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 double
Diesel
Registered: 02/12/11
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 Re: How would you manicure that?  [Re: Dimo114]
#595839 - 11/05/11 02:35 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Thanks everybody for the replies. So from what I see trimming is more of a concentrating trichomes density (mass/volume) and give an improved look than storage improvement.
How long would it keep a properly dried and cured bud (but not trimmed, or just slightly trimmed) piece stored in an airtight container?
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Nanook
I CANT SEE
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Re: How would you manicure that? [Re: double]
#595844 - 11/05/11 03:56 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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I don't think anybody mentioned it, but you want to dry the buds over a period of about 5-14 days. You just don't want to take so long that mold/bud rot develops. A relative humidity of about 50% is good. Below 45% and the buds will get crispy too fast. Above 60% and you risk bad things. You also don't want fans DIRECTLY blowing on the drying buds, just air circulation throughout the room.
The slower it dries the more chlorophyll and plant sugars break down. Those things, aside from the fibers, account for a bad taste in the smoke. Sugar tastes like burnt carbon and idk what chlorophyll tastes like burned, but I think it's not the deliciousness of all those lovely terpenes that supply the amazingly varied profiles of smell and taste that make this plant a wonderful pleasure to smoke.
Keeping leaves on can slow the rate at which the buds dry if you are unable to keep the RH high enough.
Once properly dried, after burping your airtight container daily for at least a week, the buds will be good for a long time. Kept in the complete dark, maybe up to 9 months before the trichomes would start breaking down (idk, never stored buds that long), oxidizing the THC into other cannabinoids. After about 1 month, however, they will be at their peak smell/taste.
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 MushrooMan420
Muncher
Registered: 12/23/09
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Loc: CA
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Re: How would you manicure that? [Re: Nanook]
#595849 - 11/05/11 04:44 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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To: double
As you should know, some weed can be described as "fluffy" which is usually on the leafy side or "dense" which typically looks like a cola with few noticeable leafs. All in all its weed but most people prefer dense nugs over fluffy nugs.
Therefore, if your weed didn't come out very dense then leave it a little leafy.
To Dimo11:
Hahaha I like your status Dimo11. Whether or not you knew what you were talking about, you made sense...
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double
Diesel
Registered: 02/12/11
Posts: 207
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Re: How would you manicure that? [Re: Nanook]
#595900 - 11/06/11 06:59 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Nanook said:
Once properly dried, after burping your airtight container daily for at least a week, the buds will be good for a long time. Kept in the complete dark, maybe up to 9 months before the trichomes would start breaking down (idk, never stored buds that long), oxidizing the THC into other cannabinoids. After about 1 month, however, they will be at their peak smell/taste.
So after 9 months would it lose potency and just make a herbarium specimen? If so, how to make THC store indefinitely? Maybe extracting it with a solvent and evaporating?
Would a herbarium specimen store indefinitely or should it be fixed in formaldehyde?
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RasJeph
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Re: How would you manicure that? [Re: double]
#595905 - 11/06/11 07:13 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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I smoked weed I found in a drawer in a plastic bag from probably 30 years ago and still got high. It will break down, but not to the point of being ruined.
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Hawksresurrection
Registered: 12/04/08
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Re: How would you manicure that? [Re: RasJeph]
#595972 - 11/06/11 03:48 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Keep it in a fridge and that will also help it last longer
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Dude she isn't as young as she use to be.
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wire5
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Registered: 09/12/11
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Keeping it in a dark airtight (perferably glass) container should help as well.
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In order to grow good weed you need to be part carpenter, electrician, plumber, biologist, geneticist, chemist, and very willing to get dirty.
I've been working with power tools since I was 8, my dad is an electrical engineer who owned a 280 gal fish tank, and I studied biology with a specialty in genetics. Getting dirty comes naturally. I think my parents inadvertently trained me to be a weed grower.
See what you think on my first try.
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