How would YOU cure outdoors???

I have been researching outdoor grows and I can;t find any info about curing bud outside!!

Why would you cure buds outside?

i mean you could probably dry the bud outside but, curing? you need glass jars or an air tight container. i dont understand how you could do that outside.

it could be possible though ive just never heard of it. so if this is possible i would love to know how to because it would help me for this year when i do my outdoor grow

Curing outside? After you've dried it, trimmed it, manicured it, put it in glass jars, put it outside? I don't know what to tell you man.

Buy a cheap tent that blends well (no crazy colors) set it up in a secluded spot and safety pen strings across then dry it in there 3 days or so (maybe hook up a little carbon scrubber to a battery during this) then come back with afew dozen jars and some scissors trim them buds up and jar em then check em daily/every other day to burp and such.

I'm pretty sure he was talking about drying buds outdoors. I have wondered this myself.

I have heard people say buy a tent and hang them in the tent same as you would a house. I was wondering is there an exact or ballpark temp, humidity etc. that you need to be at? I would like to dry my harvest outside and bring it inside to cure. Anybody know of anyone that's done this and will it affect the quality of the bud??

Humidity you don't want much higher than 40% or you could get mold. Avoid direct sunlight.

GrowingfortheGold said:

Humidity you don't want much higher than 40% or you could get mold. Avoid direct sunlight.

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By the time I go to harvest it will be 90 degrees outside with 85% humidity. I'm gonna have to come up with another option.

you just dont do it brotha....inside...inside...inside....

I have heard of people aging bud in jar for a year or more outside. Apparently you want to bury it to keep a constant temperature. I think you bury it in the fall. im not sure theres a thread on here somewhere

Dry your buds & when they are dry place in glass jars. Dig a hole deep in ground. Put jars in ground. dig up jars from ground 4 hours later. take buds out of jar, put buds back in jar. bury the jars again. Four hours later dig up jars again & repeat this 3 times a day for a week or two. After 2 weeks of doing this then all you have to do is dig up jars once a week to exchange the air in jars. That's how I do it. lol

Its raining for the next 5 days here in Nor-Cal...I could not imagine doint the above stated method.....

If y6ou have NO options, hang them in a shady spot and hang newspaper over them to block sunlight. Once fairly dry, lay the untrimmed branches in a cardboard box, with layers of newsprint between them. The buds cured out nicely.

It's up to you to figure out where.(A friend stored his crop this way for years, keeping his buds in an old chicken coop on his property.)

I like the tent idea i just looks like someone is camping. I could do it here easy end of the season is not too humid about 30% and September October temps are 40-60 it will dry slow so it wont smell grassy because all of the chlorophyll will have a chance to break down and off gas. only thing I would worry about would be mold and mildew. but if all went well you could put the buds in jars and then into a rubbermaid tote and do the whole burping thing and once that's done you could just bury the whole Rubbermaid. I wouldn't suggest just burying the jars though what happens when you go to dig them up and they break?

car battery + fan + dehumidifier. and maybe a little lock with a varbon filter so even if people snoop around they might not assume something illegal is going down

I have also pondered this question before. If I were to grow large scale outdoors and do it all outdoors this would be my plan of action

1. Chop the plants, trim the buds and hang inside the tent. On the bottom of the tent I would spread a shitton of rice, rice absorbs moisture and would keep the humidity low inside the tent. Once dried maybe a week? Give or take I would move onto curing.

2. For curing I would buy large airtight plastic containers. They can be bought at any pet store etc. because they are designed to keep dog food fresh. I would put all the buds in there with maybe a little more rice and stir ever couple of days for the first week. Then once a week up until roughly a month has gone by. Now you have a finished product. Whats that? You dont want to keep all that product in your house? Well I dont blame you.

3. For storing the finished product I would buy a vacuum sealer and seal up bags of roughly maybe half a pound each. From there I would dig at least one if not a couple underground root cellars. (You can look up how to do this) The basic concept of a root cellar is using the ground as insulation and its how people kept food fresh before refrigerators and electricity. During the summer it stays cool and during the winter it wont go much below freezing.

4. Not only is your bud now kept fresh by the cooler temperatures but its vacuum sealed which means no smell, no drying out, and no degradation. With these 2 methods combined the bud will stay good for years as long as no one finds it. Happy harvest

Chronic Coinoisseur your idea is great and im doind my first outdoor grow this year and i definatly had nowhere inside to dry or cure. so now i have a way to dry and cure. thanks man

ok but lets say you have 100 lbs... how would you go about about drying it outside?? i'm not saying I have 100 lbs or that i ever will but just for discussion purposes how would you go about it?? I mean a small tent is not gonna cut it!!

Outdoor plants usually flower in October, which is a really dry, cool month. Just take a clothesline and tie it to two trees then hang your buds on it for 2 weeks. Manicure and cure at home.