Curing, but my area is 80%+ humidty

Hi guys,



I am doing my best to try and cure my harvest but whereI live here in the UK there is a constant 80% humidity outside anywhere but my grow room and obviously inside my room its too hot and bright to place the jars.

I have them in a cool dark place 20c humidity 70% constant, I dried it all out for over a week so fairly long drying time.

Anyone have any ideas apart from a dehumidifier on how to get these into curing stage 60 - 65%

Bovida pack 62% and a space heater to lower room humidity for when you burp them. I'd also put it in a closet in the room the heater is in..

Blindnslow said:

Bovida pack 62% and a space heater to lower room humidity for when you burp them. I'd also put it in a closet in the room the heater is in..

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You beat me to it about the humidity packs. I spotted the post on the main forum as a recent post and came here to mention the packs.

TwistItUp said:

You beat me to it about the humidity packs. I spotted the post on the main forum as a recent post and came here to mention the packs.

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Are bovida packs efficient at lowering humidity do they absorb moisture inside the glass jar?

Blindnslow said:

Bovida pack 62% and a space heater to lower room humidity for when you burp them. I'd also put it in a closet in the room the heater is in..

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I thought I heard of these before, are bovida packs efficient at lowering humidity do they absorb moisture inside the glass jar or set it to a certain level, I have caliber III's inside them now?

They are supposed to make a jar work like a mini humidor. They can absorb and release humidity unlike silica packs that only absorb or other products that only release. The humidity packs have different range of RH relative humidity. As Blindnslow suggested go with the 62% if you do order some. When I first started reading about them it appears most people finish with the 62% packs. Some people start with a higher RH % pack and drop down, others start with 62%

Yes they stabilize the humidity in the jar to the % on the pack. I use them once its @ 69-65% RH and still burp it to 62% Then just leave it in til the jar is empty..

luke777 said:

Are bovida packs efficient at lowering humidity do they absorb moisture inside the glass jar?

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Yes. This is how you can rejuvenate a Boveda pack that's depleted its moisture-generating ability. I wet a small piece of sponge, put it in a plastic baggie with the baggie left open, and put it in a canning jar with my Boveda packs. The packs will absorb moisture in the air and give it up when placed in a jar with weed (as I burp it every day, etc.). I live in a really dry climate so this is probably more of an issue for me (to replace moisture after burping).

But, the same is true in a humid environment. Bovedas will hold only so much water. I think a person would have to find a way to extract moisture from them so they can continue to absorb moisture when held with weed.

Maybe a large can of desiccant. I've seen these sold to gun owners to keep in their gun safes. They bake them in the oven occasionally to eliminate the stored moisture and put it back in the gun safe. If I needed to dry my Bovedas, I'd probably get some desiccant and put them together in a sealable tub. Bake the dessicant occasionally so it can continue to absorb moisture from the Boveda.

There's probably a better way, like a food dehydrator to do the heavy lifting, then Bovedas for the last 3%.

az2000 said:

Yes. This is how you can rejuvenate a Boveda pack that's depleted its moisture-generating ability. I wet a small piece of sponge, put it in a plastic baggie with the baggie left open, and put it in a canning jar with my Boveda packs. The packs will absorb moisture in the air and give it up when placed in a jar with weed (as I burp it every day, etc.). I live in a really dry climate so this is probably more of an issue for me (to replace moisture after burping).

But, the same is true in a humid environment. Bovedas will hold only so much water. I think a person would have to find a way to extract moisture from them so they can continue to absorb moisture when held with weed.

Maybe a large can of desiccant. I've seen these sold to gun owners to keep in their gun safes. They bake them in the oven occasionally to eliminate the stored moisture and put it back in the gun safe. If I needed to dry my Bovedas, I'd probably get some desiccant and put them together in a sealable tub. Bake the dessicant occasionally so it can continue to absorb moisture from the Boveda.

There's probably a better way, like a food dehydrator to do the heavy lifting, then Bovedas for the last 3%.

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Blindnslow said:

Yes they stabilize the humidity in the jar to the % on the pack. I use them once its @ 69-65% RH and still burp it to 62% Then just leave it in til the jar is empty..

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Cool guys, I've ordered some of these which will be coming tomorrow since my humidity inside the jars even with burping and taking them out putting on to newpaper for a few hours still staying at 70% in the jars so I think they are neccesary.

Do you think its safe to go straight in with the 62% ones or will that ruin the cure. (70 to 62% too fast?)

luke777 said:

Do you think its safe to go straight in with the 62% ones or will that ruin the cure. (70 to 62% too fast?)

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I don't think you can go to 65-62% too fast, especially in your humid environment. In my dry environ, the only risk of going too fast is that the outer bud material gets too crispy while the inside and stem remain too moist. I don't think you'll have that problem in your environment unless you used a food deyhydrator. The Boveda packs don't work that fast.

az2000 said:

I don't think you can go to 65-62% too fast, especially in your humid environment. In my dry environ, the only risk of going too fast is that the outer bud material gets too crispy while the inside and stem remain too moist. I don't think you'll have that problem in your environment unless you used a food deyhydrator. The Boveda packs don't work that fast.

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ok should I just throw a couple bovedas in each jar. I got about 1 - 2 oz in each 4 jars. OR do you think I should stick them in a paper bag overnight the only thing is these will just be sitting in a 80%+ humid environment still in the paper bag....

I don't know. I've never dried in a humid environment. I agree with you, it seems like letting them sit out in 80% environment wouldn't work. Seems like there would have to be something to remove moisture from the air. Either a dehumidifier, or food dehydrator, or one of these silica desiccant for drying flowers. (<<link) The Bovedas will pull it down to 65-62. But, at some point they'll become saturated and need to be exposed to dryer air so they can lose some moisture and regain their capability to absorb.

Like I said, I'm not the right person to answer this because I go the other way (finding ways to restore moisture to the Bovedas, avoiding buds drying too fast). The above is where my thoughts would go if I moved to a humid environment.

My humidity is different than yours. Or at least it was before this winter weather. My last harvest I did a pre trim a couple days befor harvst I cut the bigger leaves off. So there wasn't that much there to trim. Once I harvested all I did was cut the branches off and hang them on a wire across my ceiling. I just let them hang maybe a week or more till they were dry but not completely dried out. I manicured about 2 jars worth and put one humidity pack in each jar, there are different size packs too so it hard to say how many packs you need for how much weed and we don't know how big your jars are either. I think my jars hold about 1 Oz or so and I put in one 62% humidity pack, I'm not sure what size my packs are if this is small or medium, a pack fits easily in the palm of my hand if that helps any. But yeah this last harvest I did those couple jars worth, and was slacking so the remaining bud and leaf i just put a pack in each jar and stuffed in what I still had left to trim for the remaining few jars. haha I still haven't gotten around to trimming it yet, and it was dry enough when it went in I haven't even been purping either. I'm pretty confident about how well the packs work. That's not to say everyone can just do that but it works for me.

Blindnslow said:

Bovida pack 62% and a space heater to lower room humidity for when you burp them. I'd also put it in a closet in the room the heater is in..

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THIS!

I've also been toying around with the idea of using those desiccant things that come in pill bottles -the little plastic things that look like barrels. I have been saving them for awhile and I might try to use a few of them inside the jar to get the humidity lower than the ambient humidity.

tstick said:

I've also been toying around with the idea of using those desiccant things that come in pill bottles -

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The nice thing about buying desiccant is that it has a color dye indicator showing its saturation level. Give you an idea about how strong it will act, or when it could be dehydrated in the oven. I think blue means it's dry, pink saturated.

Hmmmm how about grab a bunch of Bovida packs. Twice as many as That you'll need. They're cheap. Get a small humidity reader to fit in your jars. Toss the packs in. Keep an eye on your RH in the jars. When the packs get the RH down to desired level then toss the old packs out and toss new ones in so screwing around with removing the moisture from the packs is a complete non issue.

MonkeyGrinder said:

Hmmmm how about grab a bunch of Bovida packs. Twice as many as That you'll need. They're cheap. Get a small humidity reader to fit in your jars. Toss the packs in. Keep an eye on your RH in the jars. When the packs get the RH down to desired level then toss the old packs out and toss new ones in so screwing around with removing the moisture from the packs is a complete non issue.

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like this............

Spread the product out on a newspaper so the buds aren't on top of each other. I use a 16 x 20 x 1 inch furnace filter with paper towels on top. Place the filter in any room with a ceiling fan. Make sure the fan is set to "blow", not "suck". After 2 days my bud is 80-90% dry. Then I cure in a jar for 24 hours, dry again and cure again until the nugs "click" against the side of the glass jar. Then I know I'm cured!

Good luck, BigSteve.