redtailboas
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I don't care about burning time, I just want to make this stuff less harsh. Will hydrating it a bit help make it less harsh?
Super dry harsh shwag better to hydrate?
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Organic Altruism
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Trying to rehydrate your bud can lead to mold. Best advice is to just not buy shwag.
redtailboas
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Thanks for the answer, but I'm curious about only one thing - will properly (eg, not over doing it) hydrating harsh dry shwag likely make it less harsh?
redtailboas
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This is tougher than I thought it would be
redtailboas
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Makes the tobacco less harsh?
blake9999
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Not less harsh but moistenes it back up.
redtailboas
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Darn. So no point then unless just wanting it to burn slower or keep it from crumbling... Yes?
redtailboas
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Thank you bro.
jaibyrd7
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No it will not. Good luck.
The Sovereign
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Those of you telling redtailboas it's impossible are wrong. You can fix harshly burning awful tasting schwag, poorly flushed or not flushed schwag aka leaving black ashes or sparking when lit easily. It's called water curing. This is a process that takes a week. Normal drying and curing takes a month at a minimum. Drying is done by leaving it in a cool dark place to dry until small stems snap. To cure properly freshly dried buds are sealed in a lightproof container and exposed to air once or twice a day for an hour. That can be done for a year if you want to. We're gonna skip all that and do this the fast way. You didn't specify amounts so if this is a full harvest a cooler with a drain on the bottom will work perfectly. If personals any container will work fine. Take the schwag and put it in the container. Add lukewarm water (don't pour water directly on top of the bud) to it until it's deeper than the biggest bud. Now put something on top of the buds to weigh them down so they are completely submerged. Sealing the container with a lid is fine. Doing this will help reduce the chance of it being spilled and keep the smell down. Let this sit for twenty four hours. Now carefully drain/pour the water out without removing the plant matter. The water will more than likely be a brown color and smell nasty. What has happened is a leeching of chlorophyll and any residual grow chemicals from the plant matter. THC is non water soluble (this is why smoking out of a water bong or using bubble bags works) so it will stay behind. Now carefully refill the container with lukewarm water (do not pour water directly on the buds), re-sink the buds if they are still floating with whatever you are using to hold them down below the water, and cover if you want to. Let sit for another twenty four hours. Repeat this process for a week. When I've done this in the past by day five the water is usually clear. Keep doing it anyways until you reach seven days. On day seven take the buds out of the container and hang them by their stems from a clothes hanger using clothes pins in a dry dark spot with a fan running indirectly. If that's not possible rack drying or any other creative way is fine. I've laid out wax paper on my floor before, placed them on it, and had a fan by them to move air around (Do not have the fan blowing directly on them. If you do they are liable to blow all about wherever you are once they are dry aka light enough). While the buds are drying they are going to smell pretty strong, just so you're aware. Once they get as dry as you want them they are done.
If all you want to do is add some moisture you could leave the buds on a piece of paper in your bathroom and take a hot shower with the fan off.
I hope this helps,
GG
P.S. The reason water curing isn't normally done on commercial bud is the chlorophyll being removed will make the buds turn dark green or brown thus killing bag appeal. It will also remove weight which costs the grower money. * Edited to add this and use the correct name in my response.
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redtailboas
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Thanks for your reply. Makes sense...
I should have specified this is brick stuff that I acquired, not fresh herb (I looked for a more appropriate forum but didn't find.) Does your process still apply?
I should have specified this is brick stuff that I acquired, not fresh herb (I looked for a more appropriate forum but didn't find.) Does your process still apply?
whitebb2727
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You don't open the bud up daily for up to a year. Once you hit the desired moisture content of the bud you don't open them again. You can use some brovada packs.
Put some fresh fan leaves from a pot plant in with the buds or lettuce.
You may not get the taste back but you should be able to tame the harsh a bit.
The Sovereign
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Yup. I've used water curing to fix stuff I bought in the past. It was bone dry, burned black, and tasted awful. The process works on fresh or dry.
Good point on the normal curing process. I usually cure a month or so before stopping. I've read posts of some people growing landrace sativas curing for a year and just threw that in there. Never tried going that long myself.
redtailboas
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Okay. Did it. IMO very successful. Couple of bonuses is that it lost that cat piss "hayish" smell. Still has a slight scent, but no hint of that nasty dirt herb smell.
Also burns to pure white ash instead of carbonized black.
Less harsh; actually smokable now.
Subjectively seems significantly more potent.
Couple of notes... IMO it only needs two days of curing to get 95% or more of the crap out compared to if 5 days. Perhaps 85% out in the first 24h. I changed the water 3x a day for two days.
I lost about 40% weight. 12G before and 7.5G after. It was quite dry prior to the process, but some of that weight loss COULD have been due to water weight.
Thanks again.
