How To Cure
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abyss13
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Test #2 of paper towel wrap slow cure in process…(wait did he say paper towels WTF)?
Been curing bud past 3 yrs, different methods, but in general the same —
Cut plant remove fans & hang dry 7-8-9 days etc
then
Trim plants Buds etc etc put in 10-20-30 etc mason jars burp burp burp 2x day etc pain in the ass opening all those jars…
So the wife says, hey use that cooler in the basement we never use to cure after the initial hang drying instead of the jars…”OK honey”
Well there is an old saying I won’t say here, but my version now is “once you go cooler you won’t go back” !!!
Yep take those dried plants to your liking & cut the bud branches off trim them up & place vertically bud top up or on screen racks put in the cooler place humidity gauge inside & shut it up & check next morning…I like to cure in the ~59-63% humidity range (Which also happens to be my final jarring or bagging for storage range as well)… open the cooler once a day for several minutes & close ain’t life easy…it is for me now!
I’ll keep the Buds in the cooler for 4-6 weeks before storage.
((Of course “always” checking your humidity range))
Have cured about 2 Lbs now over time this way & f*ck the jars — Unless you only have a few jars, which is just fine or u simply are not bothered by having to open them daily.
33 flavor…
Well back to the paper towel test.
So I accidentally break a bud branch off one of my plants while checking on my Seeds
(This is a GSC auto cross bread seed
producing plant).
Instead of putting it on my bud drying rack I initially use when I started growing, but use seldom now usually just for Hash curing.
I carried it up the stairs to my kitchen subconsciously, to get another cup of coffee.
Too lazy to walk back downstairs I simply wrap it up in the kitchen paper towels two sheets attached to each other… then I’m like I think I will just take this back downstairs and put it on the bud drying rack and see what happens…Now I’m thinking the paper towel is just going to extract the moisture quicker and I’ll have nothing but a over dried bud …WRONG…I forgot about it and then 10 days later went to get it when I bent over to the lower level of the drying rack my nose was like wow where’d the Hawaiian come from ???
The smell without even opening the paper towel was phenomenal, I’ve grown over 40 of these GSC auto plants and none have the odor like this one… then I open the paper towel and it was phenomenal again.
Dried about 80% or so…
A friend of mine who is a daily smoker and retired was picking me up that day to go see another friend.
I brought the bud with me and they smoked it.
And it smoked just fine in a glass Chilum.
He honestly asked me where did you get the Hawaiian from smells like the old Maui Wowi from the 1970s. I then had to tell him it’s the same bud you’ve been smoking for the past two years…
So I explained to him what I did, I still don’t think he believed me. So here I am Test round two this time bigger and longer Buds wrapped up in the paper towels with the ends twisted and placed on the bud drying rack hanging in the closet… we will see in 10 days if it turns out the same.
Will I change my current drying/curing method
NO I won’t. But, If this paper towel method seems to produce the same results I will definitely dry my Primo bud this way before the final cure.
((Also, when I first put the paper towel wrapped bud on the drying rack, I also placed another bud about the same size on the drying rack that was not wrapped in the paper towel, After 10 days compared to the wrapped bud, it was like 50% dryer and maybe 1/2 the odor if that. So I thought that was very interesting completely different result than I expected)) ???
Been curing bud past 3 yrs, different methods, but in general the same —
Cut plant remove fans & hang dry 7-8-9 days etc
then
Trim plants Buds etc etc put in 10-20-30 etc mason jars burp burp burp 2x day etc pain in the ass opening all those jars…
So the wife says, hey use that cooler in the basement we never use to cure after the initial hang drying instead of the jars…”OK honey”
Well there is an old saying I won’t say here, but my version now is “once you go cooler you won’t go back” !!!
Yep take those dried plants to your liking & cut the bud branches off trim them up & place vertically bud top up or on screen racks put in the cooler place humidity gauge inside & shut it up & check next morning…I like to cure in the ~59-63% humidity range (Which also happens to be my final jarring or bagging for storage range as well)… open the cooler once a day for several minutes & close ain’t life easy…it is for me now!
I’ll keep the Buds in the cooler for 4-6 weeks before storage.
((Of course “always” checking your humidity range))
Have cured about 2 Lbs now over time this way & f*ck the jars — Unless you only have a few jars, which is just fine or u simply are not bothered by having to open them daily.
33 flavor…
Well back to the paper towel test.
So I accidentally break a bud branch off one of my plants while checking on my Seeds
(This is a GSC auto cross bread seed
producing plant).
Instead of putting it on my bud drying rack I initially use when I started growing, but use seldom now usually just for Hash curing.
I carried it up the stairs to my kitchen subconsciously, to get another cup of coffee.
Too lazy to walk back downstairs I simply wrap it up in the kitchen paper towels two sheets attached to each other… then I’m like I think I will just take this back downstairs and put it on the bud drying rack and see what happens…Now I’m thinking the paper towel is just going to extract the moisture quicker and I’ll have nothing but a over dried bud …WRONG…I forgot about it and then 10 days later went to get it when I bent over to the lower level of the drying rack my nose was like wow where’d the Hawaiian come from ???
The smell without even opening the paper towel was phenomenal, I’ve grown over 40 of these GSC auto plants and none have the odor like this one… then I open the paper towel and it was phenomenal again.
Dried about 80% or so…
A friend of mine who is a daily smoker and retired was picking me up that day to go see another friend.
I brought the bud with me and they smoked it.
And it smoked just fine in a glass Chilum.
He honestly asked me where did you get the Hawaiian from smells like the old Maui Wowi from the 1970s. I then had to tell him it’s the same bud you’ve been smoking for the past two years…
So I explained to him what I did, I still don’t think he believed me. So here I am Test round two this time bigger and longer Buds wrapped up in the paper towels with the ends twisted and placed on the bud drying rack hanging in the closet… we will see in 10 days if it turns out the same.
Will I change my current drying/curing method
NO I won’t. But, If this paper towel method seems to produce the same results I will definitely dry my Primo bud this way before the final cure.
((Also, when I first put the paper towel wrapped bud on the drying rack, I also placed another bud about the same size on the drying rack that was not wrapped in the paper towel, After 10 days compared to the wrapped bud, it was like 50% dryer and maybe 1/2 the odor if that. So I thought that was very interesting completely different result than I expected)) ???