Emmie's Vegan Fertilizer, Pineapple Chunk 2020 Celebration: Experimental Soil Grow

I've got jars ranging from 63-67 and they aren't changing the past several days. I know they say 62% is the target , but to me at 62% they are too dry. Can I leave it at 65-67% and be ok?
 
Deketx said:
I've got jars ranging from 63-67 and they aren't changing the past several days. I know they say 62% is the target , but to me at 62% they are too dry. Can I leave it at 65-67% and be ok?
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Not and get a good cure. I have had jars sit in that range for months only to realize later that they didn't cure into the same quality that I achieved with other jars of the same stuff, because they dried out a little more from constant handling. You got to get down to 64-65 steady and be able to keep the jars closed 99.9% of the time, to start to get a good cure. I have actually taken some jars that weren't curing because they had been kept too wet and carefully opened them long enough to get them dried out a bit more, and then achieved a late cure.

The other thing you are fighting is mold. Your buds can still mold up in that jar and excess humidity is not your friend. You really aren't totally free of this threat until you are clear down below 59%, and I bet with effort you could still get that to mold up under the right conditions.
 
Deketx said:
I've got jars ranging from 63-67 and they aren't changing the past several days. I know they say 62% is the target , but to me at 62% they are too dry. Can I leave it at 65-67% and be ok?
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and just keep working it... if it can get up to 67 there is still moisture coming out of the cores. Keep burping.
 
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The buds are holding steady now, mostly at 64% RH and they are curing up very nicely. Every few days adds noticeably to the taste and quality of the smoke. I have been enjoying a small joint this morning while I answer mail and I am noticing each day a bit more flavor and smokeability.
These 10+ oz will be added to my stash now and I am going to end this long journal on this successful note and upon making the point that a good cure is easily 1/3 of the total process of growing pot... it simply takes time. It is easy to be able to get to this point if you have smoke on hand from previous harvests to get you through. To get to this point without using it all up, you have to have a stash.
About 2 oz of this will be put into one of my larger 420 Jars and kept on my desk or my smoking room. These larger curing jars will be put into a dark cabinet and will be burped once a month and in one month I will put a meter in with them to check the RH. Usually, this is when I will put a 62 Boveda pack in with them, and knowing me, we will be down to one jar by that time.
The normal plan would be that after 6 months of cure with the 62, I switch out to a 58... and I have several years worth of little bits of harvests stored away in this manner. If someone visits and I want to bring out a real treat, it is this vault that I normally go to. I haven't been able to save all of them, but there is still enough of some of the major varieties I have grown to be enjoyed as special occasions.

So that pretty much closes out this journal. This harvest and my last need to get me through the next several months as I get into a new house and set up my new totally legal grow rooms. I am not going anywhere as far as the online world goes and will continue to be active on the forum until I get going again, but as of this weekend, the last portion of my grow areas are being shut down. I will alert the moderators to move this journal to the completed section.

This journal has become a place to throw around ideas and discuss various things, and I really don't mind if you all wish to continue the discussion. This posting is simply a formal notification that the "journal" part of this thread is concluding here.
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Looking forward to your new digs grows. It's an interesting real estate time right now. Good thing everything's relevant for the most part. Relax for a month and let the dust of the virus settle maybe. I know too many upside down people of the 07 mess not to be concerned. Enjoy the hunt!
 
stoneotter said:
Looking forward to your new digs grows. It's an interesting real estate time right now. Good thing everything's relevant for the most part. Relax for a month and let the dust of the virus settle maybe. I know too many upside down people of the 07 mess not to be concerned. Enjoy the hunt!
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You sound like my realtor. She said to wait a month or two when she predicts that the bottom is going to drop out of this market and when she expects deals to show up all over the place. Her words, "Be ready to jump!" :reading420magazine:
 
Emilya said:
You sound like my realtor. She said to wait a month or two when she predicts that the bottom is going to drop out of this market and when she expects deals to show up all over the place. Her words, "Be ready to jump!" :reading420magazine:
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I'm afraid she's probably right. Everything being relevant I hope it doesn't go too far. Just so you get a good deal. Get your basketball shoes ready!
 
Emilya said:
A quick note on the continuing dry and cure...

This dense batch of buds is forcing me to learn new tricks. We are still finding that after an extended time enclosed in the jars, even more moisture is being pulled from the cores which slowly brings our RH up out of the cure zone. Again today I am sitting here with the jars open with the meter in one jar reading 53%, while I attempt to "air it out" just a little bit more to evaporate some of the moisture that I have brought out in the last few days. Eventually I will get it to sit stable at 65 for a couple of weeks.
It's not like it isn't starting to cure, because it is. It is dry enough now that it is possible to roll a joint and smoke most of it before it all gums up, but the flavor still isn't where it needs to be. The smoke is definitely getting denser, and no one is complaining about harshness. One person, so impressed with the quality, offered to buy up all that I had, but of course I had to turn him down. So it is getting there... but still no where near where I want it to be. A good cure is well worth the time and effort that it takes to get it done. It may be a boring part of the grow journal to document, but it is an important and often left out step, and one that should be journal'ed so that others can see what a long and arduous process it can sometimes be.
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with you 100% there on the dry and cure. So many grows go to alfalfa when learning this one. Always feels as though no body considers it their first grow or two but keep schtum about the resulting poor taste through dissapointment and embarrassment. It seems to be an area missed a lot.
 
Emilya said:
Free at last... Free at last! I am officially out of quarantine as of tomorrow morning... and work is closed down due to a stay in place order. What a crazy and mixed up world it all became while I was in bed resting! Please make things all go back to normal.

I think I finally achieved the curing stage with the jars open most of the day again... We have been sitting stable at 65 for several hours now all closed up. I will check it again in the morning. May the curing finally commence!
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I know it sounds a little daft md I may have missed it already but what about the rice balls idea from InTheShed to help the last deep seated moisture pockets. I use bovida 6.2 and found they have kept things perfect . My last crop of Bluedreamatic is still nice and spongy but perfectly smokable dry with a nice terp profile after about 2 months.
 
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