no not actually water curing. riddleme has shared some information about the effects of oxidation and fermentation as they apply to the curing of our plants. A lot of it went over my head, but I got the jist of it. there are 2 things that he found, and several have tried them. 1st and easiest method is to literally drown your plant for the last week or so of its life. In soil that means constantly keeping it watered, or putting the pot into a larger pot and fill the larger pot full of water until the pot the plant is in is "drowned" This is where the oxidation part comes in, if I remember correctly. the plant is starved of oxygen, and it is forced to live off the reserves it has built up in the plant. He has posted a bunch of scattered info on his Calling all noobs thread, and his Balls to the Wall thread.
the other method is similar to the method used to cure tobacco. they literally pile the tobacco up in a closed room that gets more and less airflow, and humidity , and temperature. All these factors depend on each other to properly cure the tobacco. He calls it his fermentation chamber. I can vouch for this, and next harvest should be even better. I didnt have enough buds (lonly 10 gram harvest, but it was GOOOOOD
) so I had to use lettuce (mostly water) to pile onto the buds, and you DONT trim anything off the buds until they are dry. In 5 days, my bud was dried and cured. My wife sampled it, and she will tell me quick if bud is good or bad, and she said it was some of the best we have had. it was bag seed too, too bad the reveg didnt take!!
sorry so long, but you should look into it further if interested cause I could have posted much, much more. Be warned, this is not complete, except for the drowning part, so dont try this without a little more research. I am sure gamber dont mind, now he has a reference to come back to.
that sounds like a good plan for the first time. but I can tell you from experience, and I think a few others have witnessed this, that backing down a half or an hour a day I have seen preflowers days before I hit 12/12, like at 14/12. This isnt the rule, but the majority of the experience.
Plus, I know you are seeing this growth now, but the general consensus is that the plant will double, and maybe triple in size in the first month of flower. That may equate to one inch of growth a day for the first month of flower, but it may be more or less. all food for thought.
oh, if you want to drown a plant in hydro for that curing method, easy, turn off the air pumps, no oxygen!!
damn that was a lot. I could have rambled on and on too. good information at least.
