Dusted
Well-Known Member
I haven’t seen this discussed and I’m curious. Oxygen is second to light in degrading thc I think. Therefore it should be beneficial to exclude oxygen during storage. Carbon dioxide is heavier than air so it should be easy to blanket storage containers with this gas. It also seems to me that there are certain cannabinoids that get carboxylated during the cure, which is why the potency increases during the cure. Why not cure under a carbon dioxide blanket as well? I can’t think of any biochemical reason why oxygen should be present during the cure. To me burping the container is only to vent excess humidity during cure. I remember hearing about dry ice curing back in the 70’s but no science.