This is a quick thread to show anyone out there what the difference between Air curing and Water curing looks like in the final product.

Here's my quick new guide: GreenX How to's... How to Water Cure (w/pics)

The bud in the following pictures are all from the same plant, all harvested and trimmed at the same time, the only difference is one was hung on wires to air dry (Air cure) straight after harvest and one was Water cured, after the water cure, the water cured bud was hung on the same wires as the air cured bud to dry.
Here's the difference in how they look...

Picture 1: The bud on the left is Air cured, the bud on the right is Water cured.
Picture 2: Air cured bud.
Picture 3: Water cured bud.
Picture 4: Close up of Water cured bud.

Remember, all that bud looked the same when it was harvested, the difference in appearance is due to the different methods of curing.






Here's my quick new guide: GreenX How to's... How to Water Cure (w/pics)

Cheers!

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GreenX ~ Glossary of Terms:
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Awesome examples!!! rep+! Any feedback on the taste? high? burning properties?

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yeh whats it smoke like? is it worth doing?

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Smoke wise ... I'll do a list coz I'm really trashed right now and it's easier haha.

- It doesn't smell much. It doesn't seem to really stain your clothes with the smell either.
- It doesn't taste much either haha.
- It's pretty smooth.
- It burns, really, really well. Burn quite quickly, but eveny. And is like smoking tobacco when smoked through a pipe.
- You definitely don't need a large amount to get high, I mean it's a good strain anyway, but there's visibly less plant mass left behind after water curing, but you can see just as many trichs packed in their.

Considering it took less time to water cure and dry then it did to air dry/cure, I'd say it's worth doing for a private stash... and since it doesn't smell much or leave you reeking of pot, it's a great down low smoke.
It definitely weighs less after a water cure, so I wouldn't water cure your bud if you plan on selling it by weight.
But for private stash purposes, I'd recommend water curing 1/4 or 1/3 of your harvest to have as smoke you can mix with tobacco and smoke at the pub without getting noticed, or for those people who don't like the taste/smell of the pot they have.

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rep + for u doing this, your the 1st person i know to have does this, nice one dude

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The Cheeses,EBW

looks and sounds very nice this water cure..

q: do u dry the buds before u water cure..? or do you harvest, water cure right away and then dry?

and what about mould...?

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You cut em and water cure right away, 7 days submerged in water, changing the water every 24 hours. (I'll make a thread on it tonight and link it). Then after those 7 days, you hang the buds up like normal to dry, and they dry in 24-48 hours, completely (I had fans around them). They don't get mold in the water because mold can't grow under water, trichs aren't water soluble so you don't lose them (apart from a few that may fall off, but the happens with any cure), no need to worry bout rH because there's no air to alter rH, under water the rH is non-existent. Temps, I didn't check, but a cool, dark place is always the way to go.
And as for mold when drying, well as long as you got a fan, they dry way too fast to grow mold because there's not a lot of plant mass to dry and all the shit (like chlorophyll - as you can see by the brown colour of the bud), has already come out the leaves.

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GreenX ~ Glossary of Terms:
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cool!

how did u prevent the buds from floating on the surface..?

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fantastic thread thanks very much for posting

Your results are pretty much exactly like mine. The only downside is if your selling it people won't like it because it doesn't smell and it turns brown. But the looks and smell is deceiving. It smokes good.
I just use an old plastic cooler fill with water and through the buds in with a piece of mesh screen to weight them down with a plate on top. I used a food dehydrator to dry them.