After Harvest Gear: Odour Killers, Presses, Jars & Infusion

Plenty of people land here hunting for drying nets or a trimmer, and this shelf has neither. It picks up where drying leaves off. If you're still at the hanging-and-burping stage, the racks, curing jars and hygrometers for that job sit in Harvest, Dry & Cure, and both shelves sit under the wider growshop. What follows is the stuff 266 has that the drying shelf doesn't.

A pollen press presses, it doesn't extract

Search "pollen extractor" and you'll mostly get beekeeping machines. We don't sell one of those, and we don't sell a machine that pulls kief out of your trim on its own either. Collecting and compressing are two separate jobs. For dry sift, the Hemp Tray Kit With Sifting Screen by Santa Cruz gives you a screen to work over and a tray to catch what falls through. For ice water hash, the Ice Extraction Bag Kit by Pure Factory does the cold-and-agitate route. Once you've got a pile of kief, the Pocket Pollen Press by TRIBE squeezes it into a small puck, and the Qnubu Aluminium Pre-Press Mould handles bigger batches.

Fresh dry sift feels like fine sand and sticks to your fingertips, and it smells sharper and greener than the flower it came off. Watch out for damp material though: sifting only works properly with bone-dry trim, and a press won't rescue soggy kief, it just turns it into a soggy lump. If you only want a pinch of kief now and then rather than a batch, a grinder with a kief catcher collects it slowly for free instead.

Kill the smell before the neighbours clock it

Trimming and drying dumps terpenes into the air for days, and a scented candle from the supermarket isn't going to touch it. The Smoke Odor Exterminator range is built for this: Creamy Vanilla, Flower Power, Bamboo Breeze, Blue Serenity, Hippie Love, Happy Daze, Dragon's Blood, Kiwi Twisted Strawberry, and Cool Cucumber & Honeydew. Creamy Vanilla is the thick bakery kind of vanilla, sweet enough to sit on top of everything in a small room. Dragon's Blood goes the other way, resiny and incense-heavy.

The ONA Block Odour Neutraliser is the heavier option. It's a solid gel block you leave in the room, and it works on the smell rather than layering a scent over it. Honest limitation: neither of these scrubs air like a carbon filter does. If the smell is escaping the tent while plants are still up, sort the extraction first and use the candles and the ONA Block for the trimming table, the drying cupboard, and the hour after a session.

Turn the trim into butter, oil and tinctures

Trim is worth more in the kitchen than in the bin. The POT by NOIDS Herb Cooker decarbs in the glass cup in about two hours, then takes up to 250ml of the carrier oil of your choice and infuses in roughly three more. The filter funnel and mesh come with it, so you decant without greasy fingers, and the removable parts go in the dishwasher. The Cannolator Measuring Cup 250ml by Medi-Wiet is the manual version of the same idea, and a Dropper Bottle is a small glass bottle with a pipette lid for dosing out whatever you end up with.

The POT does tie up half a morning and a chunk of counter space per run, which is the trade-off for not stinking out the family oven. If you're only making one batch of butter a year, the Cannolator and a hob will get you there.

Seal what you keep, and keep it at the right RH

Jar, pouch, or vacuum bag: they do different things. Glass is the default for curing and short-term storage, and the Weed Curing Jar runs from Small at 255ml up to Xtra Large at 1140ml, with a rubber ring and a wire bracket that snaps shut airtight. The Weed Curing Jar by RAW does the same in RAW's own glass, and the Juicy Jay Storage Jars are screw-top jars for smaller amounts. The TerpLoc Window Pouch by Grove Bags is the flat, resealable alternative with a see-through panel, and it lives on the harvest, dry and cure shelf too.

Humidity is what actually keeps the flavour. We carry the Boveda Humidipak, plus Zamnesia's own Humidity Control Pack, which holds a steady 62% and comes in 8 g and 67 g. Moisture Fighters go in for straight moisture control. The Integra Boost Terpene Essentials range adds a single terpene to the pack, with Limonene, Myrcene, Beta-Caryophyllene, Pinene, Humulene, and Terpinolene to choose from. The Qnubu Vacuum Sealer is for bulk and long-haul, not for finished flower: vacuum pressure squashes dry buds and knocks trichomes off, so keep it for trim, edibles, and anything you won't be admiring later. And if you want to see what you're actually storing, the Slide-O Scope is a small microscope for checking trichomes.

Where we'd start

Smell first: an ONA Block for the room, a candle for the trimming table. Then a curing jar with a 62% humidity pack, and the sifting screen once you've got trim to spare.