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Bud taste

Vegmonster

Vegmonster

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Been using GWE since 1st grow, I have issue with obtaining top shelf taste. I use ocean farm soil and fox farm nutes. I don't use a bud enhancer,I use black molasses for sweet. I always flush properly. Thoughts? Quality of buds isn't the issue, just taste!
 
Taste is strain dependent. If that’s something you want to try and improve I’d grow the same strain and experiment with different methods and see which brings out the flavor profile the most. After that it’s all about improving it
 
i think you could focus entirely on drying more slowly, curing with higher rh and not trimming until a couple of weeks into the cure, believe me this makes a lot of difference because for a long cure you need to vent it often and repeat many days so as the leaves are decomposed moisture is released into the air accelerating the decomposition releasing more moisture. so dont trimm, dry slowler, jar with higher rh and burp twice as often, pretty soon youll be able to smell the progress and get a feel of how long you need to leave between burps, you want to smell the no oxygen funky bacterial smell for a little bit when you open the jar and you want it gone 60 seconds into venting. hope this makes sense, this is the tricky part about high quality.
 
Top shelf dispensary bud around here tastes and smells like perfume. Reminds me of being 13 and all the girls in school with too much smell pretty. The curing process is a lot of where flavors will come from along with strain choice.
 
I assume you are a smoker, as opposed to vaping? I vape and I have noticed not much taste like burning it.
 
I'm old school, bong rips on flower and the occasional doobie. I'm not much for wax and shatter, pretty much the only ways I've seen vape done.
 
I mentioned this once in an older post that some dispensaries will load their product into a tumbler and spray it with assorted essences to achieve the desired fragrance. Commercial grows often don't take the time to cure product properly and to get that top shelf smell they resort to a bit of trickery.
 
Hi 9fingerleafs..."i think you could focus entirely on drying more slowly, curing with higher rh and not trimming until a couple of weeks into the cure" could you expound on this a little please? I'm still trying to get a dry/cure technique down to my personal satisfaction. Your process sounds intriguing. May I ask a couple of questions? Where you say, 'don't trim', does that mean you jar up before you trim? Am I reading too much into 'dry slower'? I'm not one to speed up the drying process but how does one slow it down?
 
well, the drying speed has a couple of factors, one is of course humidity, i like mine at 60%, but if you cannot control humidity then you could hang entire plants with all the leaves and branches for the first few days at least, its easier to remove each branch and hang in a row but that speeds up drying, yes i dont trim until a couple of weeks into the cure, meaning i "jar" (i use a bucket with gamma seal) untrimmed bud and i trim afterwards when the curing has already started and the moisture from the leaves is no longer needed. if you are not seeing a monumental change in the first two weeks of curing then you messed up and dried too fast and it will be very hard to get the curing going again. you want to live at the edge of mold and funky smells, takes practice but its not hard, just smell everything all the time. curing is decomposing organic matter in a controlled way, leaves also protect trichomes and prevent aromas from escaping during the dry.
have you been wet trimming? whats the rh in the dry room? where do you store to cure?
 
Yeah, I vape flower. The taste is diminished, yet discernable. That's been true of my dispensary purchases as well as my own products.
 
golfnrl " I'm not one to speed up the drying process but how does one slow it down?" This is the only time in the curing process when I use the humidipaks (62%). For the first couple of weeks I'll use them to adjust, either more humidity or less. I don't use meters, just touch and smell to where I want it. Rarely will I smoke any of the weed until 3 months has passed.
 
@9fingerleafs...I've tried both wet trimming and dry trimming. Not sure which one I like best. The RH in the dry room holds steady low to mid 50's F. I have used turkey bags and mason jars to cure. Not a fan of either. I have hung buds in a tent and used a hanging dryer rack. I threw the rack away because of the flat side it left on my buds. So, this harvest I will hang dry. But I have my harvests stored right now in mason jars. I burp them but not on any schedule. Sounds like I need to rethink that.

A bucket with a gamma seal?
 
golfnrl i see, low 50% rh is too low, doesnt sound like much but believe me at 60% they will dry way slower, leave all the fan leaves if you can and remove as little branch as you can before hanging. now for the curing try this, take an ounce of bud and jar and cure without trimming, dont trimm until you are ready to smoke them, just one jar as an experiment, youll see what im talking about. jars and bags are too small so i use 5 gal buckets with an hermetic seal on them to cure one pound at the time (you can fit two in a bucket) gamma seal: https://www.usplastic.com/catalog/item.aspx?itemid=24282
 
I never wet trim but I’ve always trimmed before placing into jars. I’ll be harvesting a plant in a few weeks so I’m going to give this a try with some of it. How long should you cure and burp them this way?
 
bboyfromwayback the cure is going to happen faster so you should burp twice as much, between each burp more moisture will be released into the air due to the leaves containing much more chlorophyll than the bud itself, so you gotta be careful not to let it mold, thats why to burp twice a day and start to space out burps as you see fit, you want some funky anaerobic smell because that means its curing but not too much that it molds, buds will turn slightly yellow over the next weeks and i trimm at least two weeks into curing, you guys give it a try just leave one jar untrimmed, be very vigilant and trimm as you smoke each bud, youll find out the best time to trimm according to each of your strains and environment. small rock hard dense buds like GSC are way easier to cure than speared shaped colas with lots of surface area, the gsc can be trimmed at anytime in my experience but for the critical i have its critical (pun intended) to leave as much leaves for as long as possible
 
@9fingerleafs...ya know, it hasn't made sense to me that I would dry with the R/H in the 50's F and then put in a 62 bovida pack in the jar or bag. I think I was concerned about mold. I can adjust the RH. I will def try your way to cure. I feel kinda silly. When I looked up gamma seals on google, I thought, duh! And, I have bought from U.S. Plastics before so that won't be a problem.
 
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