Been Through the FAQ....Water Curing and Air Drying

What the hell should I do? I read on the FAQ that you can water cure as soon as you pick your buds. Goes on to say that your done in 7 days, couple of hours to dry afterwards. Then I read this other one that says cut the hole plant and hang it upside down for about a month. Then follow curing process....I hope I got that right. Anyways it's in the Growfaq. I'm really confused cause if water curing is that quick and the potency is supposedly better then why the **** isn't everyone doing it? I guess everyone has there own deal, but I'm lazy @$$ mother ... you know. I'm just rambling right..but check it out I've always hacked it up then hung it up. Trimmed it and the hole nine. Anyone with some input, I'm looking for the faster way with good smoke.

If your just a guy growing on your own for personal consumption and you grow just a couple of percy plants, dont have rotating crops, then water curing could possibly be of use to you.

The faq says that you could get stronger bud but that would only be if you air dried it inefficiently, if you kept the weed in a nice dry box with no light leaks in room temperature then your going to get like for like potency i believe.

Most of us air dry because we grow enough to get us thru till next harvest and were patient enough to wait for it to dry out naturally. Plus if you did leave it to cure for 4 months im sure it would be stronger than any water cure and taste so much better.

So is that water cure really only about 8 days?

Dont get the phrasing confused, with water cure, you are not really curing it just letting it sit in water and all the toxins escape, everyone here who has ever taken buds early and quick dried them or whatever method knows that until the bud has been properly dried and cured the thc wont become active, so if you sit it in water 7 days later its still wet and still wont get you fucked, best way to go about it is get a box and run string across the top, hang all your buds in it, close it up nice n light tight and keep it in your grow room, with in a week to 2 weeks you should have propery dried smokeable bud that will get you stoned, the curing part is just an option to increase potency which doesnt happen in water curing.

Is that what you think?
Peace

nongreenthumb said:

the curing part is just an option to increase potency which doesnt happen in water curing.

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yup thats what i think

I do believe that water curing increases potency.
Peace

ok so we've just cut down the plant and all the trichomes are intact

we seperate it off and put it into water cure

the trichomes remain intact , agreed

but then you are still left with wet weed, yeah?

still has to dry out a little.

so all you have done is flush everything out

now grow till harvest and flush properly and make sure that the chloraphyl is being sucked up by the plant for energy.

Then put in a cool dark place and let it dry slowly over 3weeks, then put into mason jars and cure.

You cant honestly tell me that the water cure is going to turn out better and stronger than that.

Nothing within the water cure method has done anything to increase potency as the thc on wet weed isnt active

First off, it is 7 days to water cure, and 2 more days to air dry, which is what I did.
Yes, I felt it was much stronger, so did my wife. The numbers support it too. Try it sometime.
Peace

I air dry and jar my buds for the cure. I have year old jars sitting here with very stoney and smoothe smoke w/ evolving tastes. You won't get that with water cured bud.

The only time I place marijuana in water is to make bubblehash.

gurgle, gurgle...cough..cough...

good luck

bt dt

I wasn't talking taste, we were talking about potency.
But Thank You.
Peace

beenthere donethat said:

I air dry and jar my buds for the cure. I have year old jars sitting here with very stoney and smoothe smoke w/ evolving tastes. You won't get that with water cured bud.

The only time I place marijuana in water is to make bubblehash.

gurgle, gurgle...cough..cough...

good luck

bt dt

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I love your poll, but can't I choose both????
Peace

Potency is in the genes and cannot be increased by water curing. It may concentrate it more because it breaks down the chlorophyl in the plant, but just like the OLD days where folks said curing w/ dry ice in a cooler..splitting the stem of the plant and puttin a rock in it to stress it...or burying it in a coffee can for 30 days would make pot "more potent"...

um...nope..it doesn't. (I'd have to see the buds tested for THC to believe that water curing indeed increases the potency myself).

Make hash/hash oil if you want something more potent from yer weed!

It's just DIFFERENT...not more potent. If you could increase potency this way..there'd be a machine already made to do it..and EVERYONE would be doing it all the time.

just my $.02

bt dt

A machine to do this?.......There is, it's called the kitchen faucet! LoL
Peace

i dont know if i am alone here, but i feel ripped of when i buy bud that was water cured. its just not the same.

soloudithertz said:

i dont know if i am alone here, but i feel ripped of when i buy bud that was water cured. its just not the same.

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I think you might have misunderstood.
They are not wetting to add weight.
They are wetting to make the buds potency more uniform.
And I suppose it may do some for leaching chlorophyl.
I personally will not be trying anytime soon.
You never know though.
Someday in a galaxy far away I may try and if it does not work I will just make hash oil.

Don't matter how many you pick mr. video...I was just messing around to see if that poll thing worked. My only question is why does it take 1-2 weeks to dry through the air with no water cure. With the water cure your only looking at 2 days. Are you using something to speed up the drying?

Just seems like a lazy ass way of flushing to me

I remember reading another videoman thread a little while ago about when growing with organic medium and nutes, that you didnt need to flush before harvest and everything would still be dandy.

Ok, I didnt agree at first but i dont do organics so i didnt know.

So can someone actually explains to me what water curing actually does.

Because as far as I can make out its just another method of flushing.
You put it in a jar and let the liquid within remove the chloraphyll and toxins, i.e. nutrients.

So if you flush your plants properly for the recommend period before harvest, and you can see that the plant is starting to suck the chloraphyl out of the plant by the leaves gonig yellow, what is the water cure going to do.

You are still going to have to wait for it to dry as you would after harvest anyway, you've kept it wet for 7 days, more wet than it was before. How is this helping?

then take it out the water cure and what have you got?

proper wet bud,

wouldnt it be better to flush for 2 weeks or whatever , drain the chloraphyl while the plant is still growing and the trichomes remain intact.

Then put away somehwere dark and cool, and let it dry really slowly over a period of 2 weeks. Then put it in for a real cure.

I can accept that this is a method to follow after harvest, but what does it actually accomplish.

If you want to look at other ways of curing your bud quickly, why not look in to silica gel?

That's the thing, I'm not looking for the fastest way to do it. More like the best way, I mean if water curing is faster and produces the same if not better results I'm all for it. I have no opinion on this yet whether to water cure or air dry. I just read the FAQ and according to that it only takes about 10 days to water cure and dry, but air drying takes weeks and "supposedly" with less potency to weight ratio. I'm just asking, again I have no personal opinion on this yet.