I've never heard this.. Interesting... I'm also a newbie. It's been an interesting journey last two grow and now just harvested one of three in my 4x4. I've had a chance to cure two grows. Each of the grows was about a 1.5 pound jared up. I used Integra Boost 62% humidity packs. My pot from both grows are still curing in jars with those packs over 8 months for my first grow... experiment accepted.
As a new grower I find myself constantly doing little experiments with soil, waterings, fertilizers, lights and so on and now I will leave a few jars without humidity packs. Hopefully getting better each grow.
I lollipopped the hell out of them my last grow. I pinched every bud site under the top node on every branch leaving the fan leaves down to third node. It was kinda of an experiment. The quality looks amazing, but no real huge buds or actually one huge bud on top? No stacking really keeps the size down. After harvesting I may think I'm closer to my goal at least for the first plant harvested. Goal is 117g. I think by looking at them I may have gotten it using this technique.
Don't know how I'm going to tell when they're dry. There's no small buds on branch to snap off. That's how I've gauged in the past... I have them safely drying around 62% humidity.
This is what the Big Bud looks like hanging and room is totally dark. Got the RH dialed in at about 62% / 60°f
