in the words of the author of the compendium -

How potency is increased through the water cure

I should explain this so that the conspiracy theory kooks don't land on me like a ton of bricks.

Here's the "magic" behind the increased potency you get by water curing.

For the sake of making it simple, I'll use an example of 100 grams of bud going into the pot.

Now, you had this bud assayed and know that 15% of it is pure THC.

15% of 100 grams is 15 grams. So in our example the 100 grams of fresh bud has 15 grams of THC in it.

You water cure it and dry it. Now you have only 70 grams of bud left. WTF?

But you are deceived because the 15 grams of THC is part of the remaining 70 grams of bud. 15 divided by 70 equals 21.42%.

Sooo....

The mass didn't change, just some of the things that were there - aren't there anymore, so what is left becomes a bigger proportion of the entirety.

You go assay your water cured bud and find out it has 21.42% THC content - a 50% increase in potency.

Not bad, eh?
combusche Reviewed by combusche on . Watercuring for stronger, tasteless and odorless ABV buds this was originally shared on another forum, but it was, in my opinion, a little too "Orwellian" for a marijuana-related forum there so i moved here to share my information instead. anyway, this is the result of an experiment to raise the quality of ABV buds by watercuring - it was successful. the ABV buds were ground up from the start, placed in a coffee filter, sealed and immersed in distilled water for 5 days. water was changed on average once a day, occasionally twice a day. the Rating: 5