Don’t touch things you don’t understand! Yup, I hear you.
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Bloody stoners 
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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.
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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.
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Bro science, lol
One thing I know. I’ve never had good weed from an over dry pre cure
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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.
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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.
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I tend to agree. I do prefer mine about as low as you can go RH wise though, so I wonder what the lowest RH really is.
The stuff I have in jars at 55% is probably my favorite, because it vapes easily and still smells great.
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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.
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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.
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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 … 
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When you live in an extreme environment you do what you gotta do:
I feel like one of those tube worms that live only in water heated by a magmatic ocean vent…
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From what I’ve gathered over the years is that
66% and up is the mold zone
65% - 56% is the cure zone
55% and down is the flash zone
And I base this entirely on bro science 
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I have noticed too with things I have over dried too quickly, you can bring them back a bit but it usually has negative impact on texture even if you retain aroma. The buds don’t like to break up as nicely, and generally will smoke more harshly.
I have also noticed that if given a good slow dry and cure, that even if it gets dryer than ideal it holds up well.
I would love to know more of the science behind the dry and cure, but every time I look I don’t really exactly find what I’m looking for.
In terms of exact numbers I have no idea, but I do know that biological activity continues inside the plant tissue after it is removed from the roots, and that below a certain level of moisture that activity halts, and even if you bump that moisture level back up that same activity will not resume. Some biological activity will, but not all the same activity.
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Under normal circumstances I’d dry at 60% for 7-10 days and it’s perfect perfect.
But I figured my error might lead to an interesting new workflow. Not going to change my methods even if this is a resounding success. Just neat is all.
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I did the same. I chopped my last auto and went on a cruise. Two weeks later, very very dry.
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U don’t think super drying will botch the curing process? 
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My suspicion is it will be fine but we will know for sure in a few weeks 
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Okay bro I’m here for it. I’m curious to see how that turns out for u…cause I’ve done this before (back in my rookie phase) and when I rehydrated and cured the bud the smoke wasn’t really good…I could still taste the chlorophyll in it. So my hypothesis is that super dying could possibly “perma-lock” a good majority of the chlorophyll in the plant matter…permanently…its like trying to breakdown dried cement with water, it’s gonna take forever.
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Yeah wen your drying that fast the outside will dry at a different rate. This is why when your jarring the inside including inside the stems that haven’t dried evenly will spread the moisture back out an raise the humidity in the jar back out. The whole point of taking time to dry an under the right humidity is so that the bud dries evenly an the cannabinoids get a chance to activate an change to what we recognize as peak potency an time for the clorofil to breakdown an full scents to come out. People have been doing this since the start of indoor growing an there is atried an tested formula to get the best quality, peak activated potency and scents an full taste.
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