Perhaps you’ve heard this classic stoner “fact”, maybe from a friend or a fellow internet poster who swears up and down and lives and dies by its truth…they’d say that when you hang your plant to dry after pulling it, you gotta leave the rootball on the plant because that’s where all the THC is! Gravity drips it down into the buds, you see
Of course the idea is just plain silly. The roots don’t contain significant quantities of thc and if they did the idea it “drips” down by gravity is a mix between funny and headache inducing. But how do myths like this start? Was it a cruel prank played on an unsuspecting newbie by a more wizened grower? Or was it a regular joe’s attempt to explain a real observation that leaving on the rootball made a better smoke? I can see how the extra plant matter could help add moisture, slowing down the dry, and studies on tobacco have observed nutrients moving post-harvest through the stems and leaves of whole plants left to hang dry.
I’d love to hear your thoughts, and especially if anyone has done enough side-by-side to say whether it even makes that much a difference
well, I wonder if you grow them, in the same manner, you do tomatoes upside down. Then just let them dry in the upside-down pot. I nominate @ChongoBongo to test this side by side with a plant grown upright and dried normally. lol
I’ve done it before too, no noticeable difference except extended the dry a bit. Might be beneficial if you’re in a low rh environment, but if your drying area is on point, I see no real benefit…unless you’re harvesting the roots
A bunch of years ago some weed magazine or website had what I think was April’s fools article about scraping banana peels and baking the slime to produce a drug called bananadine.
Defo not real.
I was being an asshole haha
I figured as much I live in a dry environment so that might come in handy a bit, but after using a drying rack for some of my plants last year I wasn’t convinced the difference would be significant. Those buds came out just as fine as my stalk-cut plants that I hung up whole.
oh lord am I being volunteered? I had never heard of this before! Very interesting idea, I can imagine the pot plant bending its branches around the cup to point at the light! Who knows, maybe I might just try it some day
I don’t think it matters much. But dry dying on the last few days works for me. It also an old rumor. You let it die without water to increase potency.
I had never heard of this before! Very interesting idea, I can imagine the pot plant bending its branches around the cup to point at the light! Who knows, maybe I might just try it some day 
