and i cant exactly tell u the recipe...its a secret i got from a hippy friend. I was told not to tell anybody and I never have so i cant start now! but i can tell u just about anything else that I know! Im not sayin it 'HAS' to be in water im just saying what i have experience with hydro grows more dense buds...but i'm not stating this as a fact! I dried my buds for 7 days, until i bent the stem and it snapped (buds were dry all the way through) then i cured for about 5 weeks, maybe a couple days short of 5 weeks, over a month tho! The smoke is completely different from when i tried a few buds after 2 weeks of curing! Much more flavor smoother! Plus the buds looked like somebody trimmed them perfectly! so compact and tight without a hair sticking out! after i seen this i swore to always do the proper dry and cure!