Buds too dry! What did I do wrong?

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Leonida

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Okay so after reading many post and tutorial and a couple of YouTube videos, I simply:

- cleaed and trimmed them
- dried them hunged in the closet for 5/7 days (snap test)
- put them in glass jars opened for couple of days
- closed the jars and opened once a day (for less than a minute) for a couple of week
- left stored in a dark place

The average humidity of the room were I dried and cure them is 50/60 humidity

Today after just few weeks that the jars have been totally closed I opened them and I noticed that the buds a quite dry, definitely not like I would like them to be..

What did I do wrong? Should they not keep enough moisture sealed in glass jars in the dark?
 
GeneBanker

GeneBanker

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Yea once they hit jars they shouldn’t stay opened other than to burp. Unless when you shake the jar the buds move as a solid mass. If they do you move them aside leave them open longer and more often until they catch the rest of the herd.

I hope it doesn’t go boof like dispo
 
2klude

2klude

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Gemtree said:
Dry till buds are getting crispy not till stems snap
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I cringe every time I read someone advising to hang until the stems snaps. If you can take an average stem of a plant and it breaks/snaps you're way to dry. On some branches you can hear something snap... I think this is internally in the branch but the outside just bends over... this is the sweet spot IMO.

The key is to get the outside crispy and sweat the buds in jars/buckets/totes/turkey bags etc until moisture level is in the low 60% and is even throughout the bud, no matter what size it is. You do this by opening and closing the containers to manipulate the sweating of the buds.

If you can't judge it by eye/feel then its best to get a hygrometer to measure humidity. Once your in the low 60's you can seal the containers up and let them cure for awhile. I don't use them but I hear Boveta packs makes things foolproof.
 
ilovereggae

ilovereggae

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2klude said:
I cringe every time I read someone advising to hang until the stems snaps. If you can take an average stem of a plant and it breaks/snaps you're way to dry. On some branches you can hear something snap... I think this is internally in the branch but the outside just bends over... this is the sweet spot IMO.

The key is to get the outside crispy and sweat the buds in jars/buckets/totes/turkey bags etc until moisture level is in the low 60% and is even throughout the bud, no matter what size it is. You do this by opening and closing the containers to manipulate the sweating of the buds.

If you can't judge it by eye/feel then its best to get a hygrometer to measure humidity. Once your in the low 60's you can seal the containers up and let them cure for awhile. I don't use them but I hear Boveta packs makes things foolproof.
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the sweet spot for me is the big buds snapping off the stem easily. popcorn buds lower on the stem won't pop off yet, and the stem itself will still have bend. I dont really even monitor rh, and it usually take 7-10 days for me. trim them up that night into jars, burp once a day for first few and then once very few days.
 
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