Optimum Dryness

[rangerdanger]

Ideally, pot should be taken out of the drying process and put into containers for the cure when the pot is till a bit too moist to stay lit in a joint.
Too moist and the buds will mold/rot. Too dry and curing will be slow and incomplete or not cure at all.
To find out the perfect dryness in which to cure/store, go to a tobacco/cigar shop that has a humidor and spend like 5 bucks for a quality cigar.
Unwrap it and squeeze it.
That is the dryness level that pot (of course, a plant that people smoke, just like tobacco) should be kept at.

For me, the curing process continue's until the pot is all gone.
Once the pot has reached a smooth tasty cure, and is at the moistness content of a fine cigar, I seal it up and keep it in an air-tight container. The only time I open the container is when I remove some to smoke.

Up until the mid-90's, some of the finest cigars in the world were "pre-Castro" Havana's. That means they were harvested/dried and cured and rolled into cigars before Casto came into power in Cuba (1962 or so). That means they had been stored in a perfect environment, humidity-wise, for 30 years.
Yep, 30 years.

I usually smoke pot in a pipe (glass spoon, bong, vape). If I'm going to roll a joint, I set the bud down on a table for 30 minutes or so so it's easier to keep lit.

If you keep your pot at the perfect humidity level, it will keep getting better, for decades (but hell who can wait that long?).

[SD.]

What is considered the perfect humidity level to store pot at Ranger?

[Sparky]

I'm sorry but time does have it's way with potency. Pot getting better for decades is just not true IMO. :cool:

[marymaryquitecntrary]

now come on sparky ... if ranger says it, it HAS to be true.
:(

i guess he's getting ready to submit his 'FAQs'. if he doesn't he won't have anything to threaten us with when he gets pissed and is asked to leave.

[Kiwi]

now come on marymary, no need to be like that :)

Pot isnt wine though, IMO :D

[Nesta]

now come on sparky ... if ranger says it, it HAS to be true.
:(

i guess he's getting ready to submit his 'FAQs'. if he doesn't he won't have anything to threaten us with when he gets pissed and is asked to leave.


Come on now mary, this is exactly what led to the down fall of GK. Everything has been great here so far, no reason to take shots at other members. Leave the past in the past. Or simply just IGNORE!

[Tiberon]

my pots lucky to stay unsmoked 3 weeks after the chop...much less get a cure:bongdude:

[wawona]

i hear ya tibs :D If mine gets cured that long that just means I had a big yield and I had a lot to smoke. Just didn't get to those jars as quick.

:animbong: wa

[nobogart]

i hear ya tibs :D If mine gets cured that long that just means I had a big yield and I had a lot to smoke. Just didn't get to those jars as quick.

:animbong: wa

so true, so true, i usually have to start rationing near the end of the curent crop bud cycle, since i have started giving it away to my neice, but sometimes she has a little left to give back so it aint so bad. the new box i was going to build is on hold since i threw me back out putting in the new entry door but i will get to it later when i can bend agian. shoud have waited untill i could get some help but i had to do it myself, i didnt need any help, now i am lucky i dont need help to wipe;) and that i have the better half to take care of me and the "girls" for awhile.

[DazeChain]

I am glad this thread was started...I am currently in the midst of a dry-down and the opening salvo of cure...and with what is looking like an easy quarter pound harvest...I may just have some around long enough to actually cure...lol...I agree though too dry is not good...a lil'til water content will alwaze remain...but the amount of that water content is so vitally important...cuz' it is the fine line between powderdust and mold...now I better get home to burp my jarz!...blendin' & sendin'...'DC' :cool2:

[rangerdanger]

As I said, the main improvement from curing happens in the first month.
After a few months at most the potency won't increase, but it will get smooher as time progresses.
I admit, I have never smoked any pot that has been cured for more than 2 years. I base my opinion on tobacco, another psycho-tropic plant.
I never said it keeps getting better for 30 years.

The ideal humidity to store pot at would be the same as in a walk-in cigar humidor. I don't know what the actual number is; I let the feel and burnability of the pot dictate when I seal mine up.

BTW, most cigarette tobacco is cured (aged) for at least 2 years, pipe tobacco 3--4 years. It's done differently than with pot. The tobacco leaves, once dried (but still pliable), are tightly packed in hogshead barrels and sealed.

[Mermaid]

If you keep your pot at the perfect humidity level, it will keep getting better, for decades (but hell who can wait that long?).

I admit, I have never smoked any pot that has been cured for more than 2 years. I base my opinion on tobacco, another psycho-tropic plant.
I never said it keeps getting better for 30 years.

.....so ummm confused here... which one is it?? :rolleyes:

[rangerdanger]

Ok, my mistake.
I meant to say that for 2 years at least, pot gets better when stored correctly.
I don't know how much longer it will continue to improve. I suppose at some point it time it ceases to get noticeably better.
I am surmizing (from my knowledge of tobacco curing/storage) that if properly stored it will be smokable decades later, just like tobacco.
I apologize.

[Storm]

ranger I think that's good info dude. thanks and keep up the growing and helping peeps like me grow the green. :bongdude:

[Mermaid]

NP..it happens. Just curious is all.....didn't think the potency would improve over that many years but then I would never know as I smoke too much. :smoke2:

[rangerdanger]

The pot I cured for 2 years wasn't any more potent than pot I've cured for 3 or so weeks.
Being sooooooo damn smooooth, it seemed like it would be mild potency, but it had the same "kick" as minimally cured weed.

[SFC]

I wouldn't know about two years. But this last batch that I cured using your method is backing up what your saying at least partially. I have some that I harvested in mid January, and it has definetly gotten smoother as time has gone on. Even my newer stuff that has about 4 weeks in now is better,and better by the day. I must not be smoking it hard enough. My shit will last at least a year if I want it to. One joint every 2-3 days is about all I consume, except weekends, and wait , lately I have been using a little more. Ah fuck it, it isn't going to last as long this time...... :icon_smil

[Nesta]

:roll: there you go SFC. NO chance it will last that long. If you could conserve like that, you wouldn't be growing. :D

[rangerdanger]

'02 was an exceptional year, harvest-wise.
I had pounds of pot coming out my ears.
In addition to the 1.5 oz. I put away (and lost for 2 years), I also fucked up and left 4 oz. of big beefy primo buds sealed up too long (I moved the jar and forgot to put it back) and had to throw it away because mold had ruined it.
And it's feast or famine; currently I'm down to a few grams.
But there's more on the way!

[marymaryquitecntrary]

'02 was an exceptional year, harvest-wise.
I had pounds of pot coming out my ears.
In addition to the 1.5 oz. I put away (and lost for 2 years), I also fucked up and left 4 oz. of big beefy primo buds sealed up too long (I moved the jar and forgot to put it back) and had to throw it away because mold had ruined it.
And it's feast or famine; currently I'm down to a few grams.
But there's more on the way!

that must have been a big-ass jar to hold 4 oz of big beefy primo buds, ranger.

[rangerdanger]

It was maryx2; it originally held several gallons of mayo (recycled from a restaurant).

[smotpoker]

has anyone here tried the water-cure method?

and also, any feedback on it?