What are your thoughts on smoking uncured bud? I recently chopped a gorilla berries down, and I put a bit of larf in the dehydrator to dry quickly. I smoked that larf last night with no cure.
Did it taste green, yes. Was there some untrimmed sugar leaf? Yes.
But, I got an idea of how it may taste, and I got an idea of the potency (very good currently). I did get a mild headache, similar to the days of smoking seeds in the 90s, but it was not bad and dissipated quickly. I think that was the untrimmed sugar leaves and extra chlorophyll.
So, what are you thoughts, do you smoke a little early as a preview or do you wait for the cure?
Ive done it every way you can, none are a good rep of what it will really be like, i dont do it anymore. I now just pluck a bud a few weeks before planned harvest, throw it on a shelf in grow roomā¦when im jonesing to try itā¦i wil remember it, and its dry n curedā¦lol
Iāve done things in my youth that have left me with a much worse taste in my mouth and a much bigger headache. Personally I enjoy sampling the buds along the dry cure journey. The different flavonoids you experience along the way is pretty cool. Rarely is it ābetterā than fully cured but I enjoy everything about this ride.
I rarely every get a taste before cure, truly because of the headache factor. As Paul Masson said it best āI Will Have No Wine Before Itās Timeā I really cure for minimal 90 days or more and I think at that point in time it is always a greater venture for me. To each his own.
I once believed curing can help cannabis become better, in taste, quality of buzz, and what not.
Iām leaning now, towards some of that thinking as nonsense.
I have NO idea why, but in the last couple of years, as I sample my drying bud, (I hang in the open to dry) these are all coming in exceptionally tasty, after drying just enough to smoke. Zero glass napping at all!
A week before hand, as I determine, when to chop them, as I hold my loupe, and examine a bud, the scents emitting from the bud, is so strong, I felt a bit sick to me stomach, as my nose is right in the action!
So for me, I do NOT see how a cure will, or CAN improve that!
Iām calling bullshit on it getting better than that, by giving it time in glass! Itās just nonsense.
I recently, tested some beans, as Iām scoping them, Iām holding my breath, as I scope. I then step backwards, resume breathing, as the DELICIOUS stench of those plants was overwhelming.
How does that get better?
It does not, maybe the goodies mingle more, I guess, but better?
IDK anymore if this even worth my while honestly.
I once would berate myself for tapping into a glass jar before the basic mythical 2 month cure.
Now I just laugh like hell at that idea. Enjoying my delicious buds right off the stalk, and NO ONE can tell a difference, NO ONE!
In my 53 years of going steady with cannabis, Iām probably done with the silly curing notion myself.
If your weed is tasteless at culling, with todayās well bred strains, your doing something wrong. IMHO.
No disrespect meant to anyone, but that need is over for me.
Itās perhaps not so much better as it is different. I find I prefer it with a little age. The flavors are not as bright, maybe, but they are more complex.
An extreme example, and not totally on point, is aged black hash. After a year of curing itās amazing. Itās not even the same thing.
Itās hard to express but itās like the difference between a nice cigarette and a fine cigar. Rich, heavy, dense, complicated.
Fresh tasty bright delicious hash is great too, but itās not the same.
Oh I agree it is different, betterā¦Iām not so sure of. But that is why we all have different tasteās and what not. I have so much built up in reserve, it will be cured regardless, as, I can only pack so much in the freezer.
Iāll never worry about a cure again.
same here. my stuff is usually tasty at jarring. after just a week or two drying. the high doesnāt get stronger from aging. i do like it aged a bit though. it takes off some of the edge. maybe itās the cbn. sometime if there is an off or vegetal note, it will go with age. they way it smokes sometimes changes, but perhaps itās just drying more.
I rarely make it to any kind of long purposeful cure, just dry at 60ish 60ish, jar or bag and smoke. Some stuff gets smoother with age but Iāve never encountered that grassy taste in my homegrown even right when itās just dry enough to smoke. If your stuffs tasting grassy youāre probably using to much nitrogen in flower
off the plant, I will put the sample cut bud, after examination, in a brown paper bag for 4 or more days to dry out, then sample. most times, I can tell from this sample, if the natural cure will be decent or not. it will be a little different in taste, not drying in a bag or whatever. at this point I start to ponder if I have been wasting the better part of the last 4 months on a futile effort? oh well, time to fill the bowl, again!
Just my two centsā¦ from someone who has smoked for 35 years and grown for 1/2 of thatā¦ I got 120day cured Black Berry Kush that would prove the non curers wrong. There is a big difference between dried for 14 days and 120 days. Have patienceā¦ Most folks think that harvest is the end of the process. You are only 75% of the way there.
Mike,
My process starts when the plant is chopped. I dry my stuff pretty good after washing it in a bathtub with a fan for 3 daysish on low and temps between 65-70F and humidity round 45%. On day 6-7 I trim if the moisture is 55% or under. In pic the jar has a top with a temp and humidity so I know how much water is still in the bud. I put it in cardboard till about day 10 45% in the jars the buds go.
I pop the tops on day 3, 8, 12,25 and then the next pop it is getting smoked. Usually after day 35 the humidity is round 35-40% and all is good. Usually popping day 50-70 because i have so much inventory I dont have to rush anything.
I have a nice write up on my process with test and data showing this in much greater detail from last year. I get each plants tested when they go in jars and the test shows me how much water is in my buds and there is never any worth to measure.
how about you start taking care of my plants. I just cut and hang for 10-14 days until dry. snap test, cut from branches, jar and burp every day for a week, when I remember(?) hopefully. then I put a bodeva or however it is spelled, into the jar, place into a cabinet. I then try to remember to burp for 10 minutes once a month, then back into cabinet. donāt know if any of this is accurate or not, but have only had one skunkie jar in 7 years. just not sure if there is a better way to store for long term. the longest jar I have had is about a year, it was a little dry, but place a plant leaf or two in a jar and poof practically, good as new.
donāt know if this year old jar was a fluke, or that the way I am doing things are fine?
