Have no fear though. I then set up my drying room to a stable 60% and threw the overdry plants back in there along with a couple other plants at various stages of drying. The plants in question are on the bottom in the back. They were in the humid room for 24 hours.
FWIW I had a similar accident and I am pretty sure it had negative impact on the quality. What I do it if is more dry than I want is put a bit of water on the inside of the lid of the jar and close it. Works to rehydrate at least. But needs to be monitored.
Once a plant dips below 50% it stops curing. Sure you can rehydrate to 60 and store it at that but the chlorophyll stops breaking down and the terpenes stop devoloping and enhancing, it’s game over fir any sort of quality increase. It’s still smokeable, and will get ya stoned, but it’ll burn hot and harsh, with paper runs ect. Lol
That’s why I was so pissed when my bro left the heater in in my dry room after he was showing a girl… fucker. Over 1.5lbs was turned to hash weed I a night
As I wrote in the edit. But I’d like to add I used Boveda once and it changed the smell and taste and I did not like it at all. I’d prefer overdry weed.
I don’t like the bovedas because it makes me feel like I’m just covering my mistakes but haven’t had any detrimental effects on the weed. I’ve only done it a couple of times though.
I’ve heard this number used a lot, but I’ve never seen any actual studies etc. done on this.
50% seems to be the number we all throw around as the bottom of the cure zone RH, but I’m not sure where it comes from.
Firstly I just want to say, your bathroom is way nicer than mine.
Secondly, I second the four day drying technique as espoused in my topic.
I dried for four days at 40%, put the buds in a jar with a hygrometer reading 47% humidity, and within a few days the humidity climbed up to 60% and remained stable. It only took a week before I started into the jar but the buds near the bottom definitely developed a nice cure.
I have left a jar of bud open overnight and they got good and dry. Not powdery dry, but dry. I plucked a couple leaves of a plant. Put in the jar with the buds and tomorrow it was back kinda moist.
I have looked for a scientific explanation of pot drying and curing. I have not found anything on chlorophyll breaking down and being stopped by the humidity level. Nothing about enzymes breaking it down from what I can remember.
I like to call that a perfect drop… great work. I do something very similar, when we fuck up sometimes by pushing it too far … and it lands under 55% we call it flash dried.
I remember someone (maybe @Shadey ) telling that below certain humidity (50%?) the microbes responsible of curing die and rehidrating doesn’t help much to revive them . That has happened to me and I agree the final result was far from being acceptable …