My harvest has been drying for a week with a fan in a dark shed that I have. As of this morning the branches are snapping but the bud is still sticky. It’s blueberry. The temps have been right in the 60’s and humidity varies from 50’s to 70. Can’t control humidity as it’s outside and not fully weather free. Should I cut it and just cure longer or dry longer? This is only second plant I have ever grown, so new to the game.
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You are doing Old school (no instrumentation… 
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Sounds like you are about ready to start curing. Besides being sticky, do the buds seem dry on the outside?
If so, how are you planning on curing? jars or bags?
Just in case you need some reference material…
I’d suggest some cheap meters, I throw these in the jars to monitor…
You can do just fine without them but they can help with the worrying …until you are more familiar with the process.
If you are going with jars and haven’t picked out what you would like, I go with the wide mouth quart size, brown glass.
Cheers
G
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The buds will be sticky, that’s a good thing! If the branches/stems are snapping, you are ready to cure.
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The buds aren’t completely crunchy, but seem like they are drying. We were going to go with glass jars for curing. I am wondering if I should get some humidity packs since they still seem sticky?
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I just read the article that you posted. I think it will be ok if I bring them down and jar today! Thanks so much!
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Ok didn’t know if sticky was good or bad. Thanks for replying! This is first grow for me so it’s all new and after working hard all summer keeping them healthy and happy didn’t want to fail at the end! Lol
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you can do a rough trim, leave in a turkey bag, then clean up the trim over a week. This can let the buds release that last little bit of moisture. if you go straight to jars you gotta “burp” em a ton of times.
Grove bags can let you skip the burp, but I like to use a big ones and do the rough trim/cleanup trim thing.
The phenomonon is kinda hard to describe, but buds dry from the outside>in. The last bit of moisture is going to be in the center of your biggest buds. If you trap them in glass the inside-of-bud moisture is going to escape out, people call this “sweating”. So basically the buds sweat, moisture has nowhere to go, can cause mold in a glass jar. If you drop buds in a jar too wet you need to “burb” out the gasses and moisture for daggon weeks. The in-and-out of the big bag process with trimming over a couple days lets the buds go thru those cycles more naturally in my opinion. I trim the smallest buds first because those dry the fastest.
There’s a million different ways to harvest and package with a million different doodads people sell. The only thing that we have consensus on is you can definitely fuck it up!!
Good luck!
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I second what @logangrowgan2020 said. Grove bags are a great way to cure. I usually do add humidity packs and sensors to my bags as well. I leave them in grove bags for at least a month, checking the meter through the window in the bag. You never burp them( unless your meter shows high humidity in which case you didn’t dry long enough, so now you have to burp).
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@Gpaw speaketh The Way.
-Grouchy
PS, Sticky is good!
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Agreed on the sensors. They give you valuable information. And they’re cheap.
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Worthwhile to try and control for them, my 10-pack had a few reading a bit hi and a few reading a bit lo.
Didn’t make them unusuable but there was I think an eight point spread.
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Interesintg because I’ve got about 20 of them and they are all dead on. They could all be dead on wrong for all I know but they sure are consistent.
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My pack of 10 were ‘spot on’. I even did the ‘salt test’ and they were reading +/-1 of each other.
They get slow to respond when older though.
Cheers
G
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