MICHI-CAN
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It's like real balsamic. Slow process here. Mine get and amber/orange tint about a year in. The green depends on plant. Spent 5 months growing it. I'm not rushing anything. Sweet nuggs.
What Cured Weed Looks Like
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MICHI-CAN
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The urban legend here is that stuff was dried on the plant, in the field. In temps exceeding 100F. Then cut, roughly cleaned and sized. Packed in a mold and compressed with a screw press. Miss those $400 qp's. Some good highs or some terrible corn husks. Grab bags of legend now.Curiosity is still piqued. Maybe it's because I just opened a new jar from a different pheno of my last harvest - very heady lol.
Anyway, is this cure related at all to brick weed?
Growing up in SoCal, I'm one of those who has fond memories of the better brick weed I got - very stony couchlock, the best didn't look that great - hard brown nuggets that break into chunks, the taste was a melange of spices & weed funk - not NorCal Skunk funk, but still a funk.
Really an appearance, taste and stone of it's own, if it's what I'm thinking of.
edit - the flipside was bad brick weed - stinky, lumber (not stems), huge black seeds & ammonia - probably toxic.
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waterproof808
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So your only criteria for "primo" is that its brown and dried in 2 days? Must be some strong meth in your neighborhood.
Lockedin
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Lockedin
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A slightly different thought.
I worked for a commercial grower for a bit. They cure in 5 gal buckets; which necessitates hand turning the product to get bottom buds up and middle buds out, etc.
I noticed that the center of the bucket was always a few degrees warmer, the grower said that it was the beginning of fermentation and we were turning to avoid that.
I wouldn't say the temps are 100f - probably 85f while the outside was 73f.
I worked for a commercial grower for a bit. They cure in 5 gal buckets; which necessitates hand turning the product to get bottom buds up and middle buds out, etc.
I noticed that the center of the bucket was always a few degrees warmer, the grower said that it was the beginning of fermentation and we were turning to avoid that.
I wouldn't say the temps are 100f - probably 85f while the outside was 73f.
MICHI-CAN
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A few of my large jars raise the ambient temp in a standard closet about 5 degrees for the first few weeks. So I agree. And I recommended pouring the buds out, turning and separating them once a week for the first couple months. Then every so often after. Essential to even curing.
getogrow
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Yes , if your jars/buckets start to raise temps after a few days , not just a few hours, then its starting to ferment and needs more oxygen, so you would turn or dump out like MICH says. Same principle in composting bins. As they heat up the bacteria is rapidly growing/eating/breeding.
I use the jars to even out the moisture levels. (sealing the jar and adding heat will even out the moisture much faster then room temp but i dont like speeding anything up unless its too wet)
Some of our favorite terpenes have a "burning point" of 70-80f so to me , its essential to keep the temps fairly low (65-75) i dont always do that but thats my preference. My personal palate is different from most ,.,.,, i like my herbs fresh and skunky. 2 or 3 weeks on the road kill strains and longer on less road killy phenos. After 6 months or a year , its a little too smooth for my liking.
Lockedin
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Same here - funky, skunky & I do have an affinity for fuel scents - a skunk that got hit by a leaky bus --- appetizing! lolYes , if your jars/buckets start to raise temps after a few days , not just a few hours, then its starting to ferment and needs more oxygen, so you would turn or dump out like MICH says. Same principle in composting bins. As they heat up the bacteria is rapidly growing/eating/breeding.
I use the jars to even out the moisture levels. (sealing the jar and adding heat will even out the moisture much faster then room temp but i dont like speeding anything up unless its too wet)
Some of our favorite terpenes have a "burning point" of 70-80f so to me , its essential to keep the temps fairly low (65-75) i dont always do that but thats my preference. My personal palate is different from most ,.,.,, i like my herbs fresh and skunky. 2 or 3 weeks on the road kill strains and longer on less road killy phenos. After 6 months or a year , its a little too smooth for my liking.
Honestly, not a lot of skill on my end, I just followed instructions laid out here and from a gromie who's weed I always like.
- Do what they did, you'll get what they got.
Of course, I'm learning more about the process as I go, which runs the risk of making me think I know what I'm doing --- dangerous!
But I gotta confess that as much as I enjoy my skunk / funk / pine / berry etc. --- it can turn a bit vanilla.
I might try something like this on a very small portion of a harvest - something different; maybe it works, maybe I make edibles.
Wizzlebiz
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When you have grown enough weed to last you a year. Having jars around curing isn't a big deal at all.
TS seems to just want to harvest and sell it for a quick turn around. Or TS doesn't grow enough to keep weed around long enough to dry and cure correctly.
But hey to each his own. Il keep drying slow and curing.
MICHI-CAN
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I had Green Crack and unknown pineapple something in my freezer for over 3 years. Town went dry last fall and broke it out to help myself and friends. Better than the day I sealed it.
BobCajun
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BobCajun
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That's not cured, it's aged, there's a difference, that's why it's green. What he did was he dried some weed out and then he aged it in a jar just like people age pipe tobacco in a jar. The difference is that they cure the tobacco before they age it, he skipped the curing part and went straight to the aging part. Do you actually think chlorophyll is enjoyable to smoke? So why don't they sell green tobacco?
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BobCajun
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Yup, that's the criteria, it must be dried in 2 days or it's crap, those are the rules. And I can see why the subject of meth is on your mind. How are things in the trailer park anyway? They haven't raised the lot fees over $200 a month or anything have they?
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BobCajun
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It's pretty easy when you use a heating pad inside a polyethlene container. Those are the keys to curing weed the primo way, rather than not curing it all, which is the noob way.
BobCajun
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That batch I showed turned out to be a little over 100 grams, probably wouldn't try it with much less than that. I think it being in a pile is helpful so you would want enough to make a pile a few inches thick at least.Was kind of watching for this pic.
Pretty sure I had some weed cured like that in Central America - very "funky" but tasty - different.
Almost no aroma until broken by hand - no grinders. Kind of chunky, but not powdered in the bowl.
We only bought it because our host said it was good - it didn't look "good". Glad we did.
What would you consider a minimum amount that could be cured this way?
My curiosity might last another 90ish days to try some.
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BobCajun
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Yeah okay, Phishy, I'm sure berry eating will be helpful... are you fucking insane, boy?
Romulanman
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You have the best weed ever. You are the man!!! Fuckin eh. Im pretty jealous. Wish I was doin it like you chief.....
BobCajun
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Well, maybe one day you will be able to move up to actually curing weed like me. It'll take time and dedication but it's possible. Now here are some tips for would be weed curers. You have to get a Sunbeam heating pad, the kind that has a "stay on" button, most turn off automatically after a certain time. This is the kind right here link. Now you get a storage container, like the kind that slides under a bed, though they are kind of shallow, it's hard to fit a bunch in there but for fairly small amounts it's fine. You put the heating pad in there and you put a folded up towel over it to make the heat less intense, and you set it to the lowest setting, 1, and push the stay on button.
You put a sheet of parchment paper over the towel and pile the weed on there in a layer a few inches thick. Don't put the cover on the container though at this point. Now you just turn the pile every few hours for 48 hours and then after it's nicely de-greened you put the cover on but not all the way, leave an inch or two on one side for moisture to escape but not too rapidly, and also turn the heat up to 2. Keep turning the pile every so often for another day or two until it's sufficiently dried, test it to see when it gets to 62% RH. Now you have premium weed, congratulations, you made it, you no longer need to smoke harsh, weak noobweed. Don't tell your friends how to do this though, it's a secret of the elite weed producers, and they are unworthy.