Harvest & Curing Wash dirt/bugs after harvest?

[cubfaninmo]

I used both H2O2 to wash and lemon juice and baking soda together. H2O2 gets rid of any bacteria and cleans the weed. Lemon juice and baking soda react together foaming, they also change the Ph in helping to stop any mold.

I do an initial quick trim and break large colas down to smaller sections. With photo plants last year I had huge colas bigger around than a 1 liter bottle and as long as my fist to elbow. Tightly packed.

I would have to look it up but I think for H2O2 the ratio is one quart per gallon of water but I use two quarts to five gallon bucket of well water for wash.

Then I rinsed with water in a 5 gallon bucket with a cup of baking soda and a cup of Real Lemon. Then dunk in bucket of fresh water.

Then rinse in fresh water, shake buds and hang to dry.

About two days later I do my final trim and keep all sugar leaves trimmings for edibles. The edibles I make with oil such as olive or coconut oil get me more wasted than smoking just from trim.

I use a Magical Butter decarb box and then an Infuzium 420 to process the oil with trim.

I used this method last night after harvesting the lower 2/3 of my White Widow auto. It was grown in my garden. All I can say is it was GROSS seeing the volume of dirt, bugs, etc. I can’t speak to the results after dry and cure but the smell is still nice this morning. If it ends up smoking nice, I’ll be doing this every time. Thanks for sharing the process and your experience!

 

[Doug58]

I used this method last night after harvesting the lower 2/3 of my White Widow auto. It was grown in my garden. All I can say is it was GROSS seeing the volume of dirt, bugs, etc. I can’t speak to the results after dry and cure but the smell is still nice this morning. If it ends up smoking nice, I’ll be doing this every time. Thanks for sharing the process and your experience!

The smell of your weed won't be adversely affected by the wash if done correctly. I still have a few ounces jarred up from my grow a year ago and they still smell awesome. I grew over a dozen strains last year. Washed almost all of it. After dried I put it in jars to cure, after about a month I put Boveda packs in the jars with hygrometers. Remained at 62% RH. Just last month I took most of what I grew last year out of the jars, vacuum packed 22 ounces and put it into my chest freezer.

 

[PotDaddy]

I just bud washed yesterday due to finding some PM on 1 of my plants.
It was easier than I thought and I looked at the Trics afterward and they were still there and looked fine.
Even though I grow inside I think I will be doing this from now on. I was amazed at what came off my plants.