I'm interested in the seven-day water curing method. Since one of the results is that chlorophyll and other undesirables evaporate off, I'm wondering if the practice of halting nutrients two weeks prior to harvest is necessary. I'm also wondering if the recommended final flush before harvesting is necessary.

Has anyone tested the effectiveness of the method on a crop that has fed up to the harvest? Has anyone tested the method without having performed a final flush?

Thanks.

Good question. I'm planning to try to water cure my present grow. Just got my dehydrator at Walmart last week for $24.00, so I'm gonna give it a try.
Any help would be appreciated.

how big is the dehydrator? think you could get a few oz in there

i saw this method today in a vid, how do you do it. the water curing method?. sounds good.

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keep us posted, ill be watching if it works, sounds ok.

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it is not necsessary to flush before water curing. i didnt water cure anything my last harvest, but the one prior to that i didnt flush before water curing. it came out perfectly fine.

if youre harvesting at the correct time, bud growth should have peaked by the time youre flushing, so the difference between using nutes or not using nutes is very minimal.

also after doing a 7 day water cure, the buds will air dry very quickly(for me they were 100% dry from leaving them on a rack in a closet overnight) so unless youre really hard up for weed, i would advise against a dehydrator. however, im paranoid about using any type of outside heat to help dry.

basically to water cure you keep your buds completely submerged in water for 7 days. change the water every 24 hours. thats about it. you lose taste/smell/looks but keep potency. works wonderfull for people who want to smoke a cureed harvest asap.

Seems like that would slow the whole process down...how would submerging your freaking buds in water help get them ready faster? Sounds oxymoronic to me, unless I'm missing some vital info. What are you supposed to do after the 7 days of dunking? hang them to dry for another 2 weeks? Then cure?

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The reason this works so well is because THC is not water soluable while other compounds within the plant are. Basically what you are doing (which is why I question water curing over traditional curing) is causing the plant cells to lyse or burst open and release their contents. With most of the cells this is very minimal due to the rigid cell wall in the plants made of cellulose (Stems, hardy branches etc). If a human blood cell is placed in fresh water, it will absorb the water in an attempt to get the concentration of nutrients on either side of its plasma membrane to equal, this is why IV's are Saline solutions, to prevent the cells from bursting. So basically the same idea on the water cure method is occuring, but due to the strength of the cell wall which animal cells lack minimal bursting occurs in nature. However I believe once submerged in distilled water or tap water for so long the cells will burst. I mean look at a heavily heavily overwatered plant, it dies slowly because there is too much water. But at the same time correct amounts of water allow it to hold its firm shape. But back to the point of water curing - to remove everything but thc in as little time possible. Sure it helps get out the different water soluable substances in the bud quicker, but naturally these substances would breakdown (as evident in air curing) and be left inside the plant cells. Toxins inside the cells in the water cure method are released into the plants circulatory system which in turn kills other cells near it by changing the pH of the enviroment until these toxins become trapped in the plant, broken down by cells that are still surviving (the 2-3 days after harvest), or flushed out of the plant. Now knowing a lil about biology and microbiology I can tell you that once the circulatory system has been blocked (the cells at the cut would be the first traumatically affected by the water) that these toxins would still be flushed, but less efficiently. And one has to remember not all cellular components (cellular fluid, excretion etc) are water soluable in the first place. Some would non-the-less be stuck inside the enviroment of the cells that are slowly dying off.

I guess my point is - with water cure method you speed up the death of the plant at the cellular level, this prevents the plant from using up everything and disposing of everything in a natural way.

I'm old fashioned air cure myself and not here to down anybody's methods but it was just my view on why water cure would be less wanted. I'm not saying what the compounds left in either one turn into when exposed to heat like a flame because in the end that should be what we are more worried about than THC content and I dont have the necessary equipment to find out what they turn into, it just seems to me that alot of unnecessary cellular level toxins are being left behind by water cure method.

Anybody with superior knowledge please feel free to correct anything I've said here, I wont be cocky enough to say I'm definitely right.

I did an experiment using the water cure process, and detailed here on RIU. YOu will not NEED to do a final flush if you are going to water cure. But I really advise you to not water cure if at all possible. It will change the look,smell,and taste of your harvest. And not in a good way.

You could water cure just a little to last you until the bulk of your green is cured normally. This is what I did, and I am glad I didn't water cure it all.

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You quick dry them after 7 days in the hole.

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