Those meters are great, I put them in all of my curing bud containers
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My grove bag has done the same. House rH is 30-40%. I’m starting to think they are a gimmick. Not that they don’t “work” but that they aren’t special. I have considered just taking mason jars and drilling a hole in the lid and placing micropore .22 micron tape/patches over it. That’s how I do my mushroom jars. Allows just enough gas exchange while still letting some moisture escape. They also survive my autoclaves during sterilizing which is nice. Wouldn’t need to really burp them at all. Then when they get where you like it just tape over the filter. If you reuse the jar just take the tape off or replace the filter.
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I live in the north east as well and had the same issue. This is what I do after curing in the bag.
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1: I freeze the bags in a tupperware container and keep them there until i’m ready to use.
2: when I am ready to use I take a bag out of the freezer for a few days until the rh get to the point I like. Then I put the bag in a mason jsr with a 60% Boveda pack. Works out perfect.
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I’m leaning towards onboard with they’re not the miracle cure method. I like that lid setup, sounds awesome! I’ll admit I was drawn to the bags because I wanted the easy cure so I could get onto the next grow. I have however learned that the growing process and the hard work that goes into it doesn’t just end at chop, but carries on til you light up that perfectly cured bud.
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Never thought about freezing the bags first. I can see how that would add moisture to them to bring the Rh up.
Im following the dry/cure procedure that the owner of buildasoil does. He dries and cures in the tent. Hang wet, whole plant but can do branches. Keep it at 60% and try for 60F but under 70 is fine. 16 days like this then into a jars after cleaning up and trimming, no burping and ready to smoke/store. Since that is basically creating the same environment as a jar cure no need to dry a handful of days then go the weeks of burping route. Day 8 of my dry is tomorrow. 8 more to go then done. Oh, my tent is around 64F but does fluctuate up to 66F
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I’m intrigued by that method. 
sounds like a pretty awesome way for dry/cure
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Yeah. I just happened across one of his videos on it. Ill try and find it. He will even leave it like that for over 16 days if he has a large harvest and not a bunch of time to knock out the trim and storing. If the environment stays fairly stable like that you can just leave it all hanging for a good while and do it at your own pace.
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Both good watches.
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Perfect, I’ll check them out!
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Reading about storing some more and came across a Boveda article which basically kicks claims for places like Grove Bags and their products. Of course without directly naming them. Anything claiming to keep a “perfect” environment or retain/maintain humidity is bogus. As they say a bag is a bag and all will equalize to external parameters even sealed. So if your room rH is 30%, no matter what that grove bag is going to get to 30% and it can happen quickly.
This is likely why on the grove bags they recommend heat sealing. You will still drop or raise humidity but slower than not. But either way their bag isn’t actually doing anything but storing.
So if you get your bud to the perfect rH it’s likely already cured to the point that it’s not going to get a load better burping or “curing” in jars. If you have to burp then the dry wasn’t perfect. Which is the point of the jars burping but they call it curing. It could have been avoided if we hang dry and cure like BuildaSoils video. He doesn’t burp or do any other stuff. Jar and be done.
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