That's it. Who out there is really curing primo buds? Don't bs. If you're shit isn't really top shelf - don't comment. I've grown alot. Indoor and outdoor. I always get good stuff but only ONCE in my "growing career" have I achieved that dank dank DANK final product. Oddly enough, it was a trial run. And I didn't write down what I did. I found the bag in a drawer MONTHS after harvest and it was absolutely magical.. memory says it was 2 days drying at 60ish humidity and then completely sealed in ziplock and tossed into a drawer to be forgotten about. Granted it was a trial so it was a small baggie quantity, sandwhich baggie size.
I've hung em for a week whole. Chopped up. Indoor outdoors. Varying humidy/temps etc and its wild. This is a real science to take what you chop down to the appropriate final product.
Tell us all your secret?
This was how I do it and it was taught to me by an OG with 25+ years of experience. It’s not conventional and you may think it’s wrong, but I assure you the results speak for themselves.
Defoliate large fan leaves if you didn’t during the grow. Hang to dry in a cool (55-65F), dry (50-55 rh), and dark environment with plenty of circulation and adequate ventilation. The gasses and fumes released by the hanging buds need to be vented out of the room, this is much more important with quantity. For smaller amounts I put the vent fan on a cycle timer for a few minutes out of every hour and only for the first few days. You can play with your room conditions to make sure it doesn’t dry too fast or too slow, but it should be crispy in 2 weeks time.
Next you have to take down the colas and put them in a clean black and yellow tote or storage bin. Then literally just leave them like that. Don’t break them down or trim. Totes stay in the same environment as the weed was dried in. Dark, cool, dry. Can keep buds in primo condition for over a year easily. It’s counter intuitive but you never want to seal your buds in an airtight container. I only do this when traveling for stealth and if I go to a humid environment I don’t want my buds getting all soft and spongy. You also don’t want to trim until you want to smoke or sell, and then you only trim what you need. It’s like coffee, better to grind the second before you brew than at the store, same thing with herb and trimming.
Another trick is you can kinda “burp” or fluctuate the moisture level in your curing room. Since everything is open to the air (totes aren’t airtight) you can fluctuate the moisture content in the herbs. If your weed gets too moist crank up your dehu and let them dry down more. Too dry? Maybe you can turn on your ventilation fan and suck in some moist winter air and they’ll be primo again. There’s lots of room to play around with moisture levels. Herb is best when slightly on the drier side, but the fluctuations in moisture while storing seem to benefit the cure. Don’t get anal about it, just okay around and pay attention and adjust accordingly.
I routinely smoke buds that are 12 months old or older, and they taste fire and smoke cleaner and smoother than ever, because they are stored in this manner.
