Who REALLY Cures PRIMO?

[Dankyspank2456]

That's it. Who out there is really curing primo buds? Don't bs. If you're shit isn't really top shelf - don't comment. I've grown alot. Indoor and outdoor. I always get good stuff but only ONCE in my "growing career" have I achieved that dank dank DANK final product. Oddly enough, it was a trial run. And I didn't write down what I did. I found the bag in a drawer MONTHS after harvest and it was absolutely magical.. memory says it was 2 days drying at 60ish humidity and then completely sealed in ziplock and tossed into a drawer to be forgotten about. Granted it was a trial so it was a small baggie quantity, sandwhich baggie size.

I've hung em for a week whole. Chopped up. Indoor outdoors. Varying humidy/temps etc and its wild. This is a real science to take what you chop down to the appropriate final product.
Tell us all your secret?

 

[DoubleAtotheRON]

I dry for 12-14 days at 65 degrees, ~58RH, then trim and store in CureTubes for 3 months before it goes to market. Curing is the secret to good weed. Some of our best weed has been curing for 6 months to a year, as far as smoothness and affect. Dark, and cold and the right RH, and you're golden.

 

[PadawanWarrior]

That's it. Who out there is really curing primo buds? Don't bs. If you're shit isn't really top shelf - don't comment. I've grown alot. Indoor and outdoor. I always get good stuff but only ONCE in my "growing career" have I achieved that dank dank DANK final product. Oddly enough, it was a trial run. And I didn't write down what I did. I found the bag in a drawer MONTHS after harvest and it was absolutely magical.. memory says it was 2 days drying at 60ish humidity and then completely sealed in ziplock and tossed into a drawer to be forgotten about. Granted it was a trial so it was a small baggie quantity, sandwhich baggie size.

I've hung em for a week whole. Chopped up. Indoor outdoors. Varying humidy/temps etc and its wild. This is a real science to take what you chop down to the appropriate final product.
Tell us all your secret?

The immaturity in me is too strong for your name,

 

[TankHankerous]

I dry for 12-14 days at 65 degrees, ~58RH, then trim and store in CureTubes for 3 months before it goes to market. Curing is the secret to good weed. Some of our best weed has been curing for 6 months to a year, as far as smoothness and affect. Dark, and cold and the right RH, and you're golden.

Does curing help weed to not produce black ash when you combust it?

 

[Herb & Suds]

Does curing help weed to not produce black ash when you combust it?

No but a two week slow dry does if it’s mature

 

[OGGanjaPatient]

Does curing help weed to not produce black ash when you combust it?

That's all in the grow..... if you fed organic should be white if you used heavy synthetic nutrients you're gonna have black ash

 

[TankHankerous]

That's all in the grow..... if you fed organic should be white if you used heavy synthetic nutrients you're gonna have black ash

So if the grower used general hydroponics bottled nutes it will have black ash.... even if he flushed it properly?

 

[Herb & Suds]

That's all in the grow..... if you fed organic should be white if you used heavy synthetic nutrients you're gonna have black ash

Hmmm
That hasn’t been my experience
But
https://www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/article/white-ash-vs-black-ash/

 

[Herb & Suds]

So if the grower used general hydroponics bottled nutes it will have black ash.... even if he flushed it properly?

What is properly flushed and what supports this belief?

 

[TankHankerous]

What is properly flushed and what supports this belief?

You want to "rinse out those nasty chemicals" in the bottled nutes. You want that gunk out of the roots!

 

[Herb & Suds]

You want to "rinse out those nasty chemicals" in the bottled nutes. You want that gunk out of the roots!

 

[bam0813]

Try to wash the vitamins out of your system drinking water

 

[Frank$ter]

Proper Curing is certainly very helpful for especially Terps and taste..... But mostly the dank ness is baked in during the flowering phase and or genetics... Cut selection

I do around 14-21 days slow dry then into glass jars and always always in the dark

Are you running clones or seeds there?

 

[Blue brother]

I dry and cure in a converted wine cooler and it has been the single biggest improvement in final quality I’ve experienced since I started

 

[tstick]

I've completely changed my drying/curing method, now.

I used to hang my plants whole and let them dry a minimum of a week (usually). Typically, the temps were in the 60's and the RH was in the ~50% range. I would look for the stems to start bending/cracking and then trim the plants up and jar them.

But, I think a better way is to lessen the amount of time I have the plants hanging. I think I'm going to start jarring them up earlier and burping the jars more to reeeeeaaallly slow down the drying process. And when the humidity in the jars gets to about 65% and stable, I will put the jars in a cool, dark place and let them sit for months. I think this is a better way to develop/preserve the terpenes and volatile esters.

I have come to the realization that the "industry standard" for doing a lot of growing/drying techniques are based on high-production needs and coming from places that have hundreds of plants hanging and drying -as opposed to MY 2-4 plants. If I try and apply those industrial techniques to my small grow, I think I may be losing some of the flavor and smell. The industry simply can't afford to slow everything down and lose that production time. As a home grower and small-timer, I CAN afford to take the extra time. I CAN grow real long-flowering Sativa strains if I want -and not have to worry about losing money because I can't reach my production quota.
That's why I don't get excited for plants that are designed for high yield and fast flowering times. I'd rather have the luxury to experiment with plants that would never be considered, commercially, due to their special needs. I'm on a search for flavor, not yield. Just a few plants provides me with my personal-use from grow-to-grow. In fact, I usually have excess at the end of each year.

As long as you have good quality genetic starting material and take however long it takes to reach perfect ripeness and then manage to keep those smells and flavors locked-in from a slow curing process, you're golden!

 

[Rootbound420]

That's all in the grow..... if you fed organic should be white if you used heavy synthetic nutrients you're gonna have black ash

This is not a true fact. I use synthetic nutes and mine burn white ash when dried properly. The organic i grew was a darker ash but it was dried way to fast. Drying and curing process has majority to do with it.

 

[Blue brother]

Proper Curing is certainly very helpful for especially Terps and taste..... But mostly the dank ness is baked in during the flowering phase and or genetics... Cut selection

I do around 14-21 days slow dry then into glass jars and always always in the dark

Are you running clones or seeds there?


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I’ll second the long dry, anything I hang up to dry goes 20ish days

 

[PJ Diaz]

You want to "rinse out those nasty chemicals" in the bottled nutes. You want that gunk out of the roots!

Plants uptake the same nasty chemicals whether grown organically or with "bottled nutes".

 

[Blue brother]

This is not a true fact. I use synthetic nutes and mine burn white ash when dried properly. The organic i grew was a darker ash but it was dried way to fast. Drying and curing process has majority to do with it.

Nutrients for the most part don’t make a blind bit of difference aslong as you’re keeping ur plants healthy, neither does flushing imo (but that’s another subject). I feel you are bang on here mate the drying and curing process is the biggest factor

 

[Frank$ter]

For instance. Pre 98 Bubba Kush.... This cultivator has been continuously propagated for over 24 years..

I’ll second the long dry, anything I hang up to dry goes 20ish days

Agreed. The only time I might go less is when it's a small plant...