So far...So good...So what? HUMIDIPAK CURE.

So busy I don't even have time to harvest. So I did the unthinkable and started darkness on my finished plants this morning being they are done and don't need any light. I will finish this month's harvest in a day or two.

I trimmed about 5-6 top buds off a couple strains just to get started. Here is a pic of the top bud on my Le Defendu Fruit(most of the secondary tops are about 3/4 this size), another rare strain from Amsterdam. I have armies of clones of this strain as I have no more seeds and it is another top favorite among my crowd. I will be harvesting 2-3 lbs of this strain every other month starting next harvest, so the humidipak testing will continue soon!

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Reading over your thread it has peaked my interest in these packs. Went searching for them and found out that they changed their name to Boveda and have since started marketing them for cannabis at 62% RH. I am more than likely going to be using these in my harvest in the next week or so. I have half gallon mason jars, thinking i can just do a oz or so in each and place 2 paks in each jar. Ill pick up where you left off =P

Darkjasper said:

Reading over your thread it has peaked my interest in these packs. Went searching for them and found out that they changed their name to Boveda and have since started marketing them for cannabis at 62% RH. I am more than likely going to be using these in my harvest in the next week or so. I have half gallon mason jars, thinking i can just do a oz or so in each and place 2 paks in each jar. Ill pick up where you left off =P

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Cool. Start a thread or just post here, it's all good. I want to see more people using these as my first use of them on my last harvest rewarded me with compliments of "best smoke ever". Even though I have hardly experimented with these yet I already know they are gold.

I'm fairly certain the size of a container isn't an issue as long as it is not too big. I can fit an average of 28-32 or so grams per 32 oz mason jar so a 64 oz(half gal) jar should fit two ozs but whatever amount. Like I have posted, I use only two medium paks(8 grams eachx2=16 recommended) and it works fine for around 30 grams. I'm sure just like every other company that sells something they fudge the numbers so you use more of their product.

Here is the top from my Vanilla Kush that just finished, never had luck with this strain until now.

Im in seems like a great idea,have stuff drying now i am going to get the med 62% right now.

My last harvest went so quickly I didn't even take pics. Next harvest as promised I will begin humidipak cure testing.

do you hang your buds up and dry them before jarring them with the humidipaks? if so do you dry till stem snaps or just before it snaps?

Sorry I took so long to reply.

Yes. I dry my bud immediately after I trim in a custom dry room I built.



I dry on average for 6-9 days at temps of 65-75, RH always above 55% but not higher than 70%. I never wait for stem to snap. I will bend stems after a few days to get a feel, then again in another few days, then again. When the buds look done, feel done and the stem folds/bends giving some resistance, I jar. It's just a feel and look I have mastered over time. I have never had mold of any kind in flower, dry or cure. These humidipaks just make it easier to keep the RH exactly where it needs to be at 61-63%.

Rancho Cucamonga said:

Here is the top from my Vanilla Kush that just finished, never had luck with this strain until now.

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Shave and a haircut...two bits. This cracks me up for some reason. Nicely done.

Rancho Cucamonga said:

Sorry I took so long to reply.

Yes. I dry my bud immediately after I trim in a custom dry room I built.

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I dry on average for 6-9 days at temps of 65-75, RH always above 55% but not higher than 70%. I never wait for stem to snap. I will bend stems after a few days to get a feel, then again in another few days, then again. When the buds look done, feel done and the stem folds/bends giving some resistance, I jar. It's just a feel and look I have mastered over time. I have never had mold of any kind in flower, dry or cure. These humidipaks just make it easier to keep the RH exactly where it needs to be at 61-63%.

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That's awesome, I'm interested in building something like this for drying. I can see it's made of pvc and poly I guess, I can make out the can filter on top, but not sure what the thing is in the picture in the bottom center? If you have more pics that would be great.

booort said:

That's awesome, I'm interested in building something like this for drying. I can see it's made of pvc and poly I guess, I can make out the can filter on top, but not sure what the thing is in the picture in the bottom center? If you have more pics that would be great.

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You can use pvc but I just do 2x2s, 1x3s or for a very solid frame 2x4s.

The one in the pic is 2x2s, no reason to go with stronger sizes because nothing heavy is hanging from the top of the room as the carbon filter is a Can brand 9000 which is light. 4" fan exhausts directly out top side. I use 2x4s to go across to hang anything though. Panda film always for me with all my rooms. Staple gun with staples, drywall screws, gorilla tape and clothesline.

A 8x8x8 framed room using 2x2 or 1x3 should cost no more than 40 dollars for the wood, and this includes extras 2x2s to space vertically to have more "studs" to staple panda to for good fit and for 2-3 8' 2x4s to go across top for stability and to hang everything. Panda is around 25 for 25'x10, gorilla or good duct tape maybe 5-6 a roll, change for everything else. I use commercial grade velcro for door($15 for 15 feet). You can see in pics of the dry room I just velcroed the frame pieces because the room is only 5' wide or so, you can just add extra 2x2s(studs) on a larger room so you can decide how wide or narrow you want your door.
Velcro wood first with both sides of velcro, then secure panda door at top with staples and tape and when ready remove lining from top velcro pieces so sticky side is exposed and carefully bring down panda door and secure sticky to panda. Just make sure you size panda long enough to reach bottom and wider than the frame, you can just trim excess panda but if you are too short or too narrow it's just a waste and you would have to recut door and waste panda.

If you need info on how to build frames just let me know, it's fairly simple. Basically it's just four pieces connected together to make a square or rectangle for each side(4 sides make a room). Then you connect those four sides together and secure with drywall or wood screws and add 2x4s across top to make it fully solid.

The center piece is a furnace filter duct taped on a frame cut out to it's size. This is the passive intake so no real need to have a fan inside room, the intake brings in cool lower air and exhaust does all the work of circulating air.

Here is my dry room currently. This is 4 of 6 plants from last harvest minus the assload of lower/mid popcorn I still got after heavy bottom pruning. I guess I will be pruning higher next round, about 50% of plant or more. I give popcorn and trim to a friend, bubble bags, I get half back works for me and he don't complain. I will be filling up the middle strings with the last two girls and adding more clothesline string as I have at least a lb of dry weight, currently wet, to hang yet from my remaining two ladies.

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We're going to need a bigger dry room. Because this is the minimum I plan to get harvest each month.



bud looks kinda small but this room is quite tall. I think I said it was 5' high but it's 7 or more. I have to get on my tippytoes to secure top of door. Plus it's 5 string deep at top and about day 5 of dry so they are shrinking.

So hopefully some of this can be used in the Humidpak cure testing, I'll make sure of it.

ilikecheetoes said:

i dont see a medium pack on their site. small and large. small says for 8gs. I get about 40g in a jar. I think im going to try the large which is for 60g.

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I know this is old, but what they mean by the 8gs pouch is that that's how much hel is in the pack. On their site it says one 8 gram pack can keep up to an ounce at that humidity.

Rancho Cucamonga said:

Cotton Candy by delicious seeds

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I gave my CC plants to my dad.
I finished out Sugar Candy about 6 weeks ago. Flowering took a bit longer than expected but those are some super frosty girls. Very light feeders and I fed em just a little bit too much. Had a side plant that was fed twice throughout flowering and it finished out just fine.
They don't bulk up until later.
A pheno hunt is on my to do list.
The smoke is outstanding.
Cotton Candy is one I regret not finishing out myself. I see nothing but good from people here. The smoke was enjoyable from what I did try but dads not a grower. It was plugged in the ground and left to do it's thing.

Masochist said:

I know this is old, but what they mean by the 8gs pouch is that that's how much hel is in the pack. On their site it says one 8 gram pack can keep up to an ounce at that humidity.

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Yea you right those are the ones I use but being this thread is 3 years old it's possible that not much info was was available at the time now on the other hand Boveda is well aware of it's other uses (cannabis) and is now supplying info that cannabis growers need.

I still dry by hanging 55-65•F with 60% rh for 7-10 days before putting in mason jars with a 8g pak 62%rh. I love them. And they have many more rh paks too.

B4L

Blunted 4 lyfe said:

Yea you right those are the ones I use but being this thread is 3 years old it's possible that not much info was was available at the time now on the other hand Boveda is well aware of it's other uses (cannabis) and is now supplying info that cannabis growers need.

I still dry by hanging 55-65•F with 60% rh for 7-10 days before putting in mason jars with a 8g pak 62%rh. I love them. And they have many more rh paks too.

B4L

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Yeah I forgot to add (if dried correctly) haha. I hang for a goal Of 10 days as well. Usually 9 does it for me!