what to do after harvest? how to cure buds

[sito007]

Chop your plant, take fan leaves off to cook with, hang in a cool dark room or box, 45-50 % humidity and 24- 18 celsius (65-75 F), let the buds dry for 10-15 days until buds stems do a good snapping noise when snapped, inspect buds daily to ensure no bug problems start and to turn unexposed bud areas. After store in airtight jars, open daily for a while to let moisture out, make sure to turn all buds so moisture cant get trapped.
Hay, wet weed smell could be because moisture level is too high (make sure jar is very dry, open to let moisture out.
Peace to all

my friend want to know once they are in the jar how long after they are ready to self medicate ?

 

[Mainstrains]

my friend want to know once they are in the jar how long after they are ready to self medicate ?

Depending on your dry factor, I would say 2-4 weeks, but the bud isn't fully cured until it's dry all the way through
I find the longer it sits in the jar, the smoke is always better by far

 

[facelift]

Because I don't need bag appeal, I do not hang my plants to prevent bruising and flat spots on the buds.

I trim the buds and lay them on a rack in a drawer for 3-4 days. Then I put them in jars for a day. When I get home from work I take the buds out and let them air dry overnight. I repeat for a few more days. Eventually the buds are dry enough to keep in a jar without any more attention. I've had buds where the stems still don't snap almost 2 months after harvest. As for smell, What's White Widow s'posed to smell like anyway?

 

[DIYer]

this is in direct conflict with what someone said earlier about leaving the leaves on while you dry...

http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/mj009.htm

too bad no one knows anything

 

[Kola Radical]

It's too dry here to let the stems get to the breaking point, so I hang for 3 days and it's almost always perfect for a sativa. Maybe a day longer for a heavy indica.

Put in jars... burp every day, several times.

It's sweat, burp, sweat, burp, as many times as it takes until it stops making any difference.

 

[statusquo]

Leaving the leaves on the bud will protect the buds a little bit, prolong the cure/dry by adding moisture (which will help break down water soluble things and make your smoke smoother) and keep the terpenes and other things from volatilizing IMO (preserves smell - many report their bud smelling more like hay or grass when they trim right after harvest. It usually comes back with a good cure though). However, it is certainly much harder to trim the leaves after they have become limp and dry...plus the trichomes are more sensitive and are prone to falling off/bruising.

 

[DIYer]

Leaving the leaves on the bud will protect the buds a little bit, prolong the cure/dry by adding moisture (which will help break down water soluble things and make your smoke smoother) and keep the terpenes and other things from volatilizing IMO (preserves smell - many report their bud smelling more like hay or grass when they trim right after harvest. It usually comes back with a good cure though). However, it is certainly much harder to trim the leaves after they have become limp and dry...plus the trichomes are more sensitive and are prone to falling off/bruising.

no offense i do it too sometimes, but you just contradicted yourself and left me right back where i was,... with no answer

 

[always2theLeft]

why would i want to cook with fan leaves,..

the link in your sig doesn't work,.. grew some kali myself once

i have a jar of skunk haze i grew and it doesn't smell quite right yet its so dry its like a cracker if you grab it..


i still think i need better directions

Ok DIYer, ill make you a bet, get all of the fan leaves from your next harvest, dry/cure them (need at least an ounce), crumple them up real nice into dust, pour Isopropyl alcohol NOT DENATURED isoporpyl, very poisonous, just the 99$ stuff from CVS, pour it into your jar untill you can see liquid just over the weed, shake it up real good let it sit for an hour, strain it all through coffee filters into a pyrex baking dish, put the dish with your mixture over a steaming pan, or inside a pot of simmering water so it evaps, takes a few hours. Scrap up the greenish/black sludge at the bottom.

Go buy some chocolate bars (milk choc) use one gram of hash oil per one ounce of chocolate, get a double boil/fondue setup with your chocolate bars and hash oil, mix real good until its a solid color, dry it out and if you can eat two ounces of chocolate without passing out, you win the bet.

 

[sirbudsalot]

no offense i do it too sometimes, but you just contradicted yourself and left me right back where i was,... with no answer

beggars can't be (slightly dickish) choosers, DIYer. Try searching:

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=40637&highlight=curing

There's a bunch of stickies on harvesting, drying, curing, and processing.

 

[DIYer]

if beggars cant be slightly dickish choosers then responders can be highly ASSumptious posters ;-)
...i have searched, many times, everyone has there own way and nothing ive tried has worked, thus my asking again

 

[odin_]

I'm pretty sure the seeds are the most important product from the plant's evolutionary perspective. Dry, unpollinated flowers don't do it much good. Maybe the leaves dry first because they're really thin and have a large surface area?

really good first(ish) post

as to leaving the leaves on until after its dry... yeah thats great if you are only growing a small ammount, but you ever try to manicure 10 pounds of leafy dry bud?

 

[ne0b0rn]

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[Strainhunter]

The most common mistake is to trim off leaves before they dry.

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Not untrue...but what a PITA to trim them once dry!

Unless you can tell me how to do it an efficient way, especially for larger volumes!?

 

[ne0b0rn]

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[Strainhunter]

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Once you have mastered egg beater reaper technique....then we shall meet again...

(that was some funny chit!)