Pile of curing weed

BobCajun

BobCajun

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ILLwannabe said:
Well thank you, I wouldn't consider myself elite tho.

My setup was pretty easy, just my closet. I had my dehumidifier going in the small enclosed area, then I had the mason jars in the top part of the closet soaking in the heat. This was roughly 90-100, maybe even close to 110 degrees F. Anyways, I would watch these jars very closely, every couple hours they needed to be "popped", opened, dumped out and turned (As moisture was visible on the inside). It literally sounded like I was removing a cork from a champagne bottle. Did this for a few days. Never really lost any moisture content throughout the whole process, but the colors did change. After a few days of this, I decided they were "dry" squishy but not wet. So I brown bagged them for a few days, turning once or twice a day. Then put them in mason jars after they became "less squishy" almost hard, like normal.

After that they just cure like normal, burp based on RH of jar.
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I guess you need some holes in the top for slight ventilation. But yeah dehumidifiers do make a lot of heat and a closet would be a good place to put some jars on a shelf and then heat the closet up. Alternatively, maybe you could just have an incandescent bulb in there, or as many as required to get the temperature up to 100. A dehumidifier might be overkill, though I guess it would prevent mold in the closet from the moisture coming out the holes in the jar lid, especially if you had a bunch of jars in there.
 
a senile fungus

a senile fungus

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BobCajun said:
What would I do without you? Let me rephrase; MORE mold comes from slow curing and cool temps. Better?
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Care to provide a citation for that tidbit?

Seems like sweating buds in high humidity and high temps for a few days would cause more mold growth, but you made the opposite assertion, so I'll let you provide sources to support your claim.

Thanks!
 
BobCajun

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a senile fungus said:
Care to provide a citation for that tidbit?

Seems like sweating buds in high humidity and high temps for a few days would cause more mold growth, but you made the opposite assertion, so I'll let you provide sources to support your claim.

Thanks!
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The fact that no mold grew on my weed. That's all the proof you're gonna get. Not good enough, too bad. I don't care if you believe it or not so why would I go to the trouble?

Now to add to my suggestion about using light bulbs for heat, that actually might be one of the best ways to do it. They're so inefficient that they put out about 90% heat, so you just get a high wattage one, or a few lower wattage ones, and hook up a cheap rotary dimmer to it. Then you can adjust the temperature quite accurately from nothing to full power. You would put some foil or something around the jars to block the light, or use some other opaque container. It wouldn't have to be in a closet, could be some kind of box, even a cardboard box as long as the bulb isn't touching it. Just have the thermometer right where the jars are, like on a rack in the upper part of the box. With an average size packing box I guess you wouldn't even need a very high wattage bulb to get up to 100.

Actually it's getting hard to find incandescent bulbs so I guess you'd need to use a halogen bulb or even an LED bulb if nothing else. Their base does get pretty hot. Or maybe something else like a clothes iron.
 
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BobCajun

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Lucky Luke said:
I had a taste of last seasons out door grow last Saturday. Been curing bout 8-9 months. Tis nearly ready. Smooth as a waxed pussy.

But hey..i like premium product not a rushed "she'll be right" smoke.
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Let's see it. I have a pink elephant in my attic. Sorry, no pics.
 
Lucky Luke

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BobCajun said:
No but a camel toe pic of your sister would be nice. Yeah that shit's still green, as I suspected.
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cause its green......i havent cooked it.....

I dont see why due to some of us not having to rush our dry and cure gets you so upset?
If you want to quick dry/cure em..good for you but dont be upset and diss those of us who dont mind doing things properly. To me the cure is the most important part.

Its not hard to figure out. Plant more than you can smoke.
I have so far 5 in the bush. A clone struggling along and a seed thats just popped at home. I also have my little fridge grow going for some shits and giggles.

I aint gunna smoke all that. Two good plants will do me for two or three years, maybe longer. So ill give a heap away to good friends and keep enough for a year or two. Maybe sell a little for a holiday if its a great year.

It aint hard to get your head around. Its the same as home brewing beer. You need to get in front.
 
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sallygram

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Hi Bob, when I was in South America I saw that they cured in a very similar way to what you do sans heating pad, seems to work well for them so I am glad to hear it works well for you. I like to try things and get out of my comfort level so I may try it with an oz or two and see if it is any better.
 
BobCajun

BobCajun

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Lucky Luke said:
cause its green......i havent cooked it.....

I dont see why due to some of us not having to rush our dry and cure gets you so upset?
If you want to quick dry/cure em..good for you but dont be upset and diss those of us who dont mind doing things properly. To me the cure is the most important part.

Its not hard to figure out. Plant more than you can smoke.
I have so far 5 in the bush. A clone struggling along and a seed thats just popped at home. I also have my little fridge grow going for some shits and giggles.

I aint gunna smoke all that. Two good plants will do me for two or three years, maybe longer. So ill give a heap away to good friends and keep enough for a year or two. Maybe sell a little for a holiday if its a great year.

It aint hard to get your head around. Its the same as home brewing beer. You need to get in front.
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I didn't say it upsets me, just that the standard curing method clearly doesn't get rid of the chlorophyll, which is one of main things that makes weed harsh. I don't care that other people don't degreen their weed. I just personally consider their curing method inferior to mine for the reason I just explained. You aged your weed for 8 months and it's still green. I took 3 days with mine and it was not still green. I'll let people judge for themselves which is preferable. To me, green weed indicates that it was prepared by an amateur and I would not personally buy it.
 
BobCajun

BobCajun

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sallygram said:
Hi Bob, when I was in South America I saw that they cured in a very similar way to what you do sans heating pad, seems to work well for them so I am glad to hear it works well for you. I like to try things and get out of my comfort level so I may try it with an oz or two and see if it is any better.
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What did they do, put it in a pile in the sun? If so, the sun would probably have raised the temperature to the range I use, around 100 F.
 
sallygram

sallygram

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Exactly, they had the whole pile outside in the sun. I think Ed Rosenthal talks a little about it in the Growers Bible. it is either Sweet Curing or Sweat Curing.It is impressive at how many people wont leave their confort zone and try something different.
 
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