Luckily, one of the easiest parts of growing weed indoors, is drying and storing the final product. However, some people still don't know how to do it correctly. You could be getting a good product, but if you aren't drying it correctly, it won't be as good as it could have been.
Typically, when I am ready to harvest a plant, I don't do it all at once. I will take the plants down in sections, after their 24 dark period prior to harvesting. It is usually best to split the plant into thirds. So, the first day I will cut all of the branches off that are closest to the top of the plant. You can usually visibly see where you should make your first cut. The buds will be bigger at the top, and then start to decrease in size as you go down the plant. So use your observational skills, and make a good judgment call on where exactly to make the cut, but it should be somewhere around the top 2/3 of the plant.
When you have taken down the top third of the plant, you will need to trim up your harvested weed. Trimming weed is fairly simple. You just take each bud and cut the stem off where the actual weed stops. Then, take your scissors and cut the bud down length-wise, until you have trimmed off the leaves and are down to the bud.
After your weed is nice and trimmed up, you will want to store it. Some people claim placing weed in plastic containers and putting it in your freezer is the best way to store weed. This is definitely the wrong thing to do.
The correct way to store weed, depends on the size of your harvest, and how much you smoke per day. The only sure-fire way to store your weed without loss of cannaboids, is to vacuum seal the weed. Typically, I will vacuum seal anything over a half of a pound. The rest of my harvest, I put in two opposing layers of Ziploc bags, and then into a plastic container.
Now that you have completed the final step of growing weed, enjoy! If you have missed the first part please visit how to grow weed indoors.
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