WestCoastMaster
Active Member
It took about 5 days to dry my six lil plants, i cut them in half, trimmed off the fan leafs and the fan blades with out any frost.
Then hung em up, they were all about 17in long after cutting them in half.
RH 30-45% and a solid 60F. NO FLUCTUATION
So on day 5 they were getn crispy on the out side but the stem still wouldn't snap. I did a final hair cut and jared it. Of course it smelt wonderful while trimming. It smoked okay too a lil wet but it fucken wrecked me!
I left them alone for a whole 24hrs, expecting them to really sweat and need to be dumped out for a couple days. NOPE no visible moisture AT ALL!!!!
It smelt great so I wasn't worried just thought maybe I aced it. Then later that day I checked again and it smelt like hay/pickles. So I let them air for 10min and capped them off again. Next time I checked they smelt fine, then like hay, then like chronic, then like hay. WTF Is this what the "curing" process is?
This frustrates me because it happens all the time, I bust my ass for 3mo growing just for it to come out like shit.
I have done A LOT of reading on curing and drying. don't dry too fast, jar em, re-dry if needed, chlorophyl break down, not too much air in the jar so on and so on.
YES THEY GREW TO FULL MATURITY, YES I FLUSHED VERRY WELL, AND NO MOLD.
Please help as im out of my wits with all this. I have been growing for 3yr and made a pretty big investment of money and time doing so and im about to quit! BUT thats not me, ill fuckn obsess until its perfect.
+rep to all
Happy Growing, you guys are the best and so is this website.
Then hung em up, they were all about 17in long after cutting them in half.
RH 30-45% and a solid 60F. NO FLUCTUATION
So on day 5 they were getn crispy on the out side but the stem still wouldn't snap. I did a final hair cut and jared it. Of course it smelt wonderful while trimming. It smoked okay too a lil wet but it fucken wrecked me!
I left them alone for a whole 24hrs, expecting them to really sweat and need to be dumped out for a couple days. NOPE no visible moisture AT ALL!!!!
It smelt great so I wasn't worried just thought maybe I aced it. Then later that day I checked again and it smelt like hay/pickles. So I let them air for 10min and capped them off again. Next time I checked they smelt fine, then like hay, then like chronic, then like hay. WTF Is this what the "curing" process is?
This frustrates me because it happens all the time, I bust my ass for 3mo growing just for it to come out like shit.
I have done A LOT of reading on curing and drying. don't dry too fast, jar em, re-dry if needed, chlorophyl break down, not too much air in the jar so on and so on.
YES THEY GREW TO FULL MATURITY, YES I FLUSHED VERRY WELL, AND NO MOLD.
Please help as im out of my wits with all this. I have been growing for 3yr and made a pretty big investment of money and time doing so and im about to quit! BUT thats not me, ill fuckn obsess until its perfect.
+rep to all
Happy Growing, you guys are the best and so is this website.