I wanna know how people get those rock hard congealed nugs where the sugar leaves and flowers round off into a ovular or spherical shape. Is there some sort of compression used or is it just the nature of some strains to harden? Im definitely getting a jar hydrometer because careful monitoring of the humidity of your jar is apparently key to a quality cure.
I don't get those. My buds are denser during the cold months of the year and lighter (more open) during the hot. I grow in a high heat, low humidity environment. I grow outside the VPD parameters because I don't sell and my bud works for what I use it for but it isn't cosmetically beautiful.
To be fair what I call curing is different than months in jars. In my environment within roughly 24 hours my buds have to be jarred or they will be dust when ground. As soon as my stems snap but don't break I jar.
Then I burp the jars until they have a strong, good scent. If the buds start to feel a bit soft I dump them into a brown paper bag for a day or so. Then back into jars. In about a week, or so, I have good smelling, smokable bud that doesn't turn into dust when ground.
Then I consider if it ticks the boxes, such as pain relief et cetera that I'm looking for. I can't justify adding a mini-split etc... which I'm sure would make my bud much more attractive. During the winter with higher humidity and low temps my bud looks lovely but its' high profile, physical effects and smokability doesn't change
The TL;DR answer is I've wondered about those too!
