A perfect cure every time

[mwz]

Yeah k, my room temp is around 11C (51.8F), so it's taking a while to come down. Three days ago the RH in the container was 81. Now it only goes up to 79. It is working! I just need some more patience I guess!

 

[rrog]

Personally, I wouldn't put bud in a jar until under 70%. very high likelihood of mold otherwise.

 

[mwz]

It's now at 75% RH, which is good! I'd say tomorrow it will be at 70% RH. I read the first 10 pages or so, this is quite an informative thread!

Thank thanks rrog and simon

 

[Reg Dixon]

Personally, I wouldn't put bud in a jar until under 70%. very high likelihood of mold otherwise.

Anytime they are above 70% I take em out and put in my drying net for 6-24 hours. Works wonders. I went from 74% to 57-58% RH and holding steady in the jar using this method. I left them in the net almost the full 24 hours. Could have taken then in sooner and had a higher RH range but it worked out perfectly. They can cure long term now.

Just have to say what a wonderful method this is to take a lot of the worrying and uncertainty out of curing. I use large Mason jars and a RH/temp combo unit shoved in there. A bit crude but it works fine. Opening the jars is such a treat for the nose I look forward to the ritual daily. Gotta love those terps. The way the smell transforms with complex variations really makes for an enjoyable experience. It makes me want to have 20+ different kinds of weed curing at the same time so I have more jars to smell!

Big thanks to the OP for posting. +K

 

[rrog]

In my new room, I'll be building a drying closet in the veg room. I liked using a large tote with a fan inside and bud hanging. Controlled space where I can watch and control the Rh drop to 70%. Then jar and burp.

 

[hempking]

So yesterday I began hanging up the trees to dry, the RH is 35, temp 72f in the drying room. I did not trim anything, No trimming until everything is dry. I've a wee box fan for air circulation as well carbon scrubber to delete the dank smell. Once the hanging is done,

I was wondering if that RH and TEMP conditions are supreme or horrible?

 

[igrowone]

^^^ 35% RH is pretty dry, things could dry fast so try jarring sooner rather than later
worst case you see the RH go up high, just dump the bud and start over

 

[hempking]

^^^ 35% RH is pretty dry, things could dry fast so try jarring sooner rather than later
worst case you see the RH go up high, just dump the bud and start over

Thanks bud!

So hanging time will be reduced, can you tell me a little more about this worst case scenario? how would the RH get so high?

 

[Twist1]

Thanks for the great thread guys - tbh I didn't read it all, but I learned a lot already.

I live in a very high RH area - 65-85% most of the time, so drying and curing can be quite a pita. I had noticed that stability was often a problem - I would think something was dry enough to start curing, but then by the next day it would be wet again and I would have to take it out to dry some more, and then repeat this multiple times. I am gradually getting it dialed, but this seems like a great way to take out the guesswork.

Cheers

 

[soursmoker]

lol read the first review on this one...


http://www.amazon.com/Western-Humidor-CALIBER3-Thermometer-Hygrometer/dp/B0007W1EA6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1372031469&sr=8-2&keywords=caliber+hygrometer

maybe that explains why some people's caliber display different numbers when in same environment?

any decide if the III or IV's are better? plan on picking up a few soon...

 

[RB56]

Something that just occurred to me this morning - and I'm doing this for the third time the buds won't get any dryer than the room's RH. If the room is at 30%, things will dry quickly and you'll need to monitor closely to catch them at the right moment. If the drying room's RH is 60%, the plants will never get dryer than that.

Should be obvious, wasn't to me, might help someone else.

 

[Jhhnn]

So yesterday I began hanging up the trees to dry, the RH is 35, temp 72f in the drying room. I did not trim anything, No trimming until everything is dry. I've a wee box fan for air circulation as well carbon scrubber to delete the dank smell. Once the hanging is done,

I was wondering if that RH and TEMP conditions are supreme or horrible?

You're in good shape, although cooler would make drying slower. I have much the same conditions. When the stuff starts to seem dry at all, it goes into jars overnight to even out the moisture content in the material. In the jars, the outer material draws moisture from within the buds. Re-check, take action or not based on the readings. I end up with some back & forth over a few days between the jars & a few hours on a couple of cookie sheets. Beware of over drying the outside of the buds while deeper material remains moist.

So long as there's no sign of mold, you can ease the moisture content down into the cure zone, obtain a proper cure on all parts of the buds.

 

[igrowone]

Thanks bud!

So hanging time will be reduced, can you tell me a little more about this worst case scenario? how would the RH get so high?

the timing is the tough part, so many variables
if you put buds in the jar and they're not dry enough, the RH will come up very quickly in there
this is the labor part of the method, jarring, watching the RH closely, it can be a pita
but i haven't lost a bud as long as i followed this method, it was a god send for me because doing it by feel wasn't working

 

[Jhhnn]

Something that just occurred to me this morning - and I'm doing this for the third time the buds won't get any dryer than the room's RH. If the room is at 30%, things will dry quickly and you'll need to monitor closely to catch them at the right moment. If the drying room's RH is 60%, the plants will never get dryer than that.

Should be obvious, wasn't to me, might help someone else.

Excellent point. People who live in high humidity areas may want to create a flue curing apparatus or use small electric heaters & controlled ventilation. This gives a rough idea of it-

http://archive.idrc.ca/library/document/046680/chap6_e.html

 

[hempking]

so day 3 of hanging, seems the rh jumped to 80, the temp is flowin between 81-79f now i've just got to wait for epic dryness!

 

[festerous]

so day 3 of hanging, seems the rh jumped to 80, the temp is flowin between 81-79f now i've just got to wait for epic dryness!

In these conditions you are walking on the razors edge in respects to mold.

 

[rrog]

Yep. Better keep the air circulating

 

[St3ve]

Something that just occurred to me this morning - and I'm doing this for the third time the buds won't get any dryer than the room's RH. If the room is at 30%, things will dry quickly and you'll need to monitor closely to catch them at the right moment. If the drying room's RH is 60%, the plants will never get dryer than that.

Should be obvious, wasn't to me, might help someone else.

and to add, when you are to the curing stage of the bud and they are jarred up and getting burped, you need to be aware of the RH of the room you are burping the container in.


If you are working on getting down to 62% slowly and you are at 64%, opening the container in a 74% room is not going to help.

 

[Jhhnn]

and to add, when you are to the curing stage of the bud and they are jarred up and getting burped, you need to be aware of the RH of the room you are burping the container in.


If you are working on getting down to 62% slowly and you are at 64%, opening the container in a 74% room is not going to help.

True. Simon seemed to indicate that there's a zone in the low 60%/ high 50% RH range that's effective. Given the accuracy of inexpensive instrumentation, I think that close is close enough. If I want 62 and the meter says 64, I leave it alone. Just gotta get it in the ballpark.

 

[St3ve]

While I agree with your statement for curing, I prefer to smoke at 61/62 instead of 64%. So I would still slowly want to get it down.