hi uk420 simple question please could you explain what water curing is?
i gues its something to do with curing with water but thats just a gues ?

From what ive gathered it involves submerging plants head to toe upside in water for a week , replacing the water every day till the run off isnt green . Then you dry the plants as normal . Its meant to keep the cells in the plant alive for aslong as possible to keep the reaction going that breaks down Chlorophyl down .

ok thanks for the info

Sounds interesting, could you use the water for anything?? like brewing up with it or summit?

Does this style of curing help the strength of the weed??

if your gonna bother with water curing, wrap a few buds in paper for the 9 days to see how they compare to the end result.
you wont be fucking around with water after that

Trying my first water cure right now.
Usually hang for a week or two then jar.
What kind of paper do you wrap yours in? Newspaper?
Thanks

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e2a - not really.
water curing takes out the sugars (amongst other things). these tend to make you cough under normal circumstances so if you've got dodgy lungs you'll benefit. there's no significant loss of thc but the flavour goes and it's like vaping in that there's very little taste. better for you tho.

Just chiming in to say thanks for all the tips in this thread.

While I fully appreciate the taste and smell of well cured buds, I ultimately use cannabis for medicinal purposes so the bouquet is less important. I'm all up for harm reduction with removing sugars and all the other crap - especially as I'm not getting any younger.

Nice one peeps

Logically thinking that would make sense to me too, but when was cannabis logical?... esp. female cannabis!

I have made various sugary extractions basically by boiling down the remaining water from ice hash runs, mainly out of interest but also to see if there's any "mileage" in it. Still evaluating the results but one I made from particularly "pure" ice hash waste water (from well-trimmed and cured bud) had obviously very little chlorophyl in it and didn't make me cough at all, quite the opposite. I found I (and others) could smoke weed which might normally tend to coughing with no trouble just by including a bit. It also mellowed out and prolonged the effects of the base weed quite coniderably, and brought out amazing taste undertones in the weed. Also made the jays burn very evenly and regularly all in all a good thing and I used it in virtually every joint for a couple of months while it lasted. Called it the Missing Link.

My conclusion was that it would be more the chlorophyl than the sugar in such an extraction of water solubles that might act as an irritant. The sugar seemed to act in quite the opposite way.
Not that I'm saying it's healthy to smoke loads of sugar.....

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Somebody posted a diary talking you through the entire process with pictures around 2 years ago. cant seem to find it though

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Edit: apologies for the link taking you to the 3rd page of the thread

A while back a relative of mine in Philly did a guerilla grow in his back yard amongst some tomatoes... He uprooted a plant and shoved it head first into a bottle of overproof white rum.
After a few days the white rum became green rum and i'm told the effect was err... stimulating?!

I've tried it and was considering doing all crops with it but I now have enough regular cured so it's not needed.


If you're going to be toking bud one week from harvest, water curing is the way to go. Bag appeal isn't our concern, just as well because water cured buds look like manky left overs. It's stronger in that an ounce will become 0.85oz or thereabouts but will have lost hardly any trics.

Smooth taste, less cough. A very good way of dealing with shitty tasting weed, not so good for great tasting weed.

Each and every day, get the water for tomorrow in place, don't be using stuff straight from the tap, you want it tepid. Same time every day, carefully change the water. It'll smell like cabbage. Keep the wet weed somewhere dark. On the 7th day, start drying it, it will dry in a few hours not days so not too much heat.

I tried it once and the results were interesting. It smoked well enough but the taste and look were far from ideal.
If you are going to do it make sure that there is an air hole in what ever vessel you cure them in as you need it to aid gas exhange and to stop the water going dank.

enjoy!

ha ha look how fucking mashed that cat looks