What I’ve settled on for long term storage is an approach gleaned from a lot of these threads, and trying out a few different things for my particular needs. I like variety, and I like well-cured buds, so I package things down to 30-50g sealed bags for deep storage and curing, that way I can pull out a month or two worth of a strain and take a break in between bags to let it cure longer undisturbed in the next one.
After chop, I’m hanging in either my drying boxes or a grow tent, with ambient temperature (usually 68-75F) and a dehumidifier keeping the basement at 60-65 % RH, I control airflow into the drying space with an Inkbird. Three weeks later I dry trim and buck nugs off stems except for the last few inches of tops, the whole plant minus larf and popcorn goes into a one pound Grove bag with some 58% Bovedas and sits in a dresser for six weeks, with me peeking at it every few days. Once it’s sat and stabilized, and starting to develop some odor again, I break those down into the “one ounce” Grove bags that usually fit 30-50g depending on density. I gently pack them tight and squeeze extra air out, leaving a 58% Boveda in each one, then heat seal the bags, label them with the info including trim date, and shuck most of them into the fridge, leaving the first bag of each strain out in the room temp cure drawer, and whatever was left in the big bags after packing three 30-50g bags goes into my active stash to get picked at while it cures. Heat sealer is a $5 Seal-a-Meal from the Goodwill, it came with some bags I haven’t used yet but probably will eventually for storing edibles.
The fridge is a Frigidaire dorm fridge from Craigslist, $50 and it turns out that the thermostat runs warm enough on the internal controls that I didn’t need to regulate it with an Inkbird like I figured it would. It sits at 48F and 55% RH, and is also my seed storage, so that in case of a blackout my seed vault doesn’t thaw and refreeze. I noticed that a bunch of breeders use fridges at 40-50F to keep their stock in, and realized it was the best way and I could consolidate everything in one place.
