if you want the perfect cure do this method.......
BEFORE you chop her down figure out where you want to hang her.... Get a thermometer and RH meter. I recommend the Acu Rite model, its 2in1 (we'll also be needing this a little later also). Place that RH meter in your drying room for over 12 hours to get your rooms RH%.
Chop your plant down (after you groom her).. Then hang her upside down in your drying room.
Look at the rooms RH%. If your rooms RH is 60... Hang her up for 7 days total. 1 day for each RH%, plus 1 extra day. If your rooms RH is 69%RH, then hang her for 7 days total (6 for each RH + 1 extra day). If your rooms is 59%, then hang her for 6 days total, etc.... Keep in mind you'll want to keep checking her stems!! Check for the crack/crunch!! And the less light on her the better. You'll want her trichs in darkness.
Once the hanging process is done, clip the buds and then place them AND the Acu Rite RH meter in a mason jar along with your buds. This step is tricky. You dont want to get mason jars to small because you wont be able to fit all your buds and the RH meter inside. I recommend going to a thrift store and buying one of those BIG air tight sealed jars. (trust me, you'll be wasting money on these dinky mason jars if you dont).
Once the RH meter is inside FACING OUT (so you can see what the RH% inside is), place the buds in. You want to get your RH down to about 63% inside the jar in order to get that perfect cure.
To do this, "Burp" your jar's for 2-4 hours for the first few days. Once your RH starts going down, "Burp" your jars for about a hour each day. When your RH stays around 63%-65%, youre in that cure range and you can now take the RH meter out and store your buds for at least a couple weeks before you open the jar.
I know its going to be hard not to smoke it but trust me, I learned from the best of the best on here and you'll want to wait. Basically you do not have to do this method. Each person has their way of curing and really, even though there are wrong ways, its hard to mess this up. Just remember to dry your plants out as much as possible before you chop her. The more she drys out, the less moisture you'll have when hanging her + you'll allow the plant to eat up whats left after it gets flushed.
Good luck with all your grows! Come back here and let us know how they turned out! And a smoke report too!!
(ps: i gotta update my fruit & haze grow! But i just harvested the fruit's and theyre now curing at 65%RH. Haze is coming down in another week or two)
