help with curing. .. ? please help.....

once jared how often do i open the jar

Good question, I'm also intrested in accurate info on curing. Things like what temp to keep your room the jars are in? how full to fill the jars? curing time? light vs dark? and how you know when it's fully cured? Please Help!

There are some good guides on this forum already. You are aware that there is a "Drying and Curing" subforum, right?

Buds should be a bit crisp but with bendable stems when they go in the jars... open once or twice a day to air out, as needed... once a day taking the buds out and rearranging them in the jars... when you reload try to put them in so the ones that were on the inside are on the outside and vice versa. Each day you should notice that the buds have lost some of their crisp, as the moisture moves from stem to bud. Air out to prevent moisture build up in jars... if the buds seem like they are not crisping back up, I like to take all buds out and leave them out on a plate for about 10-15 minutes before doing the reload.

Then you just sort of taper down as necessary... it's sort of self-explanatory as you get a feel for what is crisp and what isn't... cut down to once a day, then to once every other day, then to once every few days... in accordance with their needs...

Again, there are guides in the Dry/Cure subforum for a more "guided" process that relies less on feeling/interpretation.. but in the long run, much like feeding nutes, you will be better off learning to assess the needs yourself rather than following a schedule.

AltarNation made some good points.

With real low winter humidity like we have here in Michigan the problem at harvest time is that nugs left out to dry/cure will turn
crispy if just left by themselves to dry out. So I air-dry for 2-3 days then put the nugs in a sealable glass jar. Mason jars are perfect.
Put the jar in the 'fridge for a day or 2 sealed. What this does is allow the moisture still in the buds to spread out evenly among the greenery.
After a day or 2 in the 'fridge I check to see if the jar is uniformly dry. If not I leave the top off for 24 hours and return to the 'fridge. Sometimes
it take a couple trips to the 'fridge to get the job done.

Why is this so important? The first time you have to throw out a half-pound of moldy bud you won't have to ask. The longer you are going to keep
something the drier it has to be to remain mold-free.

Good luck, BigSteve.

I do once a day for about an hour or two and then seal em back up... After getting them manicured and dried down to approx 15% moisture content, which is usually about when the stems will snap and not bend and break, about a week and a half-two weeks hangin in the drying area... I'll repeat that process for a couple two or three weeks, and kinda sample a piece of a nug in a bowl to see how its burning and tasting, to know when enough curing has taken place... Any kind of desicant I have found is a potentially bad thing, as it seems to zap all of the moisture outta the buds... So, I tend to steer away from the silica packs, like some people swear by...

bigsteve said:

AltarNation made some good points.

With real low winter humidity like we have here in Michigan the problem at harvest time is that nugs left out to dry/cure will turn
crispy if just left by themselves to dry out. So I air-dry for 2-3 days then put the nugs in a sealable glass jar. Mason jars are perfect.
Put the jar in the 'fridge for a day or 2 sealed. What this does is allow the moisture still in the buds to spread out evenly among the greenery.
After a day or 2 in the 'fridge I check to see if the jar is uniformly dry. If not I leave the top off for 24 hours and return to the 'fridge. Sometimes
it take a couple trips to the 'fridge to get the job done.

Why is this so important? The first time you have to throw out a half-pound of moldy bud you won't have to ask. The longer you are going to keep
something the drier it has to be to remain mold-free.

Good luck, BigSteve.

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Good info! It does make sense with the low humidity and all up here. Ugh.. I miss FL lol
How though does the fridge, exactly, make it spread more evenly?

the buds need to be moist inside and dry on the outside, if they get moist on the outside re-dry the outside of the buds again, the moisture inside the buds flavour them