2 Stupid Newbie Questions...

[williamsrt]

Hello All,

1st Question after harvest and the buds are dried, Do you then break up the buds to store them? And if so is there any way that it must be done? I guess what I am asking when I buy it is already in many pieces do I do the same?

2nd Question I know you can store in a mason jar your buds after they are dried; How long will they stay good? how many years? And as long as it is kept airtight do you loose any strength to the weed?

Thanks,

Randall

 

[Ledhed]

If it is stored in airtight Mason jars, it can keep for as long as you'd like, provided it is properly dried. If there is even just a bit too much moisture left you will end up with mold, and that is not a good thing. Just be sure the buds are dried well enough for long-term storage before you pack it away for any length of time. As to breaking up larger buds, I don't understand why you would want to do that so I'm not even going to attempt to answer that. Too dry and your weed will crumble and turn into powder almost, too wet still and you will get mold. Just make sure it's at the point you like it before storing for any length of time.

 

[Cow Tea]

The darker and colder the area the jar is stored in, the longer the thc will last. Pot you buy is broken up because stems weigh alot.

 

[Illegal Smile]

You don't want to overdry. You follow drying with a curing process. Open each jar for a minute every day to let it breathe. That should be done for 30 days. Once cured they can keep in jars for years if fairly cool and dark. And it doesn't matter whether you leave large buds alone or break them up.

 

[svchop889]

don't break the up until your about to smoke them.

 

[HerbalBeast]

hmm, so let's say you overdried a bud and it's very crumbly and powders in your fingers. Is that a good smoke?

 

[Australias]

Store your fresh dried buds in the freezer. I heard thats a good way to keep them fresh for a long time and to stop them from smelling

 

[Spanishfly]

Store your fresh dried buds in the freezer. I heard thats a good way to keep them fresh for a long time and to stop them from smelling

No NEVER freeze bud. Australias, too many people quote what thay have HEARD rather than what they have tried.

Properly dried and cured bud will keep indefinitely in an airtight mason jar in a dark place - it just gets better with time, like sloe gin. I cover my mason jars of cured bud with aluminium foil to keep the light out.

 

[Beansly]

hmm, so let's say you overdried a bud and it's very crumbly and powders in your fingers. Is that a good smoke?

No, that's the opposite of good smoke.lol
Nah jk, it'll probably get you high, but at that point it's been overly dried

 

[HerbalBeast]

damn it... guess I have myself some tobacco substitute

 

[cowboylogic]

No NEVER freeze bud. Australias, too many people quote what thay have HEARD rather than what they have tried.

Properly dried and cured bud will keep indefinitely in an airtight mason jar in a dark place - it just gets better with time, like sloe gin. I cover my mason jars of cured bud with aluminium foil to keep the light out.

Properly dried bud keeps just fine in the freezer in a jar. And weed does not keep indefinitely. Shelf life is strain dependant. It does get a bit better with time to a point then begins to degrade. Dry or not it still organic matter, decompisition, slowed by drying, continues until it turns to dust.

 

[tyke1973]

Once the harvest has been dried i would take of the main stems, for no other reason then the stem's can hold alot of moisture and if all the moisture is not removed you could get mould on the bud's.I have cured for all differant lengths of time and have found the bud best to smoke around the 6 month mark.All though i have normaly smoked all mine by this time.The main reason that the bud's are removed from the stem's is when you buy it is for the same reason the person that you are buying off will not want to be buying stem.......................................tyke..................................................

 

[Spanishfly]

And weed does not keep indefinitely. Dry or not it still organic matter, decompisition, slowed by drying, continues until it turns to dust.

I recently smoked some bud that was jarred in the 70s - smoothest smoke ever. It may not be indefinite but it comes pretty close.

And the organic matter found by archaeologists in the form of wheat seeds in Egyptian tombs had certainly NOT decomposed and turned to dust - in fact they germinated after 6,000 years.

 

[cowboylogic]

I recently smoked some bud that was jarred in the 70s - smoothest smoke ever. It may not be indefinite but it comes pretty close.

And the organic matter found by archaeologists in the form of wheat seeds in Egyptian tombs had certainly NOT decomposed and turned to dust - in fact they germinated after 6,000 years.

There are always exceptions. And I am really not into smoking seeds but to each thier own.

 

[mj123]

Treat it like food. keep it as fresh as possable.....do not let it dryout......And it will last along time. I use it for cooking after so long...2years I think is the longest I have had weed stored it.....DO NOT FREEZE The THC falls off in the freezer..........