Measure humidity in buds

[AutoflowerChief]

Maybe my search skills are not developed enough, in that case I apologize...

Question:
I measure by touch, whether the buds may be dry enough to start curing.

Now, I put the buds into a jar. I throw in a hygrometer, too. I close the jar.

Will, after some time, the hygrometer give me an accurate reading of the buds humidity?
Or is there some magic mathematical formula to calculate the bud's humidity from the jar's humidity?
Or what should the hygrometer read in the case I'm good to go on with curing?

 

[BII]

Hygrometer in the jar will give you a reading of the relative humidity/rH of the jar's air. This is the common method for measuring buds-in-a-container rH. But if you are confident in your just feeling/examining the buds, that's presumably just as good; or maybe even the best way. [That's what I do]..

With enough time, the hygrometer reading should fairly well correlate with the amount of free/releasable/unbound water in the buds. Water not readily released into the air, the water strongly adsorbed to or trapped/covered by cellulose fibers or other plant components, is not measured.

 

[AutoflowerChief]

Alright, so the reading of the hygrometer will be somewhat close to humidity in the bud with the general tendency: bud will be slightly higher in % than air in the jar. That's a statement i can grab ^^

 

[Lil Dab]

Maybe my search skills are not developed enough, in that case I apologize...

Question:
I measure by touch, whether the buds may be dry enough to start curing.

Now, I put the buds into a jar. I throw in a hygrometer, too. I close the jar.

Will, after some time, the hygrometer give me an accurate reading of the buds humidity?
Or is there some magic mathematical formula to calculate the bud's humidity from the jar's humidity?
Or what should the hygrometer read in the case I'm good to go on with curing?

You can use a wood moisture meter to get really close with out having to jar them. If you get a cheap metal probe weed moisture meter once the inside the stem of a larger buds to get 12-15% they are right for jaring

 

[Lil Dab]

This is the one I have

Wood Moisture Meter - Digital Moisture Detector Moisture Tester, Pin-Type Water Leak Detector Damp Tester Dampness Meter for Wood Building Material Firewood Walls Paper Floor (Sliver) - Amazon.com

Wood Moisture Meter - Digital Moisture Detector Moisture Tester, Pin-Type Water Leak Detector Damp Tester Dampness Meter for Wood Building Material Firewood Walls Paper Floor (Sliver) - Amazon.com

www.amazon.com

 

[AutoflowerChief]

Okay, honestly I never trusted this approach... when you use the woodmeter on wood, you have a quiet smooth surface.

Always had difficulties to believe that works with buds, too, because possibly the meter doesn't measure along a straight surface but some random zigzag route through the bud what would make the readings unreliable...

According to your experience, does that also deliver reliable results with fluffy buds? Just for curiosity 'cause that's what I'm most sceptical about...