scout Cookies
• Somethings eating.. Sprayed BT when i got back.. I dunked all the small fry in Neem oil last night and sprayed Cure this AM

 

Rhyme..
Yes I get mine at the local hydro shop.. It's one of the things I don't mind paying a bit extra for as he has a shit load of nice graduated sizes as you could ask for..

 

• Fixings
• 5 grams
• Decarb 40 min @ 220 degs
• 1 tablespoon coconut oil
• 1/2 tea spoon soy lecithin
• Size 0 caps
• 1 down
• Last one
• Ravinus down for harvesting
• Bubba 1
• Bubba 2
• Ravinus 1
• Ravinus 2

 

Did up another double batch today..

 

Glad to help out them fungal gnats are a pain.. The hash caps will reset your clock for sure.. I was never a big fan of consumables but these have changed my game in a huge way..

 

In case you missed the cover of OC weekly..

 

Dry-Cure
I need this up and more current to find..
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Lots of good information on this thread.. I'd worked most of this out the hard way by the time I found it..
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By the time I found this thread I'd worked a lot of this out on my own but this is still my send them to thread for new growers for drycure help.. While it's is a good method and gets the job done it has some drawbacks.. When you start working with larger amounts says 2 or 3 outdoor plants all them jars gets real clumsy..

My grow is So Calif and between the temps and the very low humidity it's very easy to over dry.. Even a single day to long on the line can ruin it all..
To keep the wife happy all my work is restricted to the garage so I get to be inventive at times.. If you search long enough you'll come across the 777 of curing .. This being the 7 days @ 70 degrees @ 70% humidity.. Works well if you have a temp and humidity controlled room.. We don't so we use jars to achieve the same ends..

While I started in jars this soon proved impractical trying to unscrew all the jars over and over.. Some trial and error later I worked out a method to limit exposure to our stone dry air and still get things done in a timely way..

I take the plant a branch at a time and trim close while seconds off the living plant.. All the leafs are standing tall and you don't get a better shot at trimming.. Hang..



Depending on temp and humidity this stage can take from 24 hours to a week.. just hung bud is dead limp to the touch after 12 hours or so.... When the buds start to stiffen when slightly compressed I remove from the branches..


And the buds get placed in cut down paper shopping bags about 3 inches tall..


Next I place the bags in a air snug-tight container.. Mostly I use either an Ice Chest or a New unused Trash Can.. I try and size the container to the load.. You don't want 1 bag of buds in a trash can..
While I did use several hygrometers early on for this stage I've since found I can do it all just by feel now.. Leave bags in can till limp to the touch again.. This first day that won't take very long. a couple of hours... Once limp remove from container and set bags out till stiff when compressed slightly.. I'll flip the contents of the bags to a third bag to get the lowest buds up on top.. I'll continue this rotation of the bags into and out of the container gradually spending less and less time exposed.. the last few days the bags will only be out an hour or so.. This takes me about 7 days..
This is where I do use the Hygrometers.. The can is now acting like a large jar.. Your best readings come in the morning after the can has had 12 hours or more to stabilize and will tell you how much exposure your product will need that day.. Combined with a hygrometer telling me what is outside helps..


A full can requiring a single meter as well as being able to get the product in and out rapidly made this a much more practical way at least in the extremely dry SW USA..

Once the can has reached 65% and 7 to 10 days have elapsed It gets jarred in Half Gallon mason jars with a 62% Boveda 60 gram and I'm done.. 60 days minimum cure time for me.. Longer is better but you'll have a very respectable smoke in 2 months..




Caution this may get you a large container of mold in a less dry area.. Just what I've worked out in my smoking hot and extremely dry garage..
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I shamelessly copy my own work here... Ask on this Subject all you want as it's my pet peeve
That whole first week or two is a squeeze the Charmin kind of thing..
Edit:: If anything I've slowed this even more in the early stages.. Getting it off the line and in the bags soon enough insures the small stuff doesn't over dry bringing harshness to the overall plant..
You really have to control the speed at which it dries

 

Up at the crack of dawn to spray BT on all the plants.. Super size them fan leafs..