Washed buds for the first time last night

[Calvados]

Here you go. It’s well worth scanning and reading what interests you from the whole thread.

Bud Washing thread

From the horses mouth DocBud #12 response on the thread.

For those who are new to this, here's my method:

4 buckets total. (5 gallon buckets are perfect)

Bucket 1: 3 parts RO water to 1 part 3% H202.
Bucket 2: 5 gallons of RO with 1 cup baking soda, 1 cup Lemon Juice
Buckets 3 and 4: RO only.

Cut down plants, pull off fan leaves by hand, remove any necrotic leaves. Leave sugar leaves and anything with frosting on the plant.

Fully submerge in bucket 1 (H2O2) for 30 seconds. Submerge for a full minute if you had ANY sign of PM or bud rot. Let water drip from buds and then.....

Fully submerge in buckets 2 through 4 for 30 seconds each...lightly agitating the whole time.

Allow produce to drip dry. You can blow a fan on it if you like, just make sure it's blowing clean air.

Hang and dry per usual.

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I do this, but omit the H2O2 unless I have a specific reason like suspected mold. I use ordinary tap water (not RO). I don’t do hot and cold buckets. From memory neither does DocBud anymore. It’s all somewhere in this thread.

 

[HydroponicFireman]

Got the baking soda and lemon juice and also plenty of 5 gal buckets. Wrote it down, I'll be doing this for sure after I harvest soon since its all going to go to hash anyway...I'll just wash and skip drying, straight to the bubble bags.

 

[SeniorMoments]

I had to come back to this thread after harvest and completing the washing , drying and curing Phase.
. The amount of crud removed was eye opening. The visual appearance before and after was drastic.
I did not wash a small amount of bud and dried and cured separate from the washed. .
My wife , buddies and I all agree there is a noticeable difference in taste and appearance.
I appreciate the great advise.

 

[RedZedHead]

So most folks here sound like they're not flushing and feeding till chop, then washing the buds?
I like @AdaminCO 's method. gonna check out the thread.