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DST

DST

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Happy 4th of July to all you guys on the other side of the deep blue. Hope you all have a great day.

Peace from DST
 
DST

DST

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whatcha mean bru, cutting the plant and letting it cure in water before harvesting?????

whodatnation said:
ok, so I think it's been discussed on the 6 before,,,,,, but any thoughts on water curing? I saw a question in Bills thread about it and it sparked my interest again :-) Everyone says it ends up with lower yield but turns out dank.....? ANY THOUGHTS PEEPS?
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Don Gin and Ton

Don Gin and Ton

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i tried it a while back its a sound method even if it feels alien. it'll leach all the bad stuff into the water in a week. downside is it shrinks your dope. on the plus though in doing that it makes it stronger by volume :) dunno if i'd do it with a big crop though.
 
whodatnation

whodatnation

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DST said:
whatcha mean bru, cutting the plant and letting it cure in water before harvesting?????
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Don Gin and Ton said:
i tried it a while back its a sound method even if it feels alien. it'll leach all the bad stuff into the water in a week. downside is it shrinks your dope. on the plus though in doing that it makes it stronger by volume :) dunno if i'd do it with a big crop though.
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I know, it sounds crazy lol :lol: but Iv never tried it and was "curious" lol
 
GreenThumb2k10

GreenThumb2k10

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The idea here is to cut down on all the drying time, while removing a lot of the bad stuff (fertilizers, chloriphyll, ect...) from the bud at the same time.
Materials:
1. Water cooler (or any other item to hold water, with room for buds)
2. Water
3. Dehydrator (optional)
4. Bud

Steps:
1. Chop down the plants as normal, and manicure them like normal. But dont dry them. (ive heard you could dry and cure normally and then do the water cure but to me it seems like a waste of time)
2. Lay the manicured buds in the bottom of a cooler and slowly pour water into the cooler, trying not to move around the buds too much. If the buds float, put a plate or something over them so that they stay COMPLETELY submerged. (if they arent completely submerged, it is pretty much a molds dream vacation)
3. Change the water every day for 7 days, and on the seventh (or eighth if you want... just be sure that they dont make it past
take them out and hang them up to dry with a fan blowing on them (food dehydrators work well too... or in the over on the lowest temperature) and it shouldnt take more than a few hours to dry. After its dried, its ready to be smoked or stored.

NOTE:
Doing this will cut down on the amount of final product because of all the contaminates it removes. It will also kill bag appeal, so i wouldnt recommend doing this for a commercial grow since it pretty much turns the weed brown. But it does increase the concentration of THC (does NOT make more THC) but since THC isnt water-soluable, the contaminates get removed, but all the THC stays. Although it seems hard to believe (to me it was at first...) ive never seen any mold come up from doing this method (and ive even got my friends into doing it with theirs... no mold on theirs either). I would still recommend doing it on only a small part of your harvest at first tho, so that way if something goes wrong then it will only be a little bud lost instead of a whole crop
 
whodatnation

whodatnation

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GreenThumb2k10 said:
The idea here is to cut down on all the drying time, while removing a lot of the bad stuff (fertilizers, chloriphyll, ect...) from the bud at the same time.
Materials:
1. Water cooler (or any other item to hold water, with room for buds)
2. Water
3. Dehydrator (optional)
4. Bud

Steps:
1. Chop down the plants as normal, and manicure them like normal. But dont dry them. (ive heard you could dry and cure normally and then do the water cure but to me it seems like a waste of time)
2. Lay the manicured buds in the bottom of a cooler and slowly pour water into the cooler, trying not to move around the buds too much. If the buds float, put a plate or something over them so that they stay COMPLETELY submerged. (if they arent completely submerged, it is pretty much a molds dream vacation)
3. Change the water every day for 7 days, and on the seventh (or eighth if you want... just be sure that they dont make it past
take them out and hang them up to dry with a fan blowing on them (food dehydrators work well too... or in the over on the lowest temperature) and it shouldnt take more than a few hours to dry. After its dried, its ready to be smoked or stored.

NOTE:
Doing this will cut down on the amount of final product because of all the contaminates it removes. It will also kill bag appeal, so i wouldnt recommend doing this for a commercial grow since it pretty much turns the weed brown. But it does increase the concentration of THC (does NOT make more THC) but since THC isnt water-soluable, the contaminates get removed, but all the THC stays. Although it seems hard to believe (to me it was at first...) ive never seen any mold come up from doing this method (and ive even got my friends into doing it with theirs... no mold on theirs either). I would still recommend doing it on only a small part of your harvest at first tho, so that way if something goes wrong then it will only be a little bud lost instead of a whole crop
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Yes good :-) Like I said,,, down on yield but up on quality? right peeps?

insane I know :lol:
 
GreenThumb2k10

GreenThumb2k10

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do you guys remember this?
its the clone i took from my bubblelicious, it flowered and here it is at the begining of her re-veg, well she has changed a lot lol thats an understatement!!! im gonna go take a pic of her now and will upload, id love to see what u guys think of her, and see if u can guess how far in flower she is.

EDIT: i cant take a pic just yet as my iphone is fucked, will get one up asap tho.
 
DST

DST

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Hold on, I was never really bad at maths but what exactly is the point of doing the water drying. 1, it reduces yield, 2, it makes your weed go brown (great, lol) 3, No increase in THC - well of course, THC is what it is.

So to me, this just sounds like another way of smoking your weed. So like making oil, or kief, bubble hash, etc. It doesn't make it stronger, just more concentrated and ugly looking. Think I'll go and buy some smack, I heard you get a great hit of that, lol. I wonder how this brown weed tastes?
 
whodatnation

whodatnation

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DST said:
Hold on, I was never really bad at maths but what exactly is the point of doing the water drying. 1, it reduces yield, 2, it makes your weed go brown (great, lol) 3, No increase in THC - well of course, THC is what it is.

So to me, this just sounds like another way of smoking your weed. So like making oil, or kief, bubble hash, etc. It doesn't make it stronger, just more concentrated and ugly looking. Think I'll go and buy some smack, I heard you get a great hit of that, lol. I wonder how this brown weed tastes?
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have you tried it D browski?
I bet you have man :-)
but I havent
 
dr green dre

dr green dre

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Afternoon 600..

Hmm this water curing sounds strange ,like Dst said it sounds like another way to get high instead of a better curing,but i havent done so im just gassing away . How did it come about this water cure? does any other product(veg/fruit/herbs) get a water cure?
How much % of bud do you lose when you do it that way?

came into the office today to find one sad looking plant:( dont know whats up with it , I think it could possibly be the after affects of chopping to roots cause everything else seems fine water temps 22.c, ph 5.5, e.c 0.9 room temps 28.c but ive turned a light off so it should be in the 25-26c range by now.
I've checked for light leaks and root rot found none but i still added a dose of microbial just incase. The one at the smallest at the back started wilting first then the other followed .
any guesses guys?

Dre

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Dropastone

Dropastone

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Before I started growing my own, all I used to get was brick weed and it was packed so tight it made it really hard to break up. So before I even knew anything about water curing I used to take said brick weed and I'd put in a mason jar and fill it up with water and let it sit for 24 hrs. During that time the weed would begin to soak up all the water and swell up inside the jar and the water would turn dark brown. I'd then take the weed out and pull it apart and and lay it on some newspaper to dry for a cpl of days. After it was dry enough to smoke I noticed three things. 1) it was a smoother smoke. 2) it tasted way better than it originally did. 3) It returned to being fluffy and broke up real nice.

The whole purpose of my experiment was to rehydrate the weed so it wouldn't be so hard to cut up. I always thought brick was a waste because no matter how hard you tried you could never break it up properly and you would end up smoking more. Although I don't do this anymore because I grow my own but I will give this water cure thing another shot next time I have some fresh bud to cure. I'll do a side by side and see what happens.

Have a happy 4th of July 6'ers.
 
whodatnation

whodatnation

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dr green dre said:
Afternoon 600..

Hmm this water curing sounds strange ,like Dst said it sounds like another way to get high instead of a better curing,but i havent done so im just gassing away . How did it come about this water cure? does any other product(veg/fruit/herbs) get a water cure?
How much % of bud do you lose when you do it that way?

came into the office today to find one sad looking plant:( dont know whats up with it , I think it could possibly be the after affects of chopping to roots cause everything else seems fine water temps 22.c, ph 5.5, e.c 0.9 room temps 28.c but ive turned a light off so it should be in the 25-26c range by now.
I've checked for light leaks and root rot found none but i still added a dose of microbial just incase. The one at the smallest at the back started wilting first then the other followed .
any guesses guys?

Dre

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Sh!t Idk.. It is most likely the move imo buuuut the rest of the plants look fine. Is it in it own res or is thar 2 plants? If its a stand alone res check the air line maybe. Just trying to throw out a few ideas
 
DST

DST

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logic would say that if everything else is the same as your other girls, then this one just didn't take well to having her roots chopped. Thing with hydro the plants always look terminal immediately if something goes wrong. Not sure what to say mate, it just looks like it needs a big hug. And when you say chopped the roots, are they still getting enouhg water to sustain the plant (looks reasonably sized.)

dr green dre said:
Afternoon 600..

Hmm this water curing sounds strange ,like Dst said it sounds like another way to get high instead of a better curing,but i havent done so im just gassing away . How did it come about this water cure? does any other product(veg/fruit/herbs) get a water cure?
How much % of bud do you lose when you do it that way?

came into the office today to find one sad looking plant:( dont know whats up with it , I think it could possibly be the after affects of chopping to roots cause everything else seems fine water temps 22.c, ph 5.5, e.c 0.9 room temps 28.c but ive turned a light off so it should be in the 25-26c range by now.
I've checked for light leaks and root rot found none but i still added a dose of microbial just incase. The one at the smallest at the back started wilting first then the other followed .
any guesses guys?

Dre

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dr green dre

dr green dre

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whodatnation said:
Sh!t Idk.. It is most likely the move imo buuuut the rest of the plants look fine. Is it in it own res or is thar 2 plants? If its a stand alone res check the air line maybe. Just trying to throw out a few ideas
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DST said:
logic would say that if everything else is the same as your other girls, then this one just didn't take well to having her roots chopped. Thing with hydro the plants always look terminal immediately if something goes wrong. Not sure what to say mate, it just looks like it needs a big hug. And when you say chopped the roots, are they still getting enouhg water to sustain the plant (looks reasonably sized.)
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Cool whodat,dst.. its a stand alone with 2 plants in it. One plants alot bigger than the other so you can just about see it. The roots were chopped a week or more now, plenty space in there for them . im baffled myself so im thinking it must be the chop thats caused it. :) yeah needs some tlc for sure, ive turned the light above it off gave it a spray of water a& superthrive hoping for the best.

Doc :leaf:
 
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