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The removal of the bigger leaves from the floral clusters. The removal is done to eliminate your budds of excessive outer big fan leaves from your marijuana's floral clusters. Done because the larger outer fan leaves contain little T.H.C. properties. Also the vegetive parts of the plants do not taste the same as smoked budds. The green vegetation uncoated with resins and crystals also lack the same true celebral highs as marijuana budds. Alot of cultivators remove their budds from the plant, then immediatly hang them to dry, usually upside down on a line between to points. There theory here is so the outer fan leaves hang and droop down, protecting the valuble crystals and resins coating thier budds. Once their budds have finished their drying phase, they go about removing the bigger outer fan leaves. As the budds and crystals are now dry they succeed in nothing but losing alot of there valuble crystals and resins. It is a fact, that most Marijuana growers decrease their marijuana's potency through the mishandling of their floral clusters. Always, Always, handle your budds from their stalks ! Some of us prefer a different theory and method, working with the marijuana plants stickyness. Performing the "manicuring" process is done best right at harvest time, or when you have removed your budds from the plant. Doing it while the budds are still wet is best for a few reasons. With wet budds harvested, the leaves are not drooped against the plants, and when held in their up right position are extreamly easy to remove. Dry budds that have leaves hugging them are harder to remove, and cause the manicurist to disturb and lose those valuble resins, and crystally secretions. (those secretions iz the reason im so "freaking fried" right now !) The advantage to removing the leaves while wet, is to get to them before they have had a chance to hug the budds. Once hugging the budds well, the crystals and resins stick to those big fan leaves, and eventually through the removal of them, we loose them from the smokable budd itself. Freshly harvested budds, still wet remain intact almost all of their resiney secretions. Giving the manicurist great opportunity to remove the bigger fan leaves, and with out crystal disturbance. So taking them at harvest time is clearly a more suitable method to practice. Lets move into some manicuring now, its really an easy 1-2-3 operation. Pick it, Cut it, Hang it ! Most strains at peak harvest timing have already dried up, wilted, yellowed, or fell of, thier bigger outer fans leaves. This is a good indication your Marijuana has reached its "Peak" harvesting point. However there will likely still be several outer fan leaves and some smaller ones protruding from the budd. Some strains will still even remain alot of their vegetaion near their floral clusters, so here we will use a couple different strains for our picture examples. A Super Skunk specimen on the left and a Northern Lights specimen on the right. Following the overplace red lines in the pictures you can clearly see where will would make cuts to these peticular budds. Its basically a all around trimming of the bigger fan leaves and the protruding smaller vegetations. More heavier coated and crystallier strains well, may even be coated with many resins, and crystally secretions. So mostly overlook cutting alot of these off, and leave them on the budds, this is clearly your own manicuring choice. A good rule of thumb is that if its coated dont cut it. So as simple as that, the manicuring process is complete and you move now into drying stage of your marijuana budds. Good luck manicuring, and now your a "Marijuana Manicurist" |
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