Water Curing

I’m experimenting with water curing since I’m only growing for personal, and the option of a low smell smoke, as well as (hopefully) less plant matter flavor for edibles appeals to me.

I decided to do this only for all my smaller colas and popcorn. After chop, trimmed buds were placed in mason jars and filled with distilled water. I’m going to keep changing the water until the ppms stabilize close as possible to 0 .

What I haven’t seen too many threads/articles/etc. discuss are procedures for drying after cure is complete. I’m assuming drying doesn’t just stop being important, especially given how wet the buds are prior to long term storage.

Can anyone share their experience with the drying process after a water cure?

Hello,

New here and also fairly new to water curing. I am also a home grower who has "stealth" as a high priority (pun intended). I have been doing closet grows for almost 15 years and am always interested in new ideas.

I came across the idea of the "water cure" while researching ways to make edibles taste less green. I am currently finishing up my 3rd water cured harvest.

The Good:
-No smell during water cure
-Final product is very strong and also very mellow. And the smoke smell is not as easily identifiable as weed (fairly skunk free).
-For hydro growers, no reason to starve your buds for a week prior to harvest (= more yield).
-No need to trim the small sticky leaves (time saver), as they will not harsh the final product when water cured
-After the water cure, you can remove the water from the bud in a dehydrator. There are no more solubles (chlorophyll, sugars, etc) left to trap when doing a fast dry, so this can be done in a day (or less).
-Harvest to clean smoke in about 7 days

The Bad:
-This is not a product to sell. Even though the THC/CBD levels are higher, the total yield is less and the bud is an ugly dark color.
-Very little smell and taste. The little smell that remains is not great (and hard to describe), but I gotta wonder if this was always there and masked by the more pungent weed smells removed. I have read that the "terpenes" are also removed in this process, but I do not know how this impacts the experience (other than from the taste/smell).

Water curing is not for everyone. However, for a home grower who is "mostly" interested in medicinal usage, not particularly into the taste experience, or just wanting to make their grow setup less conspicuous, this might be worth a try.

Anyway, I am also interested if anyone else has experience with water curing.

Mothperson said:

less plant matter flavor for edibles appeals to me.

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I also hate the green taste of edibles. I now use kief in all my edibles.

I totally agree with the water cure method. Great for stealth , more potent, but the weed is uglier ..... but then again , I don't plan on introducing her to the family .

nuclear1 said:

I have read that the "terpenes" are also removed in this process, but I do not know how this impacts the experience (other than from the taste/smell).

Water curing is not for everyone. However, for a home grower who is "mostly" interested in medicinal usage

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Read it. All of it. Especially the part where they tried recreating the profile from terpenes and realized it's not even terpenes doing anything.

LinguaPeel said:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6749504/

Read it. All of it. Especially the part where they tried recreating the profile from terpenes and realized it's not even terpenes doing anything.

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First, WOW on reading all of this article. I need the CliffsNotes version...haha.

Skipping to the end, it looks like there is still a lot of work to do to reverse engineer the chemical subtleties of a plant that humans have been cultivating for 5000 years. But how cool will it be when we do...

nuclear1 said:

First, WOW on reading all of this article. I need the CliffsNotes version...haha.

Skipping to the end, it looks like there is still a lot of work to do to reverse engineer the chemical subtleties of a plant that humans have been cultivating for 5000 years. But how cool will it be when we do...

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Study showed that only the so called co-related terpenes has an entourage effect to THC and CBD is less effected by these.

Here are the different terpenes to show which ones are co-related to which and which are not.