Duggan Does Purple Envy, Star Pupil & Black Cherry Punch With Doc's Gear!

[dr.h00k]

the Zon is pretty cheap for packs of 10...cheerz...h00k......maybe in a smoke shop in TO tho'...

 

[Derbybud]

With big product handling I use turkey roasting bags to cure it. Works great and much easier. I don't put them in jars until it's all cured and sitting at 60-62% in the bags.

 

[Killerbudz]

I'm with derby, turkey bags are a blessing.

 

[Amy Gardner]

any larger leaves that aren't sugar coated, let them dry and smoke them as is. No need for fine trimming...

just throw them in the jar and let them trim themselves.

Both those approaches is where I ended up. I also read about the dry trim thing, can’t remeb where now, so I was determined to do that. It is more difficult as folks have mentioned (to get the scissors in, and skmetimes the resin makes things stuck to the bud!) and it takes more time like Duggs said. But the washed trim is good to have if you’re smoking it or cooking with it.
So my last 2 plants I did what neiko just described. What happening now is that I have a whole lot of washed trim collecting at the bottom of the jar. It’s weird actually, I can more easily pull of those trim leaves now that it’s cured... much more easily that when I was dry trimming.

Pop a couple extra bovedas in there. They'll hold a few grams of moisture, each. That adds up to a lot in a 1-2 ounce jar.

That’s a great tip. Thanks Gray

 

[weenmeoff]

I used to wet trim. I was talking with Doc in Jamaica and he suggested I try dry trimming. I'm not sure if it was him or I read it somewhere else that the plant is still alive when you wet trim and this causes a response in the plant that makes them smell like hay while they dry. I have since just pulled the fans, washed and hung, I don't even dry trim now. I just throw them in the jar and let them trim themselves. I like that best. I was in a customer's house servicing his AC and spotted the tell tale signs of a grower and I had to say something. We got to talking and he out of the blue asked me how I trim because he said his harvests smelled great when he cut the plant but smelled like hay after trimming wet. I told him what I had learned and suggested he try it. He got ahold of me after his next harvest because he was extremely happy with how it turned out letting them dry 1st. You'd of thought I paid his mortgage off he was so happy and couldn't quit thanking me.

This is why I asked over here. Thanks @neikodog! Would you say dry trimming the way you do is easier than wet trimming? Do you wind up smoking the shake left in the jars?

Another thing that came up on that IG thread was the Boveda packs take away a lot of flavor.

Great discussion, thanks everyone!

 

[big bud fan65]

Hey man how are you this evening... ?? Hope all is well and just stopped by to get out and about.. Also to thank you personally for all the help you have been for me and some of my buddies... Hacks speaks VERY high ly of you so I will be subbed here till you start a new one.. With that harvest I can see why he pointed me this way... Good shit man... HAGD

 

[Duggan]

Wow Gray...u hear that....do ya know if that's true...about the Boveda packs?
This whole dry/wet trim thing...great discussion, what it comes down to is one thing....time! If i had more time , i would do a lot more messin with my grow, including harvesting.

 

[Duggan]

Hey man how are you this evening... ?? Hope all is well and just stopped by to get out and about.. Also to thank you personally for all the help you have been for me and some of my buddies... Hacks speaks VERY high ly of you so I will be subbed here till you start a new one.. With that harvest I can see why he pointed me this way... Good shit man... HAGD

Fan65, sit your ass down then,..grab a Stella and a reefer. I am well this day , thanks. Hope your days are filled with lots of smiles and no stress.
So glad i have been of some help ...this neighborhood is just busting with lots of very real and genuine folk with lottsa great info. This journal is winding down these next few days and will soon be putting the four new Sativas in the GR. Hope ya'l will stick around and see . Your words are kind...thank you.

 

[Neiko]

This is why I asked over here. Thanks @neikodog! Would you say dry trimming the way you do is easier than wet trimming? Do you wind up smoking the shake left in the jars?

Another thing that came up on that IG thread was the Boveda packs take away a lot of flavor.

Great discussion, thanks everyone!

When I did dry trim it wasn't bad. I was collecting the sugar leaves to smoke and they pulled right out. I don't do that anymore I just let the jar trim them like i said and yes I smoke the leftover trim. Doc turned us on to that. That's all he smokes is the sugar leaves and sells the buds. They are very sweet, I suggest trying them if ya haven't.

 

[Duggan]

Yes,..sugar leaves...they are great for Bubblehash. Talkin bout that...my freezer is full of DBHBB trim...time to make some BH.

 

[big bud fan65]

On a side note, we are using emptied tea bags with dry or wet rice depending on what you want to do... It seems to be keeping my bud around 60% give or take.. I worked really well when we cured a few buds for me to practice... One tea bag of dried rice, changed once a day for like a week of burping... No extra flavor or nothing...

 

[dajerm119]

Man I gotta say, I’m pretty intrigued about curing the whole plant... is that right? I am going to have to try that after I find some info on it.

 

[Graytail]

Wow Gray...u hear that....do ya know if that's true...about the Boveda packs?
This whole dry/wet trim thing...great discussion, what it comes down to is one thing....time! If i had more time , i would do a lot more messin with my grow, including harvesting.

I never noticed, and I've using'em for 5 years. You'd think I would have noticed.

I think something like a low-n-slow cure would have a bigger effect. That's where I'm going if I want to play with terps. That and refrigerated storage.

 

[Neiko]

Just briefly searched for boveda packs absorbing flavor and the science people say it isn't possible. They are supposed to even retain more terpenes which is a reason the jar doesn't reek when you open it, if your smelling it the Terps are evaporating.

 

[Killerbudz]

There is another brand I've started to use named boost. The boveda packs smelled a little bit off and prompted me to switch.

 

[DrDoob]

I've never had any Boveda packs come out of a jar smelling like anything at all. I would think if they were absorbing smells they themselves would have some smell afterward right?

They have been used to preserve expensive cigars for years and years, I personally think if there was really much truth to them absorbing smells and/or tastes they wouldn't be as popular in the cigar connoisseur circles. On the other hand for us they are just a convenience to help ease stabilizing buds in the jar. I think like most convenience items, it's a bit harder without them but probably a bit better too.

 

[weenmeoff]

Thanks everyone for the input! I think it'd be really funny to bring this discussion over to that thread on IG, it could get ugly, ha!

Ive only done 1 low and slow and the response from the boss was it was amazing! With my upcoming crop, I'm going to do some low and slow, some dry trim as Neiko does it and some the old fashioned way, wet trim. Not gonna get into cobs just yet, maybe when I grow a sativa. Oh and I use the bovedas and the boss loves her produce! That's all that matters.

@Graytail is refrigerated storage just what it sounds like, put your cured weed in the fridge? Any special prep or anything I need to know?

 

[overlord]

Another thing that came up on that IG thread was the Boveda packs take away a lot of flavor.

There is another brand I've started to use named boost. The boveda packs smelled a little bit off and prompted me to switch.

The way I understand it is that Bovedas contain salt which can rob the scent of the weed.

Like KB I have been using the Integra Boost.

 

[Mr. Krip]

 

[MaddHacker]

The way I understand it is that Bovedas contain salt which can rob the scent of the weed.

Like KB I have been using the Integra Boost

.... That is also my understanding on those packs as well.... That is why I use my " teabag " method.... Works really well and doesn't seem to take away or add any unnatural smells or flavors at all... For real though... Green days all