This is exactly how i feel....just my opinion though.I like mine fresh. Dry it and smoke it. It's super smooth and all the terpenes are still there for max flavor. I think that weed grown well doesn't need a "cure". If I sure it for a long time I don't think it gets better, I think it looses flavor. But thats just me, smoke it how YOU like it.
yes, iirc the correct term for process is called sublimation. for what is worth the flower doesn't lose any color at all & stays very bright & flavorful.
Interesting I'll have to look until it, thanks for the heads up man.
on another forum a guy mentioned it... along with ed rosenthal some years back.
Nope never tried that but ive givin them baths because of mites. Thats an interesting way of getting rid of the green flavor. Of course , for some dumb stoner reason , i think the stuff i have to give a bath drys quicker then the regular..
I can understand what you say if you smoke only commercial hybrids like OGs and things like that, because there isn't that much difference between the bud the first week and after 4 or 5 months. Still, if you don't find differences between just dried weed and 2-month cured weed, I would suggest you to find the way to refine your perception. You are missing good stuff. Do you smoke it alone?
I did it some times just to have the experience. I wouldn't do it again. For making the most of a failed harvest i would prefer to make an extraction. You lose all the flavor anyway.
Well I dunno about that. Just for shits and giggles I took some juicy fruit bud that had that classic old school juicy fruit gum smell and water cured some of that. It lost the green flavor but it still had an amazing juicy fruit flavor that came through clearer without the greenery. I think a lot of those terpenes are by nature an oil thus less water soluble than the chlorophyll and whatnot but I am just guessing. I also think that if one did water cure and wish to keep more of the terpenes that you have to use cold water and let it soak in the fridge. I would imagine that warmer water would tend to grab more oil? We even blasted a bunch of that stuff because it had the terps but it was a sorta green tasting very leafy bud structure. But yeah it's not a go to thing.
You know I have always noted that if a bud takes say 5 days to dry after chop, after a water cure 24 hour soak I gently set it on a paper towel and cover with a paper towel and it's dry to a crisp in less than 48 hours. So i do see some faster drying.
when considering overcuring what happens to the chlorophyll ? i have had flowers in jars for awhile that turn gold, is that considered overcured ?
I guess it depends on if you like it that way. Curing is only about making the weed more enjoyable to YOU.
They are overcured, or just plain old, when they have no freshness. No flavor and not a nice effect. It depends on you, but the weed is overcured the moment you think about throwing it into the garbage bin.
it looks pretty solid my man, try it and share your opinion
Please, come back when you learn more. The fact that you don't know what overcured weed is doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
6 months is probably too much for many strains, specially commercial ones. But, going to the opposite situation, I would never pick a just dried weed over any well-cured one. Like one or two months of curing. I believe the sweet spot for most commercial weeds is somewere between 1 and 3 months.
I agree but it never last more then 3 weeks.lol I cure my personal stash right.
