water curing... ojibman & pflover

[anonymous]

i know this was posted once before but i think its an aswome idea i do believe (but could be wrong) pflover and ojibman have experience in this one..!! if you dont mind and if you still have any info could you please share ?? :D Thank You..!!



sorry i dont know how to spell :eek:

[pflover]

k just a min see what i can dig up... much of that thread as far as my ability to repost it is lost. ojib might be able to help more. but lets see what we can find :)

[pflover]

this is by FAR the most extreme method i have ever come across.

http://oregongreenfree.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=543&hl=

[WeldFlash420]

don't like the looks of that, sorry. Just seems like you'd lose to many valuable trichs in the water to me.

[pflover]

"Water Cure:

Immediately upon harvest, the plants are placed in a tub of water for a period of seven (7) days. The water is changed daily. The affect of this process is to remove chlorophyl and other contaminants that we really don't need. Weed is then put onto drying screens. Once it is dry, it is ready to go without need for any further curing.

This is typically done by commercial growers who have a lot of product to deal with, so they place their harvests in a ditch full of water and hope for the best - hence the term, "ditchweed"." - mdp of oregongreenfree.com

[pflover]

the water curing IMPO is most useful when you are out of meds and want to get something smoke able in a reasonably short time. it is not worth doing for your whole crop and is not the same quality in taste or high but the high is usually not tooo compromised.

ok the technique i use is as follows:

take a large bucket or coolar or other good soaking container and fill it with tepid to luke warm water, take your freshly cut and manecured bud and tie strings attached to waights to the stems. submerge the buds completely being careful not to let them touch the sides of the container and to not disturb the water too greatly there after. then let them soke for 12-24 hours (i have heard mean longer methods and good rational for using them but have had very functional results with this quick method and seed is the only reason i can personally seed of using water cure). anyway, after the soak take the buds out, hang them in front of a fan and let them dry over the next 3-5 days. the seem to dry out faster than normal air dry. when they are dry they are as cured as they will get but very very smooth and easily consumed. producing decent quality smoke if you are out of meds only 4-6 days after harvest as compaired with 7-10 at the earliest for a good air dry.

best of luck.

Ally

[Green Medicine]

"Water Cure:

This is typically done by commercial growers who have a lot of product to deal with, so they place their harvests in a ditch full of water and hope for the best - hence the term, "ditchweed"." - mdp of oregongreenfree.com

Actually the term "Ditchweed" comes from the fact that in the US wild hemp grows in "Ditches" all over the country. "Ditchweed" is meant to describe weed of such poor quality that it might as well be roadside hemp.

Just be glad it's not "Retted" like comercial brown Mex. It's made into piles, sprayed with water and covered with a plastic tarp. The heat and bacteria and fungi turn it brown and smooth the taste.....yuck They turn it with a pitchfork every few days to let the AMMONIA escape!

[pflover]

LMAO that is almost word for word what someone on OGF.com said in reply to mdp's original post.

too funny.... i was mostly passing that particular thing along as a humorus bit of cannabis mythology.

anyway thanx for the added info :)

[anonymous]

Thanks PF i too would only use this on smaller amounts i tried this on some of my buddies last grow (only grow for that matter) and it actually made the smoke very pleasant tasting compared to not (he didnt flush either )

[Green Medicine]

I got to go check out OGF...Maybe I have a lost twin! lol

[Green Medicine]

I've tried the water cure once..it seems to work...but i don't know why it works..LOL