Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible

for storage. Leave it in the refrigerator or a cool, dark, dry place for a month or longer. The taste and potency will be tops! Refrigeration slows decomposition, but, remember, refrigerators have a high humidity level, so the container must be sealed airtight. I just checked the relative humidity and temperature in my refrigera-tor–65 percent relative humidity and 40°F (5°C). Do not place it in the freezer. Freezing draws moisture to the surface of buds, which can harm resin glands on the surface.

Curing jars with a rubber seal keep the environment inside airtight.
    Place sealed containers in a cool, dry, dark place. Some growers prefer to keep airtight, sealed containers in the refrigerator. If the seal is not airtight, the low temperature in the refrigerator creates a condition of high humidity. Dry buds stored in a container that is not airtight attract moisture in the high-humidity environment. Before long, the buds are so moist that they must be dried again.
Seed Crops
    Harvest seed crops when seeds are big and ripe. Often, seeds actually split open their containing seed bract. Flowering females grow many ready, receptive calyxes until pollination occurs. Seeds are fully mature within six to eight weeks. Once pollinated, the majority of the female’s energy is directed toward seed production. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content is usually of minimum importance. Seed crops can be left in the ground until seeds “rattle in the pod,” but most growers harvest them before then. Watch for and control insects, mites, and fungus that attack the weakening female and her cache of ripe seeds.

Buds are bagged after weighing.

Bagged buds are then put into the vacuum/sealing machine.

Once in place, air is removed and the bag of buds is hermetically sealed.

The end result is a compact, airtight bag of buds.
    Home breeders often pollinate only one or two branches. The unpollinated branches are sinsemilla. The sinsemilla tops are harvested when ripe. Seeded branches continue to mature for another week or two until ripe. When seeds are mature, remove them from the pods by rubbing seeded buds between your hands over a container. To separate seeds from marijuana, place harvested seeds and accompanying foliage in a large tray with sides. Move the tray back and forth and tip so the seeds congregate in one corner. Remove excess marijuana by hand and repeat the process. Rub seeds together in your hands to remove traces of calyxes that still adhere to seeds. Agitate tray and tip to congregate seeds and separate from chaff.

Seeds in this ‘Blueberry’ female from Dutch Passion are split open, resin-coated calyxes.
    Store seeds in a cool, dry, dark place. The seeds are viable and ready for planting as soon as they are harvested, but they may grow sickly plants. Let the seeds dry out a month or two before planting. Seeds with a hard outer cask are the most likely to sprout and grow well. See “Storing Seeds” in Chapter Two.

This photo of a seeded ‘TNT’ female was snapped in Gypsy Nirvana’s grow room before the police harvested her.
Rejuvenation
    Rejuvenate harvested females by leaving several undeveloped lower branches with foliage on plants. Give her an 18/6 day/night photoperiod. The female will stop flowering and rejuvenate and revert back to vegetative growth stage.
    Give the harvested, leafy, buddy stubs an increased dose of high-nitrogen fertilizer to promote green, leafy growth. This will help the harvested plant grow more foliage as it reverts back to vegetative growth in four to six weeks. New, green, leafy growth will sprout from the branches and flower tops. Leaves will continue to grow more and more “fingers” as re-vegetation progresses. Let the rejuvenated plants grow until they are the desired size before inducing flowering with a 12-hour photoperiod. If second crops are allowed to grow too tall, they produce sparse buds. Remember, these plants are already root bound and when given dim light, sparse buds result.

Let seeds develop until they are big and strong. Most often some of the seeds will actually split open the containing calyx.

Rejuvenated plants take from a month to six weeks to develop new vegetative growth.
    Here is a possible scenario to rejuvenate plants. For example, a person who grew a beautiful crop of females and knew each plant by name, had to harvest. Instead of starting from seed again, the grower decided to leave a few leaves and buds on the harvested stubby branches. He