Travis9226
Active Member
First we actually have to look at what "curing" is. Since we can't put fresh weed into jars we have to let it dry first. After its mostly dry it goes into the jars for the final cure. Do you know what exactly is going on in that jar? Cannabis just like any other fruit after being picked needs to ripen. And I'm not talking about ripening on the stalk, I'm talking ripening as in breaking down chlorophyll and starches. So the words curing and ripening to me are the same thing.
The reason cannabis takes so long to cure/ripen in the jar is because cannabis releases a very small amount of a natural gas called Ethylene.
Ethylene triggers a break down of chlorophyll and starches. That gas makes green bananas yellow and more palatable. Ever notices that a long cure turns that green weed to a beautifully less green/grayish color? Its the same concept. The reason bananas go from green to yellow to brown so fast is the fact they release a large amount of Ethylene gas, while cannabis releases a very small amount of it and even less when dried.
My thought is making a drying rack inside a cardboard box and adding a some high ethylene producing fruits in the bottom to speed up the curing/ripening process. I think that this process would work best after the initial trim and still on the stem. Replacing and overly ripe fruit as needed till the bud is dried. This box would raise the amount of ethylene gas as well as slow down the drying time. You would have to eventually remove the buds from the box and place into jars as you normally would. The only benefit is that most of the curing/ripening would be done before it even went into the jars. It would only have to be in there for another week to finish up drying by drawing the moister out of the center of the bud. But once you can get the moister content of the bud below 15% the bud would be just as cured/ripened as bud that's been curing/ripening in jars for months
Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. Sorry if I was a little spacy on that write up, I'm very medicated.
The reason cannabis takes so long to cure/ripen in the jar is because cannabis releases a very small amount of a natural gas called Ethylene.
Ethylene triggers a break down of chlorophyll and starches. That gas makes green bananas yellow and more palatable. Ever notices that a long cure turns that green weed to a beautifully less green/grayish color? Its the same concept. The reason bananas go from green to yellow to brown so fast is the fact they release a large amount of Ethylene gas, while cannabis releases a very small amount of it and even less when dried.
My thought is making a drying rack inside a cardboard box and adding a some high ethylene producing fruits in the bottom to speed up the curing/ripening process. I think that this process would work best after the initial trim and still on the stem. Replacing and overly ripe fruit as needed till the bud is dried. This box would raise the amount of ethylene gas as well as slow down the drying time. You would have to eventually remove the buds from the box and place into jars as you normally would. The only benefit is that most of the curing/ripening would be done before it even went into the jars. It would only have to be in there for another week to finish up drying by drawing the moister out of the center of the bud. But once you can get the moister content of the bud below 15% the bud would be just as cured/ripened as bud that's been curing/ripening in jars for months
Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. Sorry if I was a little spacy on that write up, I'm very medicated.