how to dry and cure my ganj

Pcmicro13

Pcmicro13

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hi there my easyryder is about 4 weeks from harvest im going to add nutes for one more week than flush for 2 weeks and not water for the last week, is this a good idea. ive never done this and the buds look half decent. and how to properly dry and cure my nugs so they dont go to waste... PLZ HELP

heres a pic of her with 4 1/2 weeks remaining
 

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Pcmicro13

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im going to snap a few more pics shortly but it cant come outta my box cause shes lst'd quite a bit and i dont want to damage her shes filling out nicley.
 
whiterhyno420

whiterhyno420

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hang it to dry till u see the out side of tha bud kinda dry with the inside a lil moist and put them in a mason jar and let them finish dryin in there but u got to burp it every few hours or else ull get mold and milldew then the bud will be useless. keep doin that till the bud gets as dry as u want it. they say tha longer you cure the better the smoke taste ect. good luck happy growing
 
ijustgrowGREEN

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to dry and cure your plant..... first, make sure it's ready to be harvested. check trichs with pocket microscope. look for mostly amber trichs. your pistils should be mostly amber as well, and dried up and tucked close to buds. there are different stages of trichs/pistils you can harvest at for different highs, this is just how i personally do it. 75% amber pistils, mostly amber trichs, she's ready to be cut. i start by cutting 1 branch at a time. cut one branch, bring it to your workstation area. there you can trim fan leaves and bud leaves. after that, it goes into your drying area. my drying space is a closet. hang branches upside down with string or clips, hangers, whatever you got. this drying room should be room temp and have a fan blowing in there on low. repeat cutting each branch until you finish the plant. give them at least a week-2weeks to dry in the closet. they're dry when you snap a branch off and it comes cleanly off and breaks like an old dead stick. also, i forgot to mention, drying area needs to be dark. when buds are dry, place them into mason jars to cure. this is about 2 weeks minimum. the longer the better. first few days, you need to open jars and move buds around to avoid mold and allow any moisture in jar out. this is just a rough guideline, but i hope it gave you a better idea....
 
whiterhyno420

whiterhyno420

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ijustgrowGREEN said:
to dry and cure your plant..... first, make sure it's ready to be harvested. check trichs with pocket microscope. look for mostly amber trichs. your pistils should be mostly amber as well, and dried up and tucked close to buds. there are different stages of trichs/pistils you can harvest at for different highs, this is just how i personally do it. 75% amber pistils, mostly amber trichs, she's ready to be cut. i start by cutting 1 branch at a time. cut one branch, bring it to your workstation area. there you can trim fan leaves and bud leaves. after that, it goes into your drying area. my drying space is a closet. hang branches upside down with string or clips, hangers, whatever you got. this drying room should be room temp and have a fan blowing in there on low. repeat cutting each branch until you finish the plant. give them at least a week-2weeks to dry in the closet. they're dry when you snap a branch off and it comes cleanly off and breaks like an old dead stick. also, i forgot to mention, drying area needs to be dark. when buds are dry, place them into mason jars to cure. this is about 2 weeks minimum. the longer the better. first few days, you need to open jars and move buds around to avoid mold and allow any moisture in jar out. this is just a rough guideline, but i hope it gave you a better idea....
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there it is all right there:leaf: nicely said
 
Roseman

Roseman

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Harvesting and Curing
I cut the longest branches, put them on a tin-foiled covered tray, and go to my kitchen table. I try to catch any fallen trichomes on the tin foil.
I have three boxes, one for the big FAN leaves. (for oil)
one box for the TRIM leaves, the leaves with trichomes on them, that I manicured off the buds, FOR HASH. I've manicured much more since I learned how to make HASH. I want some naked STEM at the end of the buds to fasten my tape to, so I can hang it in the drying box.
AND One Box for the smaller popcorn buds. (small buds with no stems)

I manicure them, and cut the leaves off. I manicure closely. IF you leave those leaves on, by the time the buds are dry, the leaves are crispy and harsh to smoke.
I string masking tape across the top of the box, making rows about 3 or 4 inches a part. I wrap a piece of masking tape, about 4 inches long, around the tip end of the stem, and hang it from the masking tape, in rows, not letting the buds touch each other. VERY IMPORTANT.

I separate the bigger buds from the smaller ones IN DIFFERENT BOXES.
I put the boxes in a dark room, NO DIRECT LIGHT, and blow a gentle oscillating fan across the top, but not on them.
The big buds take 7 days, the smaller ones 5 days. Popcron buds take 3 or 4 days. Some take 5 days.
If you dry them too much, you can add back moisture. If you do not dry them enough, you get rotten buds and mold.
Dry them til the end of the stem will SNAP when you break it, but not crispy dry.
Again, the big buds take 7 days to dry, under a small fan,the smaller ones 5 days.
Keep them in the dark with little light to see and inspect.
I never smoke them then, NEVER.
VERY IMPORTANTLY I then CURE them 30 days in wide mouth jars, opening the jar for ten seconds EVERYDAY , for 30 days.
Every day, I sniff them, smell them, for any funky moldy smell. If they do not smell right, then dry them outside the jar another day or two.
I've lost one jar, out of hundreds, the 30th day, it went bad, to Bud MOLD.

I can not emphasis the importance and difference if you properly MANICURE, Dry AND Cure them.
CURING MAKES A BIG MAJOR DIFFERENCE.
DO I HAVE TO Cure 30 days?
Definitely, I do know for sure, I tried smoking buds cured for a only a week, for two weeks, three weeks and 4 weeks. You should try it too, and you will find what I found. Buds cured 4 weeks not only taste better, they burn better and get you higher too. It has something to do with some scientific complicated SUGAR PROCESSING. or the sugars change . I am 100% sure, you will agree, if you test it like I did. CURE FOR 30 DAYS!

DRYING? They say dry them til the stem will snap. Well, I get stems the thickness of fishing line and I get stems the thickness of a pencil, even bigger. That tells me that you can not DRY them ALL the same amount of time. So I sort mine, fatter stems from skinny stems. The skinny ones, I DRY for 5 or 6 days. The fat ones, I DRY for 7 to 8 days. IF YOU OVER DRY, YOU CAN REMOISTEN THEM. IF YOU DO NOT DRY THEM ENOUGH, THEY WILL ROT ! I dry mine in the open air, moving air, moved with an oscillating fan. A gentle breeze, in temps of what central air or central heat gives me, which is around 75 to 78 degrees and humidity of 30% to 40%.
AND YOU MUST DRY AND CURE THEM IN DARKNESS. LIGHT IS THE ENEMY WHEN DRYING AND CURING. I do DRY mine in a room with the shades pulled down, it is not very dARK, but it is not any direct LIGHT, just some leaking light. I read up on Drying and Curing in 4 books I bought, and the above is what they say.

Save the trim leaves for HASH, you'll be so glad you did.


When I put my buds in Jars, I put them in the jar one bud at a time, feeling it, to see if it is VERY dry, overly dry, or NOT dry enough.

I also save several large pieces of the STEM, for later. When I check a jar, if I find a vERY dry bud, a bud too crispy and dry, I ad a short piece of fresh moist stem to the jar, for a half day, to re-moistion it.


Daily inspecting the jars, opening and smelling them, is of the upmost importantance.






Those pics are a mixture of my 2007 and 2008 crop. The 2007 crop, I did not trim close. I trimmed, but not close. I'd leave a half inch, to keep the scissors from getting glued together adn I was just lazy and in a hurry. I always got a lot of very dry, too dry, bud leaves, that smoked harsh. More times than not, I threw them away or gave them away.

And then I got a KIEF Box with a screen, and I started trimming much closer. The 2008 pics, I trimmed close and everytime I opend a new jar, I went and trimmed them again, to make MORE hash.

Now I reccomend trimming as much as possible and making hash, I never leave any leaf to go into the jar now. I pluck off what I can not trim off.

Buds without STEMS, I just spread out in a box, NOT LETTING THEM PILE UP OR TOUCH EACH OTHER. I stir them everyday.
Proper Harvest and DRYING and Curing are as IMPORTANT as GROWING.
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"SICC"

"SICC"

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Nice post rose, do you have that in a thread form? i would love to subscribe and add it so my subscriptions
 
Roseman

Roseman

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[QUOTE="SICC";3014289]Nice post rose, do you have that in a thread form? i would love to subscribe and add it so my subscriptions[/QUOTE]

no, I don't, but it is in over 20 posts.
 
"SICC"

"SICC"

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i'll just keep this one on my top i have my links in here as well so this kinda save me a lil time haha
 
Pcmicro13

Pcmicro13

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THANK you all for your very positive replies. I have posted more pics into my other thread i have posted. again thank you all. nice informative post roseman
 
Roseman

Roseman

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Posted on the previous page:

I put the boxes in a dark room, NO DIRECT LIGHT, and blow a gentle oscillating fan across the top, but not on them.

Keep them in the dark with little light to see and inspect.

AND YOU MUST DRY AND CURE THEM IN DARKNESS. LIGHT IS THE ENEMY WHEN DRYING AND CURING. I do DRY mine in a room with the shades pulled down, it is not very dARK, but it is not any direct LIGHT, just some leaking light. I read up on Drying and Curing in 4 books I bought, and the above is what they say.



how did you miss that?
 
Nootnam

Nootnam

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Must agree with everyone else. Im probably gonna chop in a few days and im gonna have to cure ouside, how should i go about getting constant darkness and good circulation?
 
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