Humidity, Burping, Curing - oh my!

Does the curing process make you nervous / do you find it challenging?

  • Yes

    Votes: 5 50.0%

  • No

    Votes: 5 50.0%
  • Total voters
    10
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formularacer

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I wouldn't pick nervous. To me nervous is standing at pit wall and realizing your driver is late and then watching the the course go yellow and the emergency vehicles start the wrong way down the track.

I would say concerned and there are a few tools to help you through with this.
But a lot come with preference and trial and error. As they say more than one way to skin a cat.
 
xox

xox

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no its mostly a pain in the ass, the biggest problem that could affect your harvest is drying too quickly. its way easier to accidentally dry too fast vs screwing up drying too slowly to the point it causes mold.
 
k0rps

k0rps

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curious2garden said:
Ahh I love my Koolatron and freeze dryer.
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How has the freeze-dried herb been weeks/months after the dry? Very nice how flavors are locked in the buds, just wondering how long it stays that way. Thank you!

Edit: using a tent to hang dry with an ACI controller set to keep humidity stable while slowly dropping (-1%) over ~2 wks has given better/lasting flavors over using a box to dry. The constant slow air exchange helps a lot.
 
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Beeswings

Beeswings

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Curing is the easy part grove bags and even opening jars isn't that hard. The hardest part is drying properly. The tent helps quite a bit to keep a stable environment but sometimes the tent isn't available like an earlier finishing plant or perpetual grow. For that case I built a little dry box but it's not as good as the tent. Still working though.
 
curious2garden

curious2garden

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xox said:
is the freeze dryer just for the flowers your extract with or you can smoke those as well does the freeze dryer skip curing essentially or?
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Yes it skips the cure step. I can dry/cure within about 24-40 hours depending on the load and it is fully finished. I run flowers and I dry my bubble hash for pressing in it. It's fabulous but woefully expensive. But I am already looking at a digital bleed valve for even finer control.
 
curious2garden

curious2garden

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k0rps said:
How has the freeze-dried herb been weeks/months after the dry? Very nice how flavors are locked in the buds, just wondering how long it stays that way. Thank you!
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Hi, my first harvest was about 2 1/2 to 3 months ago with it and everything is really good so far. I have it stored in jars in my Koolatron and in jars on my shelves and in vacuum bags on my Koolatron and shelves. The jars on the shelves smell fresh and just like they smelled when I chopped them. I'm stunned how well it worked and how well it's holding.
 
k0rps

k0rps

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curious2garden said:
Hi, my first harvest was about 2 1/2 to 3 months ago with it and everything is really good so far. I have it stored in jars in my Koolatron and in jars on my shelves and in vacuum bags on my Koolatron and shelves. The jars on the shelves smell fresh and just like they smelled when I chopped them. I'm stunned how well it worked and how well it's holding.
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Awesome , sounds like a great investment.
 
xox

xox

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curious2garden said:
Yes it skips the cure step. I can dry/cure within about 24-40 hours depending on the load and it is fully finished. I run flowers and I dry my bubble hash for pressing in it. It's fabulous but woefully expensive. But I am already looking at a digital bleed valve for even finer control.
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i hope im not pestering with dumb questions, ive ate freeze dried candy before and it sure looked like 0% humidity. do the flowers that are freeze dried also have such low humidity after leaving the freeze dryer? and if they do, do you still store them in jars with 62% boveda packs?
 
tstick

tstick

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The drying is where many people fail. Outside of using a Cannatrol, you need to dry the plants in a space where you MUST maintain a relative humidity of 60% and a temperature of 60 degreesF along with very light, random air movement. There's no fudging these conditions. When you dry correctly, your weed should be good to smoke right off the plant (after trimming it). Curing will not make up for poorly-dried weed. Curing should be seen as a process of longer-term storage used to preserve your flavors and smells. Jarring/burping will even out the remaining moisture and then, after that, you can portion out some ounces into Grove bags, heat seal them and keep them stashed for a year or more!
 
curious2garden

curious2garden

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xox said:
i hope im not pestering with dumb questions, ive ate freeze dried candy before and it sure looked like 0% humidity. do the flowers that are freeze dried also have such low humidity after leaving the freeze dryer? and if they do, do you still store them in jars with 62% boveda packs?
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Not at all but let's do this in my journal so we don't hijack the thread.

Annie's update

I haven't done a journal in awhile and nothing in my grow has changed, until recently. I've decided this might be a hobby I'm sticking with. Yes, I'm commitment phobic. I also dislike change but here we go. I figure I can whine here while putting on a brave face as I demolish my upper story...
www.rollitup.org
 
PURPLEB3RRYKUSH

PURPLEB3RRYKUSH

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tstick said:
The drying is where many people fail. Outside of using a Cannatrol, you need to dry the plants in a space where you MUST maintain a relative humidity of 60% and a temperature of 60 degreesF along with very light, random air movement. There's no fudging these conditions. When you dry correctly, your weed should be good to smoke right off the plant (after trimming it). Curing will not make up for poorly-dried weed. Curing should be seen as a process of longer-term storage used to preserve your flavors and smells. Jarring/burping will even out the remaining moisture and then, after that, you can portion out some ounces into Grove bags, heat seal them and keep them stashed for a year or more!
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Can u burp in grove bags if accidently chuck buds in at 64%
 
PURPLEB3RRYKUSH

PURPLEB3RRYKUSH

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curious2garden said:
Not at all but let's do this in my journal so we don't hijack the thread.

Annie's update

I haven't done a journal in awhile and nothing in my grow has changed, until recently. I've decided this might be a hobby I'm sticking with. Yes, I'm commitment phobic. I also dislike change but here we go. I figure I can whine here while putting on a brave face as I demolish my upper story...
www.rollitup.org
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I need more jars mmmhjmmm
 
Beeswings

Beeswings

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PURPLEB3RRYKUSH said:
Can u burp in grove bags if accidently chuck buds in at 64%
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You can, you just really don't need to as they let out moisture down to 62 percent rh and if they are dryer than that they let in moisture up to 58 percent.
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