I always felt like humidity packs steal terps.
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3rd-party testing āprovedā this not to be the case.
I remain skeptical, but use them anyway because they are just so damned convenient.
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I tend to agree but I have not confirmed it with lab testingā¦yet. I mostly use the bovedas to store squished materials, trim and such not so much for bud. If I am running someone elseās product through the press and I notice it is dry I will boveda it back up as I find material cured too hard or too fast has already lost a lot of terps as well.
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My nose says otherwiseā¦ 
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I think my nose says the same (which is why I am skeptical about Bovedaās 3rd-party test results) but the trade-off is worth it to me, so far.
Integra are better (they use VG instead of salts), but still do the same IME.
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Boveda packs are great.
If I overshoot my drying by a little bit these things make it no big deal. They also keep my jars at exactly the same humidity.
So if Iāve dried correctly my buds are already at 60-62 and they wonāt need a boveda until I notice the humidity falling in the jars to, say, 55%
Iāve never used them to lower humidity levels, just maintain and bring back up.
Well worth the $2 to me
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If they had higher RH bags I would be all over this! The copy about reducing odors spooks me out a bit but bovedas claim the same - and likely why our noses know
Edit: Gramar lol
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Iāve never used them to dry with, but it does make it easier to hit the mark accurately for longer term storage. I get things properly stem snapping dry before I jar up, usually give em a couple weeks where Iāll check on em regularly, then I vacuum seal my jars with a boveda inside. Give it 2 months like that and my nose tells me fabulous things! Long cures for the win!
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I have tried this. In my experience this is how you create unburnable weed. You let it go out it will not relight you have to break the charred end off to get it to burn
thanks for the insightsā¦ I will add that definitely want to remove those sugar leaves before you jar it up. For some reason they pick up the moisture before anything else.
Agree with lower temps for curing and drying. I have fridge dried. It brought out the pine. Only done it once though since it made my food smell 
It should be noted that this was mentioned strictly for my extraction process which only produces āunsmokeable weedā 
Sorry for the confusion Olbrannon and anyone else who missed my previous comments. I was merely speaking to how I use bovedas and my logic behind applying them to this situation.
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Yeah, that phrase:
āYou let it go out it will not relight you have to break the charred end off to get it to burnā
Puzzled meā¦
I like it when a roach of resinous weed chokes out and demands a re-lightā¦ but that not what you are describing is it?
Cheers
G
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Whenever I have encountered that charred unburnable blackness I have always taken it as a sign of poorly flushed product. Iāve had accidentally over dried flowers Iāve brought back to a more enjoyable state with jars and boveda packs, but I have never had it affect the burn as you describe.
Every time I have had to chop early without proper time to flush before harvest I have had that problem. Iām not trying to throw any hate here or anything but itās such a recognized thing around my area that I have never heard another theory on this.
Those joints that are hard to get lit, burn kinda funny, ash doesnāt want to fall off on itās own, you tap but it still clings on. The ash is really dark, maybe even fully black, and you can have it go out on you but it wont relight without the end getting knocked off, which takes several crunchy taps against the ash tray. Iāve seen pounds returned to growers over that shit, and they hang their head and admit they didnāt flush it.
Conversely, I have never known anybody personally who ever bought a large quantity without burning one first and tapping that ash into the palm of their hand, examining the colour and consistency of the ash. Fluffy, as close to white as possible, never crunchy were always desired traits.
But I have never heard this discussed outside the question of flushing before harvest, so Iām intrigued by your experience with this.
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Longer term storage donāt use jars vacuum seal .
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Spoken as if out of my own mouthā¦ For many decades this has and will continue to be the benchmark test, white ash is always a true tell sign of a complete flush and thus a quality grow. I think what Olbrannon was speaking too was more so to do with trying āreviveā crispy nugs and pushing them too far too fast I assume however describing such as unsmokeable does raise some other questions.
None the less this is a great thread coming along, too bad the OP still hasnāt let us know how they made out after a week away with some freshly axed bud - a little bit over 2 years ago 
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exactlyā¦I made it trying to revive weed that had dried out too farā¦Personal. But have seen it happen with other weed tooā¦cured weed that someone tries to rehydrate is where this comes from. IME has nothing to do with flush
you described it perfectly @Ginger_Rick
Edit:not a little dry either. Dust crumbling dry. then rehydrate
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@Ginger_Rick this would be weed that you would consider unsaleable. Too dry to market except at a very reduced price. Bone, dust crumbling dry.
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is not often i over dry when i do i liven it up with orange peel, is a nice taste to it
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Anyone have any tips for vacuum packing without smashing the hell out of your buds?
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