Kingrow1
Well-Known Member
Stepping onto more discussion and a futher stab at the modern growers dry and cure methods.
Ill start by stating - dried perfect cured primo bud has a water content of between 10 and 15%. This is quite locked away and would either need direct heat or an extended drying time of well over a month or two to futher purge.
There is no risk of overdrying bud by letting it hang a couple of weeks and the remaining moisture of 10-15% is enough that when jarred futher enzymatic processes happen and thus it is cured.
Humidity will do two things - speed or slow the dry by a small amount (not a lot) and leave you on the lower or upoer side of that 10-15% remaining moisture - thats all dont complicate it.
So the process so far is hang till dry - we know what dry is because after two weeks obviously the bud has no more moisture to loose and smokes well in a joint. It is certainky not at 0% moisture or it would all fully crumble to dust, our bud compacts not crumbles when squashed and dosent leave a tidy pile of dust but just a smaller bud - should also grind to a fine particulate when put through a grinder, all signs theres still moisture left at the correct level.
Next the jar for storage - buds at perfect moisture content, much higher and mold will develop (that highly evolved shit that needs just over what dried weeds 10-15% moisture levels to move in) so just pop it in a jar and close - next day dont burp (dumb nane) just open the lid take some out and check its still dry. The situation we have here is that if we put anything in a jar that has residual water content (in our bud moisture above that 10-15%) it will (as with the hang dry part and all drying things) release that moisture slowly into the air and the jars moisture content will rise enough for mold. This moisture cant float off cause the lids closed and it will settle back onto the surfaces of the bud making it wetter again.
One note here - oncr bud drys those celks explode implode and fracture apart - they cannot be rehydrated - the bud has surface area that does allow moisture absorbtion - different things. I find things in the world start getting wet in stagnant air at 70% and above rh.
So if bud gets wet you need to take it out and dry but question why it didnt dry well enough in the first place. With me sometimes ill feel a slight moisture rise so redry for couple days then buds stay dry long term and can be stored.
If you try and monitor jar humidity it may rise fall or ehatecer but you dont need to compleicate the shit out of the fact you know what dried bud is by now and by jarring your also checking it is dried enough. Point in fact put a load of fresh harvested bud in a jar and what happens to the humidity? At what humidity does moisture later form on the jar walls?
Theres a lot more to it as well but we dont need to monitor humidity and to dry simoly hang bud in a place it feels dry after a week - somewhere with air excgange not to cool not too hot no direct heat or light.
I will not respond to troll questions and happy just to write so future growers have somthing a little more factual to read whilst ordering boveda because its now day four and they read to jar at day five and burp for a week
Ill start by stating - dried perfect cured primo bud has a water content of between 10 and 15%. This is quite locked away and would either need direct heat or an extended drying time of well over a month or two to futher purge.
There is no risk of overdrying bud by letting it hang a couple of weeks and the remaining moisture of 10-15% is enough that when jarred futher enzymatic processes happen and thus it is cured.
Humidity will do two things - speed or slow the dry by a small amount (not a lot) and leave you on the lower or upoer side of that 10-15% remaining moisture - thats all dont complicate it.
So the process so far is hang till dry - we know what dry is because after two weeks obviously the bud has no more moisture to loose and smokes well in a joint. It is certainky not at 0% moisture or it would all fully crumble to dust, our bud compacts not crumbles when squashed and dosent leave a tidy pile of dust but just a smaller bud - should also grind to a fine particulate when put through a grinder, all signs theres still moisture left at the correct level.
Next the jar for storage - buds at perfect moisture content, much higher and mold will develop (that highly evolved shit that needs just over what dried weeds 10-15% moisture levels to move in) so just pop it in a jar and close - next day dont burp (dumb nane) just open the lid take some out and check its still dry. The situation we have here is that if we put anything in a jar that has residual water content (in our bud moisture above that 10-15%) it will (as with the hang dry part and all drying things) release that moisture slowly into the air and the jars moisture content will rise enough for mold. This moisture cant float off cause the lids closed and it will settle back onto the surfaces of the bud making it wetter again.
One note here - oncr bud drys those celks explode implode and fracture apart - they cannot be rehydrated - the bud has surface area that does allow moisture absorbtion - different things. I find things in the world start getting wet in stagnant air at 70% and above rh.
So if bud gets wet you need to take it out and dry but question why it didnt dry well enough in the first place. With me sometimes ill feel a slight moisture rise so redry for couple days then buds stay dry long term and can be stored.
If you try and monitor jar humidity it may rise fall or ehatecer but you dont need to compleicate the shit out of the fact you know what dried bud is by now and by jarring your also checking it is dried enough. Point in fact put a load of fresh harvested bud in a jar and what happens to the humidity? At what humidity does moisture later form on the jar walls?
Theres a lot more to it as well but we dont need to monitor humidity and to dry simoly hang bud in a place it feels dry after a week - somewhere with air excgange not to cool not too hot no direct heat or light.
I will not respond to troll questions and happy just to write so future growers have somthing a little more factual to read whilst ordering boveda because its now day four and they read to jar at day five and burp for a week
Last edited:
