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Someone care to give factualreasons why drying needs to be done slowly?

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EverythingsHazy

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Every other plant from sugary fruits to oily herbs can be dried successfully overnight. Why would cannabis be the only one that is different out of ALL plants. If you are drying at 135 or less you aren't cooking the plant. Esp if you just dry it at like 100F with constant air flow in a good dehydrator you are definitely not cooking it.

Isn't the point of curing (which is just letting the dried herb sit for weeks to rid itself of what? chlorophyll?) to make it taste better? Then drying it shouldn't make a difference if its 1 day or 3 weeks.

With a dehydrator you are just getting rid of most of the water or all of it depending on what you choose. Nothing else. If you wanted to chop up the weed and dehydrate it, it should taste the same as if you let whole buds sit for weeks stirring them around now and then. And then if you choose to cure or not should affect both dried buds the same.

I keep hearing people say, dry it SLOOOOOWWWLLYY but nobody gives a source or factual proof of why you have to.
 
Dannysayo

Dannysayo

Active Member
I feel u bro, where did u get your dehydro thingy? I'm very curious about it also. I know I've done the old method many times buts that's mainly due to how I learned and not risking any crop losses.
EverythingsHazy said:
Every other plant from sugary fruits to oily herbs can be dried successfully overnight. Why would cannabis be the only one that is different out of ALL plants. If you are drying at 135 or less you aren't cooking the plant. Esp if you just dry it at like 100F with constant air flow in a good dehydrator you are definitely not cooking it.

Isn't the point of curing (which is just letting the dried herb sit for weeks to rid itself of what? chlorophyll?) to make it taste better? Then drying it shouldn't make a difference if its 1 day or 3 weeks.

With a dehydrator you are just getting rid of most of the water or all of it depending on what you choose. Nothing else. If you wanted to chop up the weed and dehydrate it, it should taste the same as if you let whole buds sit for weeks stirring them around now and then. And then if you choose to cure or not should affect both dried buds the same.

I keep hearing people say, dry it SLOOOOOWWWLLYY but nobody gives a source or factual proof of why you have to.
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AltarNation

AltarNation

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Drying does not NEED to be done slowly.

However, a slow dry will shorten jar curing periods significantly. I've found that buds that are dried over about 12 days at 50-60% will sometimes not need a jar cure at all. They are flavorful, pleasant smelling, and smoke well right out of the drying room. They still get jar cured further, but they don't need it like bud that is dried quickly does and I often don't bother to do it consciously but will just smoke on it and let it breathe when I open it... in my experience, there is no urgency to cure further what so ever after a slow dry. It can be done, but some perfectly wonderful smoke can be had out of a dry room directly if it's a slow dry.

Again, it's not a need, it's a preference. But I can assure you that the curing process is underway from the moment you cut them down, whether you speed dry and go in jars or slow dry.
 
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EverythingsHazy

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Cool thats what i thought then pretty much. I would think drying over 12 days helps reduce need for cure mainly because it cured for 12 days by then lol.

Also, does it matter if ou cure or not if you vape because you're not getting plant matter that way anyway.
 
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Tomselik

Member
The reason there's a curing process is the same reason there's a curing process for every other quality product whiskey ect.. The better you do it/longer first of all less damage to the tricomes and it actually makes you're buds better the longer cure the better your product is.
 
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EverythingsHazy

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Tomselik said:
The reason there's a curing process is the same reason there's a curing process for every other quality product whiskey ect.. The better you do it/longer first of all less damage to the tricomes and it actually makes you're buds better the longer cure the better your product is.
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Again tho, we are talking drying not curing and you didn't provide reason for it.
 
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