drying and curing

[Greenfingers]

Guys has anyone found any evidence that drying in the light makes your ganja any better or worse ?

[Treetrunk]

I'm definitely no expert. I've just dried my first grow. I dried in a net in the dark. Humidity at 60%. It took a week to dry. I've just started to cure it. The difference in smell after just one day is amazing. Especially the Blue Cookies.

[Bulls]

I've tried buds dried in direct light and couldn't find a difference, thought the story says it's best when the lights are off. Brown paper bag method should work..not for e though. I tried once and bag got soggy and buds felt like they were gonna mould

[Josh]

I hang dry in a room with ambient light from a window, I noticed no difference from the previous grows when I dried in complete darkness

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[Josh]

Never done a test myself so couldn't give you an honest answer if it has an ill effect or not. But from all the years reading up on IT, drying myself and my CTU course from the USA I'd only personally dry in the dark.

I've nicked this quote below from the net

As with humidity, an incorrect temperature can ruin our flowers, as can drying them in full daylight. Temperatures over 25 degrees can dry the plant too fast, the ideal temperature being about 18-20 degrees celsius. On the other hand, if we dry the plants in the light this will degrade part of the content of the trichomes, reducing the final quality of the buds.

The ideal is to dry the plants in a relatively cool, well ventilated and dark place. This way, we will avoid many of the factors that can cause drying to reduce the quality of our harvest.

Also
Light (photons) and CO2 are collected by the living plant during the daylight hours. The energy and CO2 are then processed into a number of things including ATP and carbohydrates needed for growth (of all kinds veg/flower) in what is known as the Calvin Cycle which takes place during the hours of darkness.

The drying/curing process results in decarboxilation which activates the psychoactive component of the THC. Light which contains UV as you acknowledge degrades everything it contacts - look at your dashboard, paint, curtains etc.

It is the timing of the Calvin Cycle and the growth that occurs during this time that is responsible for the THC level in your cannabis being slightly higher after the dark period.

Hope this helps

Hey buddy, I know you said you pasted this, but we gotta talk about this part for the newer growers

"The drying/curing process results in decarboxilation which activates the psychoactive component of the THC"

Decarboxilation happens after heating the bud to way over ambient temps. I think they're talking about fermentation, which is literally what happens when we dry/cure our bud, this causes the breakdown of chlorophyll, etc





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[2-Scoops]

Curing it makes a big difference though and makes weed much more stronger, but stronger not in the sense its just grown some extra magic trichs but stronger cus those trichs it already has are being cured or i should say all goodness in trichs is being cured slowly so the weed puts you down in lazyboy chair type stronger, it all makes weed much smoother i swear i hardly never cough when vaping cured weed. I can definitely tell difference with some of my week or two old dried smoke and same bud that`s had good curing in jars that i grow.

Personally i let it dry till i think it`s dried/sticky/damp enough to be jarred without going mouldy, i then add a 62%rh pack into a jar fill it with bud before i add another 62rh pack and a small temp and humidty meter, after first day humidity is prolly around 70% so i crack jar lid open around ten minutes daily every day for a few weeks till humidity in jar hits 62rh i then stop cracking lid open and let the humidity packs hold the weed at rh62%, the longer its in a jar the better and stronger it becomes but even after a few months in jar weed is still sticky as fuck when you crack a bud open, not wet or it would go mouldy but sticky from sticky goodness weed provides.

As for drying tbh if your just bone drying to smoke i can`t see their being much of a big difference whether its took 5 days to dry with lights on or ten days to dry with lights out, neither can see their much a difference if you jarred bud up at right time to cure whether its been dried in light or dark, ok yes as Eli said some trichs may have degraded more but i cant see it being enough to fuck bud up so its wank and not working in fact it`ll prolly put you on your arse quicker than the slow dark dried bud cus your gonna get more brown trichs than white milky.

[Josh]

Hey buddy, I know you said you pasted this, but we gotta talk about this part for the newer growers

"The drying/curing process results in decarboxilation which activates the psychoactive component of the THC"

Decarboxilation happens after heating the bud to way over ambient temps. I think they're talking about fermentation, which is literally what happens when we dry/cure our bud, this causes the breakdown of chlorophyll, etc


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I think they've used the wrong word there for sure, I'm no pro but I have found a link that may be useful it's a little old, but it kinda explains stuff.

But again as I always say each to thier own I've seen no scientific proof it's better or worse just read different things about the THC degrading in certain environments whilst drying and curing


https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-10 ... egradation

That was a good read, thanks man

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[GMO]

the idea is that light and air degrade the active compounds. light will speed up oxidization more than without

the decarb is like how Eli mentions. your removing a carbon bond and changing the shape of the compound. there are something like 12 different variation that THCa can progress through before developing CBN. so in short yes light degrades weed but not enough for the home grower to care about in the short term

[Greenfingers]

cheers all, thats enough info for me to chew on