This is a sweet set up for curing multiple plants at a time that looks pretty sweet.
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Problem is, I don’t believe in that 
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hah hah ok here I’ll write a post about my experiences with the whole thing.
Baaaaaaaaaaack in the day(read like a sheep bleating) I had read all the “important” information about drying the buds including the curing process. I’ll go on record as calling it the “aging” process. 'Cause that’s what it is, as far as I can tell. I got the jars, I still have 'em. Glass and sealed etc. Some huge! Plop them in there, let the air exchange and whatnot. Smoke the buds in a month. Some took longer to change from this crazy stink to berries or something. up to 6 months. Enter the dragon! OK I got to thinking right. Perhaps this isn’t a good idea, what do I really need to accomplish?
Buds need to be soft, yet stable. If they crumble in the container, they are garbage. Keep em on the shelf for a year and they are the same…for the most part. I’ll get to that. Also, they must never taste green. If there is a speck of green taste…ooooooo that’s the WORST! So then, of course I had to determine what a violation was, you know how to make the bud gross, and how to make a bud good as a result of knowing what not to do.
never:
- cut the buds down early before the smells mature.
- fast dry the buds in under 3 days.
- crispify the buds.
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Alright. So now I have stable dry buds, they are just soft to the touch yet firm, not spongy. The hay smell is already gone. Replaced with the smell of mature buds just like you smelled them on the plant. Now comes, what I call the “aging” process. The secret is you just leave the buds laying around in a plastic ziplock. It never crumbles, or rots. Just sort of sitting there…forever. Some buds never change. The smell, the flavor. Even the feel. Just soft buds that are firm not crunchy. Some buds do change over time. It’s the smell and flavor. With some of the buds, those are stable qualities that will last for years. With other buds, it’s more volatile. 6 months later it could taste like chocolate and smell like coffee.
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It’s all about the flavor, MAN! Yah, I know that shit’s true, and the effect. Nobody is ripping those buds purely for the flavor and nobody is ripping it purely for the effect. So what am I saying exactly? It’s the ferrets. My beta testers. They have to tell me if I fucked it up, for real. If they can’t tell me the truth, they are soooooo fired. hah hah you know me, I wouldn’t leave it up to my own human stupid mind, that’s a trap.
Anyways, I got the process boiled down to 5 days, and all I need is a string with buds on it. I am never going back.
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Well…that’s most of 'em! lol! I keep taking whole room shots now to see if moving the chair got rid of the back scatter.
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I got all that shit cleaned up. Swept, vacuumed, scrubbed the floor with a rag on a stick. Something like that. Now it’s all sparkling for the next crop of meat breath I think! Also I am moving in the males, so I can prove for sure they are male. Or prove I’m a doofus. Either way, I’m good.
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I figured it out. Its the chair that’s haunted.
I’m still working on the drying and curing thing. My self and the family don’t seem disciplined enough to wait that long. I can tell the difference in the stuff that dose sit longer. I’m going to start making everyone wait. They wont like it. Might appreciate it more when its done.
hah hah yah it’s haunted by the ghost of Krusty, he’s watching over the grow. Hah hah here’s the…strange part I never told anyone. That chair actually belonged to one of my friends who died like 20 years ago when I was just like a year into growing weed. He broke his damned neck in an off road vehicle accident. For a couple years after his death you could still see him in tv commercials. Now, I use that chair as a step stool since it’s made from chrome steel it’s strong as fuck.
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Is that an animal watering bucket with a foam lid?
I left 4 stems with a few buds on the line. I want to see if giving it two weeks hanging there really destroys its smell and flavor. Got to test a few variables before I choose the best hypothesis and also, I need to go out in the real world. I know those people who produced flavorless odorless buds, I’ll extract some data. Puffer made sure I stayed down there and got everything prepped for the transition tomorrow. That’s gonna be a blast!
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well, the cellar dweller is back! I suppose she decided there are enough fuckin’ gnats now. Plants are growing! I’ll take care of the big bud after I move the meat breath over.
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ohhh my. The big bud in veg was down to tap water as the EC, so I stoked it with a full batch. Probably up to EC 2.4 if I were a bettin’ man. And the meat breath I moved into bloom were at .4-.8 so I raised them to 2.8-3.2 ish. That’s the meat and potatoes of the transition to bloom. Plant absorbs all goodies and I put in a new batch. Sometimes it’s like I’m putting a new batch of ferts into a completely depleted bucket. Anyways, next glory round is I have to test the EC on the other plants. Joyyyyyyyyygasm! So fun! Where’s the roof on this!? After the last round and the round after for the meat breath, I got them locked in. I mean the general process to make them produce as good as I can. veg EC 1.4-2.6 bloom EC 1.4-3.2 The big bud can take a bit more variation up to 3.6 which is really high. But… also not that much different. I think the sugar black rose took the lowest conductivity if you went past 2.8 there was trouble. Ahh sugar black rose, glad to have those days behind me.
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Some radical changes here in veg. Got rid of the seedlings and meat breath over there, put them in bloom. Moved the plants closer under the light, because more space now.
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no back scatter so far. Hopefully it was just the stupid chair!
just a little while longer for the meat breath there. Couple-a-weeks.
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You can see the seedlings there off to the side. It’s gonna be another 9 days or something before the sex is obvious.
Would you say short trichome stalks or long stalks are more beneficial to hash making?