Vietnamese Jesus
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So im about 2 weeks from my harvest and i wanted to read up about curing and drying. Any good tips on how to dry and cure ?
Thanks in advance holms
Thanks in advance holms
Harvesting soon, drying and curing tips ?
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cocakola
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My advice would be to Take Your Time and dont rush it. Let them dry for how ever many days u see fit (Not crispy dry) , jar it till wet again take it out till dry and repeat till it doesnt get wet anymore. Then jar for another week or two burping sparingly and then enjoy. Not the right way just my way. Good Luck and congrats.
Happy Growing!
Happy Growing!
rocpilefsj
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kermit2692
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ive rewritten my method to ppl over and over and over and i dont want to type it all so ill give you the most important few tips....trim before drying and curing all leaf sticking out of the "bud roundness" , this is the most important thing to do to avoid grassy product..if you were using chemical ferts start flushing now organic ferts will not flush in time most likely and seems unnecesary..after trimming dry on wire rack (for airflow) with a fan pointing in the right direction but not directly on nugs....check often in 2-5 days the nugs will be just barely dry or brittle in the outside this is when the individual nugs get cut off the branches, if not already, and jarred. you leave em in the jars til they are wet again apprix 4-12 hours the first time...as soon as you see ANY condensation on the jars inside then take it out you have waited juuuuust too long no problem tho...you keep repeating this out when they are wet back in when they just baaaaarely dried. the longer you can make this process take the better your product comes out. you just have to get a feel for it
kermit2692
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oh and you want the jars full not overpacked but full....you may think its not working right after a week but give it time, if you do it right they will come around and the good smell will eventually come out
kbo ca
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that's the way i used to do it. It was a lot of work, and i'll tell you what it wasn't worth it. i used to think my way was the only way, until i humbled myself and tried something different. I found that curing isn't difficult and shouldn't take multiple weeks. It should only take a week to fully cure. Sure you can go longer and i reccommend that you do. But constantly burping jars and emptying them to dry wet nugs isn't the way to do it. You only want a small amount of moisture in the buds when you put them in the jar. Check out Kushman's method, you won't be disappointed.
kermit2692
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i understand that if you put it in at the perfect time..and i mean perfect time...that you can float the moisture at what is it 55%.. or was it 65%..and it will stay there and cure without intervention but this requires a hydrometer and i also believe you need air exchange every once in a while maybe im wrong but i feel it helps. that said i dont think my way is the only way but its the best way ive found with what i have to work with and ill tell ya what the finished product is perfect and i dont see it as "work" anyway so doesnt bother me...i agree you can dry for the full 5-7 days and you will only need to jar for a week but thats harder to approximate and id rather tell the guy hey jar it early and watch it well then tell him to wait until its just right because once the pot is past a certain percentage of moisture you can no longer cure it!! dont want the guy to ruin his crop better safe than sorry imo...anyway you can smoke it after a week or so this way too...i agree that way is likely more efficient but quality i think is close to the same and this is a bit easier for someone who doesnt have as much experience...if i perfected the "feel" of when bud is perfectly dry and will hit the proper moisture content if left in the jars i would likely use your method but havent gotten that far yet lol
kermit2692
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ill give it a try this time around ill let the herb dry a bit more than normal and then when it feels ready ill try to leave it in a jar for a solid week but ill obviously check it every day to make sure there is no condensation or that its too wet and see if i can nail down a good time to jar it to take maybe a week to 2...
kbo ca
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i think you're thinking of a hygrometer, and no you don't need one for this. it does take a little bit of knowledge of where your buds are at as far as moisture. You want to do it just before they are crispy. Obviously you don't want them to crumble. And when you're harvesting multiple pounds, curing in mason jars..... burping is work man. When you have 50 jars to burp three times a day and you find out you put it in too early and have to dump it all out, it gets pretty gnarly. But if your just growing a couple plants in your closet, it's not such a big deal. But yeah give it a try if you see fit, but if your method works for you and you're completley happy with the results, why change anything up?
kermit2692
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ya i can see how curing lbs could get tedious getting it out of the jars over and over and basing ur day around it but u nailed it i usually just do the closet thing maybe a lb at a time on the heavy side so ya this works fine but gotta strive for perfection and your the second person who has said something in a post about only curing for a week or so and drying a bit longer(the first being subcool) so i think ill try to learn to find that perfect window but all the while being extra careful not to over dry..might take a run or two
kbo ca
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definatley but that's what it's all about, as soon as you become stagnant not trying new things, not trying to improve on what you already know, things start to slack and problems start to arise. I got way over confident on my gardening ability not too long ago and completely ruined what was shaping up to be a magnificent grow. At least you realize there are other ways to do things, which in this field of work is GOLDEN. And i don't mean to say that you should only cure for a week. Your buds should be delightfully smokeable by then, but a little longer in the glass never hurt anything.
kermit2692
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oh ya for sure i knew what ya meant its ready in a week but not totally finished doing magic inside lol...i leave it in the jars longer than i have to anyway just because simply why not
kbo ca
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well i think you could argue that flavor complexities present themselves after a longer cure. i was recently invited to partake in a tasting of herbs that had been stored for 2 years! Now that might sound a bit long, but he finished the cure perfectly, then stored his herb in glass in a dark cool wine cabinet for a couple years. Let me tell you that if i had the patience, i would be storing everything for years bro! Absolutley amazing smoke
kermit2692
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damn ya my shit never lasts two years lol