Share your water cured bud pics

I just want to see a bunch of water cured buds.

Fill me in on your process (how often you changed water, how many days cured, what strain)
Have you done anything else to enhance the curing? (orange peel, etc)
Got a smoke report? Share that with your picture too.

I've seen some pictures where the buds were almost black and some that retained color.

Thought this thread would be good for water curing growers to share alike.

My harvest is in roughly 3 weeks and I'm considering doing a certain amount with Black Domina x Lowryder (Samsara supersonic cristal storm...stupid name)

NL from Nirvana. Water cured for 7 days, water changed daily.

I'm totally high and lazy right now but I'll toss some up soon.

I usually water cure for about 6 days.

I'll change the water very often during the first 3-4 days. Every 8 to 12 hours. During the last 2-3 days I'd change the water daily. The last soaking won't change color much.

The final product is a lot darker. I dry in a dehydrator and I can do about an ounce from soaking wet to perfectly dry in maybe 4 hours at the lowest setting (95 degrees).

I'll post some pictures tomorrow. I like smoking it with the hash I make. Evens out the flavor and makes for some clean hits.

pelt1 said:

NL from Nirvana. Water cured for 7 days, water changed daily.

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Great pics. Looks like all that chloroform got washed right out. Very nice. Any commercial buyer would see it as some schwag. Like judging a book by it's cover. What's your smoke/smell report? P.s Thanks for posting.

Snow Crash said:

I'm totally high and lazy right now but I'll toss some up soon.

I usually water cure for about 6 days.

I'll change the water very often during the first 3-4 days. Every 8 to 12 hours. During the last 2-3 days I'd change the water daily. The last soaking won't change color much.

The final product is a lot darker. I dry in a dehydrator and I can do about an ounce from soaking wet to perfectly dry in maybe 4 hours at the lowest setting (95 degrees).

I'll post some pictures tomorrow. I like smoking it with the hash I make. Evens out the flavor and makes for some clean hits.

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Awesome Snow, can't wait to see them. Thanks for posting up your process. Helps a lot. Sounds like a pretty sweet bowl that would get me beyond cloud 9, haha. I don't have a dehydrator so I'll be hanging them to dry with fans running on them. Any tips for that?

What do you think about adding an orange peel to the water on the last day of the cure just to give it some light flavor? I might try that.. Or I may just wait until after they're air dried, stick them in a jar with a peel and let them sit for a few hours to gather up some smell. It would just be weird for the bud not to smell.. haha. I'd be thrown off, as well as anyone else smoking with me.

ma jigga said:

Great pics. Looks like all that chloroform got washed right out. Very nice. Any commercial buyer would see it as some schwag. Like judging a book by it's cover. What's your smoke/smell report? P.s Thanks for posting.



Awesome Snow, can't wait to see them. Thanks for posting up your process. Helps a lot. Sounds like a pretty sweet bowl that would get me beyond cloud 9, haha. I don't have a dehydrator so I'll be hanging them to dry with fans running on them. Any tips for that?

What do you think about adding an orange peel to the water on the last day of the cure just to give it some light flavor? I might try that.. Or I may just wait until after they're air dried, stick them in a jar with a peel and let them sit for a few hours to gather up some smell. It would just be weird for the bud not to smell.. haha. I'd be thrown off, as well as anyone else smoking with me.

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It's not that they have no smell, or flavor, but it just becomes so subtle that you can barely notice it.

I think that you'd be best served by taking a few nugs of water cured and storing them with non-water cured buds to get back some of the residual scent going on. I think things like orange peel in the water is a bad idea.

I've done orange peel in a jar of buds. It kinda works... but the flavor isn't really there. Better to just store it with a pungent citrusy strain.

Snow Crash said:

It's not that they have no smell, or flavor, but it just becomes so subtle that you can barely notice it.

I think that you'd be best served by taking a few nugs of water cured and storing them with non-water cured buds to get back some of the residual scent going on. I think things like orange peel in the water is a bad idea.

I've done orange peel in a jar of buds. It kinda works... but the flavor isn't really there. Better to just store it with a pungent citrusy strain.

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Right on, thanks man. Appreciate it. I'll do half water cured and half air cured then do the above method for the smell. I'm slightly considering water curing my entire harvest...but idk if its worth it. Gotta mix it up a little I guess..

I'd recommend you NOT water-curing an entire harvest till you try it once with a few nugs.

What is the point of water curing? Is it supposed to increase potency?

ma jigga said:

Great pics. Looks like all that chloroform got washed right out. Very nice. Any commercial buyer would see it as some schwag. Like judging a book by it's cover. What's your smoke/smell report? P.s Thanks for posting.

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Around Day 4 and beyond was when the water remained mostly clear.

Smoke report..... it's herb, and potent herb at that. Basically, it's fun, it's novel, but I still prefer the regular air-cure. The water-cure removes virtually 100% of the bag appeal, which I prefer.

I would say if you smoke it by lighting it on fire, the SMOKE from the water-cure is smoother than the SMOKE from the air cure. But I vape almost 100% of the time, and all those complex flavors/smells, tastes and intricacies that you get from air-cure is almost gone when you vape with the water-cure.

I would also say that the water cure burns really nice and evenly, and also seems to have a higher smoke point. Even higher than that of herb that has been air-curing for several months. It is because of this that vaping with water-cure is LESS enjoyable imo. You really have to work and vaporizing it, so that in the end you are kind of left with a bit of the dry mouth, and feeling a bit exhausted. So a bit of a trade off there.

So in the end, it's a subjective and personal thing. I will probably always water-cure a few nugs during harvest, if anything water-curing is so EASY to do and requires much less maintenance. Like I said in another thread, if i were on an island and had to pick one, I would prefer the air-cure.

ma jigga said:

.............I don't have a dehydrator so I'll be hanging them to dry with fans running on them. Any tips for that?

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After the 7th day of soaking, what I did was make a little rack out of some cardboard and a luffa sponge, and just let them dry out there.