You have to dry and cure it properly.I just can't seem to get the lawn trimmings taste and smell out of my buds
Totally agree.. I guess I'm a little more aggressive on the drying because I use a bud dryer (DIY plans somewhere on RIU), but I let them get real crispy before jarring. You'd be surprised how much moisture comes back once they are in the jars, I have even taken the buds back out of the jars and put them in the dryer again if I feel they are still too moist. The last thing you want is moldy buds.You have to dry and cure it properly.
I dry between 3-7 days and then brown paper bag it for another few days, then throw into the mason jars burping. I usually have a 2 week jar and a 4 week jar. The 2 week jar is to get you by, and the 4 week is the better stuff.
Honestly, to me this is the most important part of the grow. As it makes what you've worked for so long, finally finished and consumable.
Even better when you get to 6 months, sooooooooo smooth my goodness!!Totally agree.. I guess I'm a little more aggressive on the drying because I use a bud dryer (DIY plans somewhere on RIU), but I let them get real crispy before jarring. You'd be surprised how much moisture comes back once they are in the jars, I have even taken the buds back out of the jars and put them in the dryer again if I feel they are still too moist. The last thing you want is moldy buds.
Two Week and Four Week jars . It's always nice to get to that one month celebration..
Grazz
Get lunch bags there are more of them but they are more effective than a grocery bag because they are smaller. The paper lunch bags (brown) soak up a lot of moisture, you want to do it as a final process of the drying. I put buds in spaced slightly, and do not stack them at all and then i turn over the buds periodically when the bottom or sides of the paper bag are moist. It really helps absorb a lot of moisture, and helps the process of curing. So in a nutshell, I dry until the outside of the buds feel crispy but the stems still bend, then I put into lunch bags until the stems snap, then into the jar and I open the jars after 12 hours the first day then open/burp for about 5-10 minutes, then 6 hours for 2 weeks burping at 5-10 minutes and the last couple of weeks 4 hours with again 5-10 minutes. Like Grazz said you wouldn't believe how much they moisten back up. The bags are way cheap for like 100 of them, you can find them at Walmart, or pretty much anywhere really. I have done different ways of drying etc, but the this way has proven best for me.So do you burp them for the whole 4 weeks? I feel my last ones were to dry when I jarred them, a little moisture came back but they were crumbly after a week and a half of burping and still taste like do do. Thanks
Edit what does the brown paper bag do? Will a small cardboard box do?
Yes with 5-10 minutes of opening/airing out/burping the jar.So its 12 hours initially for the first burp then every six hours for like 2 weeks and every 4 hours for another 2 weeks?
For a longer cure just extend the time periods. For instance the 12 hour extend to 1 week versus 1 day, the 6 hour do for 3-4 weeks instead of 2 weeks, and so on and so forth.So if you want to cure for like 2 months do you burp the whole 2 months or is there a point where you seal up the jar and let it stand maybe burp it like once s day?
It's all about paying it forward.Thank you soooooo much for your help, even after all the research and reading about curing I have done you have been the most helpful! Its awesome to have so much help I feel anyone can figure out anything on this site because of all the people that can explain the same thing in so many different ways its just about finding the way you understand it
Like Joos said, it's all about passing down the knowledge/paying it forward. I could not have said it better myself, and you're welcome.Thank you soooooo much for your help, even after all the research and reading about curing I have done you have been the most helpful! Its awesome to have so much help I feel anyone can figure out anything on this site because of all the people that can explain the same thing in so many different ways its just about finding the way you understand it
Plants are looking good, even the mutant lol. Honestly the mutant doesn't look deformed or anything to me, looks nice and healthy. Glad the tip helped you out, keep up the great work.21 Days in and the Mutant is still looking like leaf lettuce..lol. Started LST on these 2 and added some dark time (Thanks Doob), they seem to be a little bigger each time I visit.
Pic 1 Nirvana Blue Mystic (fem seed)
Pic 2 Seed from my last BM Grow. Calling it a Mystical Mutant (MM)
Grazz
Looking good Frank, keep up the good work. Gotta love the re-routing of auxins through topping/fimming or LST/SCRoG, it's a good thing =] lol.what up guys im back, with my seconed grow, this are clones i been vaging them for 15 days from when i got them from the club, 2 platinum babbu kush and 1 LA confed, im going to be starting the 12/12 in like 4 more days , i want them to get a good root mass before i flower, they all been toped. let me know what you guys think , im using sunshine mix 4 and fox farm nuts , vermi-t.