I’m working on an alternative plan for harvest time next year and this question came up in my process. Will buds which are still attached to the branch and haven’t been trimmed yet cure in an airtight container once they are properly dried out?
For a proper cure I make sure that the buds are trimmed
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Yes, they will cure fine.
Watch the moisture content. Sometimes the buds will be dry while the stems still have moisture that will be pulled back into the buds once in the jars so you will need to burp them until the combination buds and stems are at the right moisture level to continue their cure.
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You have spent 2+ months babying/tending your plants during flowering why would you want to skimp out on the curing process…spending time in trim jail isn’t that bad at all, believe me.
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I think there’s a happy medium. Dispo trims are IMO too manicured even and take forever. Leaving buds on branches can lead to funky humidity.
Buckin buds, lightly removing large leaves, leaving the sugars to curl up and protect the buds doesnt take a long time in my experience. The smells when breaking up bud are beautiful also. There’s a commercial group/product that trims this way and they call it “Farm Cut”.
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Just make sure branch snaps like child’s green stick fracture
In bend top half snaps but bottom of bend folds , oldschool method to indicate just below 70 which is safe to jar
Trimming unneeded : )
Yea I give it what I call a “rustic” trim. I leave lots of stuff that others trim off. I think some large operations use trimming machines which trim them to within an inch of their lives.
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Ok I realize now that my asking this question has given some wrong impressions. It’s not a matter of whether or not I will trim them, because I will, it’s that after 3 years of doing trimming of my outdoor crops myself, I am continuing to try to find a process that works best for me, because trimming that much bud is extremely time consuming for just one person and I have nobody to get help from. After this year what I am thinking is that once I have cut and hung all the branches and let them dry I want to take them down and store them in airtight bins so that they don’t dry out any further while they are waiting to be trimmed, because one man with a full time job can only spend so much time trimming and pulling all nighters is bad for my health and I don;t want them to degrade while they are waiting their turn at my trim table. Lastly I use a trim bag as part of my process, and that works much better with denser buds, so if the buds would cure in the airtight bins while awaiting trimming, that would make the trim bag work much better, which would cut significant amounts of time off of my process.
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Hello I am also a solo trimmer for years and have you considered concentrate - BHO, bubble, rosin? Saves tons of trimming, although I still trim the best looking buds because concentrate doesn’t always taste better then the flower.
I like 5 gallon buckets with gamma seal lids. I have taken whole plants, minus the roots and shoved them in a bucket. Cures the same way IMHO it all comes down to temp and humidity. There’s a sweet spot and once you hit it you just want to maintain it.
So to answer your question I don’t think it matters what you put in the bucket, stems fan leaves larf or giant colas it all cures so to speak. It’s just about maintaining humidity and temp.
Try some live extracts, no curing needed and MANY enjoy the flavors more then a proper cure.
I’m a one man trim operation too and this is exactly what I do. Anything waiting to be trimmed sits happily on the branch in storage totes.