water cure

[Tom O'Bedlam]

Had some outdoor stuff and was curious about water curing, so I went ahead and risked it... I'm sure someone else has posted about the process, but I took the pix so I figured I'd post 'em. I started with 175 grams of just-harvested outdoor bud and put them in a 5-gallon bucket I normally use to make beer (pic 1). After adding 1 gallon of tap water I put a lid on the buds to keep them submerged (pic 2). Water change every day for 6 days (the drained water smelled like bong water). After the last day I dried the buds on a food dehydrator and got 16 g of dingy brown weed (pic 3). Defintely looks bad, like something you'd clean from the rain gutter. The trichs seem to be intact, tho. Smoke itself is smooth but not super-potent...
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[HydroManiac]

So thats a no on the water cure method?

 

[papabeach1]

ya forgot ice? I tried it few time.. I think its good with only high potential thc on the fan leaves...

I tried twice after harvesting... its taste yuck... so I let it sitting on the table for weeks... smelling it.. it get smell out slowing.. yuck..