The only thing I remember advocating a longer cure, was the Cannabible II. They claimed a 4+ month cure developed more and varied terpenes, giving it better smell & taste, like aging a fine wine...I swore it was a typo (4 MONTHS!?) until I saw it was consistent through 4 or 5 times mentioned in this, predominantly, picture book! They must be some incredibly Patient dopers!
Yeh 4months is ages mate
cannatonic won 1st place for best cbd at the Amsterdam cannabis cup and the Spanish Cup. The others I have are tester strains. Drom tga genetics. Sour tsunami x querkle and Oaxaca Gold x querkle. Sour tsunami is sour diesel backcrossed with itself then x with Ferrari and that's a high cbd. All I could find on Oaxaca is that is a landrace from Mexico decades ago. Its high cbd as well.Ok, Hyroot...I googled the first part & got your Spanish seed co.! Cannatonic strain, & Love their chart! Talk about variation from plant to plant! But amazing levels of cbd, still having close to 10% THC along with it in some cases! Thanks! Good luck with yours!
3 month minimum cure for proper polymerization of terpenes and complete. Decarboxylation.
Burning it is how we decarboxylate,... keep it in the dark if you cure that long...ever tried it?
I always cure for a couple of months. Decarbing is the release of co2 gases and depletion of chlorophyll In turn THC increase and as well as terpene polymerization. Burning it doesn't do that. Burning it converts thca and cbns
Source? The lab tells me burning is the only sure method of decarb...?(ie it is a chemical reaction to release a co2 molecule from THCa, not just drying it)
curing isn't really drying. The whole point is of curing is utilizing humididty and the natural bacteria to decarboxylate. and rid buds of chlorophyll.
Cool, thx! Now...how do you keep it from drying out too quickly, without having it mold? Or do you dry it , say, half way & Then cure slowly over time? (The time I tried it several years ago, I saw a mold issue)
i don't let them completely dry before putting them in the jar. I only burp them once every 2 weeks. Imo the longer the jars can go with out being open the better the flavor. If you make hash with dry trim. Same thing goes for the trim with curing. Kyle kushman said on a weed nerd ep a while ago. He keeps his jars closed for a whole year. But curing will in no way improve quality. If they are shitty off the bat. Curing won't fix that. Curing is part of the whole grow process though .A lot of growers don't realize that. Don't cure.
reptile t5's. Also CMH and induction have about 3%-5% uvb so can be ran the whole time. Reptile bulbs put out 10% uvb so should be only ran in a 5hour cycle.
Awesome thanks hyroot, so do you just add the t5's to your light set up but run them for only 5 hours per day during the12/12 flowering?
I got a tanning bed to try first (See lab test results, posted above), but now I am experimenting with bulbs that go into regular shoplight fixtures, up to 40w ballast, from tanninglamps4less.com. It will still be a month before I can get new samples to the lab.
go for it mate curious about the results eventually I think it will be potent stuff
Nice, thx!