You act like chlorophyll can’t exist in a purple plant
My buds are green
That settles in then. Yeah? Let’s all enjoy life.
Homie. Go get a degree in some science and we can chat. Continue down your path of consumerism
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Lol… Anthocyanin is like sunscreen for the chlorophyll. Go read actual science instead weed blogs.
*Not sunscreen. I don’t know what the comparison is, but it makes the green chlorophyll less visible.
Yeah go read actual science why don’t you?
God if 6 years weren’t enough. I’ll go start.
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6 years, that’s not even a phD
Sadly just a bachelor’s and a masters. One in nutrition the other in organic chemistry. Sadly.
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What a senseless waste of human life
Lol. Good lord. An organic chemistry major who don’t understand chlorophyll, who sourced a foreign weed blog.
Keep it coming, baby
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As an uninvolved 3rd party to this bickering. Can’t we all just get along?
I believe the second time someone says lets just agree to disagree should be it. no?
I’m just interested in the best way to dry and cure…
Let’s keep the respect level up to OG standard.
Thanks!
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Thanks John. Big love @lusid see ya round
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So long as the discussions are cordial and polite without ego and name calling or otherwise inciting remarks I think that these differences of opinions are where we find growth as individuals, communities, and cultures. I’m enjoying the meat and potatoes for sure. Many blessings and much love
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Your question is a good one and your observations are insightful.
Most of us don’t have an environmental chamber in our homes, so I think we just do the best we can with what we have. The Cannatrol folks swear by their units and to me, that’s good empirical data. I think 60/60 is a good guideline that probably covers both dense and airy flowers.
The one thing that has always been lacking in growing experiments is side by side data. Inevitably, the grower will change one variable that we’ll never know skewed the results because it wasn’t a true side by side test. I’m guilty of this as well. I did a side by side with a grove bag and jars, but I kept the grove bag in the cupboard and the jars in the fridge. Padowan called me on it and he’s right. Were the terps and taste better because of the bag vs. the jar, or because the bag cured quicker, thus making everything seem brighter in both smell and taste?
My house is never 60°F, so I’ll never know if it’s better or not. During the summer, I can easily keep my humidity at 60% with a dehumidifier, but my temp is around 70°F. In my winter conditions, I could never let a plant hang longer than 5 or 6 days. In my summer conditions, I can let it go much longer, but rarely do. What I do know is I’m very happy with my flower, but I’m constantly checking it, so I know when to trim and jar it. It really does come down to prediction, for me.
I’m not a botanist or a chemist, so all I know is chlorophyl is the reason plants are green, but I can tell you from experience that if you dry your weed in a dehydrator or an oven to the point that it’s bone dry after you pick it, it will taste terrible and smoke harsh 
Sorry for the long reply.
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great reply thanks for all the info!
im also wondering how much senescence affects the dry/cure.
some cultivars seem to senesce a lot more than others. i just chopped a pheno at about 10 weeks flower and there was barely any live leaf matter left on it. certainly no green left LOL.
i wonder if cultivars like this are “easier” to dry and cure - maybe they have already broken down a good deal of chlorophyll so there isnt as much to have to deal with when its hanging to dry and then in the cure jar.
i have 3 other plants that have been hanging almost 9 days at around 50% humidity. one pheno seems about ready to trim… hoping that it was a slow enough dry but… whaddyagunnado? haha
i do remember hearing Jeremy from buildasoil talking about how some growers like to make sure their plants heavily senesce and he thinks that makes for a higher quality end product…
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That’s been my experience as well. I feed right up to a couple of weeks before chop day and my plants don’t seem to want the food from the soil, they just pull the reserves from the leaves.
One thing I have noticed with every plant I’ve ever dried is that the top, large, dense buds always dry before the lower smaller ones. There is some science going on there that I don’t understand.
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In the leaves, not the buds. No one is flushing until their buds hit “autumn hues.” If you lost the chlorophyll in your buds your grow was a failure.
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