Grove bags to quart jars

Grow Cycle Harvesting
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so after i cure in the grove bags shoul i move the buds to quart jars for long term storage and not have to burp them

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It’s not necessary to burp jars with cured flower in them.

I use Mason jars and put a 58% Boveda pack in each to maintain proper RH.

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Unless you have a second harvest that needs curing, keep what you have in the Grove bags. I’m new to growing my own, having just filled my Grove bags (and mason jars with the overflow), but I’ve spent many hours reading and learning, including virtually everything on the Grove site. They say to keep weed in the bags until you use it, even many months later.

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I just ran into a problem with my Grove bags. It seems that they cannot maintain RH of 58-60% in a room with low humidity.

I harvested 4 plants in the summer, dried the buds in a room that was about 65% RH, and packed them in Grove bags to cure. I heat-sealed some of the bags, but left a few unsealed (just closed the zipper on the Grove bags).

At first, I had hygrometers in some of the bags, but after the RH inside the bags stabilized at about 60%, I removed most of the hygrometers and heat-sealed the bags. I stored them in the basement, where the RH was initially >60% (in summer), but it has now fallen to 35-40% most of the time.

Yesterday, I opened one bag (not heat sealed) and the flower inside was VERY dry and crumbly. I checked the hygrometer which was in another bag, and the RH in the Grove bag was down to 50%. ** So the Grove failed to maintain the RH** at 58-60% when the room RH dropped to 35-40%.

I have now set up a humidifier in a small room to raise the RH to ~60%, and I am thinking of opening all the bags to let the buds inside re-equilibrate in that room, then re-seal them. Or, I could leave the bags closed and see if enough moisture can get through the bag to re-hydrate the buds.

If this fails, I’ll move all the buds into jars.

Any suggestions?

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