250w HPS Club And Help Guide

Oh and thanks again joos

7cotton7 said:

I just can't seem to get the lawn trimmings taste and smell out of my buds

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You have to dry and cure it properly.

I dry between 3-7 days and then brown paper bag it for another few days, then throw into the mason jars burping. I usually have a 2 week jar and a 4 week jar. The 2 week jar is to get you by, and the 4 week is the better stuff.

Drying and curing are important because it breaks down a lot of stuff like chlorophyll (causes that grassy/hay/veg smell), and other remnants of nutrients. etc. Not only that, proper drying/curing ensure an even clean burn. Most plants that are not flushed or dried/cured properly burn like shit, and instead of having a nice even burning bowl with light colored ash. You get a bowl that won't burn properly, taste funky and the ash will be more like a piece of coal.

Honestly, to me this is the most important part of the grow. As it makes what you've worked for so long, finally finished and consumable.

Doobieus said:

You have to dry and cure it properly.

I dry between 3-7 days and then brown paper bag it for another few days, then throw into the mason jars burping. I usually have a 2 week jar and a 4 week jar. The 2 week jar is to get you by, and the 4 week is the better stuff.

Honestly, to me this is the most important part of the grow. As it makes what you've worked for so long, finally finished and consumable.

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Totally agree.. I guess I'm a little more aggressive on the drying because I use a bud dryer (DIY plans somewhere on RIU), but I let them get real crispy before jarring. You'd be surprised how much moisture comes back once they are in the jars, I have even taken the buds back out of the jars and put them in the dryer again if I feel they are still too moist. The last thing you want is moldy buds.

Two Week and Four Week jars . It's always nice to get to that one month celebration..

Grazz

Grazzmon said:

Totally agree.. I guess I'm a little more aggressive on the drying because I use a bud dryer (DIY plans somewhere on RIU), but I let them get real crispy before jarring. You'd be surprised how much moisture comes back once they are in the jars, I have even taken the buds back out of the jars and put them in the dryer again if I feel they are still too moist. The last thing you want is moldy buds.

Two Week and Four Week jars . It's always nice to get to that one month celebration..

Grazz

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Even better when you get to 6 months, sooooooooo smooth my goodness!!

So do you burp them for the whole 4 weeks? I feel my last ones were to dry when I jarred them, a little moisture came back but they were crumbly after a week and a half of burping and still taste like do do. Thanks

Edit what does the brown paper bag do? Will a small cardboard box do?

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Good question! some people swear by it though!! last october I harvested 2 white widows that I grew outside and cured 1 of them with the paper bag "brown grocery bag" theory and the other the way I do normally, (dry on the rack then into mason jars with the burping) and I noticed nothing between either cures! the paper bag just seemed to be an extra process in between the dry and the jar!

The people I know who swear by it have NEVER tried it my way, they've done it that way "forever" and just swear by it!! thank goodness there's NO RULES to this game!! LOL!! at least in my state!!

Now I have talked to an "old Timer" who swears that letting it cure striate from harvest into paper bags, is the way to go, but I have never tried it that way!

I think im going to do a test with my next lady and see what works best for me. I did some water curing on my last batch and that didn't seem to bad maybe a little harsh. I may modify it a little by rehydrating a little after drying it.

7cotton7 said:

So do you burp them for the whole 4 weeks? I feel my last ones were to dry when I jarred them, a little moisture came back but they were crumbly after a week and a half of burping and still taste like do do. Thanks

Edit what does the brown paper bag do? Will a small cardboard box do?

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Get lunch bags there are more of them but they are more effective than a grocery bag because they are smaller. The paper lunch bags (brown) soak up a lot of moisture, you want to do it as a final process of the drying. I put buds in spaced slightly, and do not stack them at all and then i turn over the buds periodically when the bottom or sides of the paper bag are moist. It really helps absorb a lot of moisture, and helps the process of curing. So in a nutshell, I dry until the outside of the buds feel crispy but the stems still bend, then I put into lunch bags until the stems snap, then into the jar and I open the jars after 12 hours the first day then open/burp for about 5-10 minutes, then 6 hours for 2 weeks burping at 5-10 minutes and the last couple of weeks 4 hours with again 5-10 minutes. Like Grazz said you wouldn't believe how much they moisten back up. The bags are way cheap for like 100 of them, you can find them at Walmart, or pretty much anywhere really. I have done different ways of drying etc, but the this way has proven best for me.

Always dry/paperbag/cure in the dark.

I hope this helps Cotton.

So its 12 hours initially for the first burp then every six hours for like 2 weeks and every 4 hours for another 2 weeks?

7cotton7 said:

So its 12 hours initially for the first burp then every six hours for like 2 weeks and every 4 hours for another 2 weeks?

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Yes with 5-10 minutes of opening/airing out/burping the jar.

When you open the jars up do a check on the buds to make sure they aren't molding etc. The purpose of curing is to slowly let the moisture out and the buds dry/metabolize the nasties. Think of it as an aged wine, the longer the better.

You just want the buds to be somewhat dry on the outside before closing the jar back up, whether or not that will take 5-10 minutes with your environment is another thing. If you need to air them out longer then go for it, if you gotta do it shorter then do it, but just remember to make sure those buds are somewhat dry on the outside before putting them back in.

So if you want to cure for like 2 months do you burp the whole 2 months or is there a point where you seal up the jar and let it stand maybe burp it like once s day?

7cotton7 said:

So if you want to cure for like 2 months do you burp the whole 2 months or is there a point where you seal up the jar and let it stand maybe burp it like once s day?

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For a longer cure just extend the time periods. For instance the 12 hour extend to 1 week versus 1 day, the 6 hour do for 3-4 weeks instead of 2 weeks, and so on and so forth.

After enough moisture is gone, then you can just close them down and open every few days or so. Only once the majority is gone, because you can risk the chance of mold if there is too much moisture.

Thank you soooooo much for your help, even after all the research and reading about curing I have done you have been the most helpful! Its awesome to have so much help I feel anyone can figure out anything on this site because of all the people that can explain the same thing in so many different ways its just about finding the way you understand it

7cotton7 said:

Thank you soooooo much for your help, even after all the research and reading about curing I have done you have been the most helpful! Its awesome to have so much help I feel anyone can figure out anything on this site because of all the people that can explain the same thing in so many different ways its just about finding the way you understand it

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It's all about paying it forward.

7cotton7 said:

Thank you soooooo much for your help, even after all the research and reading about curing I have done you have been the most helpful! Its awesome to have so much help I feel anyone can figure out anything on this site because of all the people that can explain the same thing in so many different ways its just about finding the way you understand it

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Like Joos said, it's all about passing down the knowledge/paying it forward. I could not have said it better myself, and you're welcome.

21 Days in and the Mutant is still looking like leaf lettuce..lol. Started LST on these 2 and added some dark time (Thanks Doob), they seem to be a little bigger each time I visit.
Pic 1 Nirvana Blue Mystic (fem seed)
Pic 2 Seed from my last BM Grow. Calling it a Mystical Mutant (MM)



Grazz

Grazzmon said:

21 Days in and the Mutant is still looking like leaf lettuce..lol. Started LST on these 2 and added some dark time (Thanks Doob), they seem to be a little bigger each time I visit.
Pic 1 Nirvana Blue Mystic (fem seed)
Pic 2 Seed from my last BM Grow. Calling it a Mystical Mutant (MM)


Grazz

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Plants are looking good, even the mutant lol. Honestly the mutant doesn't look deformed or anything to me, looks nice and healthy. Glad the tip helped you out, keep up the great work.

what up guys im back, with my seconed grow, this are clones i been vaging them for 15 days from when i got them from the club, 2 platinum babbu kush and 1 LA confed, im going to be starting the 12/12 in like 4 more days , i want them to get a good root mass before i flower, they all been toped. let me know what you guys think , im using sunshine mix 4 and fox farm nuts , vermi-t.

frankcast04 said:

what up guys im back, with my seconed grow, this are clones i been vaging them for 15 days from when i got them from the club, 2 platinum babbu kush and 1 LA confed, im going to be starting the 12/12 in like 4 more days , i want them to get a good root mass before i flower, they all been toped. let me know what you guys think , im using sunshine mix 4 and fox farm nuts , vermi-t.

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Looking good Frank, keep up the good work. Gotta love the re-routing of auxins through topping/fimming or LST/SCRoG, it's a good thing =] lol.

Started working on some LST today.