Curing large batches in Food Grade plastics?

[caljim]

I am looking to find a way to handle product less while getting it dry enough to cure. The in and out of the buds from many mason jars is time consuming and I just don't like handling the product that much.

I'm considering 5 gallon food grade polycarbonate containers. They come in a variety of sizes and would make it easy to load and unload or flip the product for consistent humidity levels.

For long term I would still use glass. But would use these to get down to a stable 60%.

Any thoughts?

 

[chefro420]

Turkey bags?

 

[caljim]

Turkey bags?

Turkey bags are a thought, but 5 gallon polycarboante tubs are not out of reach price wise, about $30 and would last a lifetime.

Just curious if anyone has gone down this path before me?

 

[PoopyTeaBags]

how wet is your tweeds when the first go in to get burped???

or

better question is what kind of quantity are you talking about?

 

[caljim]

I like to slow it down at about 67% to 65% and get it to 62% to 60% before it goes into storage in 1/2 gallon and quart Glass Jars.

A couple of #'s a month or better.

I want to use the large food grade containers to make it easier to get my moisture content down easily and accurately w/o handling the product to much. In and out of the jars even once is a lot of touching, and spinning lids on boxes of jars gets old after awhile.....and who isn't looking to get more and better with less effort

 

[señorsloth]

lotta people cure in 5 gallon buckets...for personal stash it's always best to use glass, but with bulk curing you obviously settle a tiny bit on quality to save time burping and junk over jars

 

[imnotkrazy]

Pretzel jugs from the big box stores come filled with munchies
but the biggest I've seen are 2 gallon sized.

 

[forty]

turkey bags are cheap insurance. cure in them and use em to transport to doofis on the receiving end... he might not be as clued in on security as you are so help him out.... no one wants scared doofis in cuffs being asked questions.

 

[caljim]

So I skipped the food grade and went with what I had on hand.....5 gal. lowes buckets w/ lids (previously used for bubble hash buckets).

2# per bucket, all balanced out to the same humidity with very little handling, fuss or muss.

Smells like some buddy broke a candy jar when you pop the lid. I give it 2 thumbs up.

 

[Crush]

The Lowes buckets are actually food grade. I just happen to know this.

Anyhow, I'm not a fan of bags at all and don't recommend them. They shake the weed and trichomes off.

Jars are just grow lore and not required to cure. The problem with jars is that the trichomes get hit off when taking buds in and out and the bud tends to squish on top of each other when sitting in the jar. This also destroys some trichomes.

A few shallow, wide, easy opening Tupperware can prevent all this. Especially if the buds aren't stacked ontop of one another.

 

[mad librettist]

The Lowes buckets are actually food grade. I just happen to know this.

Anyhow, I'm not a fan of bags at all and don't recommend them. They shake the weed and trichomes off.

Jars are just grow lore and not required to cure. The problem with jars is that the trichomes get hit off when taking buds in and out and the bud tends to squish on top of each other when sitting in the jar. This also destroys some trichomes.

A few shallow, wide, easy opening Tupperware can prevent all this. Especially if the buds aren't stacked ontop of one another.

no thanks, I'll stick to jars.

because my harvests are not ridiculously small due to mismanagement, I need something a little more substantial than your little tray there.


also, nothing is wasted here. If a jar has lots stuck to it, it gets an alcohol wash and made into honey oil.

 

[Crush]

You'd obviously need to buy a bunch of those Tupperwares, but if you want the best quality bud, you'd store them in the Tupperware like above.

I personally cure mine in jars because I have a lot of them, but I'd recommend someone new store them in glass tupperwares like above for best results.

 

[jackmayoffer]

There are new bags that are called smelly proof they work great for curing pounds or even ounces. when we harvest 80 lights everything is hung for 7 days then placed in large bins burped for 7 days then trimmed then each lb goes into smelly proof bags where they are properly cured. We have done it every way and this is the best way for smell and quality.JACK

 

[jackmayoffer]

Smelly proof bags

 

[dankohzee]

Three or five gallon buckets with "gamma seal" lids is the best solution I have come up with so far.

 

[Dislexus]

Hmmm I always avoided plastic bag storage because of trichomes always jumping onto the plastic... presumedly static electricity or someshit. But never fail, leave some bud in a baggie, barely fuck with it for a week, and the inside is coated with a paste of trichomes.

Those Smelly Proof bags dont seem like they have many trichomes stuck to them tho... cool... hmm... how long had that bud been in that bag jackmayoffer?

 

[exploziv]

Hmmm I always avoided plastic bag storage because of trichomes always jumping onto the plastic...

this remembers me that in a comparative test between jars and plastic foodgrade containers the first thing I observed was that way more trichomes are left on the bottom of the plastic containers. and we have to take into consideration that they were more layers of buds in the jars.

 

[praisehim.]

five gallons with lids work fine. as long as its only being stored there for a bit.