Welcome to the final segment of our 4-part Croptober series. So far we've outlined best practices for how to harvest, dry, and cure your cannabis crop. Now, in Part 4, Tyler will lay out some guidelines for the long-term storage of your flowers. 

Cannabis flowers have varying shelf lives and this is often associated with the phenolic compounds that the cannabis plant produces.  Cannabis produces a variety of Volatile Organic Compounds such as terpenes, flavonoids, ketones, esters and others. It is known that monoterpenes, alcohols and thiols are compounds that the cannabis plant produces that are recognizable at room temperature.    

That means that these aromatic compounds are lost from the plant at room temperatures. 

So if your intent is to store the flowers for a longer period of time make sure that they are in a place where they won't be constantly moved, they won't be in direct sunlight and/or they won't be in indirect sunlight. 

While this is a fair amount of information for a beginner it is important to remember that every harvest you will learn something new. If you pay attention and take good notes, you will find that each harvest will get better and better. Of course you will stumble along the way and sometimes you will even lose a crop, but that is to be expected as no farmer has ever had a perfect crop every single time. Do what you can with what you have and thanks for reading along!

This wraps up our Croptober series. Thanks to Tyler for sharing freely his knowledge and experience with harvesting, drying, curing, and storing your cannabis crop. May this Croptober be a bountiful success for you and yours!

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