How long do you guys "burp" jars for when curing?

10 minutes? an hour?

It depends.
At first I leave them open until they
are evenly dry again then put the lid back on and repeat.



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Any info I give is based on what I would be comfortable doing.
Please get other opinions.

In nature plants don't live in plastic buckets but at my house they do or they get the f**k out.

there's a guide on it some place. a really good one that explains everything from start to finish.
15 minutes for the first week every day.
After the first week you burp the jars less, and less, but still for the 15 minutes.
watch the Humidity and temps of the room your doing it in.

Good Luck on Your Cure

Just long enough to get the air exchanged. If in a hurry, hold the jar in front of a fan for a few seconds and that will be fine. More important to check the moisture level and make sure it is not too damp. If the buds feel too moist (and smell too moist), I dump the whole jar in a paper bag and leave it for a couple hours and then start again with the jars when the buds feel a little drier. Very common with big fat indica buds to have to do this.

Depends on what stage you are in and the humidity of your environment

If in the early stages, I will dump the contents in a glass casserole dish and let them sit for up to an hour

In the later stages I will just open the lid for a minute or less

I keep it simple. Get yourself a Caliber IV humidity meter. There is no formula. And 15 mins in way too much, I think. You are trying to control humidity in the jar.

Leaving it open is not a burp.

So, here is my simple plan and it varies my humidity, not time.

I strip the leaves before I cut the plant, it is just easier for me.
I leave stem below all flowers, enough to hang them on a wire, and space them out,
Here it is not time based, but stem based. When the stem is dry enough to break over, but not snap off, it is ready for the next step.
All the stems are different sizes, but, I group by big and small. Small stems are ready first,

Ready for what? Not the jars, just yet.
Strip the buds from the stems and put into a paper bag with the Caliber. Let is sit for 1 hour.
If the humidity is above 70 RH I bring it all out on a screen for a day, maybe. (you get so you can do this by feel, almost)
I want it to stay in the bag in the 60s down to the high 50s RH
Then I half fill, 1 liter mason jars. You want leave room for shaking. And throw in the Caliber and seal the jar.
Check in one hour.
If the RH is back in the 60s, it goes back in the paper bag, if it is in the 70s, out on the screen again.

My gate is to have mid 50s RH, and no lower than 53 RH to begin the cure.
Seems like a lot trouble? It can all be ruined here with mold, and I have done that.

Now, finally, I can begin the 30 day routine.
Each day, each jar, I shake vigorously and open it for a deep smell. This is why we burp. If that smell is anything but sweet hay smell it comes out on the screen again.
It doesn't matter about the RH, but you will find it probably spiked in that one jar, but it does not reset the 30 day clock.
Bring it back in with mid-50s RH holding in the jar,
The first week really matters for this.
After you get the jars stable with RH, it is just a matter of shaking, sniffing and closing for 30 days,
After that the stuff can stay sealed in the dark, indefinitely.

If you get below 45% it can't be recovered down in the cells and it won't transform, ie, cure, very well.

wait so if it smells like sweet hay it does go out on the screen again? I noticed I jarred mines kind of early because the stems bend but don't break off and it smells half way like hay half blue dream so I put them in a paper bag with holes.

I harvested 8 days ago and put the weed in the jar after 4 days of drying because I was paranoid about over drying.

I put a boveda pack in my jars, store them in a dark cool place and burp the jar about 3-4 times a day for 10-15 mins at a time and give the jar a shake, after about 2 weeks i burp once a day for a couple of mins.

wazooboo said:

wait so if it smells like sweet hay it does go out on the screen again? I noticed I jarred mines kind of early because the stems bend but don't break off and it smells half way like hay half blue dream so I put them in a paper bag with holes.

I harvested 8 days ago and put the weed in the jar after 4 days of drying because I was paranoid about over drying.

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No, that is the good smell. Only that smell is allowed. That is the smell of chlorophyl breaking down. That is what we want.

I am dealing 30% RH usually, The... too wet, to too dry can happen pretty quickly for me.