Over Dried - bother curing or just smoke?

hot_box_enthusiast

hot_box_enthusiast

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I must have missed something obvious in all my reading and podcast listening about harvest. I read the stickied thread "A Perfect Cure Every Time" a few times. When I pulled my plants last week, I expected the dry would be a bit faster than I wanted, since my temps in the drying space were 24C and humidity around 50-55%. I left the buds on the stems, hanging in a tent (dark) to dry.

My key failure; everything I read and heard hinged around testing one of the smaller buds and checking the stem. Some folks say you want the stem to break on the smaller buds, some say perfect would be for it to break and trail a small attachment to the stalk. Others say dont even get to the point where the stem snaps.

Here's the thing. I was checking my drying plants every day all week, but I was testing the stems *in between the bud sites* which I can only assume is my mistake. Yesterday was day 7 of drying. STILL the stems between the bud sites were bendy, some a bit of snap but no clear break. wtf I thought to myself. Touching the outside of the buds they definitely seemed done, so I figured... fuck testing the stems, I better take these down.

It was only as I started doing my trim, that I realized every single bud small and large was breaking off from the stems of the plant, with a clear snap! The stems were breaking at the bud sites - this is when I realized I must have been testing in the wrong place.

So what now? The buds have been in jars overnight, and they have settled in so far at around 51%. Despite that being low, they arent total crumbly... luckily theres enough resin that they are still pretty sticky.

So the magic question - what now? Everything I have read tells me there is no way for me to cure the buds now, that I fucked them up. The strain is Jack Herer, and it has that sweet smell to it, but there is still a bit of hay/fresh smell. Anything I can do to improve my bud further at this point?

And how did I fuck this up so royally when I was so careful yo listen to advice?

Cheers all!
 
IrkinBollikans

IrkinBollikans

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My humidity in my drying tent is a touch higher, but my temps are the same. I've had 2 plants hung for 18 days now and they're still not fully dry. Smelled pretty good last time I checked them. Might be able to jar them on Sunday. Strange that yours dried so fast. Do you have a lot of air movement in your drying space?
 
bk78

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I’ve forgotten a whole plant in one of my drying boxes before for a month. Buds were crispy,yet still sticky and dank.

What exactly is your issue you’re having?
 
hot_box_enthusiast

hot_box_enthusiast

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bk78 said:
I’ve forgotten a whole plant in one of my drying boxes before for a month. Buds were crispy,yet still sticky and dank.

What exactly is your issue you’re having?
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Good question. Possibly nothing I suppose! The stickied thread and other sources (podcasts) make such a big deal about a slow 4 week cure, and that your buds need this to be the best. I don't think I 've come across anywhere that suggests they will have optimal taste after a 7 days hang, but like 70's natureboy says I guess it will be fun to find out :)

bk78 said:
The biggest problem I see is people harvesting their plants weeks early. That will make them dry fast and smell and taste like ass.
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I've taken that advice to heart, and let them go and go before I pulled. I have plenty of smoke around and am in no rush (hence why I was worried I fucked my cure... dont mind waiting 4 weeks if it will taste better)
 
hot_box_enthusiast

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First harvest, so I'm gonna love it no matter what. This is all for fun so I'm not upset, just trying to learn from mistakes. Like I said the smell has the classic Jack Herer smell, but it still does have a bit of .... "green" smell. I'll try some later today and report back. This was grown from what was supposed to be a feminized seed but turned out to be an autoflower.
 

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Now enjoying the flowers of my labor. It’s right what they say about enjoying something you grew yourself. Despite reading 52% in the jars still the bud was so sticky it needed cajoling to fall through the holes in the grinder. Smoke tastes great and i’m enjoying the medical effects. No cough ✌
 
bk78

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hot_box_enthusiast said:
Now enjoying the flowers of my labor. It’s right what they say about enjoying something you grew yourself. Despite reading 52% in the jars still the bud was so sticky it needed cajoling to fall through the holes in the grinder. Smoke tastes great and i’m enjoying the medical effects. No cough ✌
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Still sounds like it’s too wet to jar if it’s that sticky yet after being ground.
 
hot_box_enthusiast

hot_box_enthusiast

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It is possible. It’s been stable overnight and today at 51/52% in the jars and the buds do all snap at stems (like if I pry a bigger bud apart). I left it out of jars for a couple hours this afternoon then put back in. I’ll keep checking and maybe take one of the jars and dry it further to compare.
 
Tetrahedral

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Sticky is not dry, it's oil and water, when the water leaves it it will be dry. If you have ever pressed hash you will understand that dried trichs contain little water and it is pressure and heat that allow them to become sticky briefly.

You should stop snapping stems, snap some bud into a joint, that's the test, when it's smoking and tasting real good that's when you jar.

If your expecting green harsh weed to go into a jar and come out tasty it won't. Most reason people have to burp for weeks is they didn't wait for it to dry.
 
BobCajun

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Once plant material is below about 70% RH it's too dry to cure. What people are doing with the jarring is called "aging", completely different thing. You can read about it in regard to tobacco. Aging does improve it, it's just not the same as curing, people are using the wrong terminology. Curing will turn it from green to brown. If your weed isn't brown, it isn't cured, that simple. That's the whole purpose of curing, to get rid of the chlorophyll, in addition to changing starch to sugars. Why? Because chlorophyll and starch are harsh as hell, that's why. Colombian weed is cured, which is why it's brown and not green.
 
Gemtree

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BobCajun said:
Once plant material is below about 70% RH it's too dry to cure. What people are doing with the jarring is called "aging", completely different thing. You can read about it in regard to tobacco. Aging does improve it, it's just not the same as curing, people are using the wrong terminology. Curing will turn it from green to brown. If your weed isn't brown, it isn't cured, that simple. That's the whole purpose of curing, to get rid of the chlorophyll, in addition to changing starch to sugars. Why? Because chlorophyll and starch are harsh as hell, that's why. Colombian weed is cured, which is why it's brown and not green.
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I cure to brown at 60%
 
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