What enhances cannabis flavor more?

[Da Almighty Jew]

A slow dry

or a nice cure

or both affect cannabis equally?

 

[Medicine4Me]

That is a very good question! To tell you the truth - I don't know. It took me over 8 years to get the nasty chemical taste out of my herb. What helped me get it right was the following.
I always dry the same way so it wasn't my drying, same as curing...

My stuff got good when I backed off putting too many chemicals in it - I had the lame idea that more was better.
Another real help was I started using Final Phase to flush them. What it does is it strips the salt off the roots in soil. After the first use of it, the plants begin getting real thirsty which helps flush it out. Some people say they don't bother flushing... Anyway, the cool thing about Final Phase is it's fairly cheap - one teaspoon to a gal. and thats the ONLY thing you add to the water.

The best part is watching the freaking buds get about 1/5 bigger in size. They start growing little buds on top of the bud or colas! Very trippy to see a cola grow bigger when they are normally
done in size.

Good luck and HAVE FUN!

 

[SpicySativa]

Hmm... I'd have to say growing organically in soil will be the best way to enhance the flavors and aromas of your stash.

The second most important thing is the slow dry, which I see as the first step to a good cure.

 

[hiluxphantom]

use roots organic nutes in roots organics soil and some fruit flavor bud and taste and aroma are retarded. I did a fruit automatic on the side of my reg grow and the whole house smelt like grapefruit and tasted like eating grapefruit. burned clean

 

[hiluxphantom]

quality genetics too...

 

[Da Almighty Jew]

i think a slow dry is very important. Im wondering if there is an added benefit by letting them take 2 weeks to dry rather than 10 days.

 

[cannabineer]

i think a slow dry is very important. Im wondering if there is an added benefit by letting them take 2 weeks to dry rather than 10 days.

If you can get it done without the buds molding ... slower is better imo. cn

 

[racerboy71]

i think drying is more important simply for the fact that if your buds dry too quickly, they are always going to taste like poopoo no matter how long they're left to cure..

curing is also very important, but only after a nice slow dry..

 

[Warlock1369]

A nice short flush. I do 4 days. Then 7-10 day dry. And a good cure. I don't tuch it till 2 weeks min. But keep curing till it's all gone. And damn after 80 days of cure it's so sweet. Haven't gone longer then that. I run out lol.

 

[PeyoteReligion]

Lol at A Nice Cure as an option. As opposed to an angry one...

I think terpenoids mostly account for flavor. That should have been an option.

 

[Geronimo420]

a slow dry & a nice cure both help but growing organically as even more effect on taste

 

[Da Almighty Jew]

a slow dry & a nice cure both help but growing organically as even more effect on taste

i agree also very nice thomas jefferson quote. I like that one alot.

 

[Zig No Zag]

@Warlock1369...Can you elaborate a bit? I don't quite understand. Remember, I'm new at this and I'm trying to learn from vets like you...

 

[Da Almighty Jew]

its amazing how much flavor can change even with just 3 days curing.

 

[BA142]

My technique is 6-7 days drying so that stems bend, then I jar em up. I have hygrometers that I put into the jars to monitor humidity. The humidity starts at around 70% and I slowly let them crawl down to around 60%

The first few days I open the jar for a few hours then as time goes on I burp them less and less. Works like a charm for me....I know other people use brown paper bags for another step after the initial dry, but if it aint broke, don't fix it

Simon (I think that's his username) has a great guide on ICMAG. I should add that the method I described is his method, i'm just trying to spread the word

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=156237

 

[thehole]

A proper flush at the end, a slow "even" dry and a long cure.

 

[mike91sr]

Pretty much exactly what BA142 said. I follow Simons method too, little bit adjusted for my needs. I live in the desert, so I hang dry for 4 days then put them into mixing bowls in a cabinet for another 3-4 days to keep slow-drying, I like a full week before getting them into jars and cant do that only hanging. I use hygrometers too, I try to jar right around 68-70% and slowly get it to 65% over about a week.

Once at 64-65%, I burp once a week for about 10 minutes, turn the buds, and usually grab a bit from each jar I do this until 60-61% (1-3 months usually), then burp once a month if I want to keep curing, or let them finishing drying out (right around 55% I think) for another couple days before they're 'done'

 

[Da Almighty Jew]

My technique is 6-7 days drying so that stems bend, then I jar em up. I have hygrometers that I put into the jars to monitor humidity. The humidity starts at around 70% and I slowly let them crawl down to around 60%

The first few days I open the jar for a few hours then as time goes on I burp them less and less. Works like a charm for me....I know other people use brown paper bags for another step after the initial dry, but if it aint broke, don't fix it

Simon (I think that's his username) has a great guide on ICMAG. I should add that the method I described is his method, i'm just trying to spread the word

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=156237

6-7 is not enough my friend. 10 days minimal imo. if you jar too quickly i think it fucks with the flavor. It needs to be jarred at just the right time. I dont like jarring when it will go to 70% in just a few hours. I like to jar when they got around 60% humidity in them and take it down from there. But then again i use a specific drying room with climate control so i can control drying times.

 

[racerboy71]

6-7 is not enough my friend. 10 days minimal imo. if you jar too quickly i think it fucks with the flavor. It needs to be jarred at just the right time. I dont like jarring when it will go to 70% in just a few hours. I like to jar when they got around 60% humidity in them and take it down from there. But then again i use a specific drying room with climate control so i can control drying times.

i think the exact number of days really depends on where the person doing the drying lives almighty.. a person who lives in the dry, arid desert will have their buds dry quicker then a person who say lives in miami, where the heat and humidity are in the 90's or so..

 

[Da Almighty Jew]

i think the exact number of days really depends on where the person doing the drying lives almighty.. a person who lives in the dry, arid desert will have their buds dry quicker then a person who say lives in miami, where the heat and humidity are in the 90's or so..

i agree with what your saying. In that situation if people want to get the full advantage of a slow dry they need to invest money in climate control
Even in miami, with heat and humidity in the 90s its not gonna be like that on the inside of your house. It will most likely be in the proper interior humidity temp range for comfortability. like 45-50% humidity and the temp you set your monitor at. At that range for example bud will dry too quickly due to humidity alone. I think humidity needs to be kept at a constant 55% at least