07. Harvesting and Drying
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The male plants will be taller and have about five green or yellow sepals, which
will split open to fertilize the female plant with pollen. The female plant is
shorter and has a small pistillate flower, which really doesn't look like a
flower at all but rather a small bunch of leaves in a cluster. If you don't want
any seeds, just good dope, you should pick the males before they shed their pollen
as the female will use some of her resin to make the seeds. After another three to
five weeks, after the males are gone, the females will begin to wither and die
(from loneliness?), this is the time to pick. In some nefarious Middle Eastren
countries, farmers reportedly put their beehives next to fiels of marijuana. The
little devils collect the grass pollen for their honey, which is supposed to
contain a fair dosage of THC. The honey is then enjoyed by conventional methods or
made into ambrosia. If you want seeds - let the males shed his pollen then pick
him. Let the female go another month and pick her. To cure the plants, they must
be dried. On large crops, this is accomplished by constructing a drying box or
drying room. You must have a heat source (such as an electric heater) which will
make the box/room each 130 degrees. The box/room must be ventilated to carry off
the water-vapor-laden air and replace it with fresh. A good box can be constructed
from an orange crate with fiberglass insulated walls, vents in the tops, and
screen shelves to hold the leaves. There must be a baffle between the leaves and
the heat source. A quick cure for smaller amounts is to: cut the plant at the soil
level and wrap it in a cloth so as not to loose any leavs. Take out any seeds by
hand and store. Place all the leaves on a cookie sheet or aluminum foil and put
them in the middle sheld of the oven, which is set on "broil." In a few seconds,
the leaves will smoke and curl up, stir them around and give another ten seconds
before you take them out.
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