Curing In Grove Bags, Ideal Temp

Tikbalang said:

I guess your happy with the results you get? DIY seems the much smarter option. how long have you been using it, assuming you still do? Do you have a basic go to setting or adjust through the process. Any operating tips or cautions?
I really appreciate the info you shared already, think it saved me overspending. Thanks
Sorry, missed the later post about google.

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I am going to start a new thread, I don’t want to clutter this one up. I’ll edit this with the location in a bit.

Hook Daddy said:

I am going to start a new thread, I don’t want to clutter this one up. I’ll edit this with the location in a bit.

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looking forward to it

Here’s the thread on my wine cooler drying and curing build if you hadn’t seen it already.

Hook Daddy said:

Here’s the thread on my wine cooler drying and curing build if you hadn’t seen it already.

Thermoelectric wine cooler drying and curing - DIY

I had read about these for a while before trying, this is not by any means a new idea nor did I come up with the idea. I was tired of over drying and drying too quickly in the winter, then freaking out about mold in the summer. A google search will give lots of other ideas, but I get a lot of...

www.rollitup.org

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Appreciate you spending the time to put this together for us. Many thanks.

Splinter7 said:

i suck at construction and mechanics....can i just hire you to do one for me? lol. i wondered if anyone had tried this. i will have to work this out with my handy bros. if you could figure out how to do it cheaply, there is a pretty large differential from 350 (maybe double for labor) to the price of a canntrol.

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Dude I literally bought a regular mini fridge to fix the same problem. Yes, it sucks the humidity out BUT there are methods to mitigate that. I have an inkbird/dehu and a small desk fan in the bottom and when I need to add humidity i just toss in a a damp sponge or a shot Glass full of water but honestly most of the time it's perfect in there. I keep temps in the low 40s for drying and then up to 50 for curing. For drying, I clip buds a bit on the smaller side and do a wet trim and then put 28g wet in paper bags. Fold them up and clip them with binder clips or paper clips. Takes 10-14 days to dry and then into grove bags and back in there to cure. Just finished putting a little more than 3 qp's (3 autos, 2 produced a qp 1 yielded 5oz) in there for the cure today

Surprised Grove bags don't keep the humidity as they're advertised to do so. I know mason jars do a good job of keeping the humidity at a constant, would just leaving the buds in mason jars inside the fridge be easier than doing all that drilling and modding?

What happened to using jars?

Week4@inCharge said:

Surprised Grove bags don't keep the humidity as they're advertised to do so. I know mason jars do a good job of keeping the humidity at a constant, would just leaving the buds in mason jars inside the fridge be easier than doing all that drilling and modding?

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The grove bags will keep the humidity as advertised, but they also say buds must be properly dried first, then put in the bags. Same with jars, they keep the humidity in, so putting the buds in jars will work for curing but not for drying. All the drilling and modding of the wine cooler is to control the drying process as well. You put the buds in wet, although I do let them dry a day first, and slowly dry them then let them cure.