Harvest & Curing The Water Cure

[Muddy]

If the bud is dry when the water cure is started it will turn the water a bit darker but usually about all it does is get a bit cloudy. I use a gallon jar when I water cure. Since it has a large opening on the top I place a bowl on top instead of the lid. The bowl helps to keep the buds below the surface instead of just floating to the top.

 

[Iheartmj]

The buds will float and remain floating. I put them in a net bag and weigh them down with water filled soda bottles. Change the water each day. The water will become stinkier with each day.



What do you expect to see? The water will not turn bright green or anything like that. The smelliest fraction will only be slightly cloudy.

Oh, I thought I read somewhere they should sink. Whatever I read made me think the water turned a "ice tea" color.

If the bud is dry when the water cure is started it will turn the water a bit darker but usually about all it does is get a bit cloudy. I use a gallon jar when I water cure. Since it has a large opening on the top I place a bowl on top instead of the lid. The bowl helps to keep the buds below the surface instead of just floating to the top.

Thanks Muddy, I will try using a bowl instead, so thats a bowl turned upside down on the top of the jar?

 

[Iheartmj]

Whats is the best way to dry the bud right out of the water?

 

[Muddy]

No, it usually floats. There may be some color change the first couple days, depends on the buds you use. No, the bowl should be right side up, so it forces the buds below the water level.

Oh, I thought I read somewhere they should sink. Whatever I read made me think the water turned a "ice tea" color.

Thanks Muddy, I will try using a bowl instead, so thats a bowl turned upside down on the top of the jar?

 

[Muddy]

Lay them out on a screen or hang them. A dehydrator also works if you have one.

Whats is the best way to dry the bud right out of the water?

 

[kfigerm]

Hi,

I Use some identical water containers, stacked into each other. In my runs I needed to buy some distilled water and had them left.
I simply cut the upper part away and then filled one with water, put the flowers in there and then stack the other above into it...some slight pressure till the water comes out and youre done.
They fit perfectly into eachother (they are the same size originally ) and a little water in the upper gives some weight to keep it down to bring the flowers under water.
a waterchange is very simple, without lifting the upper container
and as a little tip - if you hold the container to a side when filling water into them, there wil be no air cought under the covering container and the buds are perfectly sealed from air..well almost

Cheers

 

[kfigerm]

Ah..and yes, atm I am trying some citric acid in the water to keep a lighter colour...I'll post the results once done.

Cheers

 

[thud]

Ah..and yes, atm I am trying some citric acid in the water to keep a lighter colour...I'll post the results once done.

My understanding is that the process of some kind of ion exchange across membranes. The ideal being distilled water which would create the greatest ion concentration gradient. It sucks the nasties right out through the plant walls. By adding citric acid you destroy that gradient. The acid in the liquid will simply react with the outer skin of the plant material. Of course, my model could be in error.

 

[kfigerm]

your thought is correct, but I try to achieve something different.

the osmosis process taking place will go as long as there are different salt-concentrations in both "media", they want to even out - so taking distilled water you get the best and fastest results.

But I try simply to achieve a lighter product in the colour.

Cut a banana and leave it in air - it will get brown
Cut that banana and put some citric acid onto the cut..it'l stay "clean" longer - no oxidation.

I tested it and the same is valid if put UNDER WATER - so there IS some kind of oxidation even under water.
So i put a banana in water with some citric acid in it and it kept its colour a little longer.
This effect i want to have on my water cure...just for some "bag appeal".

I asked once before in this thread if citric acid would be of harm for thc, nobody interveined (until today you did - so thanks for that reply ) and I found nothing about it, so I thought I simply give it a try

I'll let ya'll know about my findings.

Cheers

 

[Jim Dandy]

Kfigerm any updates?