The longer the curing the better the high?

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SkEE87

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Curious About Plants said:
I have been trying to ask another question on here. It’s on another thread. It’s about a K auto and if it’s ready to harvest. One-year-old seed So it took longer to bloom and now is at 17 weeks. I never have seen any Amber trichomes on any of mine. And keep waiting on them with this one. Not many, just about 10 to 20%.
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ugh i wait and wait and wait for at least some of them to turn amber and i usually give up bc it never comes.I have been picking mine when they are cloudy,dont really see the point in waiting. My problem is with the cure. I want to get the tasting bud i get when i buy it on the street but i havent been able to get that taste that i am looking for. The bud is always some good shit but i never get the cure right. I just want it to taste the way good bud taste ,so frustrating. I just harvested a whole bunch yesterday,took all day to trim. Im on here looking at all the various inputs..
 
Week4@inCharge

Week4@inCharge

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Mattcheck said:
I've heard 2 weeks of cure is about the "peak" for high but longer never hurts and that could be completely wrong lol.
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At least two weeks is the word, one more week to go for me. To the OP, if you have that much weed on your hands, give it away and make some new friends. I gave 3 mason jars away last week and about to give 3 more away soon.
 
Thundercat

Thundercat

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SkEE87 said:
ugh i wait and wait and wait for at least some of them to turn amber and i usually give up bc it never comes.I have been picking mine when they are cloudy,dont really see the point in waiting. My problem is with the cure. I want to get the tasting bud i get when i buy it on the street but i havent been able to get that taste that i am looking for. The bud is always some good shit but i never get the cure right. I just want it to taste the way good bud taste ,so frustrating. I just harvested a whole bunch yesterday,took all day to trim. Im on here looking at all the various inputs..
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waiting and letting a plant actually finish can have a major impact on flavor and the way the plant behaves when you dry it. So does the drying process before you ever even think about curing it.

If you have good genetics and grow the plants until they are actually ripe and then do a nice slow dry 10-14days or more, there is no need for curing. On a few rare occasions I've managed to keep weed around long enough to cure it, and it never got "better". The flavors changed some as it sat around, but never better just different then when it was fresher. The high never improved and if you dry your buds right in the first place, they aren't really gonna get any smoother. Typically people have always been waiting for my next batch as soon as it was properly dried and ready to smoke.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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SkEE87 said:
ugh i wait and wait and wait for at least some of them to turn amber and i usually give up bc it never comes.I have been picking mine when they are cloudy,dont really see the point in waiting. My problem is with the cure. I want to get the tasting bud i get when i buy it on the street but i havent been able to get that taste that i am looking for. The bud is always some good shit but i never get the cure right. I just want it to taste the way good bud taste ,so frustrating. I just harvested a whole bunch yesterday,took all day to trim. Im on here looking at all the various inputs..
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The weed you buy on the street isn't cured.
 
Rurumo

Rurumo

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SkEE87 said:
ugh i wait and wait and wait for at least some of them to turn amber and i usually give up bc it never comes.I have been picking mine when they are cloudy,dont really see the point in waiting. My problem is with the cure. I want to get the tasting bud i get when i buy it on the street but i havent been able to get that taste that i am looking for. The bud is always some good shit but i never get the cure right. I just want it to taste the way good bud taste ,so frustrating. I just harvested a whole bunch yesterday,took all day to trim. Im on here looking at all the various inputs..
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Your buds will turn amber if you wait long enough. If you're picking them based off cloudy trichomes, you might be picking up to a month early-that is definitely one reason your final product doesn't smell right. Next time, let them fully ripen and learn how to slow dry them properly-I'd also dry trim right before going into jars (hang dry the entire plant with all it's leaves). Controlling your rh/temp during drying is more important than curing them. Curing won't improve the smell or flavor of immature buds that were dried incorrectly, it's the least important of those three factors.
 
DrOgkush

DrOgkush

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Start off with good genetics, good light, water, and good soil. Plus Patience will be all you need to grow good smelling. Good tasting bud. If you can’t with those few things.


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Jimmy Slade

Jimmy Slade

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Thundercat said:
waiting and letting a plant actually finish can have a major impact on flavor and the way the plant behaves when you dry it. So does the drying process before you ever even think about curing it.

If you have good genetics and grow the plants until they are actually ripe and then do a nice slow dry 10-14days or more, there is no need for curing. On a few rare occasions I've managed to keep weed around long enough to cure it, and it never got "better". The flavors changed some as it sat around, but never better just different then when it was fresher. The high never improved and if you dry your buds right in the first place, they aren't really gonna get any smoother. Typically people have always been waiting for my next batch as soon as it was properly dried and ready to smoke.
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^ this x 1000
 
xtsho

xtsho

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Jimmy Slade said:
This comment is based on what?
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The comment is based off the fact that street weed is more than likely black market weed and black market growers are not going to bother curing their weed. It's grow and sell as fast as possible. An illegal grower isn't going to bother burping jars and fiddling around with hygrometers. They want to get rid of it as fast as possible not have it sitting around curing.

And for that matter most dispensary weed is uncured as well. Grow, Chop, Dry, Sell and then on to the next. The only people that are curing weed is a small minority of people on cannabis forums.
 
Jimmy Slade

Jimmy Slade

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xtsho said:
The comment is based off the fact that street weed is more than likely black market weed and black market growers are not going to bother curing their weed. It's grow and sell as fast as possible. An illegal grower isn't going to bother burping jars and fiddling around with hygrometers. They want to get rid of it as fast as possible not have it sitting around curing.

And for that matter most dispensary weed is uncured as well. Grow, Chop, Dry, Sell and then on to the next. The only people that are curing weed is a small minority of people on cannabis forums.
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This comment is based on what?
 
Dank Bongula

Dank Bongula

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I have to cure mine indefinitely because I can't smoke it all...so it ends up happening just because. I'll start smokin it as soon as it is done drying though. The three month old blueberry is pretty smelly now. Much more pungent and smooth but I wouldn't say stronger at all.
 
DrOgkush

DrOgkush

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Dank Bongula said:
I have to cure mine indefinitely because I can't smoke it all...so it ends up happening just because. I'll start smokin it as soon as it is done drying though. The three month old blueberry is pretty smelly now. Much more pungent and smooth but I wouldn't say stronger at all.
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Yep. Same here bro. I dry the 10-14 day if I can. And once I’m bucking. I’m smoking. I’m not waiting. I always thought that was obscured because I LOVE the smell and taste fresh pop off the stem. And plus by the final half of the harvest. I’d say it’s cured by then. Lol. But I prefer the first half
 
Jimmy Slade

Jimmy Slade

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xtsho said:
Not being clueless and possessing an understanding of how most illicit growers operate.

What do you find so hard to understand?
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The fact that you grow your own and therefore have no idea of what is going on with "street weed".

I know several illicit growers, all of which are straight up OCD about their curing process. If you have friends who grow and sell illegally AND suck at curing, then maybe it's on you to call them out.

But again, that's not how the illicit growers I know operate. They have to compete with dispensaries, so top shelf weed(both dried and cured) is a priority.
 
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