A perfect cure every time

[CaStoner]

My last Harvest 6/13/13

6 months later..

This one smells sweet and super danky, smoke great and still moist.
maybe fermented a bit kind high on humidity.

Only found one jar that smell like hay. My bad.

 

[jayjayfrank]

got some boveda 62 packs and they are doing the trick, not even burping jars anymore

 

[username474]

got some boveda 62 packs and they are doing the trick, not even burping jars anymore

Are you trying to get the rh below 62% before adding the boveda's?

 

[luigi1926]

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[luigi1926]

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[Joedoe555]

Are you trying to get the rh below 62% before adding the boveda's?

I tried using some Boveda 62% packs at the beginning of a cure and I still got RH of over 80%. Boveda can only adujt the RH down a few points. So it is important to get the RH close to 62% before adding the Boveda packs for long term storage.

 

[Weezard]

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[Jhhnn]

I tried using some Boveda 62% packs at the beginning of a cure and I still got RH of over 80%. Boveda can only adujt the RH down a few points. So it is important to get the RH close to 62% before adding the Boveda packs for long term storage.

Absolutely! If you jar it up when it's still too wet, the hygrometers will tell you. At 80%, I take the material out of the jars & let it dry on a cookie sheet overnight, try again. Once I get it down to 70% or so, I just open the jars for a few hours, reclose, re-evaluate the next day. At 65% or less, it gets a boveda pack & a rest. I fuss with it a little more than maybe I should, but I don't want to over dry, kill the cure. In Denver's dry winter air, moisture content seems to plunge quickly once I get under 70% or so.

It'd be great to work for an outfit where climate controlled computer driven drying & curing environments could be developed & results evaluated. It will happen, of course, as part of a move to brand name products of consistent flavor & effect.

 

[agoutihead]

The Caliber IV's are garbage, they NEVER hold a proper humidity level. I have 3, put in mason jar with 62% boveda, wait a day to calibrate them down to 62%, go to use them & they show humidity upwards of 80%, which I just don't think it possible with the drying process I did.

I put them back in with the boveda packs & all 3 are off with humidity reading again by a couple of degrees.

I'm considering using the $5 ones someone suggested a few pages back in this thread.

I hate the Caliber IV's though...

 

[RB56]

Caliber IIIs aren't much better. Sealed 4 in a jar. After a few days there were two matching groups of two. The groups were 6% apart. Very imprecise.

 

[ZZTops]

I had problems from the jump with the Caliber III and trashed them, by, by $45.00...

Got these and they work great...!

http://www.homedepot.com/p/AcuRite-...erature-Comfort-Monitor-00619HDCSA2/202260980
AcuRite Digital Humidity and Temperature Comfort Monitor

 

[OrganicBuds]

How long have you had those ZZ?

 

[ZZTops]

Been running them the last 2 years now, use them in the tents, drying cab. and then jars to cure...

They give you the HI/LOW Temp & Hum over the last 24 hours...

Pull and reinstall the batteries to calibrate the unit...

Size 2.5" x 3" x 1" with clip and magnetic on the back...

Jars are Ball 2 Quart...

 

[Cobra420]

I trimmed and jarred 2 plants late monday night after letting them dry for 7 days. There are 4 x 1/2 gallon mason jars full, two for each plant. My question is at around 30 hours jarred, one jar is at 64%, one is at 62% and two are at 55%. If the humidity stabilizes where they are at, should i still burp the jars? I have never opened the jars since placing the bud into them. From the first post, from 55-65%, its seems to be saying you can keep the jar sealed without any ill effect. So would leaving them sealed cause an issues or should i be opening them up? I thought i was suppose to let out any build up of gases but maybe i thought wrong? Curious what i should do if this were to happen. Thank you.

 

[RB56]

First thing I'd do is move the RH monitors into different jars. The range you are showing is within the margin of error for the [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Caliber IIIs I have. On a bright note, I've gathered all of the [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]AcuRite[/FONT][/FONT]s I had around and they are at least much closer to each other than the [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Calibers.[/FONT]
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Assuming the measurements are accurate, your jars at 55 are too dry and won't cure. The ones at 62+ should be fine. I try to hold them at 62 for as long as I can.
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[Cobra420]

Thanks for the comments RB56.

The jars weren't stable yet because as of today, those two jars are sitting at 62% and holding pretty steady. The other two I get to 62% but slowly rise after a day or two. Nothing too crazy, highest I've seen has been 68% but usually 64-66%. I'm going to continue slowly drying these 2 jars and see what happens.

I can already see a huge difference in the buds. The jars were about 90% full when they were first filled and are now around 70%. The buds have really moistened back up since putting them into jars. I definitely thought I had over dried them, but its looking to have gone well.

So far, I'm really digging this method. Surely beats my old method of randomly opening the jars each day and letting them sit for awhile then closing... Always had over dried weed using that method . Now, it's looking like the moisture content of this, now curing, bud will be superb.

Thank you Simon and everyone else that has contributed to this thread. Making curing a breeze for us all!!

 

[Cobra420]

The half gallon jars filled up.

 

[RB56]

I put 6 Acurite monitors in a 1/2 gallon mason jar with a 60g 62% Boveda pack. I put 4 Caliber III monitors in a quart mason jar with another 60g 62% Boveda pack. Sealed them both and waited 3 days.

Acurite:
1) 61% 66°F
2) 61% 64°F
3) 59% 66°F
4) 60% 64°F
5) 59% 64°F
6) 59% 66°F

Caliber III:
1) 65% 65.7°F
2) 61% 65.9°F
3) 61% 67.9°F
4) 67% 65.9°F

Boveda says they are accurate to +- 2%. I don't know what the correct values are. So far I'm willing to assume that Caliber III, units 1 and 4 are trash.

Demonstrates that we are using imprecise tools. There is a big difference between what we want to do at 70% and 62% and we can''t really tell where we are. I think I'll be extending drying time between 70% and 62% to increase the odds of spending time in the cure zone.

 

[Jhhnn]

I put 6 Acurite monitors in a 1/2 gallon mason jar with a 60g 62% Boveda pack. I put 4 Caliber III monitors in a quart mason jar with another 60g 62% Boveda pack. Sealed them both and waited 3 days.

Acurite:
1) 61% 66°F
2) 61% 64°F
3) 59% 66°F
4) 60% 64°F
5) 59% 64°F
6) 59% 66°F

Caliber III:
1) 65% 65.7°F
2) 61% 65.9°F
3) 61% 67.9°F
4) 67% 65.9°F

Boveda says they are accurate to +- 2%. I don't know what the correct values are. So far I'm willing to assume that Caliber III, units 1 and 4 are trash.

Demonstrates that we are using imprecise tools. There is a big difference between what we want to do at 70% and 62% and we can''t really tell where we are. I think I'll be extending drying time between 70% and 62% to increase the odds of spending time in the cure zone.

I wouldn't regard units 1 & 4 as trash, at all.Their calibration is just off. I mark mine with a bit of tape & a note, like "add 2" or "sub 3". The correction factor holds across temperature, as well.

I really think that a person can get carried away seeking perfection. 65% RH seems to work just as well as 62%. The Boveda packs just put a floor under the RH. As Simon points out, it's really a ballpark sort of number, anyway- dry enough to inhibit mold, moist enough to let the life process chemistry wind down slowly.

 

[RB56]

Good idea. I'll mark them and see over time. If the offset is linear and consistent it's not a problem.