CURING
“What happens between squeezing the bud and smoking it? Is cannabis like fruit, where you just pick it off the plant and consume it? Quite a lot of things occur between the plant flowering and you buying that flower in the store, and a lot can go wrong, too. Curing is one of the most crucial steps to great weed, one that deserves much more attention.”
“In order to ensure the best quality for your freshly harvested buds, you must prepare your buds with a process known as curing, which involves drying your buds slowly in a controlled environment, then keeping buds in glass jars over the course of a few weeks to let certain natural plant processes occur. The drying /curing process causes buds to smell better and for effects to feel more potent. It also reduces harshness.”
“If flower buds are dried too quickly, chlorophyll and other pigments, starch and nitrates or other fertilizer salts are trapped within plant tissue, making it burn unevenly and taste unpleasantly “green.” If buds are dried too slow, or not at all, they rot.”