Curing with boveda 62% packs

Dr. Who

Dr. Who

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Gquebed said:
For these to work the bud has to be in a certain rh range.

Ie: if you jar up some bud that climbs to say 75rh and you pop in a 62 Bov pak, the Bov pak isnt going to suck up all that humidity and bring the jar of bud down to 62 rh magically. Maybe to 68 or something.

And the reverse is true. For these to work properly you need to get the bud into say a 54 to 68 rh range the Bov paks will do the rest.
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Yeah it will! Still, the bud should be at the stem crack point before jarring up.

I do half gallon jars and the bigger boveda's
 
Gquebed

Gquebed

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Dr. Who said:
Yeah it will! Still, the bud should be at the stem crack point before jarring up.

I do half gallon jars and the bigger boveda's
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Really? I do the same and didnt work out so well for me. Maybe i didnt wait long enough...
 
Honey Oil Riot Squad

Honey Oil Riot Squad

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Gquebed said:
For these to work the bud has to be in a certain rh range.

Ie: if you jar up some bud that climbs to say 75rh and you pop in a 62 Bov pak, the Bov pak isnt going to suck up all that humidity and bring the jar of bud down to 62 rh magically. Maybe to 68 or something.

And the reverse is true. For these to work properly you need to get the bud into say a 54 to 68 rh range the Bov paks will do the rest.
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Dr. Who said:
Yeah it will! Still, the bud should be at the stem crack point before jarring up.

I do half gallon jars and the bigger boveda's
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Yeah 75rh sounds like a mold risk to me. Might work and the boveda pack would definitely suck up the moisture, but not that quickly. I guess I've never risked trying it but I'd say that's very risky at 75 rh!
 
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DocZeas

DocZeas

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I am trying out something new on a small jar of buds from a branch that broke off my outdoor grow. It is so humid in Western Washington, that I put a fan and small electric heater in my drying shed and the buds still don't snap off after 5 days. Close, but not quite. I am fearful of mold!
So I put the buds in a jar, put 2 small B-packs on top, then packed a bunch of silica dessicant packs on top of that.
I figured the silica packs will help dry out the air, and the B-packs layered directly on top of the buds will buffer the excessive dryness from the silica. I am trying to get the buds to dry relatively slowly as it transitions to a cure, but not to saturate the B-pack with excessive humidity, know what I am saying?
Any thoughts?
 
Kingrow1

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Id be fucked if i lived in one of them countries where weed clothes food leaves and stuff dont dry.

Imagine you spilt some water on your floor and three weeks later you slip on the puddle cause nothing dries due to humidity....!?
 
Lordhooha

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DocZeas said:
I am trying out something new on a small jar of buds from a branch that broke off my outdoor grow. It is so humid in Western Washington, that I put a fan and small electric heater in my drying shed and the buds still don't snap off after 5 days. Close, but not quite. I am fearful of mold!
So I put the buds in a jar, put 2 small B-packs on top, then packed a bunch of silica dessicant packs on top of that.
I figured the silica packs will help dry out the air, and the B-packs layered directly on top of the buds will buffer the excessive dryness from the silica. I am trying to get the buds to dry relatively slowly as it transitions to a cure, but not to saturate the B-pack with excessive humidity, know what I am saying?
Any thoughts?
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You realize the boveda packs absorb or release moisture into the environment where they are ie Manson jar or whatever. Adding silica packs will only serve to defeat the purpose of the boveda packs and quickly dry them out.
 
Lordhooha

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Also get a dehumidifier I lived in coupeville wa for nine years and the black mold is a bitch. Definitely get a dehumidifier to control the humidity in the area your drying in. Especially this time of the year the rains or drizzle kicks off which was the one thing I hated up there.
 
DocZeas

DocZeas

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Lordhooha said:
Also get a dehumidifier I lived in coupeville wa for nine years and the black mold is a bitch. Definitely get a dehumidifier to control the humidity in the area your drying in. Especially this time of the year the rains or drizzle kicks off which was the one thing I hated up there.
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I don't think the silica packs defeat the purpose. I have buds that are not quite dry enough to start a cure, so I want to get the RH down to 62 with the Bovida pack, but I don't think the B-pack can bring the moisture down fast enough to prevent mold, and I want to avoid over saturating the B-pack with moisture from the wet bud. B-packs are a combination of salts designed to maintain RH, not to dry weed. So the silica packs give a boost for the first few days.
That's my theory at least. I'll let you know how the smoke turns out. That is the REAL test!
 
Lordhooha

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DocZeas said:
I don't think the silica packs defeat the purpose. I have buds that are not quite dry enough to start a cure, so I want to get the RH down to 62 with the Bovida pack, but I don't think the B-pack can bring the moisture down fast enough to prevent mold, and I want to avoid over saturating the B-pack with moisture from the wet bud. B-packs are a combination of salts designed to maintain RH, not to dry weed. So the silica packs give a boost for the first few days.
That's my theory at least. I'll let you know how the smoke turns out. That is the REAL test!
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It’ll end up drying out the boveda pack quickly as I’ve seen it. But it’s your weed. I personally would fix my space to dry properly then jar for curing at the proper time.
 
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LinguaPeel

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Holy fuck just grow the herb right and you won't have to pretend you got dank with some barely smellable bullshit relying on brovida to pull off that barely there smell/taste.

The best shit in the world is stored in fuckin turkey bags. And yall fucking with brovida and jars n shit, wracking your minds for the answer,blaming it on genetics.. Wake up. I've smoked sooo much hydro, and plenty of it cured with brovida. Even lots of RIU members stuff. Shit barely smells, barely tastes. Want me to name names? I'll do it. Thats frosty bullshit that upsets your stomach smoking it lol.

Yall need to give up the grow store mythology and grown real shit that basically cures itself in a zip lock. Food grade bacteria rich inputs.. No brovida required. Fuck bottled bullshit and dead mediums. You cant turn turds into gold..or can you?

Yall fuck up so bad you cause someone in a wheelchair to come out of retirement. Pretty fucking sad. Pick a side. You ain't gonna grow quality herb with a fucking growstore product.
 
dstroy

dstroy

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LinguaPeel said:
Holy fuck just grow the herb right and you won't have to pretend you got dank with some barely smellable bullshit relying on brovida to pull off that barely there smell/taste.

The best shit in the world is stored in fuckin turkey bags. And yall fucking with brovida and jars n shit, wracking your minds for the answer,blaming it on genetics.. Wake up. I've smoked sooo much hydro, and plenty of it cured with brovida. Even lots of RIU members stuff. Shit barely smells, barely tastes. Want me to name names? I'll do it. Thats frosty bullshit that upsets your stomach smoking it lol.

Yall need to give up the grow store mythology and grown real shit that basically cures itself in a zip lock. Food grade bacteria rich inputs.. No brovida required. Fuck bottled bullshit and dead mediums. You cant turn turds into gold..or can you?

Yall fuck up so bad you cause someone in a wheelchair to come out of retirement. Pretty fucking sad. Pick a side. You ain't gonna grow quality herb with a fucking growstore product.
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Just relax.

Anecdotal evidence is great and all, but you do realize that there are several other plants that humans smoke and that we can learn a lot about how to take a plant to the moisture content we desire from say, tobacco farmers? Or maybe people who manufacture cigars know something about storing things to retain their flavor. I’m not saying that we should just copy/paste what they are doing into what we do, just that to have such a closed mind is counterproductive.

There are tons of drying methods, saying that the end product is gonna be awesome because you grew it right is incorrect. It will still smell like hay, if you dry it wrong or too fast, so you do need to make sure you dry right.

Good luck smoking all that turkey bag unicorn weed. lol

You know the entire reason for any of this is long term storage right? Because maintaining a stable environment makes literally everything last longer. I can tell you didn’t know why they exist though because you went of on a half cocked idiotic rant instead of explaining that they can’t fix mistakes made before harvest which is ALL that you needed to say.
 
Kingrow1

Kingrow1

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LinguaPeel said:
Holy fuck just grow the herb right and you won't have to pretend you got dank with some barely smellable bullshit relying on brovida to pull off that barely there smell/taste.

The best shit in the world is stored in fuckin turkey bags. And yall fucking with brovida and jars n shit, wracking your minds for the answer,blaming it on genetics.. Wake up. I've smoked sooo much hydro, and plenty of it cured with brovida. Even lots of RIU members stuff. Shit barely smells, barely tastes. Want me to name names? I'll do it. Thats frosty bullshit that upsets your stomach smoking it lol.

Yall need to give up the grow store mythology and grown real shit that basically cures itself in a zip lock. Food grade bacteria rich inputs.. No brovida required. Fuck bottled bullshit and dead mediums. You cant turn turds into gold..or can you?

Yall fuck up so bad you cause someone in a wheelchair to come out of retirement. Pretty fucking sad. Pick a side. You ain't gonna grow quality herb with a fucking growstore product.
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Your attitude stinks but your bang on, use to be this stuff wasnt pushed by legal growstore rubbish.
 
Kingrow1

Kingrow1

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dstroy said:
Just relax.

Anecdotal evidence is great and all, but you do realize that there are several other plants that humans smoke and that we can learn a lot about how to take a plant to the moisture content we desire from say, tobacco farmers? Or maybe people who manufacture cigars know something about storing things to retain their flavor. I’m not saying that we should just copy/paste what they are doing into what we do, just that to have such a closed mind is counterproductive.

There are tons of drying methods, saying that the end product is gonna be awesome because you grew it right is incorrect. It will still smell like hay, if you dry it wrong or too fast, so you do need to make sure you dry right.

Good luck smoking all that turkey bag unicorn weed. lol

You know the entire reason for any of this is long term storage right? Because maintaining a stable environment makes literally everything last longer. I can tell you didn’t know why they exist though because you went of on a half cocked idiotic rant instead of explaining that they can’t fix mistakes made before harvest which is ALL that you needed to say.
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Nah dude, the finest tobaccos are treated to the purer methods but if you ever smoked the cheaper stuff youll realise that its pretty tasty too.

Mainly people split hairs, hype curing and get too carried away and boveda has their money. I can do way leas for cheaper and produce the same bud.

Hypesters here are a joke, they need their tricks to stand out or it would just still be the old skool knowledge.

:-)
 
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