Harvest time and how to do it

As we are in the most parts of the world in harvest time, we tought it was the momento to write about different ways of harvesting and drying.

First of all what is the perfect momento to harvest?

It depends on the genetic if its Indica or Sativa in the first place ,

Indicas will be harvested in the half of September while sativas can run untill the end of October, depends on the pheno type.

Second of all we have the more exact way wich are the trichomes who will show you when its time.

The trichomes have 3 stages :

1) Transparant = not ready and no psychoactive value.

2) Milky/White = Headhigh and highest point of THC.

3) Amber curled = relaxing/body/anti-anxiety effect.

And for the thirth part we have the pistils,

Harvest when 70-90% of hairs have darkened for highest levels of THC.

Harvest when 90-100% of hairs have darkened for a more calming,

anti-anxiety effect as some THC turns to the more relaxing CBN.

There are lots of ways of harvesting so in this case we will do the most easy ones.

First of all its good to have every tool you need so you don´t need to interrupt while trimming with those sticky fingers .

What you need:

1) good pair of gloves to avoid thc at the fingers and hands.

2) a good small scissor for the fine cut

3) a bigger scissor for the branches

4) a trimbag for the sugar leafs and small Buds

5) a clean área is everything

6) A dry and dark place to hang the branches or nets

7) a wire or drynet to dry the fresh cut flowers

 

 

 

First way

In the more industrial grow áreas people choose to cut only the big leafs and hang the plants upside down so they can dry lots of plants in big amounts. This goes paired after it with the industrial cutting machines for fast production. Don´t forget if you choose this way you need to have a big fan that blows the dry air true the hanging plants.

Second way

This is the way we optain and the most easy way in our opinión, in this case we start cutting branch by branch and we going to remove first the big leafs from the branch followd by the fine trimming to clean the Buds from sugar leafs, in this case it is important to do the fine trimming appart from the bigger leafs. The sugar leafs are perfect to make for example Iceolator or BHO or good hash etc etc.

You have 2 ways for drying in this part :

1) You fine trim the branches and hang them up to a cable in a dry and dark place .

2) You cut the trimmed flowers from the branches and you dry them on nets.