Can you cure at 58-60%?

firsttimeARE said:

I bucketed my harvest and after 18hrs the hygrometers read 60% but was most likely a tad higher. They still felt moist.

I let them sit in a box for like 15-20minutes and bucketed them again this time for 24hrs.

Now 2 buckets are reading 59% and one is 60%

Will the 59% ones still cure?

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Doug Dawson said:

Bud will cure from 58% to 65% as far as I know. 18 hours to get to 60% seems incredibly quick, what conditions did you dry in? Should take 7 to 10 days to get dry enough.

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firsttimeARE said:

I dried for 8 days in 62F and 55-65% it fluctuated

18hrs in the buckets to get 60% readings.

I just wanna minimize future openings and will check after 72hours once more before I close up for a couple weeks. I feel like some smell went away. Tough to tell cause I was still trimming as it took 2 days to finish trimming so perhaps trimming smell in the air amplified the bucket smells when I first opened them up.

Next harvest imma set some buds aside that I feel are too moist despite the hygrometer showing sub 65% just to see if they mold up. I feel like I confuse sticky with moist and always err on the side of drier than wetter

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Doug Dawson said:

Ok well that sounds perfect. Your first post had me thinking you dried in 18 hours, glad that is not the case. Your smell will fade and than come back better than ever as it cures and breaks down all the coprophil. Just burp your buckets every day and in a couple weeks or so your spell should come back nice and strong. I burp my jars every day but some do it twice a week. Expelling moisture and gas from the curing environment is key to allowing the metabolic process to work. I have not tried to do this every 3 or 4 days like you want to but some do. Just don't worry about the smell, it will come back in time.

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