What is the best way to harvest and dry Salvia divinorum leaves?
Leaves are best harvested when taking some won’t cause too much stress to the plant. For smaller house plants, leaves can be picked every once-in-a-while, and stored up. For larger outdoor plants, leaves can also be picked every so often. However, many growers prefer to wait until the end of the “growing season”, after the plants have gotten about as big as they are going to. In the United States, this is generally sometime between October and December, before the plants start flowering (which apparently won’t occur in some climates). Stripping many of the leaves off before winter and letting the plant over-winter (in those areas that don’t freeze) with fewer leaves seems to work well for people wishing to generate a large mass of leaves at one time. Leaves can be laid in single layers onto cookie sheets, and dried in an oven set at the lowest possible heat. Check them frequently so as not to burn them. We have also heard of people placing leaves into a pillowcase, tying it shut, and d
Leaves are best harvested when taking some wont cause too much stress to the plant. For smaller house plants, leaves can be picked every once-in-a-while, and stored up. For larger outdoor plants, leaves can also be picked every so often, but many growers prefer to wait until the end of the growing season, after the plants have gotten just about as big as they are going to. Generally this is sometime between October and December, before the plants start flowering (in some climates). Stripping many of the leaves off before winter and letting the plant overwinter (in those areas that dont freeze) with fewer leaves seems to work well for people wishing to generate a large mass of leaves at one time. Leaves can be laid in single layers onto cookie sheets, and dried in an oven set at the lowest possible heat. Check them frequently so as not to burn them. For storage purposes, dried leaves can be run through a strainer creating a rough powder, and then packed into glass jars. Alternately, the
