Please do what ever your heart desires.A wealth of information, with a keen sense of humor. You're gonna be fun to work with. My talent is in presentation. Please tell me you'll have no problem with me taking all of that valuable knowledge and making it look more enticing. Not right this minute, when I have time to devote to it.
I likeOk, let's try this. If there are any glaring errors I can edit them out. I figure you share, I reformat, and we work it all into easily readable form and then pull together a handbook of sorts when we get it all done. What do you think tricam?
A good starting point for the cure has been 72% humidity. Now we're going to begin the curing process, the first stage of which is dropping the bud humidity down to around 62%.
Remove the buds from the refrigerator and place them into storage jars, filling about 2/3 full, leaving the lids off for now. One of the jars will have a hygrometer in it. The bud relative humidity is 68% to 72% and you maintain the room atmosphere at 76 degrees F with RH at 57%. Begin by laying the jar with the hygrometer on its side and leaving it there until the meter reads the room humidity of 57%. When that happens seal all the jars up.
Repeat this process for two more days. Open all the jars, lay the one with the meter on its side and wait until the meter matches the humidity level of the room, then seal and store. At the end of two days your buds should be reading below 68%.
If that's not the case, and they're still too damp, take the buds out of the jars and spread them out on a screen.
- Let them dry for four hours.
- Place them back in the jars, seal them up and leave them alone for 1 hour.
- Repeat this until your buds are below 67%.
Now, drop the room temperature to 72 degrees F and raise the room humidity levels to 62%.
- Burp the jars once a day in the same manner outlined above, but with these new room parameters.
- When the bud RH reaches 62% the cure begins. If you use Boveda packs, this is when you drop them into the jars.
The Cure
- Once your buds have reached 62% RH seal them up for a week.
- Every day give the buds a gentle tumble, rolling, gently shaking and flipping the jar to keep things loose and expose more surface areas. This movement will keep buds from glueing themselves to each other.
- At the end of a week open the jars for 15 minutes.
- Close the jars up for one month, checking on them once a week, rolling and gently shaking and flipping the jars to loosen everything up.
- At the end of the month you're ready to go.
Ordered myself some curing-tools. Ordered 4 of these tiny hygrometers with temperature. they're only 48x28x15mm in size and will easily fit inside any jar
Thats only what I've heard, but it gave me pause. I hesitate to purchase them, but they appear to be the standard, and I can't really do the job without them.
That passes in a couple days though, and it settles down to something you smell when you're in front of the fridge, opening the door.
Posted this on PW's Journal a few weeks ago.
Curious for the bannanas?
I use them also. But, why now?
Robert A. Nelson: Hemp Husbandry ~ Botany & Breeding (Ch 4)
And here's the part in the chapter that's relevant:
"Treatment of hempseed with ethylene gas will increase the resulting number of female plants by about 50%. Ethylene is produced by certain plants (i.e., bananas, cucumbers and melons), and these can be used to treat hempseed in a simple manner. About two weeks before you plan to sprout the seeds, place them in a paper bag or envelope and put that in a plastic bag with the peels of a ripening banana or cucumber. Replace the peels after a couple of days, and change the bags to prevent mold.-
Hempseed can be feminized while they are forming on the plant. Fruit peels are spread around the area for two weeks before the plants enter the flowering phase. Remove the skins when the plants begin to flower. Otherwise, treatment with Etephon will accomplish the same effect."
Check out that site, actually the whole thing is chock-full of good scientific information.--
I have tried Ethylene gas to speed up flower maturity.
It works but, you lose flower development time. Smaller yield.
Hope it helps!
Alien and bubba seeds in bag.
Not the first Time! Not the last either.
You are a wonder sir. 
Maybe those light upgrades have more to do with the increased quality of my grows than I thought.
I hear they can be off by some crazy number like 10%.
Thank you sue, I will have to give this a try its sounds too good to pass up. I think ill see how one jar does in the fridge smell wise and also to give me a good comparison to the normal air dried buds. You know for science and all.In the early stages of the dry it will definately make the kitchen and the adjoining room smell.
I've found that plastic containers pick up and hold the smell for a while, but the terpenes are volitile enough that they float away from those surfaces too after a while. I didn't notice any food holding the taste.
I dry mine in my regular refrigerator. I haven't yet purchased a small dedicated fridge. I'll be adapting my next harvest to follow tricam's instructions to the letter, which means I'll have the buds in the crisper drawer in jars instead of on racks. I think there's something significant happening with the longer timing that I don't want to miss out on.
I can tell you now you'll be surprised at the difference. Many of us are discovering terpene expressions we'd never experienced in our strains before. It's not only prettier in the end, the potency is ramped up by the inclusion of all the terpenes that typically float off in air drying.
It makes me smile every time someone new decides to give it a shot. One member at a time we'll change the way members think about drying and the cure. You have to be able to see the long view, the reality that you're going to dedicate much longer to getting an incredible superior end result. That translates into less needed for the same or better effects. In the end the harvest goes further and heals more dynamically.
Have fun.
I hear they can be off by some crazy number like 10%.
. I guess accuracy is important everywhere... )
