when its harvest time for me, I do some manicuring of my plants before I hang them upside down. I hang the whole plant upside down in a dark closet with a cirulating fan in the room. I let them stay there until they become crsipy, usually 4-5 days. I then pull them down manicure them more and they go into the jars. I then for the first week burp them twice a day for two weeks at 1 hour at a time. My buds after that get 30-45 minutes the next to weeks of burping. My buds come out cripsy and dust up, not tight and break up right??? wtf am i doing wrong??
how to improve my current curing process?
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bud nugbong
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your "burping" for too long i think... when i burp its open the jar fan it out for 20 seconds and put the lid back on. all you want to do is remove any moisture that made it from inside the bud into the air. after the 1st week-10days you should notice your "green smell" bieng replaced with nice aromas. and you will not completely dry out your buds. good luck next time.
Chem Dawg
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After harvest I jar up for 10 hrs.. Then I burp for 2 hrs ( remove lids ). Re-jar for 10hrs, and again burp for 2 hrs. I repeat this for 2 weeks , then I reduce the burping to 5-10 mins every 24 hrs for a week. After that I store them for a week in a cabinet with lids on no burping. And once I crack that lid I've got what I asked for.... " Pungent Dank "! In my opinion the 2 week cure is smoke able but a extra week or 2 will give u what your looking for.. I wasted to many harvest rushing the most important part. My buds would look like commercial nuggs with all the bag appeal , but they would not be up to my standards.. With a couple extra weeks you will be happy man... And remember also , some strains cure at different rates. Dense indica nuggs may take a bit longer to cure out than the more wispy sativa like buds.. Basically my goal is to hang dry until just before the stem snaps, and then cure until the stem snaps... Hope this helps!
STEADY BLAZING
Active Member
curing is fuckin tricky next time i do it im going with a hygrow meter. for me growing it is the easy part. its curing and drying that always ends up pissin me off
WillieMazeHaze
Member
Agreed, any monkey with half a brain get grow the tron, but the drying and curing will make or break your crop and unfortunately I have read 1 million articles on this yet there is NO how to, everybody deals with different conditions and we must custom tailor our drying and curing needs, based on our environment
SimonD
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The link in my sig would be helpful to you. Good luck.
As you say, the problem with a one-all process is the difference in individual environmental conditions, along with the product, itself. This is why we measure the humidity inside the curing container to gauge the state of the cure. It's the only way to know whether the flowers are curing or not.
Simon
WillieMazeHaze
Member
I must say I do like only drying for about 3 days here. And then go into brown paper bags to slow the drying process as well. Problem is in NYC is at during the winter the heaters come on and reduce humidity to 0 while during the summer humidity is at almost 80% steady.
Bucket head
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after you manicure put your bud in brown paper bags for a minute! Then jars... Just feel out the moisture content. You want around 10% moisture when goin' into jars. The slower this goes the better the flavor in the end. Oh, and try and keep sunlight out of the equation during all this.