You know, whenever I buy pot it has that great smell. I jar cure, and maybe I haven't got it down yet, but my pot smells good, kinda sweet, and tastes great, but it doesn't smell like what you buy. I know commercial growers aren't jar curing, their drying as fast as they can but it always smells great. So, how would I dry 1 plant from my new harvest if I just wanted it to smell like that?
How do commercial growers dry?
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The only commercial bud I get smells like hay, just like mine do with little to no cure. The home grown stuff smells real good though, as that product is more cared for. Here's a great thread that's going on about curing with results of different methods.
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=63213&page=1&pp=40
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=63213&page=1&pp=40
I think one thing i'm doing wrong is I'm putting buds in cure jars too early. If your supposed to be able to snap the stem then I'm going in too early. I don't think I'm drying enough. The buds I have now smell sweet and good, but they have been curing for 2 months and then stem still bends more than snaps, sounds like I need more air
The way I process my buds is to trim/manicure them in as big of a section as i can hang
I hang them inside a cardboard box w/ paperclips...and a tiny piece duct tape on the ends to hook the paperclips too ...I use duct tape also to make a net over the top of the boxes
they dry for about a week and like you said...when the stem snaps I remove the buds from the stalk and then jar them
If I had room to hang the whole plant or bigger sections I would do that...just trim up the biggest section u can, and hang it for a slower dry....then clip the buds off when u jar it.
where I live is at 9000 feet elevation in the rocky mountans, so there is not a problem getting things to dry out fast....its like afghanistan here. I would probably have a different method if I lived where there was more humidity.
hope that helps some?
I hang them inside a cardboard box w/ paperclips...and a tiny piece duct tape on the ends to hook the paperclips too ...I use duct tape also to make a net over the top of the boxes
they dry for about a week and like you said...when the stem snaps I remove the buds from the stalk and then jar them
If I had room to hang the whole plant or bigger sections I would do that...just trim up the biggest section u can, and hang it for a slower dry....then clip the buds off when u jar it.
where I live is at 9000 feet elevation in the rocky mountans, so there is not a problem getting things to dry out fast....its like afghanistan here. I would probably have a different method if I lived where there was more humidity.
hope that helps some?
So when you guys say go to jars when the stem snaps, I take it you mean when you bend it and the stem snaps but doesn't break all the way into? I've got a brand new harvest of 5 plants going this week, I want to get it right this time. Also, the buds I have now, if they have been in jars for 2 months and the stem still bends instead of snaps, and the bud has a sweet smell but doesn't smell quite like it should, then what should I do with these, just let them get more air and keep curing?
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I'm testing this cure technique now with my latest harvest... Chopped her up but left a branch hanging while jarring up the others for different burp tests. Hopefully I'll soon know if just leaving a branch hanging works (commercial method I'd expect) or if it doesnt give the same quality as jarring. Seems to be somewhat debatable.
Mr.Pyrex
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the commercial bud we get around here is called "China" smells like mini whites and taste like your drinking gasoline, the reason its called china, is because mainly asain growers, setup grow ops in suburban homes and neglect any thing healthy or quality wise for the plants, they basically do it just for the money, theres tons of other stuff but, china is the main and cheapest
Blueberry Man
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i always cure the same way and mine tastes better than most.
1.last 10 days water only and use a final flush at the very end
2.chop down,lay flat on brown paper(i use the thick brown envelopes)in a dark room with a fan gently blowing for 24hrs
3.trim if not already done so and place in brown envelopes loosely,take out of envelopes for at least an hour a day to get air to all the buds for the first week.i usually take 3 weeks to slow cure mine in a cool dark place with a gentle fan blowing constantly but it always tastes better after 5 or 6 weeks.blueberry was awesome done this way...
1.last 10 days water only and use a final flush at the very end
2.chop down,lay flat on brown paper(i use the thick brown envelopes)in a dark room with a fan gently blowing for 24hrs
3.trim if not already done so and place in brown envelopes loosely,take out of envelopes for at least an hour a day to get air to all the buds for the first week.i usually take 3 weeks to slow cure mine in a cool dark place with a gentle fan blowing constantly but it always tastes better after 5 or 6 weeks.blueberry was awesome done this way...
Hi i'm not an expirienced grower but i think you and me are used to the smell of what is growing in our 'room, so if we smell a bud that we never tasted she smell more stronger.
sorry for my horrible english but hope to had explain myself
sorry for my horrible english but hope to had explain myself
G
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Commercial weed never smells great. It usually smells just like straw. They use screens like the ones on screen doors. They just cut up the bud and stack the screens one onto of the other.
RevolutionX
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curing is a process in itself to perfect. Research and practice is the key. I like to brown bag it btw..lol...
professordank
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I've seen stacks of plants, i.e multiple pounds, just put in brown cardboard boxes and left for 4 months to dry and cure. Thats not my favorite method though seems quite effective. I prefer to hang them untill the stem snaps. After this point, I seperate the buds from the stock and either put it straight into freezer bags, or jars if I deem them to need a longer cure. Though I will say that the cure is slightly strain dependent; I smoked some stuff that was dried for only two days and it was some of the best tasting shit I ever had. Most of the strains I run don't normally require an extended cure, one week is usually sufficient before it is delicious/commericially viable.
Sativa Soul
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I've always wondered the same thing. I've never had howegrown that smelled anything like commercial. But the commercial here smells pretty good. I live in belgium and quality is allmost as good as in holland here (sometimes even better). Just gotta watch out for the contaminated stuff.
