After spending time on the forums here, I had to go shopping (funny how that happens) for a moisture meter. I’m usually apt to buy a little higher up the value ladder, but this was just too cheap to pass up. Just opened it today and it seems to work just fine, but depending on the setting, a nug goes from the ballparks of 7.5-12% (this is from my consumption jar and its humidity is only around 50%).
So what does this community of highly trained &/or well seasoned professionals recommend out of these unconventional choices of wood selections? I’ve read to use hard wood, and also soft wood, and will probably get mixed signals here too, but that’s ok, I’ll average it out 
The Material 1 setting reads the lowest and progresses up the chain, if that helps, maybe by comparing a well-cured nug to the humidity of the jar, if that’s possible to know…?
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Mine is a different brand, but I use the “building materials” setting. In the “wood” mode, the readings seem too high.
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Interesting @Cap_Ron… I’m guessing M5 - Bricks would be the building materials, but that reads the highest on this meter.
Edit: Skip that, M5 is the weird one that reads .8 %
It’s lowest to highest from M1 - M4, then M5 is an outlier.
For anyone keeping score, this particular example reads like this:
M1 - 7.5%
M2 - 9.2
M3 - 9.7
M4 - 12
M5 - 0.8
In my mind, I’m calling it mid 9’s for now I guess. Seems as good an average as any.
I’m trying a well cured bud right now, in both modes. Be right back.
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My meter only has the two settings. So in the “building materials” setting a cured bud is reading 11.5%, and it was right around 12% when I jarred it.
In the “wood” setting, the same cured bud is reading 16.7%, so there’s a pretty decent difference.
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And that was out of a jar at 62%?
@Cap_Ron
(I don’t think my ‘Reply’ is working)
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I don’t use those mini hygrometers in my jars because they’re very inaccurate, so I can’t confirm the 62%, but I’d say it’s definitely in that range.
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I don’t need the meter for a couple months yet.
I skipped Boveda’s last round (this end of the process I still struggle at), and this little chat spawned an idea. I’m setting up a jar with a Boveda and a few nugs from my open jar. I’ll let it balance for a couple weeks, then check with meter again and reverse-reference it to whatever reads in the 10-11% range, coming from a 62% climate.
We’ll see what happens! Thanks for the input @Cap_Ron !
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Actually, the moisture meter makes Boveda packs and the mini hygrometers unnecessary.
I used to struggle with when my drying buds were ready to jar. Then I always ended up with jars either too moist or too dry. Since I got the meter, I jar my buds at the proper time, and everything has worked out perfectly.
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Exactly what I’m aiming for. But since I just bought my first meter, I don’t have an accurate reference point. I’m on the right track I think, just slow out of the gate
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