No Maintenance Curing?

[Bush Grower]

I am going on vacation a week after my crop matures. I will have that 1 week to let it "dry" and then I will be gone for almost a month. Unfortunately, I won't be around to do the whole glass jar cure & burp them everyday so I need to think of an alternative way to still get a good long cure.

I do not want to do a water cure.

Is it possible to just leave them in paper bags for a month?? I was worried about mold, etc. but I thought a paper bag would breathe enough if I just folded the opening???

Does anyone have any ideas??

 

[stealthcabber]

you say your leaving for a week, an then be back then, leave for a month?

i would leave them out hanging or on screen for a week then, put them in 5 gallon bucket w/ a air stone on a time and check valve the automatically burb them while your away. should have a nice 1 month cure when you get back.

 

[Bush Grower]

Brilliant bro. I figured there had to be a way but couldn't think of it & searching just turned up didley.. Thanks man!!

 

[ButteredIt]

i just did this over the winter holidays. i dried my crop, jarred it all up and put it immediately into the freezer. i came back in 3 weeks, carefully removed the jars from freezer as to not knock off the extremely fragile frozen trichs, let them thaw for an hour or two, and continued with the paper bag and burping jars. kind of like the bud was cryogenically frozen while i was on vacation. my buds smell just as wonderful as they would have had i not left.

the freezer is where its at. good luck.

 

[Hydro-Soil]

i just did this over the winter holidays. i dried my crop, jarred it all up and put it immediately into the freezer. i came back in 3 weeks, carefully removed the jars from freezer as to not knock off the extremely fragile frozen trichs, let them thaw for an hour or two, and continued with the paper bag and burping jars. kind of like the bud was cryogenically frozen while i was on vacation. my buds smell just as wonderful as they would have had i not left.

the freezer is where its at. good luck.

This is probably going to be your best bet on such short notice. I doubt you have time to mess with testing a check valve and your equipment, would be best to do a test run or two with it first before trusting your entire crop to it. Freezing it will do the least amount of possible damage while you're gone.

 

[somebody041]

you say your leaving for a week, an then be back then, leave for a month?

i would leave them out hanging or on screen for a week then, put them in 5 gallon bucket w/ a air stone on a time and check valve the automatically burb them while your away. should have a nice 1 month cure when you get back.

that's a great idea! did you just come up with that or have you used a similar setup

 

[grouchy]

You can water cure it in a week and then take some with you on your trip. You will lose most taste and smell though.

 

[LoKey]

This is probably going to be your best bet on such short notice. I doubt you have time to mess with testing a check valve and your equipment, would be best to do a test run or two with it first before trusting your entire crop to it. Freezing it will do the least amount of possible damage while you're gone.

unless the check valve is a simple beer/wine water bubbler valve, typically around $1 even, fill it up with a bit of water (more than the the normal amount) and bam easy check valve that wont be a problem

 

[icred]

I had a rush cure one year and this is what I did.

Cut down the plants mid morning and trimmed off most of the leaves for a good trim. Let them dry for the weekend, 2 days and 1 night, in the sun room and it was a sunny +20C day in there & dry. I had a small electric space heater in there overnight.

I used a 20L plastic pails with about 5 1cm holes drilled in the bottom and top lid each. Inside the pails I cut down to 10cm the cardboard bottle separators from wine and beer cases giving me about 6 slots per layer. In each slot of the three layers in the pail I put a paper lunch-bag containing under 1oz each. I left the pails hanging in a shed hopefully free from mouse attacks but out of the sun so it was dry, cool and breezy.

I didn't get back for about 3 weeks and the results where pretty good. Yes, there was some that spoiled but for the most part the rest could go into zip-lock bags right away.

 

[Reckoner]

Hi there,

I have a similar problem, a week of drying then leaving for 10 days. Do I have good chances to get mold if I just leave the buds in jars, and start the curing 10 days later ?