How should a perfectly dried bud feel? I chopped her down 4 days ago and the buds feel crispy on the outside and spongy in the middle. knowing when they are finished would lead to curing. Any advice would help. Thanks guys
Harvest & Curing When are the buds dry enough to start curing ?
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Take some of the largest buds in the batch, bend them, and when the stem in the middle just barely snaps they are ready to jar. Getting a small hydrometer to put in the jar with them can further help. Just keep burping and sealing the jar a couple of times a day until it levels out at 60-65% humidity. It's not necessary , but it can help hone it in.
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the easiest as a general statement when theyre ready are as you said really.crispy(sometimes VERY crispy depending on bud structure too)and lightly spongy..the key is to make sure they retain their form..if you lightly squeeze them n they stay indented some or ofcourse a lot,theyre too wet..period..in standard climates n things being on the east coast in winter generally many of my autos tend to take 4-5.5 days to dry. with that same feel or rough crispy and well spongy that pushes back n retains its shape..then the burping of the buds in jars begins..lol for about a week or even two depending (using boveda packs imho) and should be opened no less than every cpl days for a short 5-10 minutes nothing longer imo. n do that for a week er so n then seal it n stick it in a dark place about 65-70F in the dark..:Sharing One: to cut down on smells for cutting you can cool it down to like 60F or even a little cooler n that'll tamp some of the terp n oil profiles for the drying some.:tiphat: :smoke: happy stoning..err smoking !>LMAO!
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I to use the stem method,juuust when its about to snap..when it snaps its tooo dry most times
Edit: DAMN I type slow LMFAO
I to use the stem method,juuust when its about to snap..when it snaps its tooo dry most times
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Exactly what he said.
In my enviroment I have forced air for heating and cooling and seems my house sometimes in the winter gets bone dry as far as the RH just took some plants down today and with the crappy weather hopefully it will increase the rH; was thinking of sticking a bowl of water or something in the closet where they are drying??? Any thoughts? Cause of the poor rH control my buds usually get to dry and than have to rehydrate with the boveda packs, God bless their little selves, Boveda is the shit!
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didtht work was thinkin bout doin right now as toonly havin one humidifier
I think I'm in the right zone. ...bought three hygrometer (cheap) lol and put most of my harvest into 3 half gallon jars. Some of the smaller exposed stems kinda snap and the other bigger buds are bending but about to snap. My Meyers read between 65 and 75 but each Jat has a good mix in it and should b pretty equal so I know my hygrometer is off. Got my third one next to my digital reader which isn't calibrated but hopefully way more accurate to get an idea of how far off this one is while the other two sit in jars. I think they are about 73 to 78 % if I had to take a random guess. And I'm shooting high to stay away from mold lol. Don't have boveda yet either. So at this point, them being spongy and just crispy on sum buds and sum spots, would I air out the jars once every twelve hours for like two days then burp once a day depending on how I see my humidity drop? I was kind of able to do a test run with one plant, this is my first grow ever, and it was too dry and had that flower smell but I feel just barely fell short of the sweet spot lol so I'm thinking this way I slow down the doing process slightly while beginning cure and hopefully falling into/finding that sweet spot. This is some good as weed, in my link below, and I want it to b as close to perfect as possible
thanks @Eyes on Fire
Those are my my two biggest colas next to a one gallon kids juice jug. The wet weights are 91.6 and 103.9 have to go do something and will continue trimmingAnd get you guys a wet weight of all the tops from this big girl in a couple of hours.
have to go do something and will continue trimmingAnd get you guys a wet weight of all the tops from this big girl in a couple of hours.
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burping of the jars has nothing (essentially as far as start up curing goes) to do with RH and numbers. its to let the expelled gasses out of the container.you could have a perfect cure and start up time and still mess it up if you dont let them out,it'll taint the smoke a bit and youll get less quality of smoke is all.still be good just lack more smells n things. sounds good bro,glad it helped ya some dude.happy curing n stoning
I guess I should have added that I brown bag dried them for 4 days before jars. Now I've been opening the jars letting them sit for awhile and checking things. Tomorrow I'll b in the zone (60-65%) to leave the lids on for 24 hrs without taking them off. At that point burping once every twenty four hours for about ten minutes. do this for one week. After one week do it only twice throughout week 2. After week 2s burp wait one week for next burp. Burp again one week after that and should b close to perfect. I'll have multiple jars to figure this out with lol
