@casadelwhacko This is the thing… Washing and having soak and wet buds when they first hang up to dry actually cut the dry time down DRASTICALLY. I mean, I rarely hang dry for 8 days anymore. Seems like 6-7 days and they are dry (measured with moisture meter at 10-12% moisture in center of buds). Trim, and into grove bags.

@casadelwhacko As for my method, I like just using Baking soda and peroxide. (Lemon juice works, I just don’t like getting any extra smells on my finished product).

I use 3 buckets to wash. 1st bucket has one cup of baking soda and one cup of peroxide (3%) added for debriefing. The next two bucket are both rinse buckets. I use room temp water. The first bucket will look icky when finished, but the last bucket should be basically crystal clear still. The middle bucket should have a little, but close to clear like the last one.

I usually trim any excess fan leaves that didn’t get removed already. Then, I dunk the stalked in the wash bucket up to 12 times, letting the water loosen the dirt, dust, bugs, etc.

For the first 24 hrs, I put a fan in the closet they are drying in, giving indirect air flow. I take it out after one day. If I leave the fan, the leaves will be crispy and the buds will be ready to trim in 5 days. If I remove the fan, the dry takes 7-8 days. Trim with the Cannabrush, and detail with bonsai shears.

Just remember while you are washing to try not to bang your buds against the sides or the bottom of the bucket. You don’t want to damage or lose any good trichs.

There will be trichs in that first wash bucket. Get out the microscope and see they are misshapen, and degraded. It actually improves the bag appeal because the good healthy cloudy trichs are bright. (Unless someone wants to look at my pics and tell me where all my trichs fell off!🤣