air cured pot

Was just curious, can someone tell me the downside of leaving trimmed plants upside down in my dark root cellar to dry indefinitely? Temp and humidity are both low, its dark as a coal mine and no wind or disturbances. I have some that are approaching 2 months on the "clothes line" in there, have been too busy to do the final trim and put in glass jars.

If they become too dry then there will be absolutely no moisture left in them and you won't be able to cure. The best thing to do is to cure the buds right after the stem snaps during drying because it distributes the remaining moisture throughout the bud, giving it that dank feeling and AWESOME smell. I'm still mastering this technique and I have found that mine get too dry in 5 days when I hang them in a room with 20% RH, so I moved them into a room with 45% RH and hoping for better results.

the downside is it's gonna be dry as dust and probably harsh as all hell too. lol

Yeah... without curing you really lose the feel, taste and smell. I believe that once you harvest you're 80% done, you must cure if you want best results.

You left bud out to dry for as long as it would have taken to grow auto plants from seed and then harvest them? I don't think buds ever need to be left out more than 1 week unless it is very humid

3 to 5 days drying in a rack (5 to 7 during the humid summers) and they're ready to put in jars and start curing. Failure to cure/no cure results in some very dry, crumbly, HARSH smoke. It'll still get ya high, but it'll be more like some cheap street-level shit (as far as taste/smell/harshness/ bag appeal/etc) instead of some nice dank top-shelf weed. Curing is just as important as any nutes or soils. Not curing can seriously degrade the overall quality of your final product, although in all honesty if you took the time to grow it right it will still stomp the hell out of commercial-grade smoke even without curing (but it won't reach it's real potential).

Go down and give one of those plants a squeeze.....












thats the downside...

Yeah I guess I'm missing something... how do you not have time to properly dry for a week when there's so much time and effort that goes into the grow itself? Those things are probably nasty by now.