Hi guys. I was smoking my wonderful last green crack after having finished trimming my recently harvested smoothie auto. And felt like sharing something important to any grower.
I ve been growing for two years in a perpetual way. I never stopped trying things and learning. I tested all the most famous drying and curing methods. What I can say with 200% confidence is that the fastest way to smoke your buds with the best taste, from all the methods I tried (wet trimming, dry trimming, paper bags, air tight jars, etc....) is to hang dry the entire plant straight after harvest. Take a further look about why to do it for more details on internet but what I could remember from a scientific approach is that there is an oxydation process that stops as soon as you remove the leaves. That's why it s important to leave all the leaves at harvest so that the moisture can go from the leaves to the buds and help them drying with let s call it a more efficient timing. Depending on your humidy it can take between 5 to 10 days. You need to be patient and check carefully to be sure the buds are really dry enough that you could put them in jars without any fear. Don't put any fan blowing on the plants while drying. But don't worry if it took 5 days instead of 7 or 10. If the plants had the leaves the process of slow drying will happen and even if humidity was low the buds will later and faster be tastier and overall better than if you had wet trimmed then cure at least 3 weeks. Once the drying is done trim then put buds in paperbags for 5 to 6 days. You can fill the bags entirely as your buds are supposed to be dry enough. Plus I could test even wet buds with leaves in paper bags and never got mold. So this method gives you smokable buds in around 10 to 15 days. And what I call smokable is like the taste we re all looking for. I can see no difference between buds I smoked after the 15 days and buds I m smoking 2 months later that had been curing nicely in Mason jars with bivefa 62%.
So to conclude I ll say like different people are also saying, the long curing is necessary only for wet trim. If the plant could dry in a good environment after harvest and with all the leaves to allow the moisture process to work, it shouldnt need a long curing at all. Paperbags do wonders to finish the work!
I know I m no one but you can trust me for the fact I m a learner. This allowed me to harvest 460 grams dry of a fastbuds green crack auto in a 3gal fabric coco pot. I never saw big numbers like that for this strain. This is after several fails. You can check my grows. I always reported my mistakes and fails cause always feel like sharing can help others going to success faster.
Love
I ve been growing for two years in a perpetual way. I never stopped trying things and learning. I tested all the most famous drying and curing methods. What I can say with 200% confidence is that the fastest way to smoke your buds with the best taste, from all the methods I tried (wet trimming, dry trimming, paper bags, air tight jars, etc....) is to hang dry the entire plant straight after harvest. Take a further look about why to do it for more details on internet but what I could remember from a scientific approach is that there is an oxydation process that stops as soon as you remove the leaves. That's why it s important to leave all the leaves at harvest so that the moisture can go from the leaves to the buds and help them drying with let s call it a more efficient timing. Depending on your humidy it can take between 5 to 10 days. You need to be patient and check carefully to be sure the buds are really dry enough that you could put them in jars without any fear. Don't put any fan blowing on the plants while drying. But don't worry if it took 5 days instead of 7 or 10. If the plants had the leaves the process of slow drying will happen and even if humidity was low the buds will later and faster be tastier and overall better than if you had wet trimmed then cure at least 3 weeks. Once the drying is done trim then put buds in paperbags for 5 to 6 days. You can fill the bags entirely as your buds are supposed to be dry enough. Plus I could test even wet buds with leaves in paper bags and never got mold. So this method gives you smokable buds in around 10 to 15 days. And what I call smokable is like the taste we re all looking for. I can see no difference between buds I smoked after the 15 days and buds I m smoking 2 months later that had been curing nicely in Mason jars with bivefa 62%.
So to conclude I ll say like different people are also saying, the long curing is necessary only for wet trim. If the plant could dry in a good environment after harvest and with all the leaves to allow the moisture process to work, it shouldnt need a long curing at all. Paperbags do wonders to finish the work!
I know I m no one but you can trust me for the fact I m a learner. This allowed me to harvest 460 grams dry of a fastbuds green crack auto in a 3gal fabric coco pot. I never saw big numbers like that for this strain. This is after several fails. You can check my grows. I always reported my mistakes and fails cause always feel like sharing can help others going to success faster.
Love
