Rehydrate your buds. Use three parts water to one part dry bud.
Four oz bud will rehydrate to one wet pound. Calculate the amount of distillate you need in order to raise the thc to your desired level in 4 oz of dry bud. Warm the oil and pour it over the rehydrated buds.
Next, take the buds and put into a wide mouth jar or another suitable vessel. A one pint jar fits just about one wet pound of buds perfectly. This is what I found to be the ideal size for pilot experiments before scaling up this tech.
Use a tamper as you fill the jar and tamp down the buds with as much pressure as possible as you are filling. So, really squash them down, and try to do so evenly. You want as little airspace as possible in the jar and between the buds. As the jar becomes full, the juices should be oozing back out of the flower. This is a good thing.
Once you’re jar is mostly full, put some sort of plate or weight in there to hold the buds down below the water level in the jar. You are inducing an anaerobic fermentation. Lid the jar, and then optionally (yet preferably) you can use some sort of airlock mechanism to allow gases to escape but not enter the jar.
Place this jar in an incubation chamber in which you can maintain a temperature of at least 105 deg F. One easy way to do this is with a seedling mat hooked to a temp probe - put a piece of insulation underneath the mat and some sort of tote over the top of it. Place probe in the tote. Put a heavy blanket around the whole thing.
Keep the jar in the incubation chamber for about 48 hours. If you want and have time, after 24 hours you can remove the jar, empty it’s contents into a bowl, and air the material. Mix it up then stuff back in the jar using the previously described tamping technique. Put back in incubation chamber. You should see bubbling and activity in the jar after a short time.
Once this part is done, you have options. You can age it in a cool environment preferably underground, or you can use it as is. Aging is what was always done in the old days to both bud and hash, and was always the most prized smoke. Like wine.
When you’re ready to use, you just have to first obviously empty the jar, fluff up and spread out the buds and allow them to dry again in a temp/humidity controlled environment. When you cure this way, you don’t have to worry about rapid drying harshing up your bud. It will smoke smoother than anything you’ve ever tasted even if you dry it quick. Still, I recommend a low and slow dry. This bud burns to a clean white ash with almost no carbonaceous residue.
This is a tek that I invented from studying a combination of Malawi bud curing, traditional tobacco processing, and my own experimentation, and it makes fucking AMAZING smoke. Like nothing else you’ve ever tried.
Plus, you can chew on the buds that have been put through this process and you get high af.
You can also do this with isolate, kief, terpenes, and so on. If you are willing to experiment, fermentation can do INCREDIBLE things with cannabis and hardly no one has even cracked into this universe of possibility. Enzymes and microbes are EVERYTHING in nature’s chemical processing. Enzymes make what is not water soluble become water soluble. Enzymes cause what is non-homogenizing to become homogenized. Enzymes are responsible for miracles of nature.