This is a follow up on the video I posted the other day. It is that wonderful time of year when everything smells, looks and taste like GREEN!
There is a lot of prep work I do before even making my first cut of season, like putting on some rocking music and gathering up my gear. Today I chose an old school funk mix.
Steps and Equipment
Sterilize 3 Clear 5 gallon minimum containers bins work great. You can do a 1 bin wash if there is no mold/p.m issues. I do 3 here, because outdoors in the Willamette tendency for all kinds of molds and I've chosen these strains to wet trim and that means getting all the loose fresh cut tiny pieces off.
Gather all equipment wash/hydrogen peroxide spray down and dry.
As you can see I have different cutting tools, one hand pruners for first cut, then white scissors for bucking and finally orange for fine trimming. The smaller snips are Japanese Chickamasa fruit tree scissors and are most trimmers scissor of choice. I prefer the curved shape, you can get spring held straight/curved or straight Chickamas's as well.
Chickamas's have a coating so if you choose to hand sharpen, you have to constantly do it, or the will dull fast. Sharp tools are crucial in the pot scene!
I used a sterilized strainer in between batches to get all the little pieces of debris out of water, before dunking next batch*
If you have a lot of powdery mildew, it will form a blueish film on top of the water, take brand new plant based sponge and skim off top between batches, only if necessaryPurchase and use only NON-Stabilized hydrogen peroxide, it will say "stabilized next to 3% hydrogen peroxide you don't want random stabilizer in there. Some people will add lemon juice as a sterilizer to the water. I have never done that, however with some of the lowers and other 2 strains remaining, I might experiment this year with that.
First bin add 5 ounces hydrogen peroxide to 6gallons of filtered water if possible and luke warm, not too cold and not too hot
My second and third bin are just 5 gallons each clean filtered luke warm water
First Step I always talk to a plant before cutting it, it knows, but I feel better doing this. I cut shorter top kola's on the Afgoo, about 6-8 inch pieces, about a tray full, you don't want to cut too much to have sit too long. Only cut what you can clean right then.
Second Step I big leafed, separated any buggy, moldy or dead big leaves to one tray. Second tray I cut the good big leaves. Third tray I wet trimmed, just ever so slight hair cut as you see in picture 1 above. That trim goes into it's own sugar leaf tray, when doing this, tap the stem and shake any loose leaf off before putting in water to wash. Once the good big leaf and sugar leaf are somewhat dried in tray I transfer to paper bag to final dry in dry room.
Third Step Once all my buds were trimmed and looking nice, I then dunked them in 1st water bin with hydrogen peroxide, I swish around ever so gently about 10 seconds to 30 seconds. Then I dunked and swished in second and third bin.
Do not shake to hard, just let the water fall, like a sponge dripping out.
Fourth Step At this point I hung outdoors for several hours before bringing in my dry room. This is why it's important to start early in the day for light and dryness/wind.
Hold buds by the stem, no sense smooshing any trichomes
I was fortunate to have a super sunny day and even a little ladybug came and hung out while I cleaned the nugs.
Final Step I transferred the kola's to my dry room and set a dehumidifier about 50% for 24 hours then turned off and let slow dried for 5 days.
Now the prep of washing and sterilizing a bunch of glass jars and lids. In five days I will have to buck the buds from the stems and trim up all nice and pretty.
🌟🌳If you made it this far, chances are you are smoking a fat beautiful piece of organic home grown medicine!🌟🌳
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