Harvest of your cannabis
The final stage, harvesting of your marijuana plants
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Smoke weed!
5: Ready to get BUZZED?
Now you have some marijuana. Ready to smoke?
If you’ve completed this guide from start-to-finish, I can assume you have experience smoking marijuana. You probably already know the ins and outs of smoking with all kinds of smoking devices. You probably consider yourself a conoisseur of smoking marijuana. And well you should; you’ve just grown your own marijuana, something most smokers have never accomplished. So sit back, and enjoy yourself a joint, blunt, bowl or whatever. You’ve earned it.
Faster drying
4: Dry techniques
When you harvest you’re weed, you may be overcome with excitement to smoke some right away. While these quick drying techniques will make your weed smokable, take a few weeks to properly dry and cure the vast majority of your buds. Use these techniques only on small amounts to smoke right away. Smoke from quick dried marijuana is harsher and less potent.
- Place your buds on a glass plate. Place the plate in the microwave. To avoid burning, make sure the microwave is set on low (about 30% power, microwaves may vary). Turn on for 10-15 seconds at a time. Pull out and check buds, then rotate them. Do this several times until the weed looks smokable.
- Place the buds on a cookie sheet and put in the oven at around 120 degrees. Bake for about 10 minutes. Pull out and allow to cool, rotate and repeat.
- Place your buds inside an envelope and put the envelope on some heat source. Radiators, old tvs and other heat sources work great. This method can take a couple hours, but will be marginally better than the above methods.
Enjoy a bowl, but don’t quick-dry your whole harvest. Properly dried and cured marijuana has much better flavor, smell, potency, and smoothness.
Prepare to get stoned!
3: Prepare to get stoned!
Preparing your marijuana for smoking is two-part process that can take as long as two months, however a good amount should be smokable within a couple of weeks. Be patient and don’t quick dry too much because if you have the patience, you will likely have the best weed you’ve ever smoked.
Hanging is the most common way to dry you buds. Take the long stems of trimmed marijuana and hang them from strings. The environment in which they are being dried is very important. Humidity should be low as high humidity will cause mold. If you notice mold forming on your pot (foul-smelling, fuzzy, very noticable) don’t let it spread to other buds and reduce the humidity. The temperature should be relatively low, less than 70 degrees. High heat and humidity will cause mold and actually decrease potency. Let the buds dry for a few weeks, or until they are dry. A good way to tell when the buds are dry is that the stems will snap instead of bending.
Once your buds are dry, they will be mostly smokable. Most of the smaller buds will be ready to be rolled into joints or smoked in a bowl, but you should still cure your buds. The curing process is a very passive process that is not particularly hard to stick to, because the weed is generally pretty smokable while you are waiting for the optimal cured product. To cure the buds, simply remove as much of the stems as possible and pack the buds lightly into mason jars with lids. Open the lids once or twice a day to let excess moisture escape and continue this process for about a month.
After you stop seeing moisture forming on the inside of the jar, you have officially grown your own marijuana. The buds are then ready for long-time storage. Sit back, and smoke your marijuana. Also, see our additional reading section.