You can add moisture using a fresh MJ leaf, a piece of fruit (orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, pineapple, etc, or one of those moisture pillows they use to keep cigars fresh - any paper product with some distilled water on it will work too.
Very well explained + repDude,
Musty smell comes from only two things in all my experiance. 1) Mold, and yes it can mold without you seeing it on the buds, so unless your looking all over with a hand lens it could very well be mold. 2) If you are sure its not mold (which you seem to be) then you probably have been storing it in air tight container too long without burping it. After a while the lack of gas exchange mixed with stale air makes the skunky smell gets so strong it turns. This has happened to me several times when I stop curing too soon and leave a jar untouched for a couple weeks. ALWAYS INSPECT FOR MOLD, its not good at all to smoke. A friend up in GA drove down to visit and gave me some fresh bud in a pill bottle and said "can use some more curing." I placed it in my luggage and forgot about it. Its only been a week and when I opened it this morning it had a stong spicy musty smell to it, I pulled it out and looked at it, covered in white mildew. He musta put it in there still wet. Point being, a sharp musty smell is almost always mold.
If you want to rehydrate your bud I would take a paper towel, soak it in hot water, squeeze most H2O out, place it in the bottom of a tupperware, and place your bud above it on a screen that keeps it from direct contact. Within a couple hours it should be rehydrated. To prevent future crispy critters, dry your buds until all of the vegitation is dry, and stems are dry, but NOT to the point of where the snap with the dry leaf sound, that way when you cure it, it doesnt get too dry and musty.
Either way exercise caution, too much moisture=mold, not enough= bad taste/odor/harsh.
Yes this is the exact problem I think I am having with my last harvest. I *thought* I was sure there is no mold but I'll go look at them again. But I think I just left them in the jars too long in the first week of curing.Dude,
Musty smell comes from only two things in all my experiance. 1) Mold, and yes it can mold without you seeing it on the buds, so unless your looking all over with a hand lens it could very well be mold. 2) If you are sure its not mold (which you seem to be) then you probably have been storing it in air tight container too long without burping it. After a while the lack of gas exchange mixed with stale air makes the skunky smell gets so strong it turns. This has happened to me several times when I stop curing too soon and leave a jar untouched for a couple weeks. ALWAYS INSPECT FOR MOLD, its not good at all to smoke. A friend up in GA drove down to visit and gave me some fresh bud in a pill bottle and said "can use some more curing." I placed it in my luggage and forgot about it. Its only been a week and when I opened it this morning it had a stong spicy musty smell to it, I pulled it out and looked at it, covered in white mildew. He musta put it in there still wet. Point being, a sharp musty smell is almost always mold.
If you want to rehydrate your bud I would take a paper towel, soak it in hot water, squeeze most H2O out, place it in the bottom of a tupperware, and place your bud above it on a screen that keeps it from direct contact. Within a couple hours it should be rehydrated. To prevent future crispy critters, dry your buds until all of the vegitation is dry, and stems are dry, but NOT to the point of where the snap with the dry leaf sound, that way when you cure it, it doesnt get too dry and musty.
Either way exercise caution, too much moisture=mold, not enough= bad taste/odor/harsh.
