How to harvest and dry without the grass taste

are you like a vegan vegan or a growing vegan

jamboss said:

1. harvesting too early
2. using chemical nutes
3. not dryed properly
4. a combination of the above will make you ask yourself if you're smoking grass clipping

From all my experiences when grown organically, harvested prematurely and properly dried, weed will still taste better than the 4 listed above.

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Exactly, it seems to me when grown organically you can't really mess up the taste, as long as you're growing from good seeds that is.

sunni said:

are you like a vegan vegan or a growing vegan

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I'm a vegan vegan and a growing vegan, at least I will be once my GuanoKalong runs out. I see in you're signature veg head? Are you a member of the dark side too?

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Born Again Vegan said:

As for grassy weed I've never had it so I can only assume it comes from either not trimming before drying, growing poor genetics, or not growing organically! Hope this helps.

PEACE

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Lol, props for the nice post and I'm not trying to be a troll or anything. But, maybe you shouldn't title your post about how to not have "grassy" weed, and then say you've never had it so don't really know anything about it...

Born Again Vegan said:

I'm a vegan vegan and a growing vegan, at least I will be once my GuanoKalong runs out. I see in you're signature veg head? Are you a member of the dark side too?

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Haha you're Vegan, say Protein one more time.

"One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak, in the world." ~ Buddha

Born Again Vegan said:

Haha you're Vegan, say Protein one more time.

"One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak, in the world." ~ Buddha

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yeah I have some funny pics I put up in the group im a big ole tree hugger LOL

curing is all hype. dry your weed and bag it. taste and potency is all in the genetics. grow books sell curing methods to sell more grow equiment and books. I can prove this to anyone, but since you have all bought into the curing myths hook line and sinker only the wisest of you will do this experiment.. cure all of your harvest with your super duper curing methods you use and love, then take one little ole nug and dry it in the sun, not too dry but just right. then do a blind taste test. you will notice no difference at all and only the wisest and most daring of you RIU ers will try this. and whenyou do youo will kick yourself in the balls for curing weed like it was nuclear.

Impman said:

curing is all hype. dry your weed and bag it. taste and potency is all in the genetics. grow books sell curing methods to sell more grow equiment and books. I can prove this to anyone, but since you have all bought into the curing myths hook line and sinker only the wisest of you will do this experiment.. cure all of your harvest with your super duper curing methods you use and love, then take one little ole nug and dry it in the sun, not too dry but just right. then do a blind taste test. you will notice no difference at all and only the wisest and most daring of you RIU ers will try this. and whenyou do youo will kick yourself in the balls for curing weed like it was nuclear.

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Haha now that is some crap. Op it might not be right on but I know where you are coming from. Keep it up.

Nice information out there..would really be very helpful in growing my crop..i guess some issues were there bu7t now i guess they are gonna get solved./.

Look bro I'm not trying to insult but its pretty apparent you don't know what your talking about and I highly doubt you've ever taken a plant to harvest.. if hay tasting bid were some sort of myth there wouldn't be so many threads on curing. There are actual documented chemical processes happening when curing that make the terpenes psychoactive and flavorful....

Born Again Vegan said:

No one told me to put a fan on my buds I read someone recommending it on here, and yes I've had buds dry over night, I've had them dry in ten minutes. I've put them in my airing cupboard, ontop of the boiler, and in the oven. My point was they all tasted good with no hay/grass taste.

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this is not a proper drying method, what is the point in growing for 3+ months just to throw your hard work in the cupboard,boiler or the oven and ruin it are you that impatient you cant wait a week for it too dry properly

redeye jedi88 said:

this is not a proper drying method, what is the point in growing for 3+ months just to throw your hard work in the cupboard,boiler or the oven and ruin it are you that impatient you cant wait a week for it too dry properly

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Jeez dude it's called speed drying, done because either A. I had no money to buy bud, or B. I wanted to test for potency. My point is, speed drying doesn't cause the buds to taste like grass. They still taste awesome, if just a little green. I want people to understand that it isn't the dry and cure that makes good bud (that's the breeders job to supply good genetics), and that there is no need to go overly anal.
End of the day the slow dry of two weeks is optimum but three to five days is fine. As long as you jar the buds with some moisture still in the stem the buds will continue their metabolic processes and break the chlorophyll down (green taste), and then mature in flavour, odour, and potency.

qwizoking said:

Look bro I'm not trying to insult but its pretty apparent you don't know what your talking about and I highly doubt you've ever taken a plant to harvest.. if hay tasting bid were some sort of myth there wouldn't be so many threads on curing. There are actual documented chemical processes happening when curing that make the terpenes psychoactive and flavorful....

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Drying is curing. You can do it slow or fast. Its how you grew the weed and your genetics. I have harvested a great deal of weed and posted many pics. Qwizoking, however, does not grow or at least claims to grow 22 week flowering Sativa in Texas and never shows pictures. ALL I asked was to try one tiny nug and do a blind taste test. I can prove it. I am not just talking. I wish I could show you but you will just have to try on your own. Get a friend involved that can help you keep the taste test blind.. What would one nug hurt in your overall harvest? LOL, you poor people are so sold on 'curing' its kinda sad.

I dont dry in the sun because if your not on top if it you can over dry. But one nug will prove that A. The sun does not 'destroy THC' B. fast drying in the sun does not hurt the flavor. C. Jarring and burping your weed is as silly as flushing your plants. You can put anything in a jar and it will 'seem' to smell stronger later. thats just silly

qwizoking said:

Look bro I'm not trying to insult but its pretty apparent you don't know what your talking about and I highly doubt you've ever taken a plant to harvest.. if hay tasting bid were some sort of myth there wouldn't be so many threads on curing. There are actual documented chemical processes happening when curing that make the terpenes psychoactive and flavorful....

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I'm not saying it's a myth. I've just never had it in my house and yes there is actual science behind the dry and cure, it's just got nothing to do with grassy weed. The only reason I'm not swearing at you right now bro is outta respect to Sunni because as a vegan I know s/he is an awesome person full of compassion and empathy, unlike you. That coupled with the fact that I'm so ridiculously stoned right now from yes my own grown I cant help but laugh at you

attempting to preserve the nug as i it just came off the plant, i get it. I have looked into Freeze Drying but its not practical. Curing is a myth in that when you look at practicality, cost, and over all result. The best weed ive ever smoked was outdoor guerilla humboldt. fat ,huge, dense, frosty nugs that tasted like heaven. dried in the sun and only fan leafs pulled off.

some of the best tasting smoke ive ever had was from (as many would put it here) uncured buds. hang dried after being trimmed fresh. dried until stems easily snap and not jarred at all.

so, i am actually going to agree with impman here a little, but i dont think curing is very important either. bud is just as tasty and smelly without it, of course, depending on genetics.

i do cure mine a little though, since i dont go through it fast enough it kind of has to stay in jars, or id have more piles of weed everywhere than i do now.

You guys can hate me all you want, just try the 'pepsi challenge' and dry one nug in the sun. You will never tell me, but i know your methods for drying will change. I use to be just like you, looking for the perfect cure and fuck anyone that didnt go by Jorges or Eds approved methods. its just simply not going to change your nugs flavor. It is not 'bad' if you use a 'cure' method because you keep on top of you harvest and dont overdry. so in that respect that is great. but when you get to the point where cost and practicality become a issue, i can promise/prove that curing= drying and you will not harm you $ per gram or bag appeal.

Well you said it. " they still taste awesome, if just a little green"... and imp stop trolling, I don't believe this guy to be a troll. You however have become fairly well known recently....and I have put up pics I just got a new phone last month and can't anymore. And yes the sun does destroy thc you simply can't argue that point. So does chlorine strong acids oxygen and any oxidizer anyway imp aside. I do agree to an extent that as long as you give a good cure even if it was dried quick it will taste good.. I don't see why a simple discussion can never be had

I'm a noob, been growing a couple years. just finished 4 plants and tried a few things for the cure, 4 plants 4 jars. each plant was cut a day apart. dried and jarred the same way. 2 went in the fridge 2 in the closet. after 3 days of checking every 12 hours I realized the ones in the fridge were already smelling skunky. so I moved the others in as well. In the fridge when I checked them every 12 hours I had to pry the sealed top off the add air to them, the closet I had to release pressure built up from the heat and evaporation. so far I think the best weed ive smoked to date was from the Blue Dream I just harvested, dried in 4 days(laying in the bottom of a sealed cardboard box, jarred for 1 week in the fridge. hard crisp skunk/blueberry muffin nugs. Isn't it true that the only reason you get that smell AFTER harvest is from the breakdown of trichs? Because the terpene's are contained within the resin glands.(I'm a high times junky.)

Hey sxlstew, does that really work? Im fixing to harvest some pure ak plants and was wondering if this could work. The fridge usually stays around 40 degrees farenheit, will help with the slow curing process? This is only my 3rd grow, so any info would be greatly appreciated.