Originally Posted by Weedhound

...any of you guys got a plan for manicuring and drying your plants?
Pretty much same as most people I think.

...how are you planning to get that screen off them? Cutting it?
Cutting the screen, are you nuts dear girl? Why would I do that? It took me like 2 hours to make it.

Thoughts on how to hang, trim and dry such branches?
Sometimes I use a screen but usually I hang them upside down. Right after I take them out of the grow screen I usually cut off the biggest leaves and a few of the smaller ones, not really spending a bunch of time at it, but just getting them into something more manageable. I'd guess 90% of the excess plant is removed in 10% of the total trimming and manicuring time. The rest I do after they're dry. If I use a screen I'm not picky. I have various pieces of screen laying around, but anything will do as long as it lets air flow all around the buds. Sometimes I put a very gentle breeze on them, but be careful if you do this since a big breeze will knock trichomes off the buds. Light isn't good for the goodies in the resin, so I try to keep mine as dark as possible. I little light occasionally isn't going to hurt anything. I try to keep them in a cooler part of the house. Also it's good if you can let them hear alternating classical music and Talking Heads during what normally would have been lights on time. I have not noticed any difference between hanging up side down and laying flat on a screen.

Do you guys plan on reusing that same screenfor your next grow or a new one each time.?
Same one each time, absolutely. No cutting of the screen is ever required. When I was using regular poultry netting occasionally I would have to cut a stalk in half or thirds, but never the screen. The openings on the chicken wire are slightly over an inch square (from memory), which i now realize is too small. The biggest part of the bud was usually above the screen and I could usually slide the bud out the top, but it had to squeeze through sometimes. That's not really a problem except for breaking off trichomes in that spot, which is really a problem. If you are doing things right, there should be no real buds to speak of below the screen. I am loving this new screen I'm using, which has 2x3" holes. I think it's perfect for many reasons, but additionally it will be no problem getting the buds out during harvest. When you scrog you have more buds and smaller buds, and hopefully larger yield. I am still looking forward to the time when I have trouble fitting the smaller portion of my scrog buds through a 2x3" opening. One suckie thing about poultry netting is there are hundreds of wires to cut and deal with. I got poked and scratched many times with the old screen but I don't remember ever getting scratched from my new one.

I hope that helps clear it up a little. If not be sure to let me know and I will do my best to further confuse you.

Perhaps it would help to confuse him if we were to run away more. (Monty Python's Holy Grail.)