This was a lifechanging experience for me, i wanted to share it with other OD growers.
This year, like years past, I have a number of jars of weed that are just almost unsmokeable because of harshness or nasty taste or something. It can be the strain itself but ive seen different jars of the same strain have this problem. It all cures the same, but it doesnt come out the same.
Most of you have smoked the type of weed im talking about - when you smoke a joint the whole thing is greasy, you have shit on you lips and teeth and youve hacked and wheezed your way through it?The taste is similar to sucking on a corroded penny dipped in rubber cement? A Good buzz just nasty getting there.
A buddy stopped by one day and while burning one, i told him about the weed and said i thought i would make some bubble from it or something. He told me he could fix the weed and make it sweet and tasty.
I thought, "Yeah, right".
He asked for a jar of the weed and i gave it to him. He walked into my kitchen, got a bowl from the cabinet, dumped the weed out of the jar into the bowl and then filled the bowl and weed with tepid tap water!! He said he preferrred distilled water with a few drops of vanilla added but tap water would make his point.
He instructed me to let the weed soak for 4 hours, and that i should come by a few times during that period and dunk the ball of weed and gently stir it a bit. Not to hard, be gentle. After the 4 hr soak, drain the weed, rinse it, let it dry and then try it. He told me to save the water that I poured off of the soaking weed and look at it later. Then gently rinse the weed in clean water.
I did as instructed feeling stupid. I thought he was nuts.
After a couple of hours, i noticed is that the soak water turned piss brown and nasty. My first thought was "im not smoking anything that's been lying in that nasty water". I poured that water off, saving it as instructed and then rinsing.
After redrying the weed over a few hours in front of a little forced air heater, i gave it a try. The effects were unbelievable. The smoke was smooth as air with a slight sweetness to it.
The potency is not effected in even a tiny way. Zero effect on potency
The next afternoon, my buddy came by to "show me the soak water". He brought his fancy jewelers loope and we eyed the sludge that had settled in the bottom of the soak water. What i saw in that soakwater was astounding.
Sludge contents:
7 entire bugs about the size of a pinpoint
Lots of other bug parts, legs, wings etc.
A gooey brown substance. My buddy tells me that is a combination of insect feces, bird feces, sulfur dioxide, arsenic (pollutants), dust and dirt that settled on the plant during the outdoor growing season. Along with chlorophyll, terpines tar and god only knows what else.
I cant believe ive been grinding that stuff up and smokiing it for years. Know wonder the smoke is awful. Take a close look at what most of us have been putting in our pipes for years and you'll understand.
I wont ever again touch outdoor weed until it has been soaked and washed. When one jar runs low, i dump the next jar and let her soak.
I havent awakened in the morning with a cough, i dont hack and wheeze any more and i would encourage every grower reading this to immediately undertake this behavior. You wont go back. Vanilla or cherry extract can be added to the rinse water that adds a sweet flavorful to the smoke. What a find.
Just sharing.
This year, like years past, I have a number of jars of weed that are just almost unsmokeable because of harshness or nasty taste or something. It can be the strain itself but ive seen different jars of the same strain have this problem. It all cures the same, but it doesnt come out the same.
Most of you have smoked the type of weed im talking about - when you smoke a joint the whole thing is greasy, you have shit on you lips and teeth and youve hacked and wheezed your way through it?The taste is similar to sucking on a corroded penny dipped in rubber cement? A Good buzz just nasty getting there.
A buddy stopped by one day and while burning one, i told him about the weed and said i thought i would make some bubble from it or something. He told me he could fix the weed and make it sweet and tasty.
I thought, "Yeah, right".
He asked for a jar of the weed and i gave it to him. He walked into my kitchen, got a bowl from the cabinet, dumped the weed out of the jar into the bowl and then filled the bowl and weed with tepid tap water!! He said he preferrred distilled water with a few drops of vanilla added but tap water would make his point.
He instructed me to let the weed soak for 4 hours, and that i should come by a few times during that period and dunk the ball of weed and gently stir it a bit. Not to hard, be gentle. After the 4 hr soak, drain the weed, rinse it, let it dry and then try it. He told me to save the water that I poured off of the soaking weed and look at it later. Then gently rinse the weed in clean water.
I did as instructed feeling stupid. I thought he was nuts.
After a couple of hours, i noticed is that the soak water turned piss brown and nasty. My first thought was "im not smoking anything that's been lying in that nasty water". I poured that water off, saving it as instructed and then rinsing.
After redrying the weed over a few hours in front of a little forced air heater, i gave it a try. The effects were unbelievable. The smoke was smooth as air with a slight sweetness to it.
The potency is not effected in even a tiny way. Zero effect on potency
The next afternoon, my buddy came by to "show me the soak water". He brought his fancy jewelers loope and we eyed the sludge that had settled in the bottom of the soak water. What i saw in that soakwater was astounding.
Sludge contents:
7 entire bugs about the size of a pinpoint
Lots of other bug parts, legs, wings etc.
A gooey brown substance. My buddy tells me that is a combination of insect feces, bird feces, sulfur dioxide, arsenic (pollutants), dust and dirt that settled on the plant during the outdoor growing season. Along with chlorophyll, terpines tar and god only knows what else.
I cant believe ive been grinding that stuff up and smokiing it for years. Know wonder the smoke is awful. Take a close look at what most of us have been putting in our pipes for years and you'll understand.
I wont ever again touch outdoor weed until it has been soaked and washed. When one jar runs low, i dump the next jar and let her soak.
I havent awakened in the morning with a cough, i dont hack and wheeze any more and i would encourage every grower reading this to immediately undertake this behavior. You wont go back. Vanilla or cherry extract can be added to the rinse water that adds a sweet flavorful to the smoke. What a find.
Just sharing.
I'll post my results when my research is dry enough to test. 
