Curing Storage boveda 62 humidity packs

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Meast21

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My humidity in my house is around 30% and I just harvested a plant Barney's 8 ball kush and got 3.5oz ... Weed felt like it was drying out so I bought Boveda 62 packs and tried them out. Here are pics of my 3.5 oz's in my sealed 4 sided locks tuperware with (3) boveda 62 packs... Notice humidity is 64, that's fine for curing and storing right ??

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qwizoking

qwizoking

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Guess I'll answer...I'm bored as shit and haven't really smoked since last night!
64 is pushing it. Typically mold of any type won't grow under 60% if it gets in the high 60's you need to air out
 
qwizoking

qwizoking

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Well ideally you would use something nonporous like glass.. I assume its quite high density (hdpe) and suitable to microwave etc..but that's not enough, eventually your gonna want to upgrade to glass...soon
 
FilthyFletch

FilthyFletch

Mr I Can Do That For Half
I find I have to keep an eye on the Boveda 62 large packs They seem to almost allow to much moisture. I had been trying them like 3 in a 5 gallon glass container but noticed the buds bit soft and can get that wet smell until taken out and allowed to dry in lower humidity for an hour. I would go to a glass container myself to as those plastic microwave containers really are porous and dont hold humidty true at all.
 
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Meast21

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I have the small glass containers that hold about 8 grams, but didn't want to waste the boveda pack's by putting 1 in all my 10 containers.... This container is the good one that snaps down on all 4 sides. Well humidity in there at its highest was 64 so I opened it and let it get down to 57 now ( hour later) its back to 61 per humidity.
 
qwizoking

qwizoking

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Yea that's much better..
Besides being porous though the plastic will absorb trichomes... you use a vape with a silicone wand thing? After extended use the outside will become sticky due to cannabinoids migrating through. The plastic can not only impart an off flavor but actually steal your cannabinoids..and you can't scrape it. Polyethylene and thc love each other
 
DeeTee

DeeTee

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Ideally you should be using glass jars, as most have said plastic is not a good choice for curing, I use mason jars with the small boveda packs and it works great.
 
BWG707

BWG707

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I use 3- 8g BP's in 1/2gal mason jars. There is a chart on the Boveda website that shows how many and what size packs to use for different amounts of buds. If you can get your buds in the jars close to 62% before you put the packs in then the packs will last longer. I've got packs that have been in jars for about 4months and they are still like new.
 
BWG707

BWG707

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I second that^^^. Maybe if enough people contact Boveda about they will. At first Boveda was making packs for cigars and then someone suggested they make something for cannabis and they did. They did some research and found 62% to be the best for curing cannabis. For long term storage, not curing, I would feel safer if my buds were at about 55% when put into storage.
 
qwizoking

qwizoking

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What someone needs to do (though undoubtedly it would kill their business) is separate the two.
When a pack is spent you have to buy another..
Or you could pop the desicant portion in the oven and its good to go..then rehydrate the contents of their little water pouch and recombine the two
 
ProdigalSun

ProdigalSun

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I just sent them the following email.

I am a licensed medical marijuana grower. I have used your 62% packs at the advice of other medical suppliers, having been told that the packs were designed with us in mind. The 62% packs however, are still too wet. we know you do not agree, we have been told that repeatedly, but take it from the horses mouth, "The packs are too wet".


This keeps coming up on the forums over and over again. Everybody loves the product, everybody says the packs are too wet. People always say the same thing. "When are they going to make one at 55 to 58% that we can use"...."You should email them, sooner or later if enough people call"..."I'll start using them when they come out with something that won't mold my bud".... Seriously, I'm so sick of hearing about it that (I) took the time to add my customer input.


Everybody is right, Boveda needs to sell a drier pack for cannabis.


You're scientists, and have studied this to get the right Rh%, yada yada yada.

We are growers, we know what we need.
 
JohnnySocko

JohnnySocko

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ProdigalSun said:
I just sent them the following email.

I am a licensed medical marijuana grower. I have used your 62% packs at the advice of other medical suppliers, having been told that the packs were designed with us in mind. The 62% packs however, are still too wet. we know you do not agree, we have been told that repeatedly, but take it from the horses mouth, "The packs are too wet".


This keeps coming up on the forums over and over again. Everybody loves the product, everybody says the packs are too wet. People always say the same thing. "When are they going to make one at 55 to 58% that we can use"...."You should email them, sooner or later if enough people call"..."I'll start using them when they come out with something that won't mold my bud".... Seriously, I'm so sick of hearing about it that (I) took the time to add my customer input.


Everybody is right, Boveda needs to sell a drier pack for cannabis.


You're scientists, and have studied this to get the right Rh%, yada yada yada.

We are growers, we know what we need.
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yeah I saw that they go from 62 right down to 49 with nothing in between.....

anyway, I wonder if somehow if one was able to get the RH to the desired 58%, then if vacuum sealing would hold the RH at that level long term (w/o using any desiccant)
 
ProdigalSun

ProdigalSun

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I think that's one of the desirable effects of vacuum sealing things, it keeps things stable, at the condition it was in when it was stored.

Anyone have experience that says otherwise?
 
qwizoking

qwizoking

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You can't vac seal a volatile compound..essentially you are purging away the terps, same process as how we remove the solvents from our extracts..but without the solvent what your pulling is strictly lighter terpenes esters etc..and this will continue until pressure equalizes with regards to the vapor pressure of said compounds..it scavenges o2 killing the cure but not enough to prevent mold. It also will not control rh.........it literally serves no purpose unless your trying to compress your weed or get it through customs and things of that nature
 
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