Old weed

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I grew my first and so far, only grow in 2019. It was Purple Kush, just a few plants in a tent in my bedroom. Having a green thumb all my life I thought I did pretty good. Until the harvest. I read as much as I could but I screwed up somewhere. Those beautiful buds were scorching my throat and did not deliver much else. Not wanting to wait for good weed I've been using purchased products. Eventually I actually forgot about my lousy weed. It's been three years and I still have about 5 ounces of it. I was hoping to make some kind of tincture or something with it. Out of curiosity I tried smoking some. It's over 3 years old and it's mellower and gives a nice buzz now. Can someone explain to me how that is possible?

 

[DoubleAtotheRON]

You cured it. ... assuming it was stored in the right conditions.

 

[OldMedUser]

I grew my first and so far, only grow in 2019. It was Purple Kush, just a few plants in a tent in my bedroom. Having a green thumb all my life I thought I did pretty good. Until the harvest. I read as much as I could but I screwed up somewhere. Those beautiful buds were scorching my throat and did not deliver much else. Not wanting to wait for good weed I've been using purchased products. Eventually I actually forgot about my lousy weed. It's been three years and I still have about 5 ounces of it. I was hoping to make some kind of tincture or something with it. Out of curiosity I tried smoking some. It's over 3 years old and it's mellower and gives a nice buzz now. Can someone explain to me how that is possible?

As said above the pot has aged and mellowed with time so luckily for you has changed for the better. That is not always the case.

Sounds like it was dried too fast when you cropped it so was a lot harsher to smoke then.

I have pot going back 6 or 7 years that is still nice to smoke but it was slo-dried and long cured before the jars were sealed up. No special storage and they just sit on the cool floor beside my desk so I can lean over and go thru a few jars to pick the flavour of the day. Hindu Kush, OG#18, my cross of Kali Mist and NL#5, Monkey Banana Kush, Cherry Noir, Mazarilla, GG#4, AK and a couple more on hand for whatever mood I might be in at the time.

Could still make a good tincture or even a concentrate out of yours.

 

[DoubleAtotheRON]

As said above the pot has aged and mellowed with time so luckily for you has changed for the better. That is not always the case.

Sounds like it was dried too fast when you cropped it so was a lot harsher to smoke then.

I have pot going back 6 or 7 years that is still nice to smoke but it was slo-dried and long cured before the jars were sealed up. No special storage and they just sit on the cool floor beside my desk so I can lean over and go thru a few jars to pick the flavour of the day. Hindu Kush, OG#18, my cross of Kali Mist and NL#5, Monkey Banana Kush, Cherry Noir, Mazarilla, GG#4, AK and a couple more on hand for whatever mood I might be in at the time.

Could still make a good tincture or even a concentrate out of yours.

We have a nice cool, dark closet we store ours in with BVD packs in 1 gallon glass jars. Prob still have some 3 year old that's still got bounce to it.

 

[farmingfisherman]

Smoke that is older makes great tincture. I say Google master Wu's. Last round I did a simple 30 day soak rather than the riskier heat method. Stuff is great!

 

[LeastExpectedGrower]

Sounds like a poor dry/cure that balanced out after an 'extended cure.'

I think there's a lot of people who do their first grow and are so excited to try it out that they end up jumping the gun like this...then are put off when it sucks. Growing is a waiting game...not harvesting too soon, not drying too quickly and giving some time for a decent cure.

 

[Antidote Man]

I've got a handful (maybe 10) different dispensary strains from california, most in plastic pill tubes, some sealed in foil wrappers... from 2015-16. They are real crispy, the green crack looks awesome. most of them also have a brown tint to them. I'm too scared to try them but i plan on giving them to friends...

 

[Rurumo]

I've gotten blazed on 10 year old weed, just make sure it was stored dry and isn't moldy.

 

[webblock]

I stored it in a vacuum packed plastic bag but I noticed the bag had lost the vacuum somehow, I didn't see any tears or holes in it. I was planning on making a tincture out of it before I sampled it, now I'm kinda thinking about just keeping it to smoke. Is 5 ounces enough to make tincture or anything? Just for grins I ground up some of it in my coffee grinder (used only for weed) and it still has some moisture to it! No mold at all. I dried it hanging till the sticks snapped but after that I was confused about how to cure. Maybe someone can point me to a source to learn how to cure, please. I've got another grow going and I want to cure this one right.

 

[farmerfischer]

I stored it in a vacuum packed plastic bag but I noticed the bag had lost the vacuum somehow, I didn't see any tears or holes in it. I was planning on making a tincture out of it before I sampled it, now I'm kinda thinking about just keeping it to smoke. Is 5 ounces enough to make tincture or anything? Just for grins I ground up some of it in my coffee grinder (used only for weed) and it still has some moisture to it! No mold at all. I dried it hanging till the sticks snapped but after that I was confused about how to cure. Maybe someone can point me to a source to learn how to cure, please. I've got another grow going and I want to cure this one right.

Tons of info here on the subject.. use the search option at the top of you screen and you will have alot of threads at your finger tips.

 

[buckaclark]

Put in jar

 

[LeastExpectedGrower]

I stored it in a vacuum packed plastic bag but I noticed the bag had lost the vacuum somehow, I didn't see any tears or holes in it. I was planning on making a tincture out of it before I sampled it, now I'm kinda thinking about just keeping it to smoke. Is 5 ounces enough to make tincture or anything? Just for grins I ground up some of it in my coffee grinder (used only for weed) and it still has some moisture to it! No mold at all. I dried it hanging till the sticks snapped but after that I was confused about how to cure. Maybe someone can point me to a source to learn how to cure, please. I've got another grow going and I want to cure this one right.

5oz is definitely enough to make some usable tincture and other things from it. When I'm making FECO or extracts and all that often I'm using an ounce or less at a time.

 

[TaoRich]

Drying
Letting enough moisture evaporate from the buds to allow the weed to combust - so that you can inhale the smoke.

Curing
Allowing the life processes to continue in a regulated and controlled manner - to bring out the best qualities and most enjoyable flavours and smoking experience.

- - -

Just because you've removed the branches from your plant, it doesn't mean that the bud is dead. It's still full of living microorganisms, which still have a life cycle and purpose to fulfil in the end quality of your weed.

The time to jar is when you can first bend a branch stalk, and have it 'start to snap'. Not snap clean in two, but more like a splinter snap like when you bend a match. That's normally around 3 to 5 days of hanging in a cool dark space.

Even if the outside of your buds feels a bit dry and 'almost ready to smoke', that's not the case, as the thicker and woodier branch stems will still be retaining moisture deeper inside. The purpose behind the jarring is to make a little sealed environment where those moisture levels will slowly and steadily balance out and equalise. In other words, as the stems dry, that moisture will spread back into the drier outside bud.

What you are trying to achieve is to keep the environment right to keep a special bacteria alive that eats the chlorophyll in the green parts of the cells.

The chlorophyll is the hay or mown lawn grass smell, and
(1) that's what makes you cough from speed dried weed
(2) that's all you will taste instead of the sweet terpenes smell you really enjoyed as your crop got sticky and stinky as you came up to harvest time

Tons of info here on the subject.. use the search option at the top of you screen and you will have alot of threads at your finger tips.

+1
Read up and search around for tips and techniques.

The starting point is understanding the difference between drying and curing.

The life cycle of your grow does not end at harvest. Harvested bud is not dead inanimate matter, you need to keep it alive in supporting conditions.

Some folks reckon 25-30% of your end smoke quality lies in the curing process alone

- flavour
- strength
- quality and nature of the high

A good slow cure seals in the goodness. A rapid dry evaporates and degrades all the yumminess of the terpenes and cannabinoids you laboured and fought so hard to get your girls to produce.

 

[farmerfischer]

Drying
Letting enough moisture evaporate from the buds to allow the weed to combust - so that you can inhale the smoke.

Curing
Allowing the life processes to continue in a regulated and controlled manner - to bring out the best qualities and most enjoyable flavours and smoking experience.

- - -

Just because you've removed the branches from your plant, it doesn't mean that the bud is dead. It's still full of living microorganisms, which still have a life cycle and purpose to fulfil in the end quality of your weed.

The time to jar is when you can first bend a branch stalk, and have it 'start to snap'. Not snap clean in two, but more like a splinter snap like when you bend a match. That's normally around 3 to 5 days of hanging in a cool dark space.

Even if the outside of your buds feels a bit dry and 'almost ready to smoke', that's not the case, as the thicker and woodier branch stems will still be retaining moisture deeper inside. The purpose behind the jarring is to make a little sealed environment where those moisture levels will slowly and steadily balance out and equalise. In other words, as the stems dry, that moisture will spread back into the drier outside bud.

What you are trying to achieve is to keep the environment right to keep a special bacteria alive that eats the chlorophyll in the green parts of the cells.

The chlorophyll is the hay or mown lawn grass smell, and
(1) that's what makes you cough from speed dried weed
(2) that's all you will taste instead of the sweet terpenes smell you really enjoyed as your crop got sticky and stinky as you came up to harvest time


+1
Read up and search around for tips and techniques.

The starting point is understanding the difference between drying and curing.

The life cycle of your grow does not end at harvest. Harvested bud is not dead inanimate matter, you need to keep it alive in supporting conditions.

Some folks reckon 25-30% of your end smoke quality lies in the curing process alone

- flavour
- strength
- quality and nature of the high

A good slow cure seals in the goodness. A rapid dry evaporates and degrades all the yumminess of the terpenes and cannabinoids you laboured and fought so hard to get your girls to produce.

Ok.. good job..