There are several ways to know if it is the moment of the harvest:

Normally the harvest is made around two months after to have begun the flowering, but the ideal is to pay attention or to the plant... then according to the species this time can be shortened or to extend, the ideal is to pay attention or to:

The flowers: When most of the flowers they become brown and the growth of new flowers has stopped.

Trikomas: when these, in 20 %, are oxidized, this is when they acquire the brown color, (trikomas of entrance appear as chupachups I am transparent, that with time is filled acquiring a milky appearance, with time tends to take that brown color or oxidation) The greatest leaves, than do not have resin, can be cleared before putting the plant to dry. As the branches are maturing, we will be them cutting.

With scissors the medium leaves and the small ones are manicuran that excel of the cogollos and that are appraised that they are not covered with resin gland; it is important not to handle the cogollos to avoid that the resin glands are broken spoiling the good conservation of this one.

In order to dry the grass, we hung the loose branches or already separated cogollos down mouth in a dark, fresh, dry and ventilated place. The drying will last of 1 to 3 weeks, depending on the climate. The power and quality of the product, will depend on the drying.

Cured:
A good treatment is essential and any fast cured method of, as already we explained, at the most slow advises against is the drying, greater power will have the grass. The cured one obtains that the grass dries itself more slowly.

A good form to cure is to put the grass in metallic boxes or of wood (not of plastic) and to open them one twice or to the day. That way the drying process slows down improving the flavor and intensifying the oxidation process that does that the resin receives the psicotrópicas properties.

The duration of the cured one varies according to the place in which it is made and the thickness of the tails and cogollos, the ideal site serious similar to which it would be used to dry tobacco.

It is necessary to watch the grass to newspaper in case it appeared mould, the conditions of cured can cause that they appear fungi if the box is not opened so that it airs. If we found fungi, is necessary to remove the cogollos from the box and to hang them to the sun.

Conservation:
Once the grass is well dry, when the stem bankruptcy, can be put in crystal jars that close hermetically and even be conserved it in a fresh and dark place months and years. The contact with the light, the air and the heat, is what causes that the grass loses the power.