I love this place! It may be the only forum online that is consistently welcoming and helpful to people who don’t have experience. Thank you.
That said, I searched four ways without success, so here’s the question: how much resin loss occurs from washing the buds at harvest? I used five gallon buckets, as advised, for my first grow last October, and I noticed a definite layer of resin left behind after I dumped the water. Now I can feel the same thing inside my Grove bags.
The weed is good, but I have to wonder how much loss of potency has happened. Anyone with ideas/experience?
Contaminants that have settled on the plant. It is not the trichomes unless you are using excessively hot or excessively cold water. Room temp water will not liberate “resin” (trichomes.)
Understood. But this isn’t wind blown crud. The water was actually very clean after. Just the insides of the buckets turned rough. I think I’ll skip the wash next time. Thanks for your responses!
I would not skip a bud wash myself. Assuming the use of peroxide like this video:
You will end up with a cleaner harvest missing all of the environmental junk that lands on plants. Things like skin cells, smoke, dust, other pollutants etc.
This was the result of one plant washed in peroxide/water. Plant was indoor.
Amazing. Mine was outdoor…two 10-12-foot plants, but the wash water wasn’t anywhere near as dirty as that. I did do the peroxide-water mix as advised, I’ll give this some more thought.
Oh yeah! We had such strong storms in September that we lost two trunks off one of the plants. It makes some sense that the weather naturally took care of a lot of crud.
I have smoked Cat hair Dog hair Dust Micro debris a few boogers and I’m sure I have smoked plenty of bug poop from Mexican ditch weed and I still wouldn’t wash my buds .
