Curing is overrated

Tangerine_ said:

Wine. The last time we made blueberry wine we processed it in a 30 gallon plastic garbage can and stirred it with a wooden boat oar. Once bottled it did look kinda cool though.
Connoisseur stuff, I tell ya

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my grandfather used to make all kinds of wines, blueberry, elderberry, dandelion... all real sweet... I tried making some out of yucca flowers once... it didn't turn out the way I thought it would.

I think Curing is way over hyped and rated....

I realize 2 weeks is a little early but dried around <70 and 50-55 for a week and cured for a few days well...

I think it is probably strain dependent and maybe how much chlorophyl needs to break down...

But I think the right strain smells so fresh with un broken down terpenes and even some benefit medicinally from fresh Cannabinoids too and other compounds...

It is like fresh produce. TO me. And honestly unless you want to have me try laboratory stored conditions 6 Month old weed O.K. I will try it...

And let's not forget that our newly identified Phenolated Volatile Sulfur Compounds (gas smell) peak AT ...

you guessed it: 10 Days... Then, They: Start Breaking DOWN

Not only do I think Curing is overrated but one of the biggest mistakes we often see is drying TOO SLOW and what happens: Mold and Must...

If anyone has any articles for me to remind me there is a science to Curing I would love to re-read.

Right now for SHARING I have settled on 3 weeks but in case of a friend in ,medicinal need I say 2 weeks is acceptable.

Once again depending on the strain which brings me back to my unfinished thought from before:

And allow me to briefly interject: I am stoned. I don't normally write this uniformly extended and run-on style...

Oh Yeah so what I was saying is Maybe the Leeching and cutting of Nitrogen at the end of the cycle or other flushing methods might leave you the WEED with less Green smell to break down? I say the faster you can get rid of the Green chlorophyl smell and taste the Quick you can call your Cure Acceptable...

So yeah strain dependent, and also growing style dependent -- anyone AGREE?

SO I SHOULD look into the fastest method for getting rid of or rather breaking down chlorophyl

Any one tried FREEZE DRIED ??????

I have one plant that needs to be dried quickly, but also needs about a 2-month cure for the full effect. The difference is noticeable and I have a couple years experience with this plant now. She's the only one I have where the difference curing makes is so dramatic.

We pulled down some flowers of a pure Sativa cross about 5 months ago. Once it was dry and in jars I sampled and found zero effect, taste, and very little smell. So I shelved it.

Fast forward months and I re-visited the jars. Opening a jar makes the room smell like an Antique Store. The flavor was chocolate hash and terpinolene. The effect blasted me good. I did a few hours of yard work while grinning from ear to ear.

I find the more Sativa the strain the more cure it needs.

Most hybrids I'm smoking two weeks after the plants come down.

It's descibed more as an effect than a smell from my understanding. Pinene and Sativa's are referenced though.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/terpinolene

waterproof808 said:

BS. Cigarettes burn white and they are chock full of chemicals, additives, and impurities.

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Well, the paper burns white, but the tobacco itself does not.

Curing or not is a personal choice. That said the fact remains that a proper cure will break down chlorophyll and complete the drying process by pulling moisture from inside the material to the outside. Homogeninizing the moisture content. A proper flush is how you get nice white ash.

FIFY

Shadytimes said:

A proper flush is how you get nice white toilet.

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Curing mAkes it taste better, smell better but many ways to achieve A cure …
so easy too but many people are just happy to be high an I’ll take that lol but to cure smoke its next levelling in my opinion we people who get it get it those that don’t won’t lmao

if anyone ever smoked medicinal herb will attest it’s got top flavour an smell that’s simply cured herb from what I’ve read no long terms to it but like wine an they have turps in it too wine gets better aged in appropriate temps an humidity this leads me to follow that science along with turps flavours smells many things have turps many ways enhance flavour or smell number 1 being ripest of fruit not over ripe not under .. this is simple science an can be fact checked this is my thoughts an take on curing its very similar to many Kinds of curing an ways to achieve said outcome but as I just said couple things will totally make that difference in every way jars to bags humidity fruit ripeness how you like it as to anyone else.
all individual .

Sometimes a Smella vision app would be so handy lmao or sampling app where we could sample others ways of curing or examples lmao would be so handy