Last Updated on August 18, 2023
Growing your own medicine outdoors? Come learn how to rinse and wash cannabis buds after harvest using lemon juice and baking soda, or hydrogen peroxide. It’s easy to do, 100% organic, and effectively helps remove potentially harmful debris while still maintaining maximum quality of your cannabis flower. Cleaner herb equals a more smooth, safe, and tasty end product – whether you’re using it for tinctures, edibles, topicals, or to smoke!
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While not mandatory, it’s definitely a good idea to wash cannabis flower buds that were grown outside. The process reduces outdoor air pollutants that may have accumulated on the buds such as dirt, dust, pollen, toxic wildfire ash, caterpillar poop, insects, bird debris, and other particulate matter. You certainly want to avoid inhaling or ingesting all that stuff if possible.
If you think about it, you wash fresh produce before eating it, right? We always do, even our organic homegrown produce from the garden. So why not wash your buds? Especially considering our lungs are far more sensitive and susceptible to harm from contaminants than our guts are.
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Since it’s so resinous, sticky cannabis flowers are particularly good at attracting and holding on to pollutants. That said, cannabis isn’t as easy to simply rinse off with water as other plants are. Yet the bud washing process we’ll show you today does an excellent job at dislodging and stripping contaminants without harming trichomes or terpenes.
It’s not usually necessary to wash cannabis that’s grown indoors, unless you’ve used foliar sprays that you’d prefer to rinse off before consuming the flower (though foliar sprays are usually not recommended during the flower phase anyways).
No, washing your cannabis buds shouldn’t cause mold – as long as you spread it out to thoroughly air dry that is, and don’t leave it in a wet heap after washing. Note that washing cannabis buds does add a couple days of drying time to your post-harvest routine. We’ll talk more about how to properly dry cannabis after washing below.
On the other hand, the baking soda and lemon juice used to wash cannabis can kill mold spores and therefore may help prevent mold from growing during drying, curing and storage. However, washing cannabis will not remove advanced mold or “bud rot” that is already present at the time of harvest. We don’t recommend using, consuming, or inhaling obviously moldy cannabis. Cannabis with only a small amount of mold on the plant (e.g. powdery mildew on the leaves, not moldy buds) could still be used for topical applications, such as homemade cannabis salve.
Often described as an “old school organic produce wash”, baking soda and lemon juice has been used to remove impurities from fruits and vegetables (and even greasy kitchens) for many decades. The mixture acts as a natural surfactant that gently encourages dirt, dust, and other debris to dislodge from deep within the plant.
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Lemon juice is a natural antimicrobial and baking soda is mildly anti-fungal. When combined, they create a chemical reaction that neutralizes the solution and generates non-toxic carbon dioxide gas. This appears as fizz and bubbles that further help deep clean your bud! Hydrogen peroxide acts very similarly, is safe and organic, and can be used to wash cannabis as well.
Cannabinoids are fat-soluble; they only like to attach themselves to fats – like oil. Thus, this gentle wash will not strip the cannabinoids or decrease the potency of your flower. Try not to bang the branches into the sides of the bucket too much while washing, but also keep in mind that the few loose trichomes that may get knocked off during washing would’ve likely fallen off during the trimming and drying process anyways.
*Note: Some cannabis bud washing recipes call for as little as ¼ cup of lemon juice and baking soda each, while others say to use 1 cup of each. We feel that ½ cup of each is more than enough to adequately clean the cannabis, but not be overly strong or wasteful. An alternative bud washing method uses 1 cup of 3% household hydrogen peroxide (per 5 gallons of water) in the “wash” bucket instead of lemon juice and baking soda, which is also effective. Use what you have!
That’s all there is to it! Isn’t it satisfying to see that gross dirty water, and know that isn’t in your bud anymore? If you found this information to be useful, please consider leaving a rating below – or sharing this post! If you need any tips more tips on when and how to harvest, trim, dry, cure and store you cannabis, check out this guide. Otherwise, have fun and enjoy your harvest!
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This post was last modified on 11/10/2023 05:31
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