Help with Drying/Curing.. Whole Plant at once

My "Girls" have been drying for about 5 straight days this morning (I harvested on Monday). I'm doing the whole plate at once. Last time I did this I dried for 6 days & then just started enjoying my fruits.

If I'm doing a whole plant dry is a week good or should I go longer?

Do I need to still go through the Curing process?

I was thinking if I did the whole plant dry I wouldnt have to cure..

Also, I notice that when you do a whole plant dry the plant was still growing or something? Because I notice how all the lil white hair went from about 25% (From when I 1st harvested on Monday) to about 100% after a week of drying. Anyone else have this experience??

plants do not grow after being cut

you always need to cure

when the bud branch can snap like a small twig, it is done and time to cure.

Jesus,

What's the best curing method. How often do you open & close the jars for air?

regular mason glass canning jars work for me.
I open them 2X a day, in the morning when i ate my breakfast before work, 20-30 minutes, and at night usually when I am smoking watching the news, 30 minutes. It gets routine and thats key, you do it without thinking of having to do it.

I have a pic somewhere Ill dig up.

How Long should I cure for??

i have had some plants in jars for months. they can only get better with curing, there isnt such a thing as "too long".
smoke some from a plant that you dried with no cure and then smoke some bud that has been dried and cured and the difference is night and day.

jesus of Cannabis said:

i have had some plants in jars for months. they can only get better with curing, there isnt such a thing as "too long".
smoke some from a plant that you dried with no cure and then smoke some bud that has been dried and cured and the difference is night and day.

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This is so true better with age.Think of whisky longer it sets the better it gets.

Buds with a few months Cure are 10 times better than a week or two.

Nitrogen imo is a beast on taste and try to get as much out before you Cure.

Beech

I lived in a border state and got to know a few 1st generation mexicans. They said the women would go out in the fields and pick the buds the same way fruit is picked...not evey bud on a single plant is going to be at the same level. He said that they used small strips of plastic to bundle a batch about the size of a large grapefruit. The bundles are then placed in a dark room where the humidity is around 70-80%...(mountain area of Mexico where humidity is often in single digits). Needless to say long cure times dont happen.

I dont know shit about curing except that it is mainly used to break the chlorophyll down into simple sugars...makeing it smoother. Hanging the whole plant maybe the simplest way to do it but as far as any notion of it making the buds taste better is B.S.

redzi said:

I lived in a border state and got to know a few 1st generation mexicans. They said the women would go out in the fields and pick the buds the same way fruit is picked...not evey bud on a single plant is going to be at the same level. He said that they used small strips of plastic to bundle a batch about the size of a large grapefruit. The bundles are then placed in a dark room where the humidity is around 70-80%...(mountain area of Mexico where humidity is often in single digits). Needless to say long cure times dont happen.I dont know shit about curing except that it is mainly used to break the chlorophyll down into simple sugars...makeing it smoother. Hanging the whole plant maybe the simplest way to do it but as far as any notion of it making the buds taste better is B.S.

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Thts why it taste so wonderful..........It would mold at tht RH 70-80Beech