Can you cure anyway?

promedz said:

You sir have swhag! And don’t even make sense I never once mentioned cure.. i store my bud in jars.. you should find a euro thread to help out them ppl with swhag like you... 14 days hanging with 30 percent humidity no way your bringing that back just turns to swhag... don’t respond search for that thread

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I wrote how to dry and cure here but you wrote the opposite - am i really bullshitting new members here or are you.

Its a simple who do you believe - me with a simple natural dry derived from the last two thousond years of science, real world agronomics and human survival or you who has turned up in the last rain fall saying we all now need hygrometers boveda and to jar after "i quote '7 days'" and spawns a whole generation of confused growers...?

I disagree with you its that simple - others can easily dry some bud, smoke it and see whos making pork pies

Kingrow1 said:

I wrote how to dry and cure here but you wrote the opposite - am i really bullshitting new members here or are you.

Its a simple who do you believe - me with a simple natural dry derived from the last two thousond years of science, real world agronomics and human survival or you who has turned up in the last rain fall saying we all now need hygrometers boveda and to jar after "i quote '7 days'" and spawns a whole generation of confused growers...?

I disagree with you its that simple - others can easily dry some bud, smoke it and see whos making pork pies

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I agree but also drying a cfl bud or a 1000wAtt bud is two different ball parks..

promedz said:

I agree but also drying a cfl bud or a 1000wAtt bud is two different ball parks..

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Air exchange is more important that humidity - somthing wet can dry in a lot of humidities if the air isnt stagnant.

Some take this to mean blow wind on the bud but again thats bad not natural.

Why is a big bud different to a small, it has more surface area

Lethidox said:

what i mean by this is im looking at how to cure but im confused because people are stating different things when it comes to burping such as some burp daily for X amount of days then burp every few days after that. others stated they burp for hours and some state they burp for minutes only.

wondering is this just a personal preference? right now i was planning to burp for 10-15minutes twice a day for idk like 3-4 days then do it every other day and keep a humidity pack in there. i do not have a small hygrometer to really check the specifics of the humidity and temps inside the jars.

i am in NO rush to smoke this stuff so any help with curing?

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If you do it right (for a beginner) the buds will be dry enough that nothing bad will happen even if you don't burp them

i dont think they can go 2 weeks might be overkill for how noob i am but i think a week is okay if anything they under dried at that point fuck um. i got another harvest coming in about 1-2 months so i can practice more and more over time. but yea from what i've watched by people in the industry that sell none seem to burp they just dry, trim, then package. at the most i've seen people put in a paper bag after drying for a few days then trim and package.

i think mine will be done by sunday-tuesday more likely tuesday. i'll probably run um until wednesday morning and then trim and jar though. got too much errands i need to run until wednesday so i don't really have a lot of time to trim. doesn't help traffic is crazy right now due to a landslide here

Lethidox said:

i dont think they can go 2 weeks might be overkill for how noob i am but i think a week is okay if anything they under dried at that point fuck um. i got another harvest coming in about 1-2 months so i can practice more and more over time. but yea from what i've watched by people in the industry that sell none seem to burp they just dry, trim, then package. at the most i've seen people put in a paper bag after drying for a few days then trim and package.

i think mine will be done by sunday-tuesday more likely tuesday. i'll probably run um until wednesday morning and then trim and jar though. got too much errands i need to run until wednesday so i don't really have a lot of time to trim. doesn't help traffic is crazy right now due to a landslide here

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Dry till no moisture comes out, thats all they do then jar. Its that easy let it dry for long enough. You cant overdry the natural way in two weeks - dosent happen, what does happen is that bud that is less than perfect never dries very well and will crisp up, any shit bud you get notice it dosent dry and cure as easy or as well as primo. If newer growers base their assumptions here then its easy to se why they think bud can overdry at two weeks

I dried in my tent last grow for 4 days and by the fifth it was crumbling. I lost so much weight while doing a final trim than to jar. The moisture never rejuvenated. I was left with dry AF bud but it tasted good smelt good and smoked decently a bit harsh but that's because it was so dry. I am a week out or so from a new harvest and I have my temps & humidity down to a T + all the air flow etc... I am going to follow the snap stem trick and than jar with 62% packs. Hopefully this will work. I expect to hang dry for 4-7 days than to jar for 3-4 weeks. Burping daily for 5 mins at a time. No hygrometer.

i dont think it will take 4 days for me humidity here is high if i were to dry outside then maybe knowing my luck im probably going to either get mold or have to run it closer to 2 weeks anyways. imma try run my hygrometer in the bathroom and check RH i bet it's like 75-80% in their lmfao

wow RH in the bathroom actually only 65% better then i expected. buds look really wet though kinda like they were soaked in water got a dark green tint to them unless thats just from my lighting. now i think they will take 7-14 days for sure leaves probably shrivel up completely on sunday/monday

humidity climbed up to 70% now so kinda worried. might move um to somewhere else to get more air flow but wont be in complete darkness. can't tell if i see trichomes on the buds or that is mold. gonna wait it out tomorrow i kinda got somewhere in mind to hang to dry otherwise

Just hang in a well ventilated room, living room, halkway etc etc.

Bathrooms are too humid and stagnant imo, you want it away from humid stagnant conditions mainly.

You cant avoid some light its not the end off the world

Kingrow1 said:

Just hang in a well ventilated room, living room, halkway etc etc.

Bathrooms are too humid and stagnant imo, you want it away from humid stagnant conditions mainly.

You cant avoid some light its not the end off the world

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yea bathrooms are pretty damn humid ended up moving it into my bedroom it gets indirect sunlight only but it's in the corner where it is the most dark should be okay though

This is definately a tough subject. Mid summer i had trouble drying because my rh here was over 70%, this winter it is around 22%.
No single set of directions works for all situations. The main thing is to keep drying as slow as possible but not so slow you get mold.
In the summer it took me 5 weeks to get it to be smokable, this time i hung for 4 days, brown bagged for 2, and burped the jar for a week to get it decent. Still has its smell, and smokes nice

Yea my rh is kinda high in general but in the bathroom you can just feel the increase. I think it would be better now compared to where it eas though so fuck the indirect lighting

Lethidox said:

Yea my rh is kinda high in general but in the bathroom you can just feel the increase. I think it would be better now compared to where it eas though so fuck the indirect lighting

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How is the bud drying going?

If you do store the finished product in jars make sure you give it a long enough hang time. Like Kinngrow1 said it will feel dry to the touch after a while. Hell it looks ready at day 5 but if you jar it you will chase moisture. Hang it until the stems snap and then jar it. When you get better at it you can put them in with more RH and burp them until you like the RH.

I cure my bud because it is all personal. And the flavor changes over a cure and the bud stays fresher in a mason jar. I cant tell you what they are like over a year because 6 months was the oldest jar i ever found. It was a small jar of white rhino and it was really good.

The smoke gets smoother over time but if you do it right that bud should have white ash as soon as its dry enough to smoke.

Kingrow1 said:

How is the bud drying going?

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branches looking like they can handle 1-2 more days max already hearing a snap to um but not so much. buds pretty sure still wet on the outside though .

yea looks like they might be ready on monday the earliest. buds still kinda wet. see some mold on 1 leaf so far that i removed must of been when i kept it in the bathroom

Kingrow1 said:

Laughable - how did they dry weed for the last 2000 years then hmmmm.....

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The reefer was stickier back before the Cannabis growing industry changed the quality standard from reality (quality) based to illusion (marketing) based. Honestly they probably cured the hash after the fact.

Back in my day, if you said you were drying, thats what you meant. If you said you were curing, thats what you meant. And if you didn't differentiate, there were intermediate steps between hanging and jars. Today that intermediate step has been replaced with extended jar burp times, meaning you ain't curing, youre still drying. You cant cure wet weed!

People are definitely hung up on the humidity thing. I've had freshly harvested weed, too wet to smoke, in jars for one day, not even that, for one trip across town. 4 months later those empty unused jars developed the strains specific cure smell, with no buds in them, and low humidity. I've got jars that have been empty for 6 years, and still have the strains smell. People need to realize this has nothing to do with maintaining moisture. Growing shitty chemmy and keeping it wet for texture purposes is NOT curing the resin. Waiting for excess nutes to break up is NOT producing rich new flavors/aromas. Grow with products and resin is not a naturally synthesized product and will never cure.

Something that's supposedly 1/3 hash oil should not be so difficult to gradually dry and cure. It all goes back to my original statement. Things that makes curing difficult or impossible: the presence of anything other than Cannabis in the Cannabis jar (nutes, uptakes from soil, pesticides, kitchen ingredients used as pesticides, dog farts, fag packs aka brovida). There's really not much else to it. Clean biologically grown Cannabis cures itself. Either accept that or accept the trash you grew with Brotanicare.

Pretty sad when I got empty jars that had a rushed commercial crop in them for one day before checking into jail 6 years ago, that smell danker than most peoples best weed. They want to emulate gold without accepting you cant turn lead into gold, no matter what mythological bullshit you buy into. As far as I can tell 95% of the country will never see cured weed or have any clue what it is. It doesn't exist in the legal market that's for certain. You cant even shame these youngsters into doing right, they'll just lobby to change the legal definition of what right is. Devolved species for certain.

Lethidox said:

yea looks like they might be ready on monday the earliest. buds still kinda wet. see some mold on 1 leaf so far that i removed must of been when i kept it in the bathroom

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Mold - did you trim when harvested or you still planning on dry trim?

Leaving leaves on isnt the best idea and trim bud avoids mold better.

Try see if it smokes on Monday - expect it still to be fresh - leave it a week and it will smooth out