Hello everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast.

We have been diving into the world of cannabis cultivation this week with Lee Spivey of

Good Earth Organics who also runs his own cannabis cultivation farm and has for quite

some time.

So Lee, we're at the harvest at this point and first of all, is there a way that you

like to remove the buds from the plant that makes sense that works well and preserves the

harvest?

Yes, yes there is.

So essentially I just cut the buds on the stalk about the size of my forearm from the

fist to the elbow is how what size I like to keep my cuttings.

Because after that they get hung, right?

So hung to dry, I never process my cannabis while it's wet.

I only cut it to dry it.

A lot of people would like to begin trimming and processing wet cannabis, which is fine,

your prerogative is your own.

I believe that drying it before processing it keeps the terpened profile intact.

It keeps the trichomes better.

I believe that the bud is just more palatable and better product for a medical consumer when

it's dried first instead of being processed immediately.

Okay, so you're going to harvest the way that you just mentioned and then you'll dry it

and do you set up some sort of massive drying rack because you mentioned 30 plants, right?

And I imagine you got to have like a pretty large space to dry that out.

...