I attempted to try some before asking, but due to unexpected circumstances I had to abort the experiment and couldn't smoke enough to find out by myself. Now, thinking about the next time I harvest...

Particularly now in summer, after getting a couple of my salvia plants used to the lower outdoors humidity in my location, sometimes leaves in the plant curl and dry partially. And I was wondering if the presence of salvinorin compounds changes in the parts of the leaf that have been dried before harvest.

Salvia growers, do you trim the partially dried leaves after harvesting and before drying the plant material for storage? Do you rescue the fallen dry leaves? If the amount of salvinorin changes between healthy and dry leaves, it would be good to know - I don't want to mix leaves with different concentrations. And once they've been manually dried it's very difficult to tell between both.

Thanks!

even the dry fallen brown leaves I find around my plants are very active. So, yes save everything. BTW I dont eve harvest my plants..the only time I harvest leaf is when I take cuttings becasue some leaf needs to be removed. Other than that I only take fallen leaves. I have 120g of dry leaf right now all home grown. You dont have to slash your plants up to have enough salvia for yourself even if your a regular user..just grow them out till they need to have cuttings taken..repeat

Awesome, jamie, thank you.

And yes, I do harvest my plants only when taking cuttings as well, but since lately I've been slowly adapting them to a drier ambient (very high humidity + summer heat = mold problems) and I had to bug them more than usual, I've gone through a few unsuccessful cuttings/rootings and I salvaged the leaves I could before giving up on those.

In any case, it's good to read what you say. Makes things easier. Thanks again.