I know buds get stickier if they have some time to slowly dry on the branches as opposed to stripping them off right away...the theory being that the plant puts its last energies into the buds even though the branch has been cut from the plant. Has anyone tried or heard of simple draining the bucket of a DWC grown plant and letting it slowly expire from dehydration? (perhaps even expose the roots to circulating air so they won't rot during the process). Seems as if that would give it even more time to build resins on the buds....any thoughts on this? Educated guesses?
Harvest & Curing DWC: Drying entire plant with roots still attached?
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I used to trim and harvest off that theory, that drying the plant all together or by sections depending on size of plant would allow flowers to suck the last from the plant into the flowers, could of sworn it was in Jorge Cervantes grow bible I think. I just tried this brown paper bag method, so far ok I may switch to hanging next chop.
I did an experiment when I chopped some Barney's Farm Critical Rapido autos recently....The first two I separated into pieces no larger than a golf ball and put straight away into brown paper bags. The third plant was broken down into branches, manicured and hung for five days inside a cardboard box, then broken down into nuggs and put into paper bags. The time spent hanging made the buds feel a lot stickier and early sampling indicates better flavor too. Both lots are ready to go into sealed containers for some curing at this point.The bottom halves of all three plants are still growing in the DWC buckets allowing the less mature lower buds to put on a little mass and stickiness...and they seem to be cooperating. I'm thinking of using the idea in my original post when it comes time to finish them up.
BTW here's what the trimmed branches from that third plant looked like
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