What to do with leaves after harvest

snowman4839

snowman4839

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I'm not anywhere close to harvest yet because I just started week 4 of flowering on my widows so I have like another month but I just wondered what you did with leaves after harvest. Can you make hash out of them? Or can you smoke em? Do you just flush em down the toilet? Use for fertilizer? lol what do you guys do?
 
Snickelfrits

Snickelfrits

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u can use the "sugar leaves " which are the sparkly crystal covered leaves to make hash or butter but as far as the fan leaves just inconspicuously dispose of them how u choose
 
Snickelfrits

Snickelfrits

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thats about what i used as well as the little popcorn buds and yes its pretty simple look in the cooking w/ cannabis section for a recipe
 
Serapis

Serapis

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All the leaves of a flowering plant are valuable, not just the "sugar" leaves. When your buds look frosted, take a scope and look at your fan leaves... the petioles and the leaf itself will have trichomes on it. The leaves I remove in veg I chop up and toss on compost pile. Anything removed after buds appear is saved and dried on newspaper for processing later. For about $25 you can get a great screen print frame and 125 mesh for screening..

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Snickelfrits

Snickelfrits

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Serapis said:
All the leaves of a flowering plant are valuable, not just the "sugar" leaves. When your buds look frosted, take a scope and look at your fan leaves... the petioles and the leaf itself will have trichomes on it. The leaves I remove in veg I chop up and toss on compost pile. Anything removed after buds appear is saved and dried on newspaper for processing later. For about $25 you can get a great screen print frame and 125 mesh for screening..

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good to know man
 
bobbypyn

bobbypyn

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yeah use the sugar leaves for hash but also use the fan leaves and shredded stems as a bottom layer in your containers. I grow in big plastic tubs and I layer my media; bottom is claypellets, then chunky perlite, then a mat of dead weed plant material, then finally the soil-less mix i rock. the plants love it; i notice a difference in the ones I didn't do it on.
 
i.NeeD.A.LiGhTeR

i.NeeD.A.LiGhTeR

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I make butter outta my trimmings. I already got smoke so why not some yummy edibles? I may try hash this time around tho not really sure yet, I do love my cereal bars and peanut butter cookies.
 
lilmrschronic

lilmrschronic

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I use ALL the leaves and trimmings for my butter. Just dry em out real good and use a coffee grinder to grind them up. Last batch I made with only 2oz of ground up powder (leaves/trimmings) and 2lbs of butter was chronic! First batch of brownies I made with it, this dude ate one brownie and was laying on my floor saying he thinks he may die and go to an alternate universe, later on he asked me if I put shrooms in my butter lol I'm pregnant at the moment so I didn't eat any, but everyone else was wasted off of them! Definitely look into making some butter, it's fun and if you like cooking/baking you'll love making edibles =)
 
elfroggo

elfroggo

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snowman4839 said:
aight thanks man. I'm assuming just mix shredded "sugar leaves" with melted butter and make something? Would the sugar leaves from 2 2-3ft tall widows be enough for a good batch?
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You have to cook the cuttings in the butter for a while, strain it, then bake with it.
 
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boneheadbob

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Do you mind describing the process you are using? What is that called?

Serapis said:
All the leaves of a flowering plant are valuable, not just the "sugar" leaves. When your buds look frosted, take a scope and look at your fan leaves... the petioles and the leaf itself will have trichomes on it. The leaves I remove in veg I chop up and toss on compost pile. Anything removed after buds appear is saved and dried on newspaper for processing later. For about $25 you can get a great screen print frame and 125 mesh for screening..

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