my bad for resurrecting an old thread, but wanted to give this method a two thumbs up:thumbsup::thumbsup:, and i'm talkin this method works even with a badly cured/flushed dry buds as well as freshly harvested stuff as reported.

just received some badly flushed, cured bud which gave me and my buddy a real bad headache just after even 1 hit and left a black ash in the bowl, everytime we tried. we dropped them in a bowl of water for like 5 days, changin water every 12 hours >>> we basically performed a successful rescue mission on a highly nute-saturated dry bud which otherwise would have been a total waste going to garbage. may lord bless the internetz and all of yall who share your knowledge n skills!

oh and may i add, the bud becomes more potent per weight of it due to loss of certain material and thus part of the weight.
it now DOES burn with a MUCH whiter ash and the taste is just gone, the smoothest smoke, yet very strong hits! i should also say, the water became literally green river-like color with a sharp stink, its somewhat of a plant smell mixed with a real weird n sharp chemical odor, i cannot relate it to any other smell to make it clearer though.

only downside: loss of weight, but i rather perform loss limitation when i have already chipped out for it and smoke less, yet better and smokable bud, than throw away shitty stuff or just keep gettin migraines.

based on this experiment, I can now be sure that this works much the same way for fresh bud, however, LOSS OF WEIGHT should be considered as a downside. i dont personally mind it