I put all my buds in a 5gal with a gamma lid and after 8 hours they are reading 48%.
They don’t feel that dry though. There’s still some stickiness to them. I’m new to gamma lids and I’m wondering if maybe the seal isn’t as good and it’s letting room air in.
Just wondering what can be done.
It’s weird there were some smaller buds that had a lot of leaf still so I kept them separate in a jar to trim later and they were much more moist. I put the meter in that jar and it’s only reading 50% but the feel between the two feel much more drastic than the difference between 48% and 50%
I took a different meter and put it with some of the bucket weed in a jar and this is reading 53% in a jar after only 10 minutes.
How full was the 5 gallon pail? Not sure what a gamma lid is, is it supposed to be airtight? The ones from home Depot, or winemaking places (food grade) definitely are…
Do nugs snap at the stem in the middle when you bend them?
Take a carrot, cut it in half, then cut a half in half and put those halves in the container, Will be moist within a day, but keep an eye on it or your buds can mold.
In my opinion curing is overrated.
Curing is not “overrated”. Pretty bad advice if you ask me.
50-60% RH is good for drying and curing. The chlorophyll needs to be broken down over time and that wont happen in low RH. Burping is important too or it will stall the process. Try filling only 2/3 of the way to leave a bit of air at the top as well.
You should be fine being able to re-hydrate your buds in some way (be careful). And then continue to store and watch them. I would check on the buds every day for a week or so just to be sure things are going smoothly.
I personally aim for 55-60% but haven’t gone much lower.
While you can bring back and cure buds that were dried too much, if they have had any kind of terpene of flavour loss because of drying out too much, that quality won’t be able to be brought back since that’s all been evaporated into the air.
Completely agree. I want smooth cured bud. About two years about I had a whole crop cure like shit. Everything was too harsh. I spent about two months reading everything I could on curing everything from herb to grain to tobacco. There are actually USDA articles on curing tobacco and other plants. My next harvest was my best smoke ever. The cure is as important as the grow. Ignoring this will give you mids as fast as not knowing how to grow.
After a few days at around 40% RH I slowly increase the RH for a week. I do a two week cure in a closet I keep above 50% RH (try for around 60%). Temps below 65 F is ideal. It almost takes all the harshness out of the bud. Then one month in the jar. The jar helps the cure but is more to bring the flavors out.
-Tommy
If it gets too dry take a cotton ball and spray it once or twice with plain water. Stick the cotton ball in the container and check it in about 6 hours. Will restore dry crumbly product back.
Sounds like the issue may be your meters. I’ve also noticed, the humidity raises after about 12 hours you get a stable reading on RH. I think you’re doing OK still. I actually feel the buds and burp until they are where I like them. Rarely do I use a meter.
I’ve been drying at 60/60 +/- 3°/%, for 11 days now, and a bud I sampled tasted kind of green and smoked a little harsh. I wonder if I’m doing something wrong?
Sweating the buds while the stems are still bendy help cure. If you want to add moisture,I recommend using distilled water with a humidity pack and a baggie…or there’s old school Shit too. Like my personal fav soft tortilla in your bag with dry buds adds no smell,moisture returns and only brings out the terps already in the bud. Look up how they ferment and cure tobacco too. Very interesting. Especially tobacco used in cigars.
IME, there’s no turning back time & doing it right after you’ve done it wrong & dried too fast…but if caught soon enough it can be sloooowed & minimized. Have seen interesting results mixing very dry older weed with very new, too-moist mat’l… i over hydrated the old weed
If you have dryed your harvest too quick, you will loose a lot of terpens in that proccess and they will never come back.
But the decomposint of choraphyl, that require a bit of moisture or it will speed it up alot at least.
This can be restarted, to some degree, and you can turn “green flavor” more smooth that way by remoisturing the buds.
After cure I often remoisture the jar I pick out, 3-4 months after harvest the jar can have droped to maybe 50 or 45%.
I prefer to smoke my weed around 63% humidity, and will simply just crack the jar open and leave it in my bathroom.
Take a steaming hot shower, leave the fan off and let the dryed out jar soak up some of the humidity from the air.
After a few hours, the jar will messure around 63-65% and I close it up. Some times I have to repeate this, but not a problem when you shower daily anyway.
The only way it’s worked for me is by adding a few fresh leaves from a living plant.
It gets the humidity back up and restarts some of the microbial breakdown, (which is part of the reason I hang dry and dont trim until it’s jaring time🐻)
Unfortunately this is, at best damage control.
It won’t make it to it’s true potential but you’ll get a smoother smoke.
I might mention some of this is strain dependant.
Yeah I wet trimmed this round and had to cut them down into smaller more workable pieces. Room was mostly 60% but dropped down to 35% for a night.
Won’t wet trim again. It’s too hard to trim and keep the whole plant intact which is how I usually dry. Be good for summers maybe. Not so good for cold and dry Winters.
Buds are at 55% still so that’s the best it’s going to get. Dry but not crumbly dry. I’ll sample a bud to see how harsh it is and how the burn is.
That’s your opinion, just as i was stating mine and i stand by it. so much that i would be willing to bet you can’t tell the difference between the two. Now i can’t speak for how it affects things such as hash, oils, etc…because i don’t deal in the market but i can tell you that after hundreds of hydroponic grows, with curing and flushing having been a staple early on in my career not one of my customers noticed a difference when i stopped, nor have i ever gotten a complaint about my buds; even the folks with growing experience who give me the “you don’t flush or cure?” face are more than satisfied. Maybe you should try thinking outside the box instead of being arrogant and assuming you have all the answers. As i stated it is my opinion and you can choose to ignore it. I’ll put my buds up against any flushed and cured buds, name the time and place.
