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help on cureing
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To begin with Good questions. Many people grow great bud and ruin it due to bad final stages. I will go though the process with you.
Before you have a good cure you must have a proper flush, harvest and dry.
step 1. if you want your weed to taste good is flush for a minimum of 7 days. with just clearex water and then just regular water on the last day. If running hydro change the water, and give 5.7-6.2 ph range daily for best results. You want your leaves to turn yellow or purple or both. That means they are using up the left over chemicals and chlorophyll in the plant while you are flushing them out of the roots. thus adding to taste.
I advice trimming as much leaf off as you can before cutting the plant. this makes trimming much easier. Then you want to cut the plants whole from the bottom stock or in as large as pieces as possible. This makes them dry/die slower and finish better because they break down left over chlorophyll which does not taste good. (side note. keep your leaves for hash, get hash bags. make sure to stir to stir your leaves so they dont mold while drying. or freeze them, but you can only freeze them once, and not for that long.)
You don't want to dry it too fast, but if you dry it to slow you invite mold. I would say dry in about 30 percent humidity in a dark place with good air flow. you don't want the fan blowing right on the nugs either, you just want good movement around them. depending on the size of the plants it can take two weeks.
Then once you think it is dry trim off the buds and put them in an air tight container, not in the hps light, dark is good. Put them in a room that is 75 to 78 degrees and leave them for 24 hours. take them out and see if they are moist again. Sometimes the outside drys and gets crispy while the stems are holding water still. The described process equalizes the moisture. do this until you can snap the middle stem.
then store in jars at room temp for two months and open the jar once a day to burp them. After that you will have perfect home grown.
Good luck. May your harvest be fat.
Before you have a good cure you must have a proper flush, harvest and dry.
step 1. if you want your weed to taste good is flush for a minimum of 7 days. with just clearex water and then just regular water on the last day. If running hydro change the water, and give 5.7-6.2 ph range daily for best results. You want your leaves to turn yellow or purple or both. That means they are using up the left over chemicals and chlorophyll in the plant while you are flushing them out of the roots. thus adding to taste.
I advice trimming as much leaf off as you can before cutting the plant. this makes trimming much easier. Then you want to cut the plants whole from the bottom stock or in as large as pieces as possible. This makes them dry/die slower and finish better because they break down left over chlorophyll which does not taste good. (side note. keep your leaves for hash, get hash bags. make sure to stir to stir your leaves so they dont mold while drying. or freeze them, but you can only freeze them once, and not for that long.)
You don't want to dry it too fast, but if you dry it to slow you invite mold. I would say dry in about 30 percent humidity in a dark place with good air flow. you don't want the fan blowing right on the nugs either, you just want good movement around them. depending on the size of the plants it can take two weeks.
Then once you think it is dry trim off the buds and put them in an air tight container, not in the hps light, dark is good. Put them in a room that is 75 to 78 degrees and leave them for 24 hours. take them out and see if they are moist again. Sometimes the outside drys and gets crispy while the stems are holding water still. The described process equalizes the moisture. do this until you can snap the middle stem.
then store in jars at room temp for two months and open the jar once a day to burp them. After that you will have perfect home grown.
Good luck. May your harvest be fat.
good advice, personally, I never let it get so dry as to snap right off, I like a little bend, usually when you try and cure slowly the stems stay pliable.
I usually just trim it, hang it up and let it dry until the exterior feels dry to the touch, then I put it in paper bags lined with parchment paper to catch any trichomes, after a few days I stick them in airtight jars and open the jars a few times a day for an hour or less each time, sometimes over night and as the days/weeks go and the smell begins to change and settle into something more defined I open the jars less and less
I usually just trim it, hang it up and let it dry until the exterior feels dry to the touch, then I put it in paper bags lined with parchment paper to catch any trichomes, after a few days I stick them in airtight jars and open the jars a few times a day for an hour or less each time, sometimes over night and as the days/weeks go and the smell begins to change and settle into something more defined I open the jars less and less
Simon's thread on "the perfect cure" is probably the best write up on the subject I've read.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=156237
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=156237
you should be flushing those too.
