curing trim

[Mt Toaker]

I didn't really know where to put this so I put it here because over all it is a cooking question.

Curing bud increases potency, so wouldn't it stand to reason that you should cure your trim before you make butter?

I ask only because I've never really heard of any one curing trim, just throwing it in bubble bags or making food with it shortly after the trim.

 

[Mt Toaker]

Nothing really?

 

[mazzakush]

i've thought about curing leaves for smoking, not for cooking... I usually use fresh stuff for cooking...

 

[Mt Toaker]

Thats my point. . . Every one uses fresh stuff for cooking. Fresh bud is crap, it sucks, no one wants to smoke bud that you just picked, the THC hasn't become fully developed yet and the flavor sucks. Why not cure the trim for butter so its more potent. . . Oh well, maybe I'm just cookey

 

[Styles]

Sounds like an interesting idea, I don't really know anything about it though. No one has ever tried this before?

 

[okwildfire]

i dont see why it wouldnt help..i mean..it bring's out compounds and other science lol stuff in the flower's...so why wouldnt it help with the leaf?

 

[Pandemic]

Time, or a cure will decarboxylate your THC containing plant matter (bud or leaf).

Heat will also do this, as in simmering butter.

I believe it will be a wash.
However I have had a bin of diesel trim sitting around for going on two months, just didn't know what to do with it.

It all comes down to decarboxylation. Turning that THCa into straight up THC.

 

[Mt Toaker]

So I am assuming that THCa isn't the fully active like the THC that gives off the affects. . .

 

[Pandemic]

Taken from Wiki.


In the cannabis plant THC occurs mainly as tetrahydrocannabinol carboxylic acid (THC-COOH). The enzymatic condensation of geranyl pyrophosphate and olivetolic acid gives cannabigerolic acid which is cyclized by the enzyme THC acid synthase to give THC-COOH. Heating decarboxylates the acid to THC.

Decarboxylation is any chemical reaction in which a carboxyl group (-COOH) is split off from a compound.





Time or heat man. You are just knocking off atoms.

 

[GrassRoots]

I've only ever cooked with dry trim. Didn't know it was to be used fresh. That makes me wonder if my ratio of 1 dry once of high quality trim to one stick of butter is too high? Any comments on that?