Newbie questions on Curing for small amounts

I did my first grow similar to @Nagel420 albeit a little less high tech as I did not apply my Home Automation to it yet. I havent set HomeSeer up in this new house yet.

I used Inkbird controllers to control the tent. Set targets of 60F at 55-60% humidity. For temp if under setpoint a heater would come on, if over the setpoint it would power a 4" exhaust fan that is set to low speed, ie burping the tent. Same thing for humidity, either drives a humidifier or a different 4" low speed exhaust. I have a large dehumidifier I keep outside of the tent in order to keep the humidity in the garage below 50%.

I am on day 10 of drying my 1st grow in decades and I think they will be ready to jar today. Last night the stems were snapping nice but still left one fiber unbroken, they “almost” snapped clean…

During the 10 days I was able to maintain 60F +/- 2F and 58% humidity +/- 2% for all but 2 days. Had a warm spell and the garage got up to 70F on 2 days. The only option I have to cool the ambient space is a window AC unit in the garage and I chose not to use the electricity.

While I can smell terps there is still some lawnmower essence to the buds as well. I am hoping the cure will resolve that. I plan on doing jars and auto-burping them with an aquarium air pump and timer. I will put a SmartPush humidity sensor in 2 of the jars to monitor humidity swings. As the swings get smaller in amplitude I will reduce the frequency of the burps until it stabilizes at 63%. Then Bovieda pack and seal.

You can see the blue lines held pretty good except for when the weather got unseasonably warm.


Not saying this is the right way, but it seems to be working so far. Anyone see anything I am missing?

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