Green v Cured

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Originally Posted by justpics

looks to me like most the orange/brown coloring is off the pistils, calyx still looks like a faded green imo.

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Correct.

here's some OG Kush after a month or so in a jar.

http://i32.tinypic.com/nmnwih.jpg

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Originally Posted by justpics

here's some OG Kush after a month or so in a jar.

http://i32.tinypic.com/nmnwih.jpg

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Yummy there justpics..i presume you grew that yourself?? nice!! kush the hash plant with flavors galore...my mouth is watering.lol.:cool:

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Originally Posted by gypski

This is the present meds I'm smoking. Its green, not seasoned, and I dry it some more in an envelope an 1/8th at a time on top of my modem. Focus isn't great but you see my point. And this stuff burns black in a bowl or hitter if not dried over the modem over night. Its still green, not seasoned, but dryer burns cleaner but still not fully gray/white and still gums up the inside of the hitter bowl too quickly. :jointsmile:

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Sounds to me like your attempting to get us all high by drying it on your computer modem..cough, cough, hack, hack..yep, not seasoned/cured...hey, my screen is a little faded.. now stop that.lol.:D;)

The fact that dried, cured cannabis flower buds can be brown or different shades of brown/green, gold or reddish can be seen in the photograph section of Hashish!, by Robert Connell Clarke. There is even a photo of cannabis plants with red leaves along with yellow and green leaves finishing in Morocco. It also shows the variations in hash colors derived from the color of the dried, cured plant material. The book is available from amazon and well worth the price in knowledge. I don't have a scanner/printer. :thumbsup:

When this is dried and cured properly it will be purple, green and yellow in color with brown pistals. The other will have reddish colors. :stoned:

I stopped growing this plant cause it didn't do what I wanted it to.

But as far as looks are concerned, its the most beautiful plant I've ever had in my garden. It has parts of it that are green, but very little.

This is just and educational update to this thread. Purple is the second most common color of cannabis then green. And, if one was to read pages 92 and 93 of Marijuana Botany R. C. Clarke, that cannabis will finish and cure in oranges, yellows, golds, reds, purple and green.

Here's a couple of nugs of my Purple Kush, and the buds aren't purple (taken early due to bud mold), but the plant is still purple finishing inside. And the last buds I get will have more purple in the bud. Still tasty stuff and has a fruity taste the first coupe of hits. :D

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Originally Posted by gypski

The colors in cannabis denote the color it ends up being when dried. Its in the genes of the plant. :rastasmoke:

Colours in Cannabis | Cannabis Culture Magazine

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BINGO!

I have multiple species, indica, sativa, and crosses. Landraces, commercially produced seeds, and my own breeds. There is a definite difference between the colors as the different species dry, and then also in cure. Please note I consider the two different.

I like to dry the product for approximately a week. This gets it so that it is still mostly sticky but if handled gently not damaged too badly. It will smoke only if lit, will not continue to burn if a doober is set down.

Curing is different for each one. They are all so good I cannot tell any difference with the curing, other than they get a bit more harsh when smoked. Usually I will just put the dry in a crock jar and leave the lid loose until the stems snap. Still sticky at this point too, but will burn a lot better. By now chlorophyll smell is just about gone (2-3 weeks) Beyond that period it just seems to get more harsh and not have any different high, remember, the time we harvest has the most say about that. Cure is to get rid of the other stuff like excess water and allows the oils to soak into the drying product. Eventually the trichomes will just get so dry they fall off and become part of the bottom of the crock mix. That can be pretty darn good and concentrated.

Over the years, and especially the last 5 years, I have learned so much of all this is subjective information. A person needs eventually to take all the stuff they have heard, know, tried, and put it into a package for themselves, that works for them.

:smokin:But, now that I went off on a stoned rampage, :stoned:to return to the actual topic, and the color of cured weed is due to the species and conditions. Some can be green, golden, brown, and I hear orange. The time of cure also will vary with species, but after awhile, the difference is really not noticeable.

:rastasmoke:

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Originally Posted by WashougalWonder

BINGO!

I have multiple species, indica, sativa, and crosses. Landraces, commercially produced seeds, and my own breeds. There is a definite difference between the colors as the different species dry, and then also in cure. Please note I consider the two different.

I like to dry the product for approximately a week. This gets it so that it is still mostly sticky but if handled gently not damaged too badly. It will smoke only if lit, will not continue to burn if a doober is set down.

Curing is different for each one. They are all so good I cannot tell any difference with the curing, other than they get a bit more harsh when smoked. Usually I will just put the dry in a crock jar and leave the lid loose until the stems snap. Still sticky at this point too, but will burn a lot better. By now chlorophyll smell is just about gone (2-3 weeks) Beyond that period it just seems to get more harsh and not have any different high, remember, the time we harvest has the most say about that. Cure is to get rid of the other stuff like excess water and allows the oils to soak into the drying product. Eventually the trichomes will just get so dry they fall off and become part of the bottom of the crock mix. That can be pretty darn good and concentrated.

Over the years, and especially the last 5 years, I have learned so much of all this is subjective information. A person needs eventually to take all the stuff they have heard, know, tried, and put it into a package for themselves, that works for them.

:smokin:But, now that I went off on a stoned rampage, :stoned:to return to the actual topic, and the color of cured weed is due to the species and conditions. Some can be green, golden, brown, and I hear orange. The time of cure also will vary with species, but after awhile, the difference is really not noticeable.

:rastasmoke:

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Mine is getting smoother as it cures. I hate the greenshit. It clogs up the screen and bowl with its black gummy mass, and the moisture laden resin runs out the mouth end. I prefer it when it burns to a white or light gray ash. But, that takes cure time, and the demand doesn't really allow for it. Now that I've been able to grow my own medicine for the first time in almost 10 years, I can finally get it to where I like it best and its at it optimal in drying and curing. :rasta:

water curing will do a number on the coloring, can turn it almost black.

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Originally Posted by justpics

water curing will do a number on the coloring, can turn it almost black.

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Are you changing the water daily?

once a day for a week is the standard procedure.

I will post a few shots, but all bud cures differently, and all people cure with different combination of evironmental factors (humidity, temp levels(high-low)vacuum or non vacuum pack...). Indica cures fairly quickly and a lot of times will not change as much as a Sativa X, Indica X or straight Sativa. Examples to follow.:hippy:

i like my bud cures right. i want to be able to snap the steam, im not a fan of wet or damp weed it just don't smoke right. i for one is a believer of the longer its cures right the better it will get, just like wine. i use a wooden cigar box , or a wooded kef box. let it sit for a while in a dark closet in a fairly warm room. for about 2-3 months and its gonna be better then ever.

:thumbsup:..

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Originally Posted by Dutch Pimp

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Nobody bothered to trim those buds. :S2: I'd love to see some of the real Acapulco Gold and the old Panama Red reappear or anything like them. :smokin:

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Originally Posted by Dutch Pimp

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My fiance just looked at those pics and went "How the hell did they get high off of that?"

I hit the floor laughing.

Man, this topic got sidetracked. This is just my two cents, OK.

I've been producing for quite a few years now and have cured it ever since. A good, SLOW dry (like about 7 days at 70 degrees F and about 40% RH) and then into jars or tins.

After several weeks the herb starts to off-gas leftover nutes in the herb. This usually happens about week three or four. During this time the weed smells funky, until a week or so later when it's all out.

There is also a time in curing where the potency jumps way up. This happens every time I make capsules. I make them with some fairly fresh weed and the steady process of carboxilation (sp?) keeps converting those resins to THC.

Now, currently I've got weed that's been curing over a year, and really it's better than it was 6 months ago. But to say it takes a definitive 8 weeks is silly. It's maybe strain dependent, but totally depends on the left-over nutes in the plant matter.

REMEMBER, marijuana stops ripening when it's cut -- IT'S NOT LIKE BANANAS! It won't ripen in a bag! Also, CURING IS NOT DRYING and DRYING IS NOT CURING. Just because it's dry doesn't mean it's cured.

It seems that the bong-rip crowd loves their weed sticky and fresh, but the real weed connoisseurs appreciate and understand the importance of the cure to the finished effects of the product.

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Originally Posted by Gunlove

Man, this topic got sidetracked. This is just my two cents, OK.

I've been producing for quite a few years now and have cured it ever since. A good, SLOW dry (like about 7 days at 70 degrees F and about 40% RH) and then into jars or tins.

After several weeks the herb starts to off-gas leftover nutes in the herb. This usually happens about week three or four. During this time the weed smells funky, until a week or so later when it's all out.

There is also a time in curing where the potency jumps way up. This happens every time I make capsules. I make them with some fairly fresh weed and the steady process of carboxilation (sp?) keeps converting those resins to THC.

Now, currently I've got weed that's been curing over a year, and really it's better than it was 6 months ago. But to say it takes a definitive 8 weeks is silly. It's maybe strain dependent, but totally depends on the left-over nutes in the plant matter.

REMEMBER, marijuana stops ripening when it's cut -- IT'S NOT LIKE BANANAS! It won't ripen in a bag! Also, CURING IS NOT DRYING and DRYING IS NOT CURING. Just because it's dry doesn't mean it's cured.

It seems that the bong-rip crowd loves their weed sticky and fresh, but the real weed connoisseurs appreciate and understand the importance of the cure to the finished effects of the product.

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Nice to see a new member who knows what he is talking about. Good post dude.

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Originally Posted by Gunlove

There is also a time in curing where the potency jumps way up. This happens every time I make capsules. I make them with some fairly fresh weed and the steady process of carboxilation (sp?) keeps converting those resins to THC.

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I think you mean decarboxylation, which converts THC-COOH to delta-9-THC.