This is the reason I’ve adapted to silicon as a drying surface.
I’ve never found a satisfactory way of cleaning it all up from glass (even w/ heavy scraping skills) except to rewash & evaporate. Silicon, OTOH, can be simply set aside in a safe place (like an uncooled garage, or even carport (airflow will make up the difference). Once it’s dry (only a matter of time) it’s easily picked off with a probe & transferred to another container, where I find it does well to just sit for a while before using
For me, it’s been the absolute least-effort / best-result solution to the topic.
I realize this is a growers’ board (why I’m here), and I’m speaking to multiple generations, so not everyone will share - or even understand - the waste-not mindset that grew in the scarcity and general unavailability of the 60s. In the beginning, no one had any or knew anyone with a line on some; then some would show up from somewhere, the word would start to pass, and you’d hope you had $10 and got there before the next guy.
Lather, rinse, repeat…. As a result, NOTHING got wasted: bracts, every stem, even seeds.
Pretty sure there’re some long time growers who got started by deciding it was better to try growing them than to pretend they’d get high smoking them. Lotta seed stashes started then, too.
Flash forward 60+ years, and I’ll bet those habits still exist for many of the old ones who still or again *aren’t* able to grow. Conservation of resin in all its forms is an organizing principle for me as long as I don’t have enough to do what I want with & still not run out.
Pardon the sudden outburst of context….
