Curing Weed For 1 Yr???

[Hashiguru]

Just wondering if bud would increase in taste if you cured it for a year? I've heard the longer you do it the better it gets but what if you do it for really long? Would it go bad and am I just wasting my time and should I just smoke it after 5 weeks?

 

[hydrocropper420]

I think it would be shot after a year, waiste of time, unless you got some weed to spare give it a shot and lets see in a year what its like!!!! I dont know how you would ''Cure'' it for a year, thats a process that when its ready its ready, most everyone knows you cant really screw with curing time, after its cured you could jar it for a year and see what it tastes like, without ever opening the jar.

 

[topfuel29]

I've read after six months the quality of the smoke starts to degrade. I can never keep any longer than 3 or so months

 

[hotrodharley]

It degrades. 6 months at the outside when it's cured by a knowledgeable grower. If vacuum packed in glass that might be another thing but the moisture from the heated glass would doom that I believe.

 

[spenc96]

If you dry it right, put it in a jar sweating out most of the moisture. After that normal curing possess is done you can then continue to cure weed for up to 4 years opening the jar only every 3-6 months depending on the budds need. The longer it cures the better and smoother tasting it is. It does lose some strength however I feel it is worth it.

 

[Coho]

Package up a Christmas eve bud now...

 

[hydrocropper420]

Wow!!! seems like way too long to wait, you would have to start now then wait a year to get onto a steady roll of YEAR cured weed, but seriously isnt what we all grow good enough when its done???, I've never heard of this year curing thing, most people can barely wait till fall for their outdoor harvest, others, like me cant even barely wait 3 months to get an indoor harvest, I'm interested to see if someone does this, I'll throw a bud of my last grow in for CHRISTMAS as well!!!!! OG kush

 

[spenc96]

It does take a lot of waiting, it's like curing wine. All pot has a point of deminishing returns. You may find that if you cure a lavender kush for two years in an oak jar has the best taste ever. Or a mango kush for 3 years in glass makes it smoother then water. It's all about what it's cured in and the length of time haha.

 

[topfuel29]

I'd like to get a digital humidor to control temperture and humidity.But the ones I looked at started @$1000.
I can never keep my humidity where it needs to be for drying. Winter is dry here that after you open your mason jar a few times to get a bud out the whole jar drys out. I allways have to add a little moisture back in.

 

[dunkin73]

My third outdoor grow was kept in jars for over a year, the flavor was the same, it became smoother. The potency did suffer some after a year but not by much. Just be careful to open up the tops on occasion and it will be fine.

 

[prosperian]

If you dry it right, put it in a jar sweating out most of the moisture. After that normal curing possess is done you can then continue to cure weed for up to 4 years opening the jar only every 3-6 months depending on the budds need. The longer it cures the better and smoother tasting it is. It does lose some strength however I feel it is worth it.

I have posted a thread in harvesting and curing section with no response to this same question. I researched back to 2011 and found little proof of procedures that worked for more than one grower. Spenc - your storing for four years? Just burping every 3-6 months? I was thinking about using inert gas like they use in wine to replace the air in the glass jar after opening or using a vacuum canister to suck all the air out.

Here is thread and discussions I pulled over the last couple years on the subject. Click Here

 

[ProfessorPotSnob]

I have bud that has been stored a year minimal and it tends to be my least favorite smoke in the end .. But with that said I notice with long term cured Indica that it only aids in making the effects even more couch locked verses Sativas that are kept long term , they seem to retain the high with less CBN/CBD due to Thc degradation

 

[althor]

It is not unusual for me to have bud in jars for very long periods. Strains play a part in how they mature over a very long cure time. Some get better some dont. You must keep them in a cool/dark place to save the THC.

 

[Bigby]

It degrades. 6 months at the outside when it's cured by a knowledgeable grower. If vacuum packed in glass that might be another thing but the moisture from the heated glass would doom that I believe.

You have some great insights - always interesting reading your posts. +rep!

 

[Matt47steez]

I know this is an old thread but I recently found a just over vacuum packed bag of some buds in a stash spot that i'd completely forgot about. I could tell by the bag that it was one of the ones i'd used two years ago growing.. Getting to the point they had been flattened under many items in the complete dark in vacuum packed bags. They didn't look anything like that year i'd grown, there were no crystals that you could see from plain view, but through a USB microscope there were pretty much only trichomes you could see. The way they were packed they had sorta became very brick weed looking, it was possible to cut in slices..barely any smell. However, the stone was crazy, the strongest i've smoked in five or so years.. but the taste of the smoke didn't taste like anything i'd ever tasted before.. certainly not like pot. Everyone I've let try this stuff says the exact same thing..

 

[420monster]

I know this is an old thread but I recently found a just over vacuum packed bag of some buds in a stash spot that i'd completely forgot about. I could tell by the bag that it was one of the ones i'd used two years ago growing.. Getting to the point they had been flattened under many items in the complete dark in vacuum packed bags. They didn't look anything like that year i'd grown, there were no crystals that you could see from plain view, but through a USB microscope there were pretty much only trichomes you could see. The way they were packed they had sorta became very brick weed looking, it was possible to cut in slices..barely any smell. However, the stone was crazy, the strongest i've smoked in five or so years.. but the taste of the smoke didn't taste like anything i'd ever tasted before.. certainly not like pot. Everyone I've let try this stuff says the exact same thing..

Resurrection of a 3 year old post as your first post is a bad idea...

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[lawlrus]

In my experience it gets harsh but arguably more intense in effect after 9-12 months. Totally uneducated guess might be that the trichs degrade further even off the plant and then the lower overall water content means the pot technically is more potent gram for gram. Past a year you really see a marked decline in quality, again, in my experience -- your mileage may vary. I will say that the juice really isn't worth the squeeze past 6-9 months in my opinion.

 

[AKDrifter]

My experience has been a little different. I have smoked bud that was between 12-14mos all jarred up and cured then jars vacuum sealed with a food saver jarring attachment. that bud was as good as ever. I found it to be smoother than before the long cure. Jars were stored in a cool dark spot steady around 55f, all was excellent when it came out of storage.

I think the biggest factor is the initial drying and curing process.

I jarred the bud up, use the hygrometer method then after a couple weeks of burping the jars used the vac attachment to seal which is a no heat process just basically sucks all the air out of the jar, It pulls a hell of a vac on them. At one month I vac seal all my jars.

 

[Kswisss]

I have some pineapple express and it lost potency and got more brown tint to it around 8 months curing. It was great the first month of cure though

 

[Dividedsky]

I believe they past their peak at the 6 month mark. Correct me I'm wrong.