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Best way to cure a lot of weed?

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Best way to cure a lot of weed?

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Hi i have a medical permit of about 500 plants and im at the point of harvest. Ive never had this much product to cure at once and i was curious to see your best ways of curing large amounts at once.
 
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Yeah do you have a trim crew coming by to trim it all?
 
#5
You run 500 plants indoors ? Holy cow if your not vertically integrated how much space and light ya got ?
 
#6
500 plants veged for 3 weeks in coco that you water every 3 days? You say in another thread you are using "Spider Farmer 4000"...safe to assume you have about 40 of them? Or more? And you have 2 dehumidifiers that can handle this, one of them 70 and other other 30 pints? Am I reading this right?

Do you use a 1 gallon can to do you watering? Let me guess, you have a single pair of Fiskars ready to trim the [SWEAR WORD] out of 500 plants all by yourself?


My recommendation is that you use Ball jars for your curing. I would get those wide mouth, 32oz sized ones. Don't forget to pop the lids on those every day!
 
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GrassMeister said:
Hi i have a medical permit of about 500 plants and im at the point of harvest. Ive never had this much product to cure at once and i was curious to see your best ways of curing large amounts at once.
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Before I dive into how to cure that much product please give me a little more info on your "medical permit". I have seen various ways people on a scale like that have done it but I'm curious how you were able to acquire a license to be able to grow that many.

Is this a license that allows you to cultivate commercially? What all does this permit allow you to do? What state are you in?

I'm a little skeptical when someone that has a legitimate license to be able to produce that much product has no idea how to cure it.

An 8' x 4' tray can hold around twenty one 3 gallon pots. Roughly 4 trays per 100. Are you running 20 trays? How many lights are you running?

I'm sorry if this line of questioning seems invasive but, again, I've never heard of ANYONE being given a license to produce commercially without having all his ducks in a row including a curing room. In California you are required to have a fully functioning setup BEFORE they will consider even issuing you a license so you take a HUGE loss if they don't approve for whatever reason.

NOW.....if you are doing this "outside of government regulation" please say so so that we know the answer to give you. If you are commercially producing you have many options since you can do it all out in the open. If you are not authorized by the government to produce commercially there are still options but they need to be more stealth. By my estimates you should be yielding at least 100lbs from the entire harvest not counting trim.

I'm assuming you are growing indoors. If you are growing outdoors then your yields will be higher.
 
#9
Well, to be fair OP didn’t say they had 500 plants. Just that he never had this much. Could be 2 plants.
 
#10
I would live a license like that! Congrats, I am sure it did not come easy, or quickly! You are definitely going need a trim team, but there is a bucket burping system that is pretty automated and can eliminate opening 100 or so jars everyday.
 
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mancorn said:
Well, to be fair OP didn’t say they had 500 plants. Just that he never had this much. Could be 2 plants.
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GrassMeister said:
Hi i have a medical permit of about 500 plants and im at the point of harvest. Ive never had this much product to cure at once and i was curious to see your best ways of curing large amounts at once.
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OK....I read it as him having 500 plants and I've never seen anyone do substantially less than what they are licensed to grow. You would be leaving a ton of money on the table if you did that.

OP? How many plants are you actually harvesting?

BTW...if you do have volume like that I have a trim team that works out of California that trims for a lot of the big NorCal farms and indoor ops all over SoCal. I met the owner working at various legal grow ops. Last time I talked to her she had 3 teams with 10 trimmers each. 10 trimmers should take around 7 - 10 days to trim 500 plants and have it down to the fine trim stage and ready for jarring. Again, this depends on if it's indoor or outdoor. Outdoor will yield more so more time to trim. Most trimmers can trim up to 2 lbs a day if they're experienced. They usually charge anywhere from $100 - $200 a lb.
 
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pilto said:
Bro. He already said. "ABOUT 500". Says right on the permit. "About 500." Roundabout. Nears I can tell.
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Like Mancorn said. he said he has a license to do that many but is he? I read the same thing you did but I want OP to clarify.

I've worked at large grow ops so I've seen all manner of dry and cure methods when we're talking that much product.
 
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Custom made "space bags".

Food grade, double zipper with the vaccum port. You might me able to find something retail in ~10lb size. Maybe not. It's hard to market stuff that works in this industry. You see all this refrigerated weed, it's obvious people have lost their minds regarding cannabis production.
 
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#19
Well to answer all of your questions im from canada and they do infact give out permits of 500 plants for medical purposes. Im licensed to smoke 93 grams a day and carry 150 grams on me at any time. Ive never grown this much product at once before so I cant really compare to the technique ive used on my 4x4 tent set up...Ive hear of the groove bags and space bags so i think thats what im gonna go with, my local hydroponics store suggested the same thing. Also when it comes to trimming, i have found a automatic used trimmer online for a couple hundred bucks.
 
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