The marijuana flowers have to be removed from the branches and also leaves have to be removed to avoid a chlorophyll flavor. The only thing you want to keep are the sticky flowers without leaves or branches.
What is necessary to cut the marijuana plant
- A sharp, pointed scissor to cut the leaves off the flowers
- 90% alcohol to remove the resin from the scissors
- Gant chirurgical to keep your hands clean from the resin
How to do it
- Remove all the large leaves without any resin and throw them away.
- Remove all the small leaves close to the flowers but keep them, they contain a lot of resin.
- Remove the flowers from the branches, so all what is left are little balls of weed.
- Place the weed in airtight preserving jars and store them in a dark place.
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“1. Remove all the large leaves without any resin and throw them away.”
Not in the rubbish bin but the compost pile is i’m sure what Robert would expect. i also cut some of them up with scissors and add them to my worm bin and since i’m here also compost the biomass from your extraction once it has completely dried out. (from the earth back to the earth if you can)
Thank you ILGM team for a gold standard website and information.
Hi Sean,
Thanks for your comment. If you have a compost pile we’d definitely recommend tossing them on there! Would be a waste to toss out any organic material if you’re composting!
Thanks for the kind words!
Happy growing,
Alex ILGM