dry and cure
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crimsonecho
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ideal humidity in jarred cannabis is between 58-62% yours are already under that. let them sweat out a little bit in the jars.
general way i follow is if it goes over 65 i take the buds out of the jars and let them dry till they are dry on the outside. anything in between 58 to 65 i burp the jars till i reach a stable reading of my preffered moisture of 62.
in your case if you dried already trimmed flowers for 18 days you may have just overdried.
general way i follow is if it goes over 65 i take the buds out of the jars and let them dry till they are dry on the outside. anything in between 58 to 65 i burp the jars till i reach a stable reading of my preffered moisture of 62.
in your case if you dried already trimmed flowers for 18 days you may have just overdried.
Thundercat
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no need to burp them if they are done drying already. I make sure my buds are dry and ready to smoke before they ever go in jars, there is no need for all the burping and moisture packs, and humidity gauges. Get the dry done slow and proper, and then jar them when they are ready to smoke right.
I would still open the jars and spread the buds out at after 24hrs. Even though your humidity is fine overall, the buds still likely have some moisture inside and you want that moisture to redistribute.
I jarred a plant once after drying for 12-13 days…4 full jars and the hygrometers in my jars read 60%, so I thought I’d be fine to just leave them “to cure”…..I was wrong. I lost 3 jars to mold.
It wasn’t a terrible breakout but you could smell it and locate it in small areas.
Almost by accident, the 4th jar was fine, b/c it was being opened daily.
That disaster taught me the importance of “sweating” the buds or redistributing the internal moisture, which isn’t always recognized and accounted for by the hygrometer.
I jarred a plant once after drying for 12-13 days…4 full jars and the hygrometers in my jars read 60%, so I thought I’d be fine to just leave them “to cure”…..I was wrong. I lost 3 jars to mold.
It wasn’t a terrible breakout but you could smell it and locate it in small areas.
Almost by accident, the 4th jar was fine, b/c it was being opened daily.
That disaster taught me the importance of “sweating” the buds or redistributing the internal moisture, which isn’t always recognized and accounted for by the hygrometer.
Thundercat
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I always allow my bud to "redistribute moisture" in a good old brown paper bag before they ever go into jars.
tstick
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If you dried for 18 days at 60/60 with ample air movement, and your weed is in the jars at 57%, then you're probably good to keep them in there without having to burp them. But I'd still open the jars every few days to smell them to make sure. They might slowly come back up to a higher RH than what you want, so just monitor that humidity gauge in the jar and make sure. I don't see how they will go over 60% RH if you've already dried them at 60/60 for 18 days, but I don't know what the bud density is or the thickness of the stems, size of the plants, etc. ....so it's just a guess based on general information.
