It sounds to me like a few things may have tainted your bubble. I suggest unbleached parchment paper instead of cardboard, or a 23 micron screen stretched in a frame. Use the cleanest water available to you or go buy and fill some 5 gallon jugs from the grocery store. Those jugs are handy anyway. Use clean ice too. Just like with buds, if you cure TOO FAST, the product comes out poor. Your best bet is to remove as much water as possible in yielding it and in the first 24-48 hours. Then it goes into humidor, then burp. Quick curing has led to harsh batches in my experience. The flavor is dominated by the residuals from the water and any noncannabinoid in the bubble. Flavor comes from terpenes, but melt is also determined by terpene content. Quick cures all seem to steal terpenes. A cure should be no less than a week, and mine run 10-14 days average. Especially when providing to people who may have compromised immune systems, I think it's important to take every precaution against contaminants. I'm glad to see you thinking the same way. Take your time in cure and use the best materials you can. The other suggestion I would make is to wash all your equimpent before doing a run, ESPECIALLY with new equipment. And especially if you bought it at a headshop. Your bags will work better and yield cleaner if they're wet when you drain into them anyway.
Last edited by Criceolation; 08-01-2012 at 02:38 PM.
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