it could be, but the chances are it's good, at least from the experiences i've seen here, and my own, but i have only 1 caliber
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it could be, but the chances are it's good, at least from the experiences i've seen here, and my own, but i have only 1 caliber
Horses for courses. As a personal grower I don't need meters in every jar. All my buds are the same RH when they go into the jars (from storing them all together for a few days prior to jarring) and I just move my CIII to a different jar every day or two. Even after they're stabilized and stored I'll move it around every few weeks or whenever I think about it. I've yet to find any significant difference, if any, from jar to jar.
I have 1/2 gallon mason jars and about 10 calibers. I replaced the battery on 1.
Where you will get jar to jar variance is when you have a jar with larf and another with a solid cola. They will not read the same after two weeks
Peace of mind for such a critical process
Where you will get jar to jar variance is when you have a jar with larf and another with a solid cola. They will not read the same after two weeks
Peace of mind for such a critical process
headees
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Sure, I bought a dozen of them.
Cheap is cheap.
However, I also have 6 Caliber IIIs.
So, I put them all in a box and waited.
When they had stabilized, the Calber's all agreed within 1%.
The cheapies were all over the ball park.
But, calibration is easy.
Poke a toothpick through the holes in the back and nudge the assembly until it matches the rest.
Put 'em back in da box until the RH changes and check again.
Only had to discard 3 of them.
I start a jar with the Caliber, then drop in a cheapy for long term storage and save my.
Calibers for measuring where it matters most.
It's one of those rare cases where half-assed IS good enough.
Aloha,
Weeze
Ah ok so you can adjust them to calibrate, I was wondering if I should just set them to the caliber III, but didnt know how. thanks.
headees
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yea it seems to be correct from what I can tell, Im going to get a couple more before next harvest just in case.
My jars are kind of all over the place due to keeping different strains and head stash(usually being the main kola or top, more dense buds) in separate jars, so having multiple meters is a must.
I use a variety of pint mason jars for storage, packed somewhat full but not jammed tight, typically around 1/2 oz or so, and I see very little variance (+/- 1%) no matter what size buds in the jars. I attribute this to making sure my whole batch is stabilized as a group before jarring.
But as I said, horses for courses.
But as I said, horses for courses.
Well, just for conversation's sake, I hang all my bud for a week at a constant temp and humidity. Generally 65F and 60%. I've done it at 70F and 70% and 62F and 55%. Each time for a week, though.
Then I jar using 1/2 gallon mason jars, each 1/2 full. Each jar gets a dedicated hygrometer.
Invariably a big dense cola will stay more hydrated than the medium bud and finally the popcorn. I think this is inescapable due to plant material density and the bigger the bud the bigger the stem running through it.
The variance might be 3-5 points, then it evens out after 6-8 weeks.
I have never seen popcorn cure at the same rate as big hard nugs.
Then I jar using 1/2 gallon mason jars, each 1/2 full. Each jar gets a dedicated hygrometer.
Invariably a big dense cola will stay more hydrated than the medium bud and finally the popcorn. I think this is inescapable due to plant material density and the bigger the bud the bigger the stem running through it.
The variance might be 3-5 points, then it evens out after 6-8 weeks.
I have never seen popcorn cure at the same rate as big hard nugs.
mattkilla420
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I have a quick question if anyone can help. When I quick dry my buds, I noticed that they lose their amazing green color. They turn a darker browner green. Will this same thing happen when i slo dry and cure. If so how do i keep the green look it has on the plant? That is one of my favorite attributes about good bud is the beautiful lime green. im drying WW now so i guess i want my look to be white but i woulf like the sugar leaves and bud to stay a lighter green. This is my first grow and dry , so if this? Is noobish that's why
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ClosetAdvocate
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I wonder if someone that had a large enough harvest could just hang it all in a small room and run one of these programmable dehumidifiers and a fan to circulate the air and get a perfect drying and cure job.
I guess it depends on how accurate the humidistat is on the dehumidier, but that might be a good idea for people that have the room and want to alleviate some head aches.
Has anyone ever done that? Used the humidistat settings on a dehumidifier to get a good dry/cure.
I guess it depends on how accurate the humidistat is on the dehumidier, but that might be a good idea for people that have the room and want to alleviate some head aches.
Has anyone ever done that? Used the humidistat settings on a dehumidifier to get a good dry/cure.
Finagleabud
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I've found that for what i've just grown (blue cheese) the taste is coming into the bud when it gets below 60%
My jars are sitting at 63%, when i smoke a bud straight out the jar it tastes stale but if i let it air out first by putting it in a small jar by itself & burp that jar until it gets to 55-59% then the taste & smell really comes through.
I guess the air in the packed jars gets stale pretty easy.
I never thought this would happen as most people in this thread have said their jars at higher RH were always more smelly, i've found the opposite to be true, when i get it to around 55% the smell is incredibly sweet.
Maybe its strain dependent, it was my first harvest so i have no comparison really.
I brought my jars down from 70% very very slowly & i can say without a doubt that getting them down to 55-59% really really brings out the flavour & sweet smell
I guess you just wanna bring it down to that RH as slow as you can
Its been great to see this process unfold, i really thought i'd messed up the flavour as it had been 12 weeks curing yet my bud mostly tasted stale
All i needed was the RH% to drop a few percent & that flavour came back more than before, its really unbeleivable how a few percent makes all the difference
At 12 weeks curing im still on the popcorn nugs so i can only imagine what the proper top colas are gonna be like
This thread needs to be a sticky, i've seen people at other forums talking about it, its becoming the stuff of legends
This post I'm quoting is really old, but has anyone else found this to be true? I harvested a VERY strong smelling skunk X haze cross a few weeks ago, and have been following this cure method perfectly, but the smell just seems completely gone.
Within the first 48 hours of drying after harvest the grassy\hay smell set in, but my humidity and temps were both pretty ideal at 55% and 70f. Airflow was indirect the whole time, and after about 7 days of hang drying I snipped the major fans and jarred the buds. Read 70% after 24 hours on my calibur III, so I slowly brought the humidity down via burping, in that same room, over the next ~2 weeks until it was stable at 65%.
So now, my jars have been at 65% for a few weeks, and when I open the jar the bud (which was stinking up the room in flower) just seems to have almost no smell. It still has a lingering grass smell, or not even grass really, it's more that generic bland "green tea" kind of smell. If I actually take a bud and break it apart, THEN it smells nice, and in fact it smells exactly like stuff I've gotten from dispensaries, except only when you break the bud apart; if you just pick one up and smell it directly without breaking any trichs, it smells almost like nothing.
HOWEVER, the reason I quoted that post is because earlier today I accidentally left a little nug out on a table for a few hours, in that same room which is currently sitting at 53% humidity, and when I came back it was quite a bit drier but it actually smelled the way it does when you break it up, WITHOUT having to break it up. I could actually smell it from about a foot away. The buds straight out of the jars smell like basically nothing. How do you get that "broken up" smell to always be present? I know it's "in there" somewhere, but the buds just smell so damn bland until you break into them. Getting it dryer seemed to help but I don't want to risk doing that to my whole harvest if it's not actually the solution.
Finagleabud
Member
Well it wasn't flash dried exactly, it was a bud from the jar that i took out and forgot to put back. When I took it out of the jar it had almost no smell, but after a few hours of sitting out on a table in a 55% humidity room it somehow smelled much stronger and better.
Mind if I ask what % humidity your 1-year buds are at?
Ah! Thanks a lot for that clarification. I have long term buds at 60-62%. In the winter when I take a few out of the main storage jar and transfer some to a smaller jar, they'll dry more in the dry, winter air. In the summer, some humid days will re-hydrate the weed.
Maybe the smell of the buds increases if they are rapidly hydrated or dehydrated beyond what they are in the jar.
Maybe the smell of the buds increases if they are rapidly hydrated or dehydrated beyond what they are in the jar.
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If i were you, i would try it with another little bud and see if it works again. If they smell better after they sit out for a lil bit, why not let em sit out for a while and throw em back in the jar to stew in that smell? My 2c
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