@CaptainLucky , sorry mate I can't. I've never measured humidity in my weed, so have no idea. Just when you'd normally jar it, but it still needs burping. Ie the stems snap when bent.
Just take 3 or 4 colas, squash them into a roll and vac them as they are.
I did it with some New Caledonia 2 harvest's ago and it came out very nice indeed, similar to a Thai stick in effect! The individual colas will still separate from each other once the cob is fully dry.
My daughter has just been visiting and we almost finished of the NC. This is all that's left.
As your a novice, (but hopefully not for long), I'd suggest that you open the cobs and allow them to dry well between stages; beginners often use too wet bud to start with and don't allow sufficient drying between the Initial ferment and the cure. A dense cob still contains a lot of moisture in its core. Let the surface become dry before resealing.
You asked earlier about the heat pad and Crockpot; apologies for not answering but I'm very loaded today ( 30mg Mulanje x Malawi/Ethiopian for breakfast and 500mg of Original haze for afternoon tea!) and I forgot.
Many people use them and they will work fine. I personally use a dehydrator and dial in the different temperatures that I want for ferment and cure, and also during the drying stages, I can do things a lot quicker. You will probably find that after the first ferment (8-48 hrs, depending on what you're after, temperature and your starting material's moisture content), that the drying the surface will take up to 48hrs at room temperature; I can do this in a dehydrator in 8 or so.
As you get more experience making cobs you'll want to try using different temperatures, sweat times (initial ferment times),moisture content and compression. All make subtle differences.
A good tip, I think; as soon as you notice a Slight! colour change in the bag, the ferment has started. So don't wait any longer to open the bag and dry the cob. If you wait until the colour has changed a lot, then the resulting cob will be dark and not as terpy. Nothing wrong with those cobs at all and I do make a few of them on purpose, but the lighter coloured, more terpy cobs give a more lively high. Dark cobs are more introverted.
Use your nose, you'll know the special smell when you smell it. It's very much an intuitive process and doing it by numbers won't cut it.
Give your cobs as much love as you gave the plant.
I'm really looking forward to hearing what you think of the GT in a few months.