I’m not trying to speed up the drying process at all. Not trying to speed anything up, I just wanted to know if it was more beneficial to hang it whole to dry rather than branch by branch. I got plenty of patience
Just put it in the dark until its dry and you ready to jar or grove bag it ?
Skip hanging ?
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I’m probably one of the more resourceful growers so I don’t spend too much time or money when it comes to drying the plant. I hang whole plant with a piece of rope I have in a spool. Takes me all of 2 minutes to chop and hang
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@Bluntsmoke that’s what I was thinking of doing this time, I was watching Growers Network on YouTube and this lady on there said there’s still nutrients in that main stalk so it’s better to hang the whole plant to dry rather than cut off branch by branch.
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@yoshi so just stop watering and let it dry out completely for 8-10 days and then chop her up and put her in grove bags?
So GN has a YouTube channel? I’ll have to check that out. I’ve been hooked on Bill Ward & also Dudegrows for some time.
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Yeah absolutely they have a YouTube channel. They go everywhere too to all types of different grow labs. Jungle Boys are the guys I like most honestly, I like Original Family Farms too tho. They do coco in smart pots and hand trim, kinda like I do it just on a way bigger scale, but they’re one of the few that doesn’t do hydro or aero, they got rooms full of pots with coco in em and they’re doing their thing
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Its your choice , experiment , hanging has been the way cause plants were so huge from the woods is why the hanging became i guess a must do or accolade to drying . Drying is just drying , on the stalk or off my brother .
When you cutting down plants 
14 feet tall if not bigger, you have to hang them to harvest . But in all honesty , you can dry them however you find useful.
I had so many plants to harvest at onetime , i ran out of space to dry bud , so i had to leave like 20 plants and i just turn that section of lights off right , the plants i left in the pots in the flower room dried much faster than the hanging buds and it smoke was much better to me also , the roots used all the moisture to feed the plant in survival mode .
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Like I said, I’m patient. I don’t wanna speed the drying process up at all, I was just trying to see if there are any beneficial ways to drying and hanging em more so than other methods.
Its a growers choice , the key is this , you want to get all the moisture out before the chlorophyll starts to dry , if you can sweat out the wet moisture and than let the buds slow dry , the longer the cure , the better the quality .
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That’s what I plan to do, keep the humidity between 58%-62% and the temp around 60-65 which won’t be hard with the light off, let it dry from 8-10 days, then trim it up, put em in grove bags and let it cure. I’m gonna let it go a month in the grove bags even tho I’m told a week would suffice
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I keep my humidity 60-65% temps usually between 70-75 i keep . I like my buds to have a little moisture left in them but almost feel dry to the touch. So when i jar them and check them 24-48hrs later there really moist again and then i burp dry from there until i get dryness i like and then into grove bags or mason jars depending on whats around.
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You’re getting a bit of foxtail you might want to lighten up on the light a little to help avoid that.
Drying is all preference… I like to hang my plants whole. It allows me to trim them over a few days as opposed to everything got to be trimmed today. I do more than one plant so the trim takes time. Generally they dry based on size and leaves left so I can trim one and then have a day or two before I gotta go ago.
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@BigItch lighten up as in lower intensity? I noticed the foxtailing a week or so ago, it started the day I raised the light like half an inch way late into flower
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I generally lower intensity late in flower.
I start at seedling working the light up to full intensity and then once the stretch is done start going backwards with the program. This help with foxtails unless you have a 1 really tall plant by accident.
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I was reading along thinking about those Foxtails… she should be getting into the window. Id be scoping her out and plotting her demise later this week or early next
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I’ve been snipping small pieces of bud everyday for the last week 
I don’t think y’all realize how much time I’m dedicating to these things I have turned this into my job, I’m home everyday with them now. She’s got a pretty even mix of clear and cloudy still, but I check twice a day, once in the AM and again in the PM @PurpNGold74 I’m foaming at the mouth waiting to chop this beast down
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@BigItch I turned the intensity down to 75%. U think that’s low enough or should I turn it down even more than that?
You trying to finish it right ?
Lower lights 6 inches every 2 or 3 days until the plants tell you they to close and switch to 10/14.
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