My Boveda Story....

It took a while to get here... I plan on staying here for quite some time....
If ya know what I mean....

i've dried and cured a bunch of times so i get kind of sloppy sometimes.

i had some buds at 66% humidity for over a day. i wanted to speed it up a bit so i laid it all out turned the overhead fan on and wandered off to play a game.
so i'm high and happy and about 5 hours later i thought - OH SHIT!
i can't believe it but it was all down to 58%.

so now they are jarred up with a boneva in each. i'm so pissed i shot below 62% but i chopped the rest of the crop last night so practice makes perfect.





time for some close trimming

so whats the verdict on these things? ive decided im gonna use em but i dont know what size to get. which size did you guys say will work for an ounce of bud?

Supposedly the square ones I believe. 8 gram/medium sized for one ounce.

The small size work for one ounce or less...
Perfect for a Small Qt Storage jar...

Here's what I have found in this short time use with Boveda....
One 2.75" X 2.5" inch pack is good for one zip or less...
Since I started to smoke exactly 62% cured/dried pot... I Like it...
Smooth... much more damp feeling that I would think...
A bud pulled out of a Jar w/Boveda inside jar, Keeps buds feeling fresh and way sticky...
I now feel like I have been smoking too dry MJ for some time...
Now pulling bud out of jar after two weeks, after cure... sitting with a Boveda...
Man, when I pull out the bud... Perfect... nice...as if it was just dried and just cured perfect...
I'm so sold...

MaryJaneAdvocate said:

Supposedly the square ones I believe. 8 gram/medium sized for one ounce.

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And if you re-seal the Boveda pack back inside the little baggie it came in it will stay "Fresh" ....

FYI: I bought a ten pack of small sized, just for one oz storage... Cost about $11.00 with shipping...

Now... every bud... 62% dried...crued... so smooth... so very smooth...

I have a few hygrometers and all my jars are at 62ish percent. each jar is about 3/4 full.
this is pretty convenient.

I'm sold. one more tool for the toolbox!

I think we are thinking of the same ones Sand

Here is the link to buy some for anyone who wants them: http://www.amazon.com/Boveda-Medium-Humidipak-62%-Pack/dp/B0087ZNDZY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1390770706&sr=8-2&keywords=boveda+62

Amazon normally has the best prices.

Yesir.. They give you that *pop*

MaryJaneAdvocate said:

I think we are thinking of the same ones Sand

Here is the link to buy some for anyone who wants them: http://www.amazon.com/Boveda-Medium-Humidipak-62%-Pack/dp/B0087ZNDZY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1390770706&sr=8-2&keywords=boveda+62

Amazon normally has the best prices.

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Yep that's what I got... and took about a week at Christmas...

I have between 20-30 1/2gal mason jars filled 3/4 full of meds every harvest. I add 1 8g broveda pack per jar along with my rh meter and burp as needed for a few weeks. after I achieve a stable 55-58%rh I vac seal all my jars while still leaving the broveda packs inside. iirc, I vac seal to 21mu'.

Just ordered mine, should be here on friday, not bad 10 (8g) packs for $10.

I'm sold on these as well. This is the first year I've used them, but they seem to work well. I'm small time and cure & store in quart Mason jars. This year I cured half my crop using the traditional jar method & the other half using a Boveda AFTER drying & jarring the buds. Here in my part of the world, the RH in late October is 65-70% when it's NOT RAINING, so it takes around 10 days to hang dry. The Boveda brought the RH down to 61-62% from 65-66% in about 3 days. Absolutely no difference in taste or quality between the two methods.

I also had the opportunity to pick up about a pound & a half of dry buds, not really cured, just dried real fast, from a local big time grower. I had to trim some on this and then jarred it up (35g fits loosely in a quart mason jar) and popped in a Boveda. The Boveda actually RAISED the RH from 58-59% to 61-62% and improved the taste from harsh to pretty good. Needless to say, I'm impressed with this and will continue to use it.

Sand4x105 said:

Long term... who has kept MJ for longer than a year?

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Geez, I hate to admit it, but the stuff I'm smoking right now? I harvested it in February of 2006. My stealth philosophy: Grow big, but grow seldom. I vacuum sealed it and refrigerated it (bottom drawer of residential fridge). It's degraded in quality over time -- maybe by as much as 33-50%. And after 8 years, it's not as moist, so maybe a Boveda pack would work.

[Anyway, I'm back in the game, and the seeds I produced from small selective pollinating that 2006 crop gave me 100% germination rate. Shocked the bejesus out of me.]

Here's an alternative to the Boveda pack idea, borrowed from the cigar people: Xikar jars of moisture-control crystals (Google Xikar) in a Coleman cooler with open jars of cured bud. The Xikar crystals, which work like Boveda packs but come in larger ventilated containers, will keep the bud at 65-70%, and the several open jars of bud will, by their volume, buffer any RH changes. Just check on the cooler every week or two to make sure the RH is staying in proper range. What should happen is the bud remains at the same RH as a well-aged cigar, some of which last for years or even decades. And the bud will be smokeably dry without mold, but not dried out. I'm thinking it's gotta be better that vacuum sealing and taking up space in the fridge.

@Kombol Actually I use 72% Bovedas in my cigar humidor as well. The Bovedas also buffer your RH but at a much more stable rate. I notice with the gels and humidity devices that come with humidors that yes, they stay stable, but within usually a 3 degree range that will go up and down with different temperatures. Anyways, I'm not trying to knock you, but I think 65 to 70% is a little risky, but hey, I store my cigars at 72 and never had an issue with mold. Now that I have been talking through this post, I almost want to get a Cannabis Humidor. Put in cedar dividers like with cigars, put different strains in the different compartments and throw in the Bovedas for humidity control, along with the said Xikar gels to make sure the bovedas stayed charged with moisture... I may just do this!!

The Budidor

All ...Good Stuff!
I wanted to "Check" puff-puff some MJ that had cured, and sealed inside a Vac seal [with pulse air suction-able to leave air pocket] bag...
It had only spent a month sealed...
However, I must say, it was as sticky smelling really nice as the day it went into bag...
My opinion, perfect bud...
I will use these forever BV 62...