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A perfect cure every time
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SirSteely
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What a great thread! Im 2 weeks after harvest. Hung the trimmed flowers for 5 days in dark room, 2 days in paperbags, 12 hours in cardboard box and here is a pic one week in jar and 48 hours after dropping in hydrometer.. Works great and takes the guess work out of it. I feel secure knowing Im not ruining my stash. I found this meter at a local grow supply shop. It was made for mounting on a clone dome. I havent done anything to calibrate it so it could be off, but my flowers are snappy dry and still sticky have a nice mellow sweet smell.Thanks ICmag users!!
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agoutihead
Member
Ok so I have noticed that my new Caliber IV hydrometers are terribly out of whack when compared to each other.
One is showing 41% & the other is 47% at this very moment & honestly this is the closest I've seen them come. Usually it's about a 10% swing difference. (Honestly for being brand new & $19 a piece, I'm pretty pissed these are that far off in calibration from each other. Those $6 meters dottore linked too are sounding better & better...)
Are these Caliber's easy to calibrate? I grazed through the instructions & it doesn't seem to be that easy, but it could just be the learning curve or working with these.
I am going to pick up some Boveda packs for calibration - what % packs do I want? 62%? Does it matter? Is 1 pack usually enough for a 1 time calibration? Can you calibrate multiple meters at once with 1 pack?
I use these packs only to calibrate correct? I don't actually put these packs in with the meter & the curing bud do I?
Can anyone walk through a quick calibration process with the Calibers & boveda packs? I think many here will appreciate it!
One is showing 41% & the other is 47% at this very moment & honestly this is the closest I've seen them come. Usually it's about a 10% swing difference. (Honestly for being brand new & $19 a piece, I'm pretty pissed these are that far off in calibration from each other. Those $6 meters dottore linked too are sounding better & better...)
Are these Caliber's easy to calibrate? I grazed through the instructions & it doesn't seem to be that easy, but it could just be the learning curve or working with these.
I am going to pick up some Boveda packs for calibration - what % packs do I want? 62%? Does it matter? Is 1 pack usually enough for a 1 time calibration? Can you calibrate multiple meters at once with 1 pack?
I use these packs only to calibrate correct? I don't actually put these packs in with the meter & the curing bud do I?
Can anyone walk through a quick calibration process with the Calibers & boveda packs? I think many here will appreciate it!
I don't know if this applies to your situation or not, but I have found that some take much longer than others to reach an accurate reading.
I have 7 of them and when I first get them out in a room, they are all very very different... for awhile. I can put all of them in a fresh bin filled with curing bud, and for up to 24 hours sometimes I have to wait for them to get close. But then they all do..
ChilcotinBuddha
Member
same here
picked up a few for 4 bucks a pop
they work well for what they are.
Chili Bu
agoutihead
Member
That's been my experience with the 3 I have. I put 'em in a jar with a 62% boveda pack, waited a coupla days, compared the readings. I then put a bit of tape on each one w/ calibration correction. One was dead on, one read 2 points low, the other 3 points high. So the notes are 0, add 2 & cut 3.
I'm not sure it was really necessary. I see it as a ballpark sort of reference, with anything in the 62-69% range working equally well. Once a jar settles down into that range using some in & out of the buds, I just leave it alone, other than purposeful extractions.
It might work equally well at somewhat lower humidity- dunno, because the boveda packs put a floor under the readings.
agoutihead
Member
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Ok so I have noticed that my new Caliber IV hydrometers are terribly out of whack when compared to each other.
One is showing 41% & the other is 47% at this very moment & honestly this is the closest I've seen them come. Usually it's about a 10% swing difference. (Honestly for being brand new & $19 a piece, I'm pretty pissed these are that far off in calibration from each other. Those $6 meters dottore linked too are sounding better & better...)
Are these Caliber's easy to calibrate? I grazed through the instructions & it doesn't seem to be that easy, but it could just be the learning curve or working with these.
I am going to pick up some Boveda packs for calibration - what % packs do I want? 62%? Does it matter? Is 1 pack usually enough for a 1 time calibration? Can you calibrate multiple meters at once with 1 pack?
I use these packs only to calibrate correct? I don't actually put these packs in with the meter & the curing bud do I?
Can anyone walk through a quick calibration process with the Calibers & boveda packs? I think many here will appreciate it![/FONT]
One is showing 41% & the other is 47% at this very moment & honestly this is the closest I've seen them come. Usually it's about a 10% swing difference. (Honestly for being brand new & $19 a piece, I'm pretty pissed these are that far off in calibration from each other. Those $6 meters dottore linked too are sounding better & better...)
Are these Caliber's easy to calibrate? I grazed through the instructions & it doesn't seem to be that easy, but it could just be the learning curve or working with these.
I am going to pick up some Boveda packs for calibration - what % packs do I want? 62%? Does it matter? Is 1 pack usually enough for a 1 time calibration? Can you calibrate multiple meters at once with 1 pack?
I use these packs only to calibrate correct? I don't actually put these packs in with the meter & the curing bud do I?
Can anyone walk through a quick calibration process with the Calibers & boveda packs? I think many here will appreciate it![/FONT]
JohnnyScience - You want the boveda pack %62. You can calibrate as many meters as you want at a time, but you have to wait a day or two after adding the boveda pack. It takes a while for the meter to settle in on a reading. I find if I wait 24 hours the meter reads fairly accurate, after two days your money. When curing bud I place the boveda packs in with my meter, it wont effect your reading. If your jar is 75% humidity, and you throw a boveda pack in with it, your reading will stay at 75%. The boveda packs don't have the power to suck up an entire jars moisture. Can't help on the calibration thing, I have had my meters for 3-4 years now and they all read pretty dam accurately.
agoutihead
Member
Hmm Ok I'm a bit confused, so I put the boveda packs in with the curing bud? What does a boveda pack actually do, just suck the moisture out down to 62%? This isn't a technique to use over & over again when curing is it?
Wouldn't I just want to put all meters in a jar with a boveda pack & then calibrate them after 2 days to match 62%?
Dream Time
Member
^^ Put the Bovida pack and the hydrometer in a zip lock baggie. Seal it good and wait 48-72 hours for the reading on the hydrometer to stabilize, then calibrate it. Once it's accurately calibrated, you can toss the hydrometer in the curing jar with your bud.
anyone tried curing at 64-65 % for a long time? Sometime i get great weed like this
But sometimes the jar smells absolutely wonderfull, so do the buds, but they dont smoke so nice a bit bitter taste, anyone have any clue why?
Most of the times this goes well but sometimes taste is off but with a great great dank smell
But sometimes the jar smells absolutely wonderfull, so do the buds, but they dont smoke so nice a bit bitter taste, anyone have any clue why?
Most of the times this goes well but sometimes taste is off but with a great great dank smell
there are subtle but apparent differences in how it burns. Just light when you are burning a camp fire, its pretty easy to see which logs are dried fully, and which ones have some moisture.
That said, I can tell a difference when I am smoking 64% bud vrs 61%. The higher % burns a little more harsh and hotter.
That said, I can tell a difference when I am smoking 64% bud vrs 61%. The higher % burns a little more harsh and hotter.
TheBlackman
Member
yo
man this be one of the best threads out here for helping a brother get his gig right and tight!
read this here thread like a mad demon howlin' at the moon with his sax a few years back and I be still groovin' it righteous like, ya dig
brother Simon know the pieman and his knowledge drop is tight like Mike,
Tyson heavyweight champ who be
hookin' and smashin', blows a rainin', fist sized nugs be a blazin'
I got's no fear from dank ya'll see,
I be rockin' knowledge dropped by Simon, so simple even da pieman he be pullin' P's
nugs the size yo fist be a flowin' free
righteous knowledge impresses me
ya dig
man this be one of the best threads out here for helping a brother get his gig right and tight!
read this here thread like a mad demon howlin' at the moon with his sax a few years back and I be still groovin' it righteous like, ya dig
brother Simon know the pieman and his knowledge drop is tight like Mike,
Tyson heavyweight champ who be
hookin' and smashin', blows a rainin', fist sized nugs be a blazin'
I got's no fear from dank ya'll see,
I be rockin' knowledge dropped by Simon, so simple even da pieman he be pullin' P's
nugs the size yo fist be a flowin' free
righteous knowledge impresses me
ya dig
Once I get the moisture content down to ~62%, & it stays there for a few days, I take out the hygrometer & put in a boveda pack for long term curing. It'll hold the moisture content very close to 62%, even w/o a perfect seal on the jar.
That may be true, dunno. We tend to pull small amounts from the jars, keep them in not as tightly sealed containers for toking, so the moisture content goes down a bit over time. 62% isn't the best for smoking, a little dryer seems to be better, but it's excellent for curing. Buds jarred up 3 months ago are a little different than when they went in. They crumble better, are more tender for lack of a better term, and the smell changes, matures, if becoming less intense for some stuff.
NLxSK really didn't have much smell at all going in, but now it's spicy & rich, nicely fragrant. Our other plants all reacted a little different wrt smell through the curing process. Until I have enough stash to experiment with other methods, flirt with disaster, I'm sticking with Simon's- it works well w/o much hassle.
