Look closer dude, Peng especially gets a lot of (positive) feedback on his pics, and rightfully so...
Thnx, although I would like some Asian and new school in there I can't say that we were missing much in the classic Northern African varieties.
Then you are "aware" of something you have made up, which I guess is better than the alternative of being straight up delusional… That happened to be our complete stash, minus a smudge of rosin and the kief / dust in the small preserves jars we keep the green in.
The best (green) bits we obviously (!!) smoked right away so that it wouldn't loose more of it's quality as it was in risk of drying out and loosing flavor, as had most of what you see in the picture.
Why are you constantly being so suspicious of others dude? You can't even comment positively on stuff you otherwise seem to have an interest in, without throwing in a veiled insult or at the very least implying by generalization that most stoners / growers / whomever is the “target of the day” suffer from some sort of character flaw, what’s up with that man?
Given your obvious interest in and (at least in some respects) quite substantial knowledge of the finer points of cannabis appreciation and consumption, don’t you think you personally would benefit from a more constructive and, possibly, more empathic approach? You are obviously antagonizing people with your current approach, and unless you really are nothing but a troll at heart, this cannot possibly be a desirable outcome.
Off course, I am assuming you are actually looking for an informed and involved discourse with other likeminded individuals. I might be mistaken…
I have previously tried to caution other posters about making unqualified and absolute claims if they are not 100 % sure in these claims (in fact IIRC in a thread you joined with some opinions of you own), but the reception wasn’t exactly what I’d hoped for.
In this case I would just like to point out that “curing”, when it comes to cannabis, is to be understood in much the same way as when it applies to e.g. a cured ham, or even the pre-fermentation of grapes employed in some traditional wine making processes (such as the production of the Italian classic Amarone della Valpolicella). In such processes certain compounds (constituents of whatever is being cured) are “transformed” by a range of mechanisms In the case of such things as weed and grapes, I suspect (but do not know for sure) that these processes are often either enzymatic or bacteriological process, meaning either an enzymatic breakdown and possible hydrolysis of some of the compounds or breakdown and possibly hydrolysis of some of the compounds by fermentation, respectively. There is also the possibility of a photocatalytic breakdown of some of these compounds if the product is being dried in the sun, but that is more relevant when we are discussing hash, so let’s stick to the other two.
Such processes can be either anaerobic (meaning free from or with very little oxygen, which is mainly the case if the mechanism is bacteriological) or aerobic (meaning in the presence of oxygen).
Unless you flash dry your weed (for instance in a heavily ventilated and dehumidified environment or, even worse, an oven), some curing process is bound to take place, at least in the final stages of controlled dehydration. Both anaerobic conditions, in the core and denser inside parts of the buds, and aerobic conditions, in other parts of the product, exists and enzymes and sources for spontaneous fermentation is are ubiquitous unless you are in an almost sterile environment. It is actually really hard to completely avoid such processes, which by the way are also the reason why (dead) organic matter in general breaks down and decays when left in an unprotected environment.
You are, by the way, probably aware that chlorophyll is mainly broken down in weed by curing and if you have ever smoked a weed that was flash dried straight after harvest, you know exactly what even just a bit of curing does to a weed as chlorophyll laden weed is practically unsmokeable.
Off course there are more refined methods of curing than just a controlled dehydration of your product (many cannasuers might not even recognize this as a method of curing the weed) and such methods vastly increase and improve flavors compared to the results from the most “basic” method. At least up to a certain point of diminishing returns, potency is also increased by a refined and prolonged cure of your product.
However refined a method you employ (or choose not to employ), the fact of the matter is that unless you really fuck up or actively try to avoid it, most weed is at least a little cured in the proper and full understanding of the term.
Now, when I (and I suspect many of our fellow, knowledgeable forum members) write in a review that a certain weed wasn’t properly cured, I am not just talking out of my ass and / or repeating some buzz word I happened to catch on to. I in fact mean that I am dissatisfied by the (extended) process(es) whomever “finished” my product employed to ensure that the chlorophyll has been broken down, the different complex molecules (terps, cannabinoids and their chemical precursors) “transformed” into complex flavor profiles and the consistency of the product (from an even more complex process than what I discussed above and one that I am very disinclined to go into) changed to something that is much easier to handle, burns more consistently and is much smoother (due to all of the previous mentioned attributes).
Please refrain from constantly assuming ignorance on the part of most other forum members, at least refrain from this if you want to continue commenting on any posts we make (and to which you expect anything nice or constructive in return).
To all other members: Please excuse the rant and somewhat “twatty” post above, I am just getting a little sick of getting lectured on such an ignorant* basis and felt the (twatty) urge to reply with my own little “peer” review of said lecture. I hope we can continue a more fruitful and constructive dialogue. Even though we may not agree, in fact I encourage disagreement and discourse as I find it most rewarding and instructive, I enjoy chatting to more or less all of you, but cannot stand when someone is constantly so backhanded or deals in absolutes without having a leg to stand on intellectually in the subject.
CC
*ignorant in this case is not meant as an insult to the intelligence or educational merits of other posters, rather as in “(willfully) oblivious to the facts at hand” or “inadequately informed”