If that was the case, then @Slick1 would have the most potent buds out there I think…
Hmm… I like the way you think. “Head em off at the pass” so to speak. Never thought I’d have more than I can give away, but it happens it seems…
As for potency? I think it depends on the strain, but like most said, it makes it smoother and smoke better. But I also think a proper cure enhances the effect, making it seem more potent. Either way, something is definitely different from smoking freshly dried, and months long cured bud… And I’ll take the cured bud any day over freshly dried…
I’ll agree, fresh dried isn’t for everyone. It’s an acquired taste that I didn’t like at first.
I can really taste the plant… good/bad, your call.
With me, fresh dried serves a dual purpose.
Due to the potency of the strain, it allows my body time to get used to it before it releases an all out thc assault on my brain.
This stuff is potent, so it very brutal to a first time user. Smoking it green, what I call fresh dried, gives my body time to adjust to it. So by the time that it cures, I can handle it better.
When I give an infrequent user some of the cures bud, it like setting off a bomb in their head. They either pass out immediately, or freak out. I tend to loose friends if the freak out.
Females tend to tolerate it much better than men. They tend to pass out more, when a man will be running around like a chicken with its head chopped off.
Also, smoking fresh dried gives me a better understanding of the smoking characteristics of bud. Therefore I know when someone gives me uncured bud or when they give me bud that been curing longer because of the huge difference in how it smokes. I can even tell when someone gives me old improperly cured bud. That’s what I really don’t want.
On a side note, Most of the cookie strains that I have had, take forever to cure. As many say, the longer it sits in the jar the better. I always roll a joint before I toss bud that I didn’t care for. Usually 6 or more months have gone by. So believe me, if i have had it that long, I don’t like it. And my friends don’t want it either. So I always do a test joint to make sure. The change is alway incredible. The taste would be someone totally different than it was when I tasted it earlier. The high is marginally better. But the taste is where’s it excels.
My preference is strains that cure a lot quicker, I suspect density has a lot to do with the time that it takes to cure. Preference is everything. And we all have different preferences.
I think most modern American pot requires very little cure time, or none at all. Makes sense because Americans hate to wait for much of anything. These modern strains are loaded with thc. Many of the older strains out there, and especially heirlooms and landraces have a high ratio of thca to thc. Thc gets you high, thca does not. I won’t get into the science of it, but during a proper cure up to 80% of thca can be converted to thc, so it really pays to cure anything from the past or anything with decent amounts of thca. I keep hearing of people buying weed from the dispensary and saying it won’t get them high. This weed most likely has a high amount of thca in it and low amounts of actual thc and needs to be cured or its hay. The farmer, maybe new to weed these days, has no clue about a cure. He/she started out growing popular designer strains and they were great fresh dried. Then, seeking something different, new strains were grown. Something older perhaps…or containing old genetics high in thca and low in thc. This weed also gets sold to a dispensary, and with no cure isn’t very good.
Curing requires time and space. Space whose climate must be controlled for long periods of time for a good cure. Rent/taxes, Heat, other utilities are needed, but mainly storage space is needed. For this reason, imo weed will continue to be bred in the direction of thc dominance over thca dominance, in this country at least.
I’ve had pot that gets you baked immediately upon drying, and I’ve had other weed, Ace Purple Malawi comes to mind, that was only average upon drying, but after a 6 month cure was very strong and the taste developed for another 6 months at least until eventually what had started out as mediocre, harsh smoke turned into a fantastic product, very potent and with one of the best flavors I’ve ever experienced.
Have you smoked uncured buds before, they taste like lawn clippings, we cure to SLOWLY pull the chlorophyll from the plants and get rid of the grassy taste.
I promise with some varieties it makes a world of difference. I have been curing this Thai plant for 40 days now and its just beginning to have an effect, though its obviously going to get extremely potent in another month or two. ( microwaved I was fried) Fresh dried it had no effect. Every two weeks I sample and it gets better every time.
I think you are just growing varieties that don’t require a cure for potency, which has obvious benefits, especially for the impatient among us. Some definitely do require a cure. I’ll give a smoke report in a couple months time, after I find my space suit😁
Increases terps and potency… or better way to put it… less loss of terps and less trichome degradation… so while it doesn’t actually increase… it does NOT allow degrading of terps and trichomes
Trich retention? I’m sorry, I’m not familiar with that? I was curious if anyone has sent buds off to a lab before and after curing to see if the thc, cbd, cbn, terps, etc change?
No, I cure all my weed. Would have to do lab testing to say for sure that it increases potency, it’s possible I am wrong. It certainly increases the flavor and experience so I have just always done it.
Okay… I have a cannatrol… and you can go to their site and see the difference on video… trichomes don’t diminish with a proper cure… without a proper cure trichomes and terpenes evaporate and shrink
