BobCajun
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Just a shot of some weed I'm curing. Gave it 2 days at 100 F then turned it up to 125 and this is after a day of that. It's on a Sunbeam Expressheat heating pad with parchment paper over it, inside a plastic storage container. I actually have 2 heating pads in there to cover the whole bottom. After the 2 days at 100 F the volume had reduced enough from evaporation that I could fold the pads and parchment over the pile so that it was enclosed on both top and bottom. Sort of a hot weed sandwich.
Anyway, seems to be progressing nicely. I did a quick trimming before the curing, I'll do the rest after it gets drier so I can handle it more easily. I put the trimmings in another small container and sat it on the pad also, at one end of the container. That worked too, it browned up nice. Gotta mix it around, and the bud pile, when I open the main container to wipe out condensed moisture. That's how it gradually gets drier over several days.
BTW, turned out that heat setting 5 gave just the right temperature for the 125 F part. For the 100 F part I think I used setting 2. I also put a folded up blanket over the heating pads for that part to avoid overheating. I took the blanket out for the 125 F part. I also put several folded blankets over the top and sides of the container for the whole process. That blue thing in the image is actually one of the blankets visible through the container side.
The container is about 3'x1'x 8". I put the probe of a meat thermometer at the bottom of the pile to monitor temperature. It's the kind with a wire from the probe to the unit, so the unit sits on top the blankets and the wire goes in under the lid to the pile. As you can see, I even put the smaller buds in there. I'll sort it out later. Everything needs to be cured first. Uncured weed is pretty useless. Who can actually smoke that shit without hacking their lungs out? BTW when you extract oil from weed cured this way is comes out brown, not green.
Anyway, seems to be progressing nicely. I did a quick trimming before the curing, I'll do the rest after it gets drier so I can handle it more easily. I put the trimmings in another small container and sat it on the pad also, at one end of the container. That worked too, it browned up nice. Gotta mix it around, and the bud pile, when I open the main container to wipe out condensed moisture. That's how it gradually gets drier over several days.
BTW, turned out that heat setting 5 gave just the right temperature for the 125 F part. For the 100 F part I think I used setting 2. I also put a folded up blanket over the heating pads for that part to avoid overheating. I took the blanket out for the 125 F part. I also put several folded blankets over the top and sides of the container for the whole process. That blue thing in the image is actually one of the blankets visible through the container side.
The container is about 3'x1'x 8". I put the probe of a meat thermometer at the bottom of the pile to monitor temperature. It's the kind with a wire from the probe to the unit, so the unit sits on top the blankets and the wire goes in under the lid to the pile. As you can see, I even put the smaller buds in there. I'll sort it out later. Everything needs to be cured first. Uncured weed is pretty useless. Who can actually smoke that shit without hacking their lungs out? BTW when you extract oil from weed cured this way is comes out brown, not green.
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