Ok so I’m just finishing up a 10 plant harvest, it’s been 9 days of hang drying, stems just started to get hard but not a dry snap, so I figured I’d start trimming a couple plants to get a head start and put them in grove bags like I did last harvest, my question is what should the rh be on my meter after putting plants in grove bag? I know they are still moist and my meter says 49rh and the other is 51rh? I also used a 62% boost humidity pack in both bags last night, neither bags humidity has gone up? I thought bags would achieve a 58-62 rh reading? Especially pulling them in my opinion early?
Should I let them sit for a couple days to see if rh climbs?
Should I try to put some moisture in bag to get up to desired rh and then seal?
That bit of moisture left, goes a loooong way. If you have the wood moisture meter, I’d definitely use it. 10-12% then fill bags 3/4 and let them do their thing for cure.
Check with your moisture reader and go from there.
The largest variable that can cause issues in this scenario is that RH meters are not calibrated. You can buy bigger ones that are digital Bluetooth and they allow adjustment or you can buy the cheap ones that don’t use batteries and just use a sharpy.
RH readers should go j to a small mason jar with the large Bovida packs, let it sit for 2 days in temp stable place (no sunshine)
Then calibrate the meter, it should be the exact RH as the Bovida pack…
Once you do this you will realize every RH meter is wrong because altitude messes with the calibration.
Also I strongly recommend using a large bag, I try and put each plant in its own 1LB bag. Allow it to all stabilize together.
Then once it’s stabilized I would suggest mason jars.
I found my Grove bags dry things out after extended periods of time.
