Humidity Packs and Weaker Aroma

Ah, I see. By ten percent moisture I thought you meant 50 percent relative humidity. Didn’t know there was a difference.

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Into the bud…

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I mostly use the old stem snap test, which means I probably dry my buds more than yours

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I forget the formula but I remember 9% moisture is 50%RH and 12% is 65%RH

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I’ve always found that 10-12% moisture equals 58-62 or 63RH in bag with hygrometer.

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I just tested a few nugs and they are between 10 & 12% and the stems don’t snap. Time to jar this sticky skunk.

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Such a small difference the airs humidity level makes, it’s high in the winter here low in the summer but all dry to a 12% or under level I don’t need to adjust anything.

I still just jar when it’s dry and ready, find if it gets very dry the taste and strength seem amplified a little so rather take the lower air humidity if I was doing anything.

I think that’s a great way to get to know how to dry and cure, moisture meter check your buds levels, some might find they are jarring up to early then hoping boveda will help that.

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I’m too cheap to buy a moisture meter.
So, i experimented.

I weigh my harvest wet, then i dry it.
I check it each day until it’s the desired dryness. I also weigh it daily.
When it is the dryness i want i weigh it. Then i jar it.

I have found i like mine at 15-20% of the wet weight.

Knowing that i can weigh it going in and then weigh it daily until it’s at my target weight.

Good to go.

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I dried my Durban Poison and Jack Herer in my friend’s sugarhouse because I couldn’t fit them in my bedroom. The sugarhouse was rather humid, should have probably given them a dehumidifier. It was probably around 60% humidity. The bud only half dried even after a whole month. I would pick some up every couple weeks to finish drying in my bedroom and trim.

The plants were so big we had to cut them into multiple sections. And this is after already harvesting 1/4th of the Durban Poison and 1/3rd of the Jack Herer.


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You have made a conflicting problem, we all say and cite that at 60% humidity bud dries to 12% moisture and under.

Humidity has no way to keep that bud wet unless enclosed and it will always dry.

So questions-

1 How did you end up with different results to us?
2 How do you keep a bud wet for a month and not get mold and rot?

Water will always leave a surface except in ultra high humidity, just some simple ventilation was probably what you lacked not the humidity, it’s 60% indoors here all winter, higher even, bud still drys just not as dry as summer and the difference barely noticeable.

Answers in a postcard please

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It did not stay as wet as when it was growing. But after one full month, it was definitely not dry. Required another one to two weeks in my bedroom.

Keep in mind too that these plants were gargantuan, perhaps bigger than any cannabis plant that you have ever grown. The trunks were about 4 inches in diameter at the base and required cutting with a saw to remove. Normally I use those big ball cutter shears but they would barely even put a dent in the stem.

Extremely thick stems does result in slower drying. Also, do you hang the whole plant upside down or do you dry individual branches and buds? Whole plant upside down does take longer.

I have noticed bud dried very fast at the place I was living at the time when my landlady turned on the wood stove, which made the air very dry. I suspect your theory that humidity has little to no effect on drying is wrong. I have noticed in very dry environments my buds dry out too quickly and can feel crispy much faster. Without the wood stove on a week later they often were still not crispy, wood stove on would crisp em up in 2 to 5 days.

Regarding rot - I did at least give him a fan to run for air circulation. Prior to harvesting both the Jack Herer and Durban Poison had developed some bud rot (the durban not as much, the jack was worse). I was very dilligent in removing as much as I could and would check on my plants three times per day to inspect for rot and snip off branches that had any rot present. During drying, however, there did not seem to be much further development of rot. We had alot of flooding rains around harvest time which fucked them up a bit, but after harvesting there was little rot that developed during drying. I was honestly surprised. I thought it was a 50 / 50 chance they would rot the fuck out but who knows, God was on my side. So to answer your question of how it did not rot, I will quote Pulp Fiction and say it must have been divine intervention. I wanted to buy a dehumidifier but was in the middle of moving to a new place which involved buying a $1600 chicken coop, so my moving costs were a bit high.

Also I never measured the humidity there. I should have, but this was an intense operation and I had little time. Was more worried about my landlady potentially shooting at my friend when we were chopping the plant down and things like that. Or getting pulled over. We had to use his cordwood truck because the plants were so fucking massive. Would not fit in a regular pickup for sure, and they would be extremely visible even if they did.

So anyways, without measuring the humidity I cannot be sure it was exactly 60 percent humidity. I said “felt like 60” but it could have been 65 or 70. Felt really moist in there, and I know what 50% humidity feels like, it wasn’t that. They were dried in a sugar house for making maple syrup which involves evaporation of sap. It was not temperature controlled, temperature fluctuated between 40 and 60 degrees.

Also what does answers in a postcard mean? Please clarify, as I suspect it was metaphorical rather than literal.

No 2 grows are the same. It takes a week to dry my little 5oz plant. I imagine if the plant was 2lbs it would take a minimum double the time.

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All two growers are the same in that the science dosent change from one to the other.

Overall it takes a week to dry and a week for terms and breakdowns to become ready for smoking.

If your suggesting at 60% humidity weed don’t dry to well I’ll dispute that straight of the bat.

Why I was asking how he managed to not achieve the same results as I did?

So you are suggesting that it’s possible for drying time may differ based on the size of the plant given that other drying conditions are the same? This makes sense, as when I harvest individual branches before the main harvest, those branches dry out significantly faster than the whole plant hanging upside down.

I actually did harvest approximately 2 pounds off of this plant (the Durban). The Jack was much less but still about a pound.

Last year my blackberry kush plants only harvested at a quarter pound each. Drying time was much faster. Drying environment there was also more dry due to the wood stove running. It makes the air really dry. The sugar house was not even heated, and in most houses in fall / winter the humidity is lowered due to operation of heating systems (although some heat sources effect humidity more than others).

I have no idea why we didn’t achieve the same results. It is a valid question, but I don’t know enough about your drying environment, method of drying, or the sizes of your plants being dried. Nor do I know the temperature. I’m not sure whether temperature would make much difference but could be a factor, not sure.

Either way, I think it is mathematically possible for one cannabis plant to take longer to dry than another cannabis plant, especially if there is a difference between plant size and environmental conditions.

Do you have any pictures of your plants to share?

I don’t even know why you would make such a broad statement like this nothing could be further from the truth. We definitely want to see what you’re working with.

It takes most organic matter a week to become sub 12% humidity and mist crops produce data you can find in the internet to confirm this.

Secondary degredation takes a week, you can dry your bud and sample everyday to see the taste and smell kick in after the first weeks dry.

Just by doing it one can see and the science is there if you find and read

All about moisture levels, humidity dosent stop something drying it merely reduces its rate and the final moisture content which others agreed on above hence the dry needs to hit 12% moisture and below which is easily had at humidity if %65 and less.

Pretty simple right?

“Most crops”

Most crops don’t grow 12 to 15 feet tall and 8 feet wide with a 4 inch diameter stem