Curing using hygrometers

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Hi OG… recently harvested 3 plants and placed them in the drying tent for a week and then trimmed and jarred them up (came out to 11oz dry). This is my first time using hygrometers to monitor curing and honestly I feel like I’ve been doing it wrong my whole life lol. I’m pretty sure I’ve dried past the point of curing in more instances than not… buds were always decent but this is the first time I’m REALLY paying attention to it and things seem much more moist then I remember letting the buds get…

The dried buds have been in the jars for a week or so and I’ve been burping 2x per day for about 10-15 min…. Humidity has typically been anywhere from 58-68% when I crack the jars for burping and I’ve been determining burp time by humidity level. (55-60, 10 mins and 60+ for 15 min)

Should I be using the hygrometers to determine when to burp, or should the burping be done regardless of the humidity at this point?

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If you’re consistently at 60%ish I’d say you’re finished.

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I always try to be in a range of 58-62%
If below 58 i add boveda or integra 62% bags and if above 62 i burp the jar. I only vaporize my flowers so 62 is near perfect, if you smoke then 58 might be better. IMO the 62% is the best way to go, over the next weeks / months you open the jar more frequently and the humidity will drop on its own to 58-60 for example.

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I like to stop the cure when it gets down to 62% RH as that is seems to be optimal for a heat press. When I use food saver bags for long term storage, I stop the vacuuming process when the bag starts to compress the buds. I also throw in a Boveda 62 RH bag to make sure it stays at that level.

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I use em’, keeps you actually knowing what the RH% is vs guessing all the time.

Recently I’m loving the digital units such as the ones from AC Infinity.

I have them in the grove bag with the flower and can see the progress charted out on the associated app.

Just another tool to help make the magic happen more refined. :smiley:

If you ever over dry, you can lift the RH% of your flower using a cannabis leaf, banana/orange peel, or what I use are sugar savers (for brown sugar). I soak them in boiling water, pat them dry and toss them into the glass air-tight container to absorb all the humidity.

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Ok so seems like I’m on the right track I guess…
I had a couple of jars that were at 55% for 2 days and not budging so I added a sugar leaf from a current flowering plant of the same strain… I’ll hopefully push it back up to around 60-62% and keep and eye on it…

So once the percentage stops swinging so much and is consistently around 60%, should I leave them closed indefinitely (until I’m ready to use obviously)?
Is that when the official “cure” begins?

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If you get to that point the main cure is finished imo. It’s a good idea to have one big stash jar and one smaller, so you don’t need to open the big one all the time.

If you use humidity packs like boveda / integra it can happen that your flowers will not smell that pungent anymore, the optimal RH will coat your buds like a shield and the terpenes stay longer inside of the buds.

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My jars will hold 60ish indefinitely although I do have a daily driver jar on my coffee table. Everything else stays well sealed.

The cure definitely continues. I had one that was incense and lemons right off the plant and after a 6 month cure it was straight roses.

The cure can change things dramatically but this one was something else.

YMMV

All the best.

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I think using the hygrometer as a guide for when to burp is a smart move-it’s all about finding that balance.