drying process

how long does it take and whar is the process to harvest and dry

Originally Posted by jrarc2000

how long does it take and whar is the process to harvest and dry

hi after the plant has leaves what is the next step..regards kevin

[Doctor Who]

Collect your leaves as they mature.
When you have an ounce, have fun chewing.

[Doctor Who]

The indigenous people of the higher latitudes of Peru take fresh coca and dry it in an oven at low heat.

The coca is then ground up into powder and mixed with water to make a paste.

The paste is used for "chewing" instead of having to chew whole leaf.

It is easier and quicker to activate the alkaloids in this manner, it is also more concentrated and numbs better than the whole leaf version.

[Trebert]

We here in old europe do it that way:

Ripe leave are harvested and dried in in sun , behind a big dutch window to the South.

In winter the heater under the window helps.
Since a part of our plants are situated in my livingroom, heat is on.
I t takes two days to get it nice dry.

After harvesting leaves its not nice to see the weight shrink to 30-40%.
As an unexpirienced leaveharvester in a close greenhouse environment it takes a lot of time to get one kilo of fresh leaves.

Not to talk about the efforts and costs to make them grow here.

But after dried, here we remove the hard parts of leave, moister them in the mouth ( a piece of eight), after they are wet a litttle amount of natriumbicarbonate is to be added.

Than it all is placed back into the mouth.
Not really chewed - but sucked.

After that everything happens what should according whats to read about.

Otherwise the leaves are used as tea, replacing coffee very well.

Or the leaves are macerated in 69.9% alc. one mooncycle long.
This gives a very strong tinctur.

Trebert

[Cocaricky.com]

I never ever dry drug plants in the sun. The reason being is because the sunlight degrades drug potency on plants after being harvested and dried. I am assuming that THC from marijuana reacts the same way to sunlight as cocaine does from the coca plant. THC from harvested marijuana degrades in potency when exposed to sun rays. The best way to lock and maintain highest drug potency is to dry your plants in the dark with very low heat. Room temperature is ok for drying. If you want to dry plants faster, you can use a heat source but the temperature must be under the cocaines evaporation point.

What temperature does cocaine evaporate at ? What is the boiling point ?

Is the cocaine contained on the leaves surface ? If so, the cocaine is brittle when dried and when someone moves the leaves around, the cocaine will break off the leaves and onto the ground or fall into the bottoms of the bags when transported or carried around. Get it ?

I am assuming that the best way to maintain the potency of the coca leaves is to process the leaves when they are wet. If you are drying leaves for tea, dry the leaves in the dark, under cocaine boiling point temperature and do not bang or shake around the leaves because the cocaine will break apart from the leaves surface due to brittleness.

Has anyone put a coca leaf under a microscope ? Is the cocaine contained on the leaf or in the leaf ? I think that it looks like a little pimple that is easy to wipe off the leaf. I am assuming that the cocaine is like THC as being the "sticky stuff" on the marijuana plant.

[Doctor Who]

What is this science nerdy stuff?

I want to see pictures, pictures and more pictures. (laughing in a sinister way)

Bubble bags would work if that were true, but no, cocaine is incorporated into the cellular structure.

That is why it is necessary to use extraction methods for results.

If the cocaine were to break off the leaf surface, all that would be necessary is to roll it up and smoke it.

[Dragonknight5]

Yes,but after the drying process,then what? How do you go about exstracting cocain from say 5 kilos of leaves. I can,t see myself chewing 5 kilos of dryed leaves,and even so,after finly chewed and moistened , then what?

[Dragonknight5]

Good point, Doctor Who...So why don't you share some of your secret exstraction methods,i,m all ears...

[Dragonknight5]

Hey Ricky,or anyone else reading this. I,m an indoor grower,and a new one at that,how many plants do i need for a decent harvest?