Curing for Quality: SOPs That Protect Terpenes and Prevent Mold
Curing for Quality: SOPs That Protect Terpenes and Prevent Mold
Curing for Quality delivers a practical, repeatable SOPs for commercial cannabis curing, built around water activity, product temperature, ambient conditions and controlled airflow. Learn how to protect terpenes and other secondary metabolites while reducing microbial risk, avoiding common failure points, and documenting process controls for consistent, test-ready results, batch after batch. Includes stage targets, sampling techniques, and QA checkpoints.
Jesse Porter
Curing for Quality: SOPs That Protect Terpenes and Prevent Mold
Jesse Porter is a 20-year cannabis cultivation and operations veteran and founding professor at Oaksterdam University. Now Director of Sales & Marketing at Harvest Integrated, he helps growers engineer indoor terroir through data-driven environmental control of airflow, leaf temperature, VPD, and curing metrics – linking climate performance to yield, quality, consistency, and ROI. Today he shares frameworks for set-points, controls, and risk reduction via Climate as a Service.