Curing how much does it help? how long to cure? Myth or truth, the longer the better ?

[Douglas.Curtis]

Why quote my post then talk about how your cannabis is fine at harvest?
"14 days minimum for flavor" and "at least 30 days for smooth smoke"

The cannabis I have grown for decades is delicious and amazing at harvest, with a cure only making it better over time. It smokes SOFT and smooth with a quick dry and is loaded with flavors. My last harvest was a 2 day dry due to circumstances, and the flavors and aromas of the smoke was fking amazing. (Rabbit manure ftw!)

So yeah... if you don't have amazing flavors and aromas with a quick dry, you should change how you're feeding your plants. Smoke from never overfed plants smokes smooth when dried... no need to wait 30 days.

 

[Greenheart]

Because I was responding to your quoting my post. It smells great during trim. I would also juice raw scrap from the djs BB. At the time I was rols cootsmix in a 5x9 indoor bed doing a bare bulb 860W CMH vert.

2 days from chop to smoke is mind blowing to me. Impressive. I've tried pan frying, oven baking, dehydrator, microwave, and low rh environments, indirect fans, and pretty much anything I can think of. I will admit my conditions are nowhere near as controlled on the grow side of things. You obviously have very precise conditions and controls.

I do not have near as much experience as you in the grow area. I grew for about 6 years on a personal level. Took a hiatus and then restarted with the new leds a year ago. I did come into it as a second gen and had a few good hippies showing me the ropes. Indica or Sativa long cure has always impressed me more as far as end result. I prefer outdoor but again long cure for me.

One of the biggest problems I have with the legal market today is early harvested, over trimmed, quickly cured and over dried bud.

@Raco Loved the leaf wraps on those pics, Nice job on the trim. That's how the old schoolers showed me to do it!

Oh I also keep mine in the dark fwiw.

 

[Douglas.Curtis]

The key is reducing your grow inputs to bam (bare aas minimum) with mistakes creating deficiencies instead of over feeding.

When you grow at minimum required feed levels you get maximum terp production. When you keep canopy temps below 70F and RH low enough for high transpiration, those terps stay in the resin and begin polymerization well before harvest. The more complex the molecule, the heavier the molecular weight and higher the boiling/vaporization point, so you have more stable and complex terpenes to begin with at harvest.

When temps get above 70F, you can smell the terpenes which will never polymerize to more complex molecules (terpenes and cannabinoids). Heavenly... yeah?

 

[mexweed]

found a year old jar with some shake in it, green tea is the first thing that came to mind, about to load a bowl

 

[Dube]

What method did you use to dry it in two days?

 

[Jellyfish]

I'd like to know that too.

 

[mexweed]

forced drying, that's a list of stuff that will just ruin the bud

 

[moose eater]

A person can use a desiccant container, microwave, low-heat oven, food dehydrator, etc., all of which stand to negatively affect flavor, and some of which can affect potency negatively, though years ago, with extremely resinous colas, I used a desiccant box/food storage container with a raised mesh tray and desiccant in the bottom of the container) to finish drying larger colas that had already been in a drying tray for a week, and were still holding excess moisture. Still not advisable.

 

[Jellyfish]

Iggy Pop told a story about ripping someone's outdoor pot plant up in Michigan (not condoning that), and putting it in one of the dryers at a laundromat. Stunk up the laundromat but got something smoke-able out of it. I bet it would have been better if he had cured it properly though.

 

[Douglas.Curtis]

What method did you use to dry it in two days?

I put the branches in my kitchen cabinets, hanging from the recessed shelves. RH in the low teens, temps around 75F in the mid afternoons. My bunnies had almost all the a/c this summer and my house was hot.

 

[midwest]

As far as quick drying...
Alton Brown on the food network had an interesting method for quick drying fresh herbs.

Basically get a few heater air filters, put the bud in the middle of them, and put a box fan on the bottom blowing up through the filters.

Wouldn't do it for anything more than quick smoke if I was out bit you should have smoke able bud quickly

 

[goingrey]

For a quick smoke just break it up and spread it out on some paper.

It'll be dry enough to smoke in no time. Do a chore that needs doing or something and reward yourself afterwards.

 

[mexweed]

I usually just leave smaller buds in the trim bowl and leave it sitting out overnight