[Jhhnn]

Originally Posted by who dat is

I like mine dried and cured to crumble but what anybody else who sees my weed seems to thinks it's too dry. I've since started playing around with the Bovida packs to get them to that 62% baseline because it's very easy to dry more here in Colorado if I feel like it. To me the 62% still feels spongey/not dry and definitely needs a grinder to break down before smoking or else it's too chunky.

I keep it with bovedas, take out what I'll want for awhile & run it thru my large 2 piece space case grinder, then keep it handy in a metal tin. It's a nice simple tool that's bulletproof & works great w/ sinsemilla. Wouldn't want to use it on the seeded bud of long ago.

[who dat is]

Originally Posted by Jhhnn

I keep it with bovedas, take out what I'll want for awhile & run it thru my large 2 piece space case grinder, then keep it handy in a metal tin. It's a nice simple tool that's bulletproof & works great w/ sinsemilla. Wouldn't want to use it on the seeded bud of long ago.

I have a sharpstone that I'm pretty fond of

[HuffnPufferfish]

it depends where you get the rh
in a room
box
jar
etc

a 45-53rh box is what i prefer
it keeps bud rh around 60

wen rh stays below 55 i start jarring

[RedBeardy5]

I like smoking buds in the upper 50's lower 60's. anything lower burns too hot for my taste.

[Ckayill420]

Ive always found 60% in the jars for my area is the sweet spot. Bud returns to shape after squeezed, clean snap of stem, will slightly ball up if to much pressure is applied while breaking up with fingers, ect. Once it comes out of the jar and into the smoke jars from 420 science they tend to go down about 5% making them perfect for smoking and crumble but not turn to dust by fingers with ease.

[aridbud]

Recall years ago, the adage "The drier, the higher!".

I prefer a drier yet still springy type material....about 50%
To me 65% is too soggy. Helps when selling by the gram (the Netherlands, Spain, CO), but I always allowed it dry a little. Just my preference, hence....aridbud.

[olekingkole]

For smoking, 62 max. But for storing, dry to 65 then hold it there for about a week in a container with Boveda 65's. Then vacuum seal it and freeze it for about 3 months. Any drier and it would crumble when vacuumed sealed and some of the terpenes would be lost.

[Jhhnn]

Originally Posted by olekingkole

For smoking, 62 max. But for storing, dry to 65 then hold it there for about a week in a container with Boveda 65's. Then vacuum seal it and freeze it for about 3 months. Any drier and it would crumble when vacuumed sealed and some of the terpenes would be lost.

I'm having trouble seeing how 3 months vacuum packed in a freezer would change anything. Freezers were invented to radically slow or stop chemical reactions & inhibit microscopic life. I mean, that's what they do, isn't it?

[olekingkole]

Jhhnn, you might want to refer to the sticky in this section on freezer drying.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=186222
The buds come out of the freezer with the same aroma as they went in with, but the moisture inside seems to have completely evened out. Chemical reactions just slow down, they don't stop. In Africa, they wrap herb and bury it. The hash we used to get from Afghanistan smelled of lanolin, because it had been kept in cold storage over winter wrapped in untanned fleece. During the colonial era, tobacco was packed tight into large barrels and cured in the hold of ships as it was being transported to Europe. These are all ways to effect a slow cure. The freezer is just a modern equivalent. I'm not suggesting it produces the best cure, everyone has their favorite, but it is a way to get an even mild smoke that retains the original terpenes.

[Jhhnn]

Originally Posted by olekingkole

Jhhnn, you might want to refer to the sticky in this section on freezer drying.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=186222
The buds come out of the freezer with the same aroma as they went in with, but the moisture inside seems to have completely evened out. Chemical reactions just slow down, they don't stop. In Africa, they wrap herb and bury it. The hash we used to get from Afghanistan smelled of lanolin, because it had been kept in cold storage over winter wrapped in untanned fleece. During the colonial era, tobacco was packed tight into large barrels and cured in the hold of ships as it was being transported to Europe. These are all ways to effect a slow cure. The freezer is just a modern equivalent. I'm not suggesting it produces the best cure, everyone has their favorite, but it is a way to get an even mild smoke that retains the original terpenes.

Dunno. Maybe I'll try it, but it runs contrary to the way I use a freezer. I put stuff in there to keep it fresh. I don't particularly like freshly dried ganja so I'm reluctant to use a process designed to preserve its freshness.

I really like what simon's 62% method does for buds. They change in pleasing directions over a month or few, depending, particularly old school strains. At six months, whatever was happening has tapered off to nothing & they change only very slowly thereafter when stored at 62%. I have samples I've grown going back 2.5 years & they smoke great, even if the aroma is somewhat diminished. Older bits are maybe a little more friable, easier to crush.

It's not like I'm an expert on the subject, at all