drying with rice

Is the rice removed to start the curing process, or will it be ready to smoke within the 3-5day process?

I have just harvested a few little popcorn buds etc. and its gone into the jar with a layer of rice and a paper towel separating it all.

Ill keep ya posted.

kidsingle said:

Is the rice removed to start the curing process, or will it be ready to smoke within the 3-5day process?

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I think the rice is ONLY for drying, not for curing.

Seamaiden said:

I think the rice is ONLY for drying, not for curing.

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yes, dont use rice when curing.

u want the bud to expand outwards with moisture from the very centre of the bud which makes the bud in whole, the same ...whats the word...

u want the bud to be the same all over.

rice will extract all the moisture thus giving u shitty nugs with no flavour or moisture.

I can't think of the word for having the same moisture content throughout, except for cured. Got a couple of girls I'm going to take some sample colas from in the next couple of days.

Thanks 4 the info

soon as i read this thread, i had to try it... had some early flowerin fems with half orange pistils, so i pikked those 2 and put in jars with rice, and burp 4-6 times daily.. proly 2 much but i dont want any mould.. so far good even drying, a little faster, and no mould...
now, it would seem that once they were dry enuf to start curing you could take the rice out, all but a few grains. was thinking since its already dry there wont be 'that much' moisture (to be worried about mould) that the few grains couldnt handle, and wouldnt be so much that the rice overdries the buds wile they cure... anyway. im gonna try it, ill keep ya posted.. hell its only a few grams.. if it works or if it doesnt, i still learned something




12/12 from seed
400wHPS+175wMH @ same time
mounted in a box with
500cfm inline ductfan as the exhaust
mid-size box fan blowing toward intake
70-85 deg F.
3-5 gms per plant... if im lucky, quarter bag off a good 1.

Cool, can't wait to hear how it goes.

hmm sounds sick i always got rice laying around the house!! lol

damn asians lol none takin, anyways sounds like a great idea thinking about cutting my branches into nugs and stuff them right now =)

do you loose any of the trichomes in this process?? just curious

mix in with buds? separate rice on bottom and bud on top??

ur going to lose trichs those rice grains are more than big enough to rub off trichs and damage them dry ur buds the right way

Yeah, if you bury the buds in the rice. No one's talking about burying buds in rice, though. Just putting it in the container with the bud, and if you're creative I'm sure there are a few ways to keep them separate. I think we touched on that a couple of pages back.

maybe buds half way one the bottom paper towel to prtect em with rice on top but i wouldnt do it i wouldnt like taking the chance of loseing potency

Seamaiden said:

I wish the original poster would answer my question about his general weather conditions. Up here I expect inside the house to be even drier (if that's possible) than outside. Mountain air tends to be awfully dry (my nose is STILL messed up from the dryness).

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sorry man i've been outa town a little bit but here its mostly like 80 to 90
near the gulf coast of TEXAS

Aha! Ok, this gives me MUCH better perspective on how it might work for me, in CALIFORNIA.

cardboard box,twine, and rice. take twine make rows in box, hang buds on said twine, and add a nice thick layer of rice on bottom of box. seems to work nicely dry in 2-3 days ready to cure

depending on density of buds might take a little longer

otwa2002 said:

cardboard box,twine, and rice. take twine make rows in box, hang buds on said twine, and add a nice thick layer of rice on bottom of box. seems to work nicely dry in 2-3 days ready to cure

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Fabulous! You've just helped me with some questions in my head. + rep for joo.

i still like al b fuct's dryer, he does make alot of sense and is trusted on here. i might make me one of those. but the rice i think honestly does help pulls moisture out, i live in pa so humid days suck. i hung over summer and was hard cause of the high humidity, did the rice thing in my dry box and viola it helped immensly. but i like the dry box al b put up easier to deal with.

This is a great thread, I am going to try this as well.

I have my rice necklace permanently installed in my drying box. I have to turn the fan off at night because it's in our bedroom, and the rice does a great job of preventing the bud from getting too moist again.