I agree... I use sealed plastic tubs and glass jars. Inwould say the glass jars are a tiny bit better but not a load in it. The plastic sealed tubs from IKEA are way bigger too
Curing in 5 Gal buckets
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Purplenoogie28
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I wish I wasn’t on here asking a bunch of strangers how to do this but unfortunately with the lack of knowledge (including my own) in this processing plant has made me turn to the internet to look for answers. Specifically so that I can learn how to do my job better and hopefully get others I work with to learn as well. I know the way we are doing things are all wrong. For one we use a twister to wet harvest... we ruin our beautiful buds before they even begin to dry/cure. For two like I said we’re only drying for a minimal amount of time and then into 5 Gal buckets. The 5 Gal buckets are gama.. that’s the only plus I would suppose. There’s minimal knowledge in our whole entire cultivation team. Medical hasn’t really been a thing for too long here in Ohio so hopefully we can get with the times a lot more and get over this learning curve. Which is what I’m trying to do by reaching out and asking for help.
Purplenoogie28
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We are also doing this!
Purplenoogie28
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We use gama lids. We don’t use jars because we are curing 60 plus pounds at a time.
Purplenoogie28
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I couldn’t tell you the rh of a bucket but the rh of the room is between 59-62%
Purplenoogie28
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Yes!! Any given harvest is 60 plus pounds. Times that by 3 harvests a week. Lots and lots of weight, too much for glass jars.
kovidkough
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watch the video I posted. it requires very little tooling around to get the lines in the buckets and an air pump. he does 70lb batches.
Purplenoogie28
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We wet harvest. I should have been more specific in that aspect. The buds dry out extremely fast when removed from the plant, after we run our plants through a twister we tray our buds up and put it in a controlled dry room.
Purplenoogie28
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Thank you! I’m checking it out now.
Purplenoogie28
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Unfortunate yes.
Purplenoogie28
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I apologize I didn’t realize this forum was for highly experienced weed growers.
Purplenoogie28
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wel I guess it’s hard to find people in Ohio with a lot of experience wet harvesting 60 lbs at a time. Our state is new to this guys. This isn’t a home grow. We aren’t hang drying. We have too much product for glass jars. It’s on a very large scale.
Purplenoogie28
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We have our Human Resources team giving us direction but they’re states away from us.. not on sight. So I’m doing the best I can with what I’ve got. And thoroughly learning along the way I guess. We have an analytical lab test our product for many different microbes, mold and yeast, solvents and pesticides. So ultimately if our product is shit it fails. Which thankfully we aren’t out here tacking up a bunch of failed tests so we must be doing something right. Our product sells. Our thc percentages normally sit between 30-33 percent. So I mean... I don’t think there is an alarming reason to worry about the customers right now.
Wizzlebiz
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Fair enough. Sounds like a start up.
The longer the dry the better the taste and smell. 2 weeks seems to be the general consensus for top notch bud.
TheManicOrganicDK
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Thats simply just wrong.
There is a very LOW chance the weed will take any hint of plastic-y-taste at all.
AND it can be minimized to nothing, by using buckets made for food.
I use old buckets from my burgerplace. They give me old buckets from their ketchup and other stuff they do, all buckets made for food and ansolutely no smell at all. (From the plast )
Sabre4:20
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Right. Dudes on his first grow but types likes he’s seen and done it all.
People need to stay in their lanes on this site.
Skoal
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I personally wish I had a better alternative. Mason jars are my go to. Real poor lately, so the $5 bucket and lid seemed to be my go to. But yes, I will vouch it is not a perfect solution or air tight completely. Does a decent job, not as good as mason jars though. This is all personal smoke anyways and to cook with. Will be transferring some of the weed into the mason jars that are slowly freed up.
Purplenoogie28
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You guys are wack... I came here to ask for help and you guys are acting like I’m unworthy because I’m not a growing god like you. This is my first LARGE SCALE GROW... I didn’t say I was a dummy... quit assuming.
kovidkough
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its not the size of the grow that matters only the result. in the landrace countries some farmers have many many hectars of pot growing. no one said it was heady.