Harvest & Curing Boveda 62%

[wwwillie]

The pack will try to regulate the environment to it's set humidity level. Small jar, small environment, the pack will most likely stay fairly stable and not dry out. In an open room it will frantically try to balance. Dry room, well anything below the set point of the pack, it will shed it's moisture trying to humidify the room.

 

[Aku]

I've found that knowing the baseline of the RH and temp of your room, dry room or storage is key to planning a dry and cure. I followed several different methods until I realized that the humidity of my room was like 12%. Something awfully dry. My first few harvests dried out in 24hrs and tasted solely of hay. Talk about being bummed out! Still haven't perfected drying/curing for my baseline RH as yet. I have gone too fast and seen the results, now I am going to take it nice and slow. I put it straight into a prescription bottle at 1st cut down and trim. I didn't overfill the bottle (actually less than 2/3 full) and I am religiously burping it. I don't know that it is 100% airtight but it is slowly drying it out. Really really slowly. This is why I am stressing my burping as mold would just be a huge bummer at this point. I could probably dry it faster but I want a really well cured stack o nugs when I'm done instead of a crunchy hay smelling rocks. I do have some Boveda packs, I guess because of my baseline RH, they were also drying everything out too quickly (tried straight to the jar with a boveda pack). I will try putting a few nugs in after the slow dry they are on now and figure out my best long term storage solution. (long term being relative, ha.)

 

[Eyes on Fire]

yeah man juust like a grow needs controlled environment the dry and the cure do. all three phases need separate deals. i just improved mine as well.got a new drying cabinet since my smaller make shift one works but its only for a cpl plant.this one i can hangprolly four or five average autos in here depending but should work well for ease of drying

 

[hecno]

I have just been reading the whole thread -stunned - now I know the growers in my neck of the woods just grow , dry , sell , no wonder it is shit weed , on me last grow my friends said it was some of the best weed they have smoked , now I have some packs on there way , sooo I am going to rock there socks off with this next lot , quality - quality - quality , that is my main aim .THANKS all you guys for all the excellent adice in this thread . The legend of Hecno grows ."pher Wiggle"

 

[Spanglish]

Have just ordered 4 x 8g packs and will be my first time using them, as well it is the first time it looks like i will be harvesting anything worth curing and storing properly, after reading through this thread am pretty sure i made the right choice with the 62% packs and look forward to seeing the results with them.

Will only be using 2 of the 4 packs to start with, what is the best way to store the 2 remaining packs so they will last a couple of months till the next harvest.

Also for the life of me could not find anywhere in Spain selling mason jars, about the only other place in Europe was the UK and due to packaging and size shipping was more than the jars, so have gone with a large (1.3L) and small (0.3L) of the following supposedly ment to be used for storing bud and was planning to tape the packs to the lids of them, hopefully they should be ok.

http://www.lahuertagrowshop.com/bote-conservacion-vacio-marihuana-p-1358.html

 

[Trapper]

Just put the unused ones in a ziplock...very little air for them to control....
so they end up just equalizing and staying in stasis. As long as they can
adequately control the space they are in, they're fine. Although after
working them hard for a while (tasking them with bringing bud down from
say...67-68% RH to 62% - I set them out in a sub 62% RH environment
to "off-load" some of their moisture....then put them in a ziplock.

I buy them by the 10 pack and usually have 15-20 on-hand. Sometimes
they'll go solid and you gotta huck em.

It's wiser (IMHO) to use more than are necessary than to use too few
and overtask them.

 

[Spanglish]

Just put the unused ones in a ziplock...very little air for them to control....
so they end up just equalizing and staying in stasis. As long as they can
adequately control the space they are in, they're fine. Although after
working them hard for a while (tasking them with bringing bud down from
say...67-68% RH to 62% - I set them out in a sub 62% RH environment
to "off-load" some of their moisture....then put them in a ziplock.

I buy them by the 10 pack and usually have 15-20 on-hand. Sometimes
they'll go solid and you gotta huck em.

It's wiser (IMHO) to use more than are necessary than to use too few
and overtask them.

Thanks for that, will keep them stored in a zip bag then, and will get a few more as backups they only 1.49 each so looks like is well worth it.

 

[Trapper]

Exactamundo

They are indispensable for those that want the "good stuff" to stay that way

 

[Alaskan1]

I've been using these Boveda 62, and they work wonders. I had some Lowryder #2 in 2013, and it over dried. I placed it in a mason jar with a Boveda, and it's good as new two years later. It went from crunchy to perfect. It's funny, because it began as several ounces. I had them all jarred, and slowly over the months dumped one jar into another as they would empty. I have just a few grams left now, but it's gathered all of the trichs from each jar. What's left is crazy-strong! :RU Stoned..?:But ya, these Boveda 62s are great!

 

[Spanglish]

I've been using these Boveda 62, and they work wonders. I had some Lowryder #2 in 2013, and it over dried. I placed it in a mason jar with a Boveda, and it's good as new two years later. It went from crunchy to perfect. It's funny, because it began as several ounces. I had them all jarred, and slowly over the months dumped one jar into another as they would empty. I have just a few grams left now, but it's gathered all of the trichs from each jar. What's left is crazy-strong! :RU Stoned..?:But ya, these Boveda 62s are great!

Great to know as i am terrible for over drying buds, and was hoping that would be the effect they had. Will be looking to get a few more of those storage jars if they do the job and alot more packs of Boveda as i increase my stash.