I had the same issue in the winter due to our wood stove. I’ve been using Grove bags for a few months now and I’m very happy.
If you have a vacuum sealer I bet that would work to just seal the bags. Has anyone noticed a difference between sealed and not?
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@Kasper0909
How are your buds doing in that bag?
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That’s my question does it make a difference?? I won’t be opening some of them for a couple months or more.
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Thing is @Jasper , you can seal a bag several times if you just seal it up close to the top. When you finally get into the bag, just re-seal it below where you cut it. You’ll have plenty of room to do a new heat seal.
I’m thinking that even if you end up cutting the zip seal off, you can still continue heat sealing it.
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Honestly I have no idea. Still sealed up. They look good tho. Was gonna let these set for a bit as this pound cake ripper is very tasty. Super excited to rip that open
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Considering I found a heat sealer for about $12 delivered I figured might as well try. Been using the bags for a year or so and might as well try it. Per their website it’s only incrementally better but might as well.
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@Jasper I don’t know if sealing them makes a difference or not, but I will tell you that I’ve had some sitting since last harvest season, (October 2022) and it’s spectacular. I opened a bag at 10 months and within about 20 seconds stunk up the living room, and wasn’t over dry, it broke up perfectly. I made sure the zip seal was properly secured and the OZ bag, contained an OZ, not over packed. They were stored in the basement in a cupboard, so they didn’t receive any crazy temperature cycles. I have given up jars in favor of the Grove bags. Weigh less, take up less space, easier to handle, and I personally believe they work better than jars. If you’re going to store long term, 12 or more months, than I might heat seal them with my Food Saver.
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Same here with my 1lb groves
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I’m sold on the bags. I’ll never go back to jars, and I’ve got a lot of them, LOL
Personally, I don’t like how jarred buds taste stored long term compared to a Grove bag now that I’ve used them and stored buds in them.
The Bags win hands down in my household!!!
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so do you guys burp the bags at the beginning or do you start the cure as soon as they’re bagged?
i might pick up some of these for my outdoor harvest.
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I pull my buds straight out of my Cannatrol, weigh em out, seal them up, set them in the cupboard and forget about them. No burping involved here.
Once I’ve pulled it out of my Cannatrol, burping is a thing of the past for me.
8 days, weigh, bag, store, and enjoy as needed.
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so on the cannatrol you run it 6 dry /8 cure?
I just run factory defaults, 4 day dry, 4 day cure.
Weigh, bag, and be done.
After the 4th day, no matter how long you set the dry cycle for, the buds have reached equilibrium and are into the cure phase.
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awesome. one day i’ll pick up one of those, can’t wait.
You won’t regret the decision one bit. Even if the wife hadn’t bought me mine as a surprise, I would have gotten one. It makes things dead simple. Hit the start button, empty the condensate tray, 8 days, done. Takes all the stress and worry out of drying, and allows you to gain your sanity and life back. No more checking meters, worrying, up and down the stairs checking, worrying if you’re on target, is it too dry, too moist, etc.
Truly hit a button, walk away, 8 days, done.
The longer it sits in the Trol, some strains just get better. I let some sit that was meh after 8 days, after 90 days, the kids won’t smoke it, gets them too high, LOL
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I do a 14 day hang dry… clip nugs into a basket. Rotate them for 3 days then into grove.
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Similar here- hang whole plants for two weeks at 65RH, branches get clipped down into a airtight storage bin and burped there for a week or so daily then buds get bucked right into big 1lb Grove bags. I let them sit at basement temp for a month to get curing then dry trim and bag them down into ounces or so and heat seal into my 45F dorm fridge for a long slow cool cure and long term storage. I find the buds a little dry sometimes coming out but nothing much to worry about, seems like they might drop to like 55-58RH in the fridge eventually? Works great for me!
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I’m going to store mine this year in my 1lb groves in my weatertite totes and leave them in garage all winter. Cool. 
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I found that storing at cold temps (34-40F) stops the cure process. So dry and cure before colder storage.
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