--(If you seal and freeze, then thaw, you will have no moisture left in your weed)--
Wrong!
--(You'll still have terpenes, and you'll still have potency, both just as if it were fresh cut)
drying does not effect the potency or terpens! only makes them better with time, fresh weed also is not full potential of the terpenes. after the cure they will be at there best
--1. Where does the moisture go, and how? when you dry majority of the moisture evaporates, but all bud will still have moisture in the buds. unless your a street grower and make your buds bone dry for sale.
--2. Why are the terpenes still there? it is how you cure the buds........
--3. Why hasn't the potency degraded at all? drying or curing will not effect the potency of the buds! with curing you receive a proper dryed & cured product were the terpenes will be at their peak odour & flavour.
--Do you know why refrigerators even exist? ya to store food in, this is 2014 and we don't have ice boxes anymore! lmfao,
--Do you know why every person that grows their own jars it up and cures it in the fridge? Figure it out.
ya you figure it out lmfao-- but just so you know, most wont store and cure in a fridge!!! most dry properly then use c-vault containers or mason jars and store in a dry dark place to keep potency and the terpenes and the curing works great. after 1-2 months you have properly dryed and cured buds with a minimal amount of moisture in buds. after all my testing and months of curing I have had a lot tested and the moisture counts are still resulting in a small % of moisture.
First of all, drying IS, curing. That's all curing is, a slow, controlled drying. This process begins not when you toss into a jar, but the very second the plant is cut. This also slowly decarboxylates it, which may seem to improve the potency depending how you use it. "Curing" well, in sealed jars for one example, is the art of a slow, controlled release of moisture, which reduces the loss of terpenes, while also preventing mold and rot.
-You can decarboxylate it plenty fast, so curing isn't required for that.
-You can dry it plenty fast, so curing isn't required for that.
-You can't do either of them quickly and not deplete the terpenes absolutely. Not with the usual methods, at least.
Working the moisture from it gradually, what you call "curing", is solely done for maintaining the level of terpenes as much as possible. Just because you smell them better once it's been finally cured in two or three months, than they smelled a few weeks prior, doesn't mean you've improved on them either. That's infamously false reasoning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc
Once it has been dried to an appropriate level, and with the terpenes still in place as much as possible, it may seem more potent both because of the terpenes still being present and also because it's going to burn or vape better, both resulting in an improved effect. It's also worth noting that if you're smelling them, they're being diminished.
You can still slowly cure them for several months and not have any terpenes to speak of because you screwed up handling it earlier. You are not curing to improve terpenes. You're curing to not lose them and to ensure they've diminished as little as possible while having the the bud set properly. The buds never smell better then when they're alive, or fresh cut. That's when terpene content is obviously as at a maximum, provided that you know how to grow them at all in the first place, and aren't some fraud dispensary that adds flavor drops because the 17 year olds that you licensed for yourself don't know jack that wasn't from copy and paste. They're also incredibly potent then as well, if you know how to use it, and you probably don't. That's why people love scissor hash so much and it's all downhill from there where terpenes are concerned.
That's the same reason "bubble" hash sucks. It's a "bubble" of misinformed self promoting circle jerks. "Let's start a fad washing all of the terpenes away in the water and call ourselves medical so we can sell sieve bags for hundreds of dollars to suckers who don't think anything through". But it's okay because "you can boil the water off and make a cure for cancer". Ugh.... You know one of the best reasons for being able to grow yourself is that these so called medical activists are even worse than the LP's. The LP's are just grossly incompetent, perhaps criminally even, but the former are flat out con artists, and grossly incompetent too, but I digress.
They're not "improving" with "curing" in the way that decarbing "improves" the cannabinoids. You're all mixed up with part knowledge and 1/4 understanding, so I can see why you're having trouble appreciating an advanced idea when it doesn't fit with what you think you know about something.
The problems with the internet in general, is how it gives instruction to simple minds who are only looking for the quickest and easiest answers, along with the soap box upon which they parrot and preach these rules of thumbs and simplest of steps as though they were gospel. As with any solid religion, they're brainwashed rather than enlightened, and kept entirely in the dark of the inner workings, mindlessly uttering what they think they know, while actively avoiding every actual thought, and derailing those of others. When their approaches fall into question, their expert status is imperiled, their skewed social soap box status directly challenged, and they charge to war defending their bubbles as they burst.
Your answers 1, 2, and 3, betray perfect ignorance, with a lock of tautology. In other words, you simply don't know, but that will never stop you from pretending to. But this last bit deserves special attention:
but just so you know, most wont store and cure in a fridge!!! most dry properly then use c-vault containers or mason jars and store in a dry dark place to keep potency and the terpenes and the curing works great. after 1-2 months you have properly dryed and cured buds with a minimal amount of moisture in buds. after all my testing and months of curing I have had a lot tested and the moisture counts are still resulting in a small % of moisture
A fridge is a "cool" place, and that helps slow the growth rate of things like mold. That's also why it's used for food! "lol". When it's sealed, you don't need to store it in a "dry" place. You can tie your mason jars to a boat anchor and toss them in the lake. This just goes to show the depth that you've thought this through.
I love the assertion that "most who know what they're doing are using c-vault containers".
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.thecvault.com/
So apparently it couldn't be done properly until ~year ago, and what amazing market penetration that is. But if people using them actually had a clue, they'd just buy Boveda packs in bulk and toss them in the mason jar or their own tin can, rather than spend $100+ on one. What a joke, but it's in your bible somehow! Preach it brother.
And toilet paper has residual moisture. That's why it's not brittle or dust. It's probably not far off from the ambient humidity levels. But that's a pedantic point to make if you're intentionally trying hard to miss the point as you seem to be.
Good luck with your c-vault and every other con job gimmick that rolls around the bend which your proud ignorance has made you vulnerable to. In the meantime you won't get another reply from me, but I'd simply ask that you stop derailing from the topics that matter, which isn't everything that you don't know. People like you are why I haven't posted before now.
