To cure or not to cure

guitarman7311

Well-Known Member

• Jan 14, 2009

• #1

Ok I know how everybody so hot on curing but Ive always got good results just by hanging the plant and leting dry for 3 to 4 or even 6 weeks sometimes. I cant tell the difference between those and the ones Ive tried to cure. Is this just a myth? I believe the best way Ive heard is to just stop watering your plant and wait 1 month. I believe I will try this in a couple of weeks.

 

Roseman

Elite Rolling Society

• Jan 15, 2009

• #2

I can tell a big difference in Taste and HIGH from my buds being in the jars one week, and being in there 30 days.

 

S

smokeh

Well-Known Member

• Jan 15, 2009

• #3

curing is the way.

i can tell a HUGEEEEEEEEEEEE difference in taste, smell and high from curing just from 3 days after drying. ovbiously the taste,smell and high and smoothness of the smoke gets better the longer i cure.

but yes, curing is essential in my eyes. youve just waited X amount of weeks for ur pot to be grown. im not gonna waste it.

 

bleezyg420

Well-Known Member

• Jan 15, 2009

• #4

Cure! Check out some grow vids
http://www.youtube.com/user/Bleezyg420

 

Roseman

Elite Rolling Society

• Jan 15, 2009

• #5

Here is how I do it.

Many growers drain the tank and fill it with plain water, two days before they harvest. (I quit doing that, I did not notice much difference)
I cut the longest branches, put them on a tin-foiled covered tray, and go to my kitchen table.
I have three boxes, one for the big FAN leaves. (for oil)
One box for the TRIM leaves, the leaves with trichomes on them, that I manicured odd the buds, FOR HASH. I've manicured much more since I learned how to make HASH. I want some naked STEM at the end of the buds to fasten my tape to, so I can hang it in the drying box.
One Box for the popcorn buds. (small buds with no stems)

I manicure them, and cut the leaves off.

I string masking tape across the box, making rows about 3 or 4 inches a part. I wrap a piece of masking tape, about 4 inches long, around the tip end of the stem, and hang it from the masking tape, in rows, not letting the buds touch each other. VERY IMPORTANT.
I separate the bigger buds from the smaller ones IN DIFFERENT BOXES.
I put the boxes in a dark room, NO DIRECT LIGHT, and blow a gentle oscillating fan across the top, but not on them.
The big buds take 7 days, the smaller ones 5 days.
If you dry them too much, you can add back moisture. If you do not dry them enough, you get wrotten buds.
Dry them til the end of the stem will SNAP when you break it, but not crispy dry.
The big buds take 7 days,the smaller ones 5 days.
Keep them in the dark with little light to see and inspect.
I never smoke them then, NEVER.



I then CURE them 30 days in wide mouth jars, opening the jar for ten seconds EVERYDAY , for 30 days.



Every day, I sniff them, smell them, for any funky moldy smell. If they do not smell right, then dry them outside the jar another day or two.
I've lost one jar, out of hundreds, the 30th day, it went bad. Bud MOLD.

I can not emphasis the importance and difference if you properly manicure, Dry AND Cure them. CURING MAKES A BIG MAJOR DIFFERENCE.
Cure 30 days?
Definitely, I do know for sure, I tried smoking buds cured for a only a week, for two weeks, three weeks and 4 weeks. You should try it too, and you will find what I found. Buds cure 4 weeks not only taste better, they burn better and get you higher too. It has something to do with some scientific complicated SUGAR PROCESSING. or the sugars change . I am 100% sure, you will agree, if you test it like I did. CURE FOR 30 DAYS!

DRYING? They say dry them til the stem will snap. Well, I get stems the thickness of fishing line and I get stems the thickness of a pencil, even bigger. That tells me that you can not DRY them ALL the same amount of time. So I sort mine, fatter stems from skinny stems. The skinny ones, I DRY for 6 or 7 days. The fat ones, I DRY for 7 to 8 days. IF YOU OVER DRY, YOU CAN REMOISTEN THEM. IF YOU DO NOT DRY THEM ENOUGH, THEY WILL WROT ! I dry mine in the open air, moving air, moved with an oscillating fan. A gentle breeze, in temps of what central air or central heat gives me, which is around 75 to 78 degrees and humidity of 30% to 40%.
AND YOU MUST DRY AND CURE THEM IN DARKNESS. LIGHT IS THE ENEMY WHEN DRYING AND CURING. I do DRY mine in a room with the shades pulled down, it is not very dARK, but it is not any direct LIGHT, just some leaking light. I read up on Drying and Curing in 4 books I bought, and the above is what they say.

Save the trim leaves for HASH, you'll be so glad you did.

 

Louis541

Well-Known Member

• Jan 15, 2009

• #6

Cure it bro. It's all about the taste.

 

guitarman7311

Well-Known Member

• Jan 15, 2009

• #7

Dam a lot for curing here. Hmm I already get a killer tastinng weed with just hanging for 2 or 3 weeks. But Ill get some airtight jars and do a few buds again, maybe I didnt cure long enuff last time. (a few days), but maybe I just grow some dank assed bagseed lol. But my last batch of weed got me soooooo friggin stoned. Are you sure puttin in and takin em out of jars will knock the tricomes off, and handeling them too much.

 

Roseman

Elite Rolling Society

• Jan 16, 2009

• #8

guitarman7311 said:

Dam a lot for curing here. Hmm I already get a killer tastinng weed with just hanging for 2 or 3 weeks. But Ill get some airtight jars and do a few buds again, maybe I didnt cure long enuff last time. (a few days), but maybe I just grow some dank assed bagseed lol. But my last batch of weed got me soooooo friggin stoned. Are you sure puttin in and takin em out of jars will knock the tricomes off, and handeling them too much.

Click to expand...

you have to freeze pot and really stir it up with vigor to get those trichomes off.
Hey, CURING is in every book you can buy on growing, and we all use jars.