ive used water cure once and its a godsend

Who are all these people saying water washes off trichomes, ahh think before you speak kiddies!

Hey dude after you soak all your plants send me you water

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you filter it to catch any that fall off, but your careful and do it right, not a significant amount should come off

not to mention the fact that thc is NOT water soluble (at least not at those temps. It would take much more heat than that to extract them, as at boiling poin). Schmuck? Interesting, i believed heart meant to submerge the entire plant.

I thought that even boiling will not release that magic mind medicine from THC and other cannabinoids. It is only oil and alcohol soluable. The vaporizers give the temperature needed to evaporate plant matter below fire temperature. 212 degrees won't evaporate HEMP for Victory magic mind medicine, maybe. Don't ask me. I'm just a HempHEAD. Maybe boiling temperature without water cooling effect could vaporize more, but who cares ???

Interesting. I havent had any teas, but presumably, it is one method of ingestion. I am familiar with vapes, and the heat friction caused with a moist chamber is more than enough to get a good snatch of the good stuff straight from the horse's mouth. And pleasant tasting, they say.

k so I'm confused the whole bud goes in the water? or just the stem?

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You submerge the fresh cut whole bud, changing the water daily for about a week.
I tryed this on a few buds on my last crop. Its better than not curing but not as cood as sealing in a jar for 3-4 weeks.
I think it is worth doing if you need bud soon or want to smoke some whilst your other stuff is curing normally.

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I found that real curing had a better taste and was a little smoother.
As for washing trics off. I used room temp water and tryed not 2 desturb the bud as much as possible. I found that almost none of the trics had gone.

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you guys are missing the point. With this method you can be pumping it with nutes all the way up to the day you cut, thus giving your plant the chance to bulk up just that extra bit if you see it as being worthwhile....

yeah, but you would be good to stop about one week before, so its only about two waterings. If u pump it full of nutes, you will definitely cause chemical burn. Not an advisable thing to do.

if my understanding is correct, the original method called for a complete cure FIRST, then a water cure, then another session of drying out the water from the buds.

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So what your saying is that using nutes up to right when you cut it(MEANING NO FLUSH) will cause a burn? I was under the impression that if you use too much you get a burn....???

In a water cure, you're supposed to lose most of the taste, but it will be a smoother less harsher smoker. I would think it would be easier to get rid of chlorophyl from a dried dead bud than a live chopped bud. And yes, if you aren't careful, you will lose ALOT of trichromes. Like that guy said he put a glass plate to hold them down..every trichrome that came in contact with the plate and the bottom of the cooler was probably broken off and either stuck to the plate or bottom of the cooler. I'd say if your going to water cure, you are going to want to use a tumbler to scrape off all the trichs to make keif. Unless you say, tie a string to a rock and to the stem, and let the bud sit there suspended if it floats. you also don't want the buds to be bumping into each other in the water, this is enough to break open/off trichromes. And you don't want to add ice to the water, you want to refrigerate it, because ice cold contact with buds can cause water inside to form crystals with sharp points, causing damage to the buds. It saddens me that most people probably lose 50% of quality just from incorrect handling/storage of buds..and they don't even realize it.

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i thought u dry first, not cure, then water cure.

some say you can even skip the dry and go straight to water cure. It makes sense since you are gonna wet it again anyway.

makes the dope look like shit & it raises all kinds of drying issues relating to mold & what not.

makes the dope look like shit & it raises all kinds of drying issues relating to mold & what not.

sorry about dbl post

I use an old beer cooler and some chicken wire and a cup or 2 of ice.

I place the water and ice in and let it chill for a bit.
I then place the chicken wire in so that it holds the ice down.
One by one i carefully place the buds in
Then i secure chicken wire to pre-made notches so it keeps the buds below the waterline.

This works for me, and when I filter out the water, there arent that many trichomes lost, and the ones that broke off, I smoke.

Water curing works! I tried it on some cheap schwag, and turned it into some smooth smoking, head warming stuff. Not as good as home grown sensi obviously, but it will make schwag into some good mids. I havent tried it on fresh grown weed yet. I plan to soak a few of my buds and see how it goes.

I just have to ask...You guys ever notice that none of the mentors or moderators or really respected growers ever agree with this technique??? that should tell you something