This is a basic guide of How to Water Cure, it is generally step-by-step and will hopefully be helpful to anyone wanting to try this.

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Note: In this guide I will be using a jar to do the water cure as I'm only curing a small amount.

Step 1: Get a jar (or larger tub, such as a chilly bin or bucket, for larger quantities) and fill it with water.


Step 2: (Note: this may not apply if you're not using a jar with a screw on lid) Puncture some holes in the lid, these will later be used to easily drain the water when you want to change it.


Step 3: Select the plant(s) you want to water cure.
This is the babe I will be using.



Step 4: Remove the parts of the plant you want to water cure, and give them a quick trim up, removing the large fan leaves and trimming away as many or few of the trim leaves as you desire.
I've only done a very light trim here as the trim leaves have plenty of trichs on them.


Step 5: Get the buds you want to water cure and submerge them in the water.



Step 6: Leave what ever you're water curing in uncovered so any chemicals and other nasties can evaporate. In larger containers, it may be necessary to weigh the bud down with a steel mesh or something similar because the bud will float for the first few days it's in the water. Store in a cool, dark place. Every 24 hours (every 12 hours if you really want) drain the water completely and replace with fresh water simply by pouring the fresh water into the jar. (I didn't pH my water because it's pH 7.0 out of the tap, but you may wish to pH it if your water's pH is a bit out of whack).

Step 7: Draining the water! To drain the water, simply screw the lid on to the jar, tilt over a bucket or sink, and watch the water drain!


Step 8: After this process of draining and replacing the water every 24 hours has been done for 7 days, it's time to dry that bud!
Simply hang the bud on a wire or something similar, just dry it like you would if you were doing a regular air dry, preferably with a fan blowing on or around it.
It should dry in 24-48 hours, believe it or not, pretty quick considering the bud is sopping wet when you hang it. *You may wish to place a towel or newspaper under the buds while they dry as they will drip a fair bit of water onto what ever is under them.
Sorry I didn't get a picture right when I hung them, this pic was taken 24 hours after the hang.


Step 9: SMOKE THAT SHIT! Hahaha. It will probably look a bit like this.
Picture 1: Water cured bud.
Picture 2: Left - Air cured bud. Right - Water cured bud.



Hope this helps some of you out their. If you're unsure of any of the terms I've used, hopefully my Glossary of Terms will help you out: Glossary of Terms

Cheers!

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nice dude id only seen the tub method and i figured i could rig up a smaller sized thing with a jar like that and now i know for sure +repp

looks like the bag appeal is in the airdry but that 8-10 day cure time is NICE

I plan on doing exactly what you did and curing some in the water so i have something to smoke sooner than the main batch thats airdried

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The weight is in the air dry too, believe me on that one haha. Some people go for the water cured because it looks different, a little exotic almost, but it weighs near half what air dried does, so not the best way to go when wanting to sell.

It's definitely good for some quick smoke, nice and smooth, like it's been air dried and cured for 30 days or more.

Cheers for the +rep.

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those are really nice bushy ass plants by the way

is there a journal?

what strain?

and if no journal then what grow medium

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Could you save the water and make some koolaid

If you really wanted to you could, but I think when you see and smell that water, you won't want to, it's pretty manky... And THC isn't water soluble so it wouldn't get you high at all... But if someone would buy it, you could make some cash haha.

Sorry no journal, that was just a small run I did with a few plants while I had some spare time between my next proper grow.

The strain is one I bred myself, I call it; Siamese Skunk. It has a very strong skunky smell, but what kind of skunk doesn't have a strong smell haha, and it packs on the trichs which is call, easy to grow too, a little harder to clone than most stuff for some reason?

The grow medium is a basic bubble bucker (hydro I guess), all the other plants were grown in soil, but that one was grown in the bubble bucket, from clone to flowering, that's why I used it for the water cure, my other stuff is organically grown, but that stuff was fed synthetic hydro nutes, and I never 'properly' flushed it, I just stopped adding nutes bout 1/2-3/4 of the way through flowering haha, topped up the water in the bucket a couple times, never had to fully change it.

Now the last plant I did in a bubbler bucket was a little larger than that hahahah:

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i like i like

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Thanks for sharing all this great info! Nice pictures too! I may experiment with some of my nugs with the water curing. Interesting! +rep

Pass this around everybody!

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Woohooo!! *puff puff pass* >>>>>

thanks!