Makes sense. You really don’t want to vacuum these anyway as that’d probably defeat the purpose. Like others, I fill about 2/3rds full, loosely squeeze out the air and seal them up. Fold tops over and store in a bin.
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I never seal my grove bags
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I use the zip lock, no heat seal. I don’t fuck with them though. Today was the first time I popped them in over a month.
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I’m trying to be gentle with mine and see how many times you can pull off a cure in each bag.I figure as long as I don’t Hercules grip that shit and be ninja about it
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That’s what I’m thinking too. I’m only on my third cure but the bags are doing great so far.
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Well I did find a boveda pack in the one that was worse and thinking back I think it went into the bags hay-ish from the dry. The other stuff was good when it went in and for several months.
The second one is like a quarter in a half pound bag too though so not sure if that matters.
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So did all the strains you put in bags get the hay smell or just the one?
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So I pulled out the Trizzlers today that I put half in bags half in jars a few months ago. The Grove buds do smell better. Not by a whole lot, but it’s noticeable.
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I haven’t checked the others yet but I’m hoping it was just those two.
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Why does it matter if it’s glass or food grade plastic as plastic will be significantly cheaper… shipping and materials wise.
I’ll take 5% royalties 
I think the idea is, if I use them as mason jar tops instead of the metal disk, the grove bag plastic will allow for gas diffusion across the membrane…which we want during cure and is what we approximate by burping jars. We also want to keep moisture in to some great extent and if you’re not burping jars in a >62% RH room, you’re losing quality.
And so grove bags promise to allow that gas diffusion thing to occur, all while keeping the water vapor in. The bag material is unidirectional in that way, there is definitely an inside vs. outside layer, and it works as a system.
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What @LD50 said. 
I couldn’t have put it better.
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This is a really interesting idea, I might have to chop up a bag and give this a try with some jars, thanks! I love when we come up with new ways to use existing products
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Oh yeah I agree I’d just do it with plastic 5 gallon bucket and a gamma lid. Replacing part of the lid with grove bag plastic.
It will hold a lot more do the same thing and be cheaper.
When growing mushrooms tyvek is commonly used to allow the substrate to breathe. Same concept different material used to allowing this “breathing”.
I just am pointing out plastic bucket should do the same thing for cheaper instead of glass. With the same groove bag breather holes for the top.
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All good ideas. 
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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I got you. At that point we just throw pounds of it in a 27 gallon tote and Grove gets all the royalties!
In my case, I like to go through the flower in mason jar sized units. I like to see the flower inside too! Glass is classy. Almost like bottles of wine in that way, and also in the way that, once opened they are on a timeline. It’s for fun really. The claim here is that I can jar right out of the dry tent, seal, never burp it, open it maybe 6 months later, and it will be better than if I burped it oldschool. I almost don’t believe it! I don’t use bovedas so maybe that’s another reason to want a sealed jar during cure. I’m doing a side by side experiment in a few days!
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I will say that you can get 5 or 27 gallon clear wicket bags for $1.30-$1.85 each that are for these amounts. I’d honestly just bag all that up in big wicket bags and throw them into totes. Grove really does make stuff for pros not just homegrowers and their big bags are cheap as heck without any DIY.
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Haha you got me there glass is classy.
Yeah I believe we are in agreement though, no magic in groove bags. You can apply there material to many different containers and not have to burp.
I have cured in mason jars burping and in buckets with gamma seals burping. I see no difference in the cure just the amount of material it can hold.
I also don’t add moisture to the cure in any way.
I am thinking we start VIBE buckets and VIBE pro jars for the high end crowd…50 50 split lol
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LOL. I’m in. You own VIBE and I’ll own FROSTING. We sell the same thing and war on IG a bit over who owns the rights, and after both selling out of our initial offerings to our respective fans, we do a collab cure bucket with snoop dog and get called sellouts.
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Oh man your killing me lol
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