How long do you cure your buds?

One really never needs longer than 2-3 weeks, unless you prefer it. Enzymatic activity that occurs during the cure does not extend past the 2-3 week window without an external impetus. When I was a beginner, I would often do cures on the order of months. The only thing that changes is I started caring more about my flower. Harvest cleanly and smoothly with minimal free salts and minimal chlorophyll, dry slow, and then you'll quickly find that ~2 weeks cure is that sweet spot for the S-tier za. These days, unless I mess a run up and have dirty flower, I would never need months for a cure. Try it for yourself. Like, for example, most folks will tell you to cure in a cold environment. Did you know that enzymatic activity is temperature gated? You have to breach a critical temp for a critical period before enzymatic activity is off to the races, right below 80F. Like everything with this plant, there are many ways to cross the finish line. There is also a divergence in the homegrowing community and the academics/science folks as far as curing timelines and knowledge.

I grow a year's worth, so i experience everything from recently dried to 1-12 months of curing. I rarely notice a difference after about 1 month. Some stuff tastes as good as it'll get right when it's done drying too. sex organs don't store excess nitrogen and flushing does not remove nitrogen from sex organs as there is no excretion system that is capable of doing that in the plant. "oxidizing" just means it as an increase in charge - e.g. -1 to 0 charge is oxidation. 0 to -1 is a 'reduction.' Oxidizing does not mean it necessarily gassed off unless that oxidized state has a much lower boliling point. i think there's a lot of repeated phrases that sound science-y but most likely don't have any evidence to support it.. often tied to older anecdotal explanations that have failed miserably to hold up to scrutiny. e.g. flushing does not change mineral content of flower... it cannot.. there is no excretion system .. there is no mechanism to do it, biologically speaking. it was a poor hypothesis to start that could be mostly ruled out with existing knowledge. That's why nobody bothered and all we have is that informal study paried with a blind taste test. I forget the name of the organization.. there's a youtube video about it. migrow guy mentioned it in a video a few years back and had an interview with at least one of the people that ran the experiement.

Ja ich cure meine so 4 bis 6 Monate. Dann finde ich sie am besten.

Most people are too impatient to wait for their flower to be completely done. A lot of people have never had properly cured weed and have no idea what they're missing out on. To me it's like making a roast dinner, but putting it in the oven for 20min. You put all the effort in and just need to wait for it to be it's best, but they eat raw roast. Very glad I'm in control of what I smoke these days.

I like to do 3 months min. Gave my friend some 1 month stuff and it was not as good. If your turning it into hash it does not matter though. process as is, fresh frozen is best.

Hmmm yes. I'd agree. But to fully grasp what it is you speak of you need to understand nitrogen in its different forms and how different forms of nitrogen decay very differently during the dry. Depending on what type of nitrogen you use will determine how well it oxidizes into gas. Thing about nitrates is it doesn't oxidize into the air so unless you purposely trigger nutrient recycling (flush) to force the plant into senescence and dump the nitrate into the soil/stems then the plant has no way of getting rid of nitrates left in the plant come harvest. Understanding this and how to deal with the majority of nitrogen is key. All nitrates gone with 10% ammoniacal at most. Most of that will burn off oxidizing during dry.

Yeah that's how I feel about curing processes, definitely after 3 month I feel like it smokes way nicer.