For real.....
it's 75% of its total WEIGHT, and since water is much more heavy than the other plant material it will loose less moisture to come to this point.
this "further enzymatic change" is what will break down chlorophyll so your smoke will be less like hay, less coarse/harsh and more unique in smell.
Pretty telling. You were doing great. Explaining your position, making some valid points, then you couldn't help yourself and had to come off like a dick by being condescending and insulting. Being right about drying weed seems a little too important to you.Ask me the science - its freely available but try and divide it up not ask for everything in one go.
Bud needs to loose approx 75% of its moisture to be at a level where it is dry enough to smoke.
It will do this in high or low humidity since unless the air is saturated it will be able to loose moisture into the surrounding air and dry.
All this is the basis for most hang drying - think clothes, indoors hang a thin cotton shirt and observe it slowly dry and release moisture till it cant release no more and is dry.
Simple science although we can talk thermodynamics and energy exchange if you want to be anal.
So it takes approx up to a week to hang dry bud and also many other organic plant matter.
But it still taste of hay - the reason why is that bacteria and enzymes are still at work and take a few days longer to complete and stop. I dont want to be anal here - theres hundreds and optimize at different moisture levels and such but by two weeks hang drying we can be confident they are done.
We could also just simply make a joint and see if its dry and then done after enzymes and bac. have stopped - not a hard concept and many sample wine and such just like we do to see wtf exactly is happening in the microscopic world we cant easily see.
So ya the cure is just an extra step - bacteria and enzymes that work on dried buds moisture levels i.e. 10-15% take a long time to produce futher enzymatic change and bacterial breakdown hence why the cure needs a few months to produce change.
Curing is not needed, just hang drying long enough produces top shelf weed ready for sale or smoke - all who are good enough will tell you this and its well known to.many.
Are you suggesting you cant make dank ass smoke without curing? Stuff like this just singles you put as a greenie - weve debated and tested this many times and totally disproved it so dont be an arse and tell us different but rather work out why you cant do what we do and what your mistakes are
Guy, your link proves my point. The chart on the page you linked to clearly shows you can't get below 20% moisture content if you are in RH conditions above 80%. But somehow you think RH is a non-factor.For real.....
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equilibrium_moisture_content
Here is a wiki link for the science so you can start educating your self.
Also only said a gazillion times that dried bud is between 10-15% moisture content when dried and ready. Higher humidities will push you towards 15% and lower towards 10%.
Its also not my system but i have put in the work to add the ACtUAl science so we dont have to argue but respect that a lot get it wrong and are wrong
Man that fan leaf idea is awesome I'll have to try that I always use a little piece of corn tortilla
Since my first science class most organic matter checks out at 10% solids and 90% water - us humans arent to far off either.
Guy, your link proves my point. The chart on the page you linked to clearly shows you can't get below 20% moisture content if you are in RH conditions above 80%. But somehow you think RH is a non-factor.
Another chart on the same page further illustrates this with different crops:
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So, thank you for proving that your statement of RH being a non-factor as false.
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They go off of water activity. They use a water activity meter to drop down to ~0.8 (if I remember correctly) asap and then slowly drop to 0.6 over the next week or so. 0.6 is a common industry storage standard. They reduce water activity fast so bacteria and mold are less likely to propagate, and then hold a water activity level beneficial to enzyme action while staying under mold or "rotting" water activity levels. I heard a podcast with a research scientist explaining this but can't remember where or which one. I think it was a Kiss Organics podcast and highly recommend checking out (maybe the Dr. Allison Justice epi?).
www.kisorganics.com
Why are you calling me a dipshit, are you really that immature? Can't have a reasonable debate without degrading to 6-year old tactics? Who looks like they are in kindergarten exactly? Grow the fuck up dude.Look dipsh!t that chart aint for cannabis but it proves the science behind what your presently debating. I actually went through a lot of data to adjust for cannabis and hence why my figure differ.
You completely miss the loint and the fact that other industries are so far up on this stuff they make you look like kindergarten.
Stop arguing and start getting on the same page -
Good move, you have to adjust your technique to your conditions. If you can't get a room in the ideal range of 50-55% rh then you need to slow the dry down somehow. Paper grocery bags are very forgiving and pretty hard to sweat your weed.