AltarNation
Well-Known Member
Hi friends.
This last harvest I lost 55g's of Northern Lights to a failed cure. The jar I was using had a very narrow mouth and there wasn't enough air exchange happening when I opened it. I failed to notice. The result was a minor case of aspergillus, which contaminated the jar, and I had to get rid of it.
As I approach my next harvest, I'm considering my options. I've decided to take no risk and use a hygrometer to aid curing. (I did this originally when I started growing, but stopped eventually because I felt confident about eyeballing)
However, I can't really afford to buy a bunch of hygrometers, and I usually cure in like 5-10 jars, because I grow multiple strains and I fractional harvest and keep the different ages in different jars as well.
At 25-50 a pop for the accurate ones, I don't really have the funds to buy a bunch.
So the idea I had was... can I get away with putting a bunch of bud in different jars without lids (or even some kind of baskets that would breathe better than an open jar, small paper bags?) inside a larger container (maybe a rubbermaid?) and just monitor the humidity in the whole chamber? I am even considering rigging up a humidity detector that will handle the air exchanges for me by activating a small computer fan mounted in a hole in the side of the rubbermaid.
The obvious upside of this is that I would only need one hygrometer for my entire crop.
The primary downside I am concerned with is what would happen to the smell/taste... I feel like everything would blend, but maybe not too bad?
Do any of you have any solutions to the many-jars-but-few-hygrometers problem?
This last harvest I lost 55g's of Northern Lights to a failed cure. The jar I was using had a very narrow mouth and there wasn't enough air exchange happening when I opened it. I failed to notice. The result was a minor case of aspergillus, which contaminated the jar, and I had to get rid of it.
As I approach my next harvest, I'm considering my options. I've decided to take no risk and use a hygrometer to aid curing. (I did this originally when I started growing, but stopped eventually because I felt confident about eyeballing)
However, I can't really afford to buy a bunch of hygrometers, and I usually cure in like 5-10 jars, because I grow multiple strains and I fractional harvest and keep the different ages in different jars as well.
At 25-50 a pop for the accurate ones, I don't really have the funds to buy a bunch.
So the idea I had was... can I get away with putting a bunch of bud in different jars without lids (or even some kind of baskets that would breathe better than an open jar, small paper bags?) inside a larger container (maybe a rubbermaid?) and just monitor the humidity in the whole chamber? I am even considering rigging up a humidity detector that will handle the air exchanges for me by activating a small computer fan mounted in a hole in the side of the rubbermaid.
The obvious upside of this is that I would only need one hygrometer for my entire crop.
The primary downside I am concerned with is what would happen to the smell/taste... I feel like everything would blend, but maybe not too bad?
Do any of you have any solutions to the many-jars-but-few-hygrometers problem?
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