In the treatment stage which looks for it is that it is mainly disturbed to the chlorophyll and other elements, in addition to obtain the aroma and looked for flavor.
The decomposition of the chlorophyll approximately takes place in a month and the time in which the grass this in its optimal flavor and aroma, that is to say by other sources, is of a year (anyone holds so much).
Lamentably in all this time it starts off or great part of the THC by oxidation to transformed into CBN (losing great part of its psychoactive power, although a part of the THCA that habia turned the drying stage is not transformed now into THC) reason why recommends less time, are no concrete data so that dependera of the particular taste of each one here, the environmental conditions, as well as of the variety of the cannabis, (I personally am smoking until I see that this in its point).
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Once cured drying and (if we have still not smoked everything) enters the phase of storage in which we tried to stop the processes of descarboxilacion and oxidation, as well as to maintain the flavor and aroma.
The method used aside from the logical one to congeal it (the best one but with its disadvantages), is to put it in bottles with the smaller amount of possible air, to the emptiness or replacing this by an inert gas like nitrogen (paralyzing the oxidation of the THC in CBN), to also introduce some absorbent natural of the humidity like cotton or paper of cellulose, by the possible small rest of humidity that are, to close hermetically and to keep from the light and to maintain in situated a fresh air.
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In the drying, the whole plants usually are placed the other way around hung, or they are deposited in trays for its drying. Many cultivators think that the floral clusters hung mouth down for the drying, cause that the resins move by gravity to the extremities, like with other superstitions, little or no resin or cannabinoides is transported by means of the vascular system after the plant has been harvested. To invest the plants for the drying, causes that the leaves hang very next to the floral clusters when they are dried, and the resins are left prote’ge’es of an external manipulation of any type. The floral clusters also seem more attractive and greater if they are hung.
The resins are very fragile and fall outside the chalices to the shaken being the plant. At least the clusters are manipulated, better aspect will have, as well as better flavor and aroma when smoking. The floral clusters, including great stems and leaves, commonly are dried until arriving at a 25% of their original fresh weight (it must lose a 75% of his weight in water). When they are sufficiently dry to be stored without the mould threat, the central stem of the floral cluster will easily break the doubled being, like the secondary stems and others.
The drying must be made slowly, without light and in a dry and fresh atmosphere, with temperatures of approximately 18º to 22ºC, until arriving at an optimal point. The wrappers in newspaper papers facilitate the drying and they do not contribute strange flavor, since they from within facilitate the humidity absorption and its elimination from outside, but is had a good dryer does not need any accessory
Like general norm, the marijuana has to contain approximately a 10% of water, to come to its storage or being smoked in optimal conditions.
