SQl2kGuy
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I put my post on Sticks thread and thought I was on my thread ... Anyway this is half of what we got 17.3 oz. Wet trimmed I know it will not be near that once dried but we got more than I thought we would. That's our biggest bud too. Not sure what the dry weight will be but if my half is over an oz. I will consider myself lucky
Nice wet trim ... and looking at those cuttings ... 2 oz at 62% is reasonable.
If you are going to wash the buds before hanging ...
Wash Option1 - Used in commercial kitchens, if mold is present and common for outdoor grows.
Sterilize buds very gently for 5 seconds to 30 seconds in 10:1 3% H2O2 and 20 litres (5 gallons) water at 25°C (78°F) .
Rinse once very gently for 5 seconds in 20 litres (5 gallons) water at 15°C (60°F) .
Rinse once very gently for 5 seconds in 20 litres (5 gallons) water at 20°C (68°F) .
Spin the branch gently between your palms to throw off any excess water drops.
With my indoor grow ... the plants were not very dirty.
Wash Option 2 - using lemon juice and baking soda may have been debunked.
Here's a snippet from the article I read on using lemon juice and baking soda:
I'd simply just use a mild hydrogen peroxide water mix. It's just as natural and actually does what you want, it is extremely effective at killing microbes, and naturally foams when it reacts with such helping to clear debris...this happens on a chemical level basically meaning every spot it touches is near instantly sanitized and microscopic debris lifts up with the bubbles. If this reaction is strong enough you see lots of bubbles, hence why your cuts foam.
The lemon juice as an antiseptic is not accurate. If anything the sulfur dioxide (sulfite) in the plastic bottle lemon juice you're using is doing the sanitation. It's the same stuff erupted from volcanoes, burned off of petroleum, and is known as a mild nerve agent which blocks signals to the pulmonary system. I don't make this up look for yourself. If you're going for natural you need to stop using that. They are preservatives and fungicides, also likely why you don't mold when you do this, and why they dry faster. The sulfites cause faster drying. You will not wash it all off it's as simple as that. Actual lemon juice has an extremely mild effect on preventing further growth of bacteria due to its acidic nature but will not kill anything directly unless extreme pH fluctuations (fluctuation being key) cause death but you would need much more concentrated solutions with 5 gallons of water. That being said you're neutralizing the acid with the alkaline baking soda (sodium bicarbonate). Thus you are not sanitizing anything and the only effect you have left is the supposed "foaming" action. But the 1 cup of baking soda to 5 gallons of water doesn't come close to saturating the water. This means you have a full dilution and no granules to "blast" the dirt off. Unless you shake it like a mad man you will not create enough friction between the suspended particles and the water which means it won't bubble or foam enough to do anything widespread across all surface areas. Most of those bubbles are localized air bubbles you've introduced by bobbing the bud up and down. This is not an effective way to get dust and microbes off--maybe for large debris like bugs and dirt chunks. You'd really have to shake it and it won't work well, especially not that gentle caress you're giving it!
With that said, if you think it does all that then I won't stop ya! Right on brother!
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