Back when I started growing pot (in the 60's), there was no way to obtain grow guides, or grow info.
Unless you knew an experienced grower, which I didn't.
Then when I was in jail (1968, for giving a "friend" a handfull of pot) I picked up a few tidbits.
One thing I heard was that, when you harvested a plant, you should rip the entire plant out of the ground and hang it, roots and all, upside-down in like a garage.
The reason, I was told, was to cause the THC to run down into the buds (which isn't true).
So that's what I did for about 10 years.
Then 1 year I grew a male and all my other plants got ripped up.
The leaf barely got me high so after it was almost dry (I knew enough to not let it get crispy dry) I put it in an old humidor as emergency stash--when nothing else was available.
For months other good pot was available, and I almost forgot about that crummy weed. Then one day some friends from out of state asked for some weed for the trip back. I remembered the leaf and reached into the humidor and gave them a big ol handfull.
A few days later when they got home they called and thanked me for the "good weed".
I rushed to the humidor and twisted up an fattie--and got high!
Not high like with bud of course but way better than it had been when I put it into the humidor. And I noticed it no longer had that "hay"-like smell, tasted better and smoked smoother (less harsh). Although I was most interested in the increase in potency.
I mentioned this to another grower and she said she had noticed the same thing.
So next harvest, after hang-drying, I put the buds into a big sealable container and left it there. I noticed that the min. time for an improvent was 2 weeks, but the longer the better.
I also learned how putting it into a container before it got mostly dry ruined it.
I became somewhat well-known in L.A. for having the best-tasting weed.
Nowadays, all knowledge growers cure their weed.
P.S. Around the first of this year i was going through some stuff I has put into storage several years earlier and same across a container with approx. an ounce of weed I had forgotten about. It had been "curing" for over 2 years.
I took a few bong rips of that and thge taste was so mild I thought "must have lost potency from being in there for so long.
I was wrong. It was smooth as silk, but it got me baked to the bone.
Unless you knew an experienced grower, which I didn't.
Then when I was in jail (1968, for giving a "friend" a handfull of pot) I picked up a few tidbits.
One thing I heard was that, when you harvested a plant, you should rip the entire plant out of the ground and hang it, roots and all, upside-down in like a garage.
The reason, I was told, was to cause the THC to run down into the buds (which isn't true).
So that's what I did for about 10 years.
Then 1 year I grew a male and all my other plants got ripped up.
The leaf barely got me high so after it was almost dry (I knew enough to not let it get crispy dry) I put it in an old humidor as emergency stash--when nothing else was available.
For months other good pot was available, and I almost forgot about that crummy weed. Then one day some friends from out of state asked for some weed for the trip back. I remembered the leaf and reached into the humidor and gave them a big ol handfull.
A few days later when they got home they called and thanked me for the "good weed".
I rushed to the humidor and twisted up an fattie--and got high!
Not high like with bud of course but way better than it had been when I put it into the humidor. And I noticed it no longer had that "hay"-like smell, tasted better and smoked smoother (less harsh). Although I was most interested in the increase in potency.
I mentioned this to another grower and she said she had noticed the same thing.
So next harvest, after hang-drying, I put the buds into a big sealable container and left it there. I noticed that the min. time for an improvent was 2 weeks, but the longer the better.
I also learned how putting it into a container before it got mostly dry ruined it.
I became somewhat well-known in L.A. for having the best-tasting weed.
Nowadays, all knowledge growers cure their weed.
P.S. Around the first of this year i was going through some stuff I has put into storage several years earlier and same across a container with approx. an ounce of weed I had forgotten about. It had been "curing" for over 2 years.
I took a few bong rips of that and thge taste was so mild I thought "must have lost potency from being in there for so long.
I was wrong. It was smooth as silk, but it got me baked to the bone.
