whats the best way to cure a plant?
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whats the best way to cure a plant?
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Once you have dry buds (the stems snap) you use glass mason jars like the ones your grandmother used to store preserves when you were a kid. Fill the jars with flowers but donâ??t pack them in you want airflow around them so they cure evenly on all sides.
Check them every day and look for moisture forming on the glass if you see moisture open it up and let them breath for a few hours then close it back up and check it again the next day. Most of the time if they are dry going in you will not have moisture build up but you may so keep an eye on them.
If you have no moisture forming you still need to let the jars breath for about a hour every 3-5 dayâ??s so the gas escapes.
The idea at this point is to get rid of the ammonia odor. That is the chlorophyll being used by the flower, one last-ditch stand to keep alive. You need to rid the flower of the chlorophyll to improve the taste.
Curing takes anywhere from 10 dayâ??s to 30 dayâ??s or more depending on several factors and you canâ??t speed up this process at this point. If you stopped feeding them (N) the last 10-dayâ??s before flushed this process should not take as long.
If you over dry them you can just add a fresh picked leaf from one of your other plants and that will bring just a small bit of moisture back into them and thatâ??s all you want a small amount.