My buds have been hanging for 4 days so far, the temp got high on me (85) because my ac broke. Anyways the buds feel dry on the outside, kinda crispy, with moisture still in the middle. My question is should I jar them up now? The stems aren’t snapping yet but I also don’t want to over dry them with the temp being too high Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
I pull them at this point. remove the buds from the stems. Chop the big buds up into thumb size nuggets and bag them. I move the bags in and out of a container like an ice chest or new unused trash can over the next 7-10 days gradually getting the whole load down to 65%. When it's all stable in the mid 60s I'll jar it with a 62% boveda pack. =================================================== Posted elsewhere and copied as I'm lazy. =================================================== We're giving the remaining chlorophyll time to break down preventing harshness and that mowed lawn stink of dried to fast weed.. Living in a very low humidity zone this showed up in my grow right off the bat with grassy smelling weed that smoked like liquid fire.. All that work down the drain.. --------------------------------- I just posted this on another thread so I'll cross post it here for your enjoyment.. leagalAlaska, on 17 Nov 2015 - 08:13 AM, said: < blockquote class="ipsBlockquote built" data-author="leagalAlaska" data-time="1447776815" data-cid="22166544"><cite class="ipb" style="display: none;" contenteditable="false">leagalAlaska, on 17 Nov 2015 - 08:13 AM, said:</cite>Over the last year or so I've had few successful harvests. I'm really working on my cure. It's really dry where I live in Alaska. The moisture just isn't in the air. I purchased a small humidifier to try to raise humidity in my drying room. I read that a dry should take 7-10 days. Usually mine are crispy with stems snapping in as low as 3-5. Then I move to mason jars, I burp them regularly about once a day for 5-10 minutes. No one has ever complained about my buds, most say it's the smoothest they have had and great flavor. I think I still need to get it better though. Is it drying too fast? And is it affecting the cure? Also I always do a wet trim because I fine it to be the best way to trim. Down side to that is it dries faster, the more materiel I have the slower it dries. Any advice welcome! < /blockquote> Your up against the same wall I was here in Southern California.. We get a local wind condition called a Santa Ana that blasts super dry desert air over the basin and out to sea.. The humidity drops into the single numbers and it was turning all my great smelling harvests to grassy smelling shit for the most part.. Even extended time in jars wasn't helping.. It took me a while but I did figure it out and your on the right track.. Slow dry was the key I needed.. I wet trim as it's the best way to get all the crap off with every leaf standing tall.. Even a few minutes wait and they wilt more then I like.. So keep on trimming just seconds off the living plant.. It's the hang you have to shorten to just a day or 2.. I hang till the pop corn stiffens up.. Not the stem the Buds.. Play squeeze the Charmin with it and do NOT let it get to dry.. Think of it like cooking meat.. To done is just that and you can't un-cook that lovely steak.. Can't un-dry that cannabis either.. Below 55 % humidity all curing process stop and won't restart.. It's a one time deal with no do-overs.. My dirty hippy trim as my friend TTS calls it.. I'm old and don't have the hand for endless trimming and I'll hash 90% of it anyhow.. hot dry garage hang only until the small stuff stiffens up.. 1 or 2 days most of the time but it can go longer if the humidity is high.. While it's still on the very wet side I'll either glove and yank strip or snip off all the buds with grape scissors.. It all gets placed in cut down paper shopping bags.. This lets me move it rapidly back and forth between the cans I use to slow the dry and the top of the washer and dryer I use during the day.. The humidity jumped back up and this group spent about a day on the screen to firm up.. After just about 6 hours it went back in the bags and in the can for the night.. I bought a couple of new trash cans for this and I try and size the can to the load.. I have an Ice Chest I use for smaller runs.. I use several humidity gauges as they tend to be wildly off .. 2 or 3 of them and average the read.. I'll either dig in and fluff the buds up by hand or dump them into another bag to keep things stirred up and drying evenly Your target is 65% after about 7 days.. Then I pack in 1/2 gallon mason jars with a 60 gram size.. 62 % humidity.. Boveda pack.. And your done.. It's perfectly dried to the exactly cure range and the Boveda packs insure it stays on the mark.. No need to play the open and burp game with the jars.. Just what I've worked out here on the Brass Pharm.. Your local conditions may need to tweak this as no two zones dry alike.. Shopping bags and Trash cans FTMFW.. Sorry but it did take a while and I plain ruined a ton of smoke figuring it out.. BNW
I wait until the stem snaps. I’ve got high humidity and temperatures being in the glorious south. They will get moist again. I’m doing it now. Peace
The only bad thing about 4 day hang is you have to burp the jar more than usual. Also need to inspect it a lot more. It wouldn't hurt if you wait an extra day. you can tank me later noob.
I would wait some more time...depends also on the humidity that you will dry. If its too humid it will not be good to have moist
+1 On the canning jars. That's how I do it. I recently switched to the plastic reusable lids however (vs the metal ring ones..they got rusty after the 5th or 6th year of reusing them).
