I couldn't wait... In the oven with my wite widow. Have you tried it?

Oven drying is OK if you need it to medicate for something. Not everyone can just wait. Best method from years of doing it:

Oven on lowest setting, it's called "warm" on mine. I put the chopped up weed on a piece of tin foil, then put it in the oven while it's warming up. The warm setting is a little too warm so I open it up and let a little heat out. Then close it, turn off the oven and let it sit in there for about 30-45 minutes, check it, reheat the oven a little, repeat until it's just about totally crispy. 60-90 minutes. Keep the heat down as low as possible, if you have time to wait keep it real low and it will take a few hours. It will be about 75-90% the potency of dried and cured bud depending on how you do it. It's not nothing, but it's not the best. It's for immediate medicating.

I've tried microwave, oven seems to give it a better flavor. Takes a lot longer.

Just as kpmarine stated i always decarb when making my medibles. As long as the buds,trim,etc are wrapped in foil or are in something so the vapors cant escape decarbing is great and i feel a must for high quality edibles. I usually decarb between 210 and 220F for 20 mins or so.

The longer they cure the better the bud. THC and CBD.

My first grow years ago I was heading to Spring Break with friends and had just harvested the buds. It would have taken weeks to dry it properly, and we needed smoke for the roadtrip, so I oven dried some of it at 100 degrees F.

Worst mistake ever. It got us high, but I'm convinced the oven destroyed most of the THC, so it was schwag at best. Tasted just horrible, way too green.

In fact, we ended up crossing the border into Mexico, and buying some Mexican brick-weed for dirt-cheap instead of smoking the stuff I had oven-dried.

I learned my lesson: you spend all that time and effort to make great weed, respect it by drying it right. If you've waited several months for harvest, you can wait another couple weeks for a proper dry/cure.

My two cents.

Dr. Yo said:

My first grow years ago I was heading to Spring Break with friends and had just harvested the buds. It would have taken weeks to dry it properly, and we needed smoke for the roadtrip, so I oven dried some of it at 100 degrees F.

Worst mistake ever. It got us high, but I'm convinced the oven destroyed most of the THC, so it was schwag at best. Tasted just horrible, way too green.

In fact, we ended up crossing the border into Mexico, and buying some Mexican brick-weed for dirt-cheap instead of smoking the stuff I had oven-dried.

I learned my lesson: you spend all that time and effort to make great weed, respect it by drying it right. If you've waited several months for harvest, you can wait another couple weeks for a proper dry/cure.

My two cents.

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Or it was just your first grow, and it turned out mediocre like most of our first grows do. Like I said, you prep weed for edibles at over 200F; check out the edibles section sometime. A proper cure will definitely make for better smoke, but a quick dry will still get you more or less as high, if its good weed. I've done it more than once to check out how I liked the high of my plants before I chopped, it gives me an idea of the ideal trich ratio for my plants. Keeps me from harvesting when it looks good and then finding out it isn't what I was expecting.

kpmarine said:

Seeing as I decarb my weed at over 200F, and it still sends people on spirit quests in my edibles, I'm going to say you may have been misinformed. I've quick dried in my oven more than once. It kills flavor, but you'll get an idea of how your bud will effect you. I've speed dried several harvests in my microwave and my oven, all of it got me high. To be fair, it really doesn't beat a good cure though.

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i meant putting wet cannabis into an oven would ruin the trichromes and i understand the decarb process, let me ask you this? why would anyone who cares about there medicine take a risk with those temps? id awenser that no one would take that risk. Unless your just looking for an arguement then i got nothin for ya!

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i meant putting wet cannabis into an oven would ruin the trichromes and i understand the decarb process, let me ask you this? why would anyone who cares about there medicine take a risk with those temps? id awenser that no one would take that risk. Unless your just looking for an arguement then i got nothin for ya!

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It's not a risk, it's what every edible maker does because it converts certain cannabinoids to the psychoactive sort. Vaporizers operate well above these temps I'm talking about, around 280F+ if memory serves. Please explain to me how a resin gland (trich), which is an oil, will be effected by moisture content. I'm not following what you're saying there, could you break your thought process down for me on that one?

Get ye to the corner, my goodsir!

Procure some of their finest herbal schwaggery, a 12-pack of beers, and wait.

Somebody above me said it right; day-by-day jar cure gets sexier and sexier.

I hear you 100% about it being hard to wait. I am one of the most instant-gratification seeking people I know. But you spent all that time growing the shit (probably because you were unhappy with what was around you at the time you started) so why not throw down that little bit of patience and wait awhile? It WILL be worth it.

There is no substitution unfortunately. No easy route to dankness that's waiting to be imparted.

Time and patience a'plenty. And beer. Lots of beer.

I have recently done this as an experiement with buds that were still damp.

10 seconds in microwave, pull it out for 5 mins, 5 seconds in microwave, pull it out for 5 mins, 5 seconds in microwave, bag it.

Bud smells great and makes an otherwise "airy" bud strain nice and tight. Hope this helps.

kpmarine said:

Or it was just your first grow, and it turned out mediocre like most of our first grows do. Like I said, you prep weed for edibles at over 200F; check out the edibles section sometime. A proper cure will definitely make for better smoke, but a quick dry will still get you more or less as high, if its good weed. I've done it more than once to check out how I liked the high of my plants before I chopped, it gives me an idea of the ideal trich ratio for my plants. Keeps me from harvesting when it looks good and then finding out it isn't what I was expecting.

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No, actually smartass my weed turned out great, but thanks for generalizing. As I was responsible for getting several people baked for 2 weeks, I spent the time, effort, and money and did it right.

Even if you have great genetics, you can totally fuck it up in the drying process, making it schwag. If you're drying your weed in the oven, you're going to lose a LOT of potency.

I've never smoked or heard of anyone drying weed in an oven and it tasting good, or being potent.

Oven drying is bad advice.