Harvest half way done, was thinking to wash my buds or not, and in the end, did it. Some may find it a bit weird, I don’t know if it was already discussed at this forum, but for anyone interested, there’s another community (idk if I can mention) with a 100+ pages thread discussing that. The last time I did it was because of a mad spider mite infestation, washed most of them off and the smoke turned out to be one of the best I’ve ever had!
So, I’ll show what I did:
First, her last photos, almost sad to kill her, but it’s for a good reason :smoking:
Removed some of the bigger fan leaves and cut her branch by branch, that’s what left. Remembering she had 10 tops as I topped her on 5th node.
So, the washing part, took more time researching about it than doing, it’s a really fast part, took me 1 hour total from cutting to hanging her back at the cleaned tent.
I used 2 buckets of water (around 3gal), one had 1/2 cup of fresh lemon juice and 1/2 cup of baking powder (100% sodium bicarbonate), the second bucket had only plain water. Some may add H2O2 in case of mold and/or one mid bucket with warm water (up to 4 buckets), decided to keep it easy with just 2.
Took every branch and rinsed down at the baking powder/lemon juice bucket, giving it a little shake for 20/30s, removed the excess and moved for the tap water bucket for more 30s. Repeated for every branch. If you’re doing several plants, it’s good to clean the buckets between 2-3 plant.
Let her branches hanging for 20 min just to removed the excess of water:
Some people argue that leaving her with some light after wash for 1-2 days will give her a better sweet flavor, idk about that one, for sure it will not cause any bad, so I’m letting her to dry a bit with lights on and start the trimming tomorrow!
That’s a different light setup, I’m retiring my hps from now on, temps on Brazil coast area are a bit too much, so my next grow will be with those 2 cobs (100w), saving me at electricity bills as well. For anyone from Brazil reading, just send me a message asking about the cobs, they make awesome panels with a nice cost benefit, kinda hard to find it here!
That’s it! For anyone wondering if washing is worth it, take some time to read or use a “test” bud, wash it, my throat thanked me
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