water cured weed

[reaperz]

does water cured weed have no smell when smoked(smoke doesnt smell like weed smoke?)



would be the ultimate stealth joint, police could walk by and smell nothing lol

 

[bounty29]

That is one of the advantages, but there are several very long threads on this. Do a search, there's some great information.

 

[9Lives]

^ What he said!

 

[GMT]

yeah, you'll enjoy the joint more if its smelly and you get arrested for smoking it, than you will getting away with it after a water cure.

 

[vinmanr2d2]

water cure is FU@#ING nasty nasty nasty........... had some last night and said to my buddy.thats some harsh shit,did you act like its your bathroom and not flush LOL..... he said its the last of his water cured stuff and he has to get rid of it .... so i told him to feed it to a hamster LOL. that shit is nasty.../.. no cure is 10,000 times better than water cure

 

[Truth]

I've enjoyed water cured bud. of course, you have to do it properly. some people water cure when it is still wet, which is NOT the way to do it. Water cure only comes after the bud is dry. Of course, it is only best to water cure bud you intend to make hash out of, since most of the trichomes will be lost and broken from the cold water and agitation. it is much like the bubble bag hash extraction process, except without the mesh screens to catch the trichomes. Water cure is only best done for bud that has bad taste to begin with, or is very harsh when smoked. it does make for a smoother smoke when done properly. Almost like out of a water bong, you don't even feel like you've taken much in. But I have smoked some very potent water cured bud.

 

[hogwild]

I have smoked water cured buds twice before, the first time i dont think the brother who cured them knew how to do it properly because it was not smooth at all, still harsh and chemical tasting. The second time the smoke was powerful and smooth but there was zero flavor, it was worse than smoking tobacco because the flavor was not there...all i could taste was smoke..but it got you high of course. Moral of the story here is if you want stealthy tasteless buds, you could water cure, or you could just smoke your tasty organic buds away from cops?

 

[reaperz]

water cure is FU@#ING nasty nasty nasty........... had some last night and said to my buddy.thats some harsh shit,did you act like its your bathroom and not flush LOL..... he said its the last of his water cured stuff and he has to get rid of it .... so i told him to feed it to a hamster LOL. that shit is nasty..... no cure is 10,000 times better than water cure

maybe you should try it lol, no cured vs water cured

if done correctly i hear its quite good(except for the flavour and smell not being present)
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so you trim, hang and dry, then water cure for a week then dry again. smoking and getting arrested? never know you;d enjoy that. smoking in a public place without getting caught, i think i'd enjoy that to.
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or maybe you could smoke right under the cops noses and even offer if they wanted a puff lol.

 

[reaperz]

tricromes wont fall off because to do ice hash, you have to add ice and then stir it "alot!!!" so turning over a couple buds a few times wont make the bud loose alot of tricromes lol. ice+stirring=bubble bags and what not plus thc is an oil which doesnt like to mix with water.

 

[bounty29]

I always find the "loss of trichomes from water curing" argument to be amusing. When you fill up your jar or whatever container you're using, are you splashing water all over the buds? Wouldn't it be just as easy to fill them up by pouring water gently down the side so there is almost no disturbance?

 

[NiteTiger]

it does make for a smoother smoke when done properly.

Wow, that is the only part of your post I agree with


To the OP:

This is the link in my sig -

Water Cure:

Place your buds into a container that will hold enough water to cover the submerged buds by at least an inch. I personally use a cooler with a drain spout. For the first 2 or 3 days, the buds will want to float, so you'll need something to hold them underwater. I use thin fry baskets to prevent from compressing the buds, but you can use anything that will hold them under, like a plate or even a board.

Keep the container in a cool, dark place, out of direct sunlight. Do not cover the top of your container. Mine sit in the back of my closet with the lid of the cooler open. Once a day, drain your water and add fresh water. Repeat for 7 days.

On the seventh day, remove the buds from the water, and dry. Because the buds are water logged, dehydrators are preferred for drying water cured buds, but not necessary. Standard hang drying is not recommended, due to the high water content making mold an extremely likely occurence. I personally use a cake cooling rack, with a fan blowing across and under it.

Heads Up:

Do not use the water cure on seeded bud - the seeds wil try to germinate and die.

Water curing robs your bud of its aroma, flavor, and, some say, bag appeal. It will, however, leave you with an extremely smooth, stealthy smoke. You can also expect a slight increase in potentcy, because the water cure does remove more weight from the bud. With a standard dry and cure, you'll generally see 25% of wet weight returned, whereas with a water cure, you should only expect about 15%.

Water curing, in my experience, is best used for 'Stealth Stash' and edibles. A significant portion of every one of my harvests gets water cured, because I'm more likely to reach for my 'Stealth Stash' than my jar cured, and also because I love edibles. Edibles with water cured bud don't have that telltale taste and smell, and I have smoked my stealth bud with police officers walking within arms reach.

Water cure is also excellent for crops that have not been properly flushed, or were over ferted. Some have also reported using it to great success on moldy buds, but I do not recommend it - moldy buds should be extracted or trashed, period. DO NOT SMOKE MOLDY BUDS, IT CAN CAUSE SERIOUS, LIFE THREATENING MEDICAL CONDITIONS.

The water cure is just like every other tool in a gardener's arsenal - use it correctly and you'll love it, use it wrong and you'll hate what it does to your crop.

 

[marx2k]

You can also drain any water you use to water cure through a fine mesh (like a coffee filter) and wait for it to dry and collect the trichomes. However, with my experiences in water curing, there is little to no loss in trichomes.

Water curing takes a much shorter time than normal air curing which is why some people do it. Some people do it to test their harvest before the rest of it is finished curing.

If you ever buy some buds that are not perfectly dry or smell a little off... water curing is the best thing for it. Just remember to GENTLY change the water every day and keep the buds submerged with a weight the first 2 or 3 days. After that, it will stay submerged by itself.

 

[Truth]

I always find the "loss of trichomes from water curing" argument to be amusing. When you fill up your jar or whatever container you're using, are you splashing water all over the buds? Wouldn't it be just as easy to fill them up by pouring water gently down the side so there is almost no disturbance?

there will be agitation. even when you are as gentle as possible. you pour the water out, that is enough agitation to break trichomes away. you gently lift the buds out of the water, and you break trichomes away. maybe not the entire trichome, but the part that matters. the head. of course a plant will still look relatively frosty with just the stalks remaining, but the potency is significantly affected when you lose gland heads. no matter how careful you are, you will lose trichomes. how many, depends on how careful you are. you may not lose them all, but even 25-50% is significant. to test it, all you would have to do is keep all the water you changed out, in one container until you are done. take that water and run it through a mesh screen for bubble hash, and see how much you end up with...you might just be surprised.

 

[NiteTiger]

So, what about when you don't disturb the plants to dump water, and you don't lift them out of the water?

I don't believe I ever said anything about dumping water or lifting buds anywhere in my post on water curing.

 

[marx2k]

You need to dump the water daily...thats just a part of water curing...

 

[NiteTiger]

You don't have to DUMP it, you have to drain it, as I explained in my post. If you do it correctly there is no disturbance to the buds at all.

 

[marx2k]

There was a great post on OG once where a dude was doing it in one of those coolers that had the tap at the bottom. That disturbed the bud the least... basically drain it out the bottom, put water in from the top. He even attached a small cheesecloth or something to the tap to filter the water as it went throiugh and got some trich's from it. Though I doubt that's really necessary.

 

[NiteTiger]

Heh, that's exactly what I said I use in my post

 

[marx2k]

Oops

 

[glock23]

The terpinoids that give pot it's flavor are part of the charm IMO. I don't think I'll ever have the desire to water cure.