I am using racks to dry my buds so therefore I trim the buds entirely and then toss them unto the racks However I see how some leave the buds on the branches and hang them on lines to dry. Is there an advantage to hanging them with the branches? Isn't it more difficult to trim the buds when fully dried?
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sologro
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the advantage is space... its easier and takes up less room to hang them.. on the racks the buds have to be evenly spaces which depending on your yield would normally require a lot of racks...on racks you also have to flip over the buds daily or one side would dry and the other would stay wet were as hanging them will evenly dry everything... i would trim all the fan leaves and bigger leaves then hang and finish trim when dried...
Toolegit2quit
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I was planning on asking about the trimming after drying too... I tried the hanging it from string in a cardboard box with the newspaper on top to help slow the drying that was recommended by some and it worked great. I also had some in a closet with a humidifier to keep the humidity at 50-55% and a space heater keeping it at 70 degrees and this worked well too. It dried faster in the closet but still retained a nice smell. In fact I think it retained a bit more of the smell it had while on the plant than the stuff I had curing in the boxes.
However I trimmed mine up (but leave it on the branches) before hanging it, I've always trimmed it up before drying, not after. It seems like it would be harder when dry.. Is there an advantage to trimming it after drying? Does it end up more potent, is it actually easier to trim? I've seen several posts with people mentioning they trim after drying... I'm just curious if there is a reason or if it's just personal preference.
The problem I see... You could take down a massive amount just trimming off the fan leaves and hanging it to dry in one night.. Most of it will cure at roughly the same speed and need to be trimmed and jarred at just the right time when it's dry, but not too dry.. So it seems like you'd have to trim nearly all of it in one night and jar it.. If you only do half one night because it's just too much work, 24 hours later might end up in the rest starting to get too dry, another day even worse, etc.
Where if you go in and take off the top half of your plants, trim them up, leave it trimmed but still on branches so you can hang it, you can do smaller batches, I usually take off the top 1/2 of my plants and then let the bottom 1/2 go another week to fill out more... I'm a one man team though.. No helpers. So I try to work it out in stages.
Anyway my $.02..
However I trimmed mine up (but leave it on the branches) before hanging it, I've always trimmed it up before drying, not after. It seems like it would be harder when dry.. Is there an advantage to trimming it after drying? Does it end up more potent, is it actually easier to trim? I've seen several posts with people mentioning they trim after drying... I'm just curious if there is a reason or if it's just personal preference.
The problem I see... You could take down a massive amount just trimming off the fan leaves and hanging it to dry in one night.. Most of it will cure at roughly the same speed and need to be trimmed and jarred at just the right time when it's dry, but not too dry.. So it seems like you'd have to trim nearly all of it in one night and jar it.. If you only do half one night because it's just too much work, 24 hours later might end up in the rest starting to get too dry, another day even worse, etc.
Where if you go in and take off the top half of your plants, trim them up, leave it trimmed but still on branches so you can hang it, you can do smaller batches, I usually take off the top 1/2 of my plants and then let the bottom 1/2 go another week to fill out more... I'm a one man team though.. No helpers. So I try to work it out in stages.
Anyway my $.02..
Umm did u ever use one or just talking out ur ass? because this is ENTIRELY not true. Ive been using a couple for years now and i never had to turn my nugs lol. The racks come perforated meaning it dries them all around evenly. And the racks have 6 levels ion them and take up a LOT less space then hanging them up on lines. And also the 6 different levels make separating different strains ideal. I went from using a a room and a half for drying to just half of one room.
I've got the six level racks and I found the bottoms to remain moist while the tops were dry. I turned mine several times a day for a week. The thing I did wrong was I placed two dehumidifiers in the room, wow, they dried fast. Net result?????? the smell was gone.
This time I would like to hang them so they can dry more evenly and give me time to trim. I will remove the majority of the leaves as I cut them down, then hang them. Then I will clean up the room and restock it. Last time my rooms stayed empty for 11 days cause of all the trimming etc I had to do. This time I want them restocked in one day. Then I can return to do the trimming. Seems to make sense in my case anyways.