curing and hygrometers

Hello all, just got all my buds from a plant into jars. We were at petco earlier in the day and I saw a little humidity gauge in the reptile section and remembered reading about the optimal cure zone here .After being in the jar for maybe an hour the gauge is reading 80%, before the bud went into the jars the buds felt crispy and the stems did not snap and were bendy. They hung to dry for 3 full days in a constantly ventilated room.

Will using these gauges work?
Should I open the jars for a bit or wait a while?

thanks.

You should definitely open the jars and see what the flowers feel like. If the humidity inide the container is truly ~80%, they'll feel moist to the touch. Really, the hygrometer you're using is wildly inaccurate and inconsistent. Grab a Caliber III for better readings. Good luck.

Simon

I'm harvesting my first crop in a week! I decided to use this guy's fool-proof method. It uses a hygrometer and a humidipak 65%.

http://www.autoflower.net/forums/f23/time-we-all-work-so-hard-achieving-perfect-cure-204.html

Good luck!

japonicus said:

http://www.autoflower.net/forums/f23/time-we-all-work-so-hard-achieving-perfect-cure-204.html

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This is one I haven't seen. Good thing the guy read the first 25 pages of the thread on IC.

Simon

SimonD said:

You should definitely open the jars and see what the flowers feel like. If the humidity inide the container is truly ~80%, they'll feel moist to the touch. Really, the hygrometer you're using is wildly inaccurate and inconsistent. Grab a Caliber III for better readings. Good luck.

Simon

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I have a Caliber III for every jar. I do NOT jar the buds if the humidity goes over 70%. If it does I continue to dry them. Once the jar reads under 70% I will then open them for a couple hours every day until they are where I want them, for me around 50-60%%.

Are there any chain stores that carry the caliber III hygrometer? If I order one or two online it will probably take too long to get here.. I tried calling a few local cigar shops but they didnt have that one.

pop the lids to burp for 10 min once a day for 2 weeks, dumping buds out and putting back in for different placement, then you can start doin it once a week

I've been opening the jars a few times each day, they still feel pretty damp and when squeezing the bud it feels like its got a good bit of moisture or whatever or whatever in it. I just let the jars sit with the lids off just inside the flower tent after light out for about 20 minutes, the whole room/grow area exhausts through there and it seemed to take the moisture down a good amount.

While the jars were sitting in there I pulled out the petco hygrometer I had purchased as well as two of these I purchased, the petco hygrometer was actually within 4-5% of the hygrometer I use in my grow area (see photo below) but both petsmart hygrometers were stuck at around the 60% mark (grow area hygrometer was showing like 30% when I first opened the tent). I adjusted one of them using the slot on the back to match the digital hygrometer so I'll see how it compares to the petco hygrometer now that they are back in the jars, I left the 2nd unit untouched and put it back in its own jar although now that I think about it i probably should have put it in a jar with one of the other two so I can see if the reading differs are not with higher humidity. Before opening the jars all 3 gauges were reading pretty high %.

I called a few local cigar shops and one of them had a digital hygrometer in 2 sizes but wouldnt tell me what the price was or brand, told me i had to come in and look at it. A few others only had analog gauges. I'll have to get some caliber III's only for the next harvest, I should have planned ahead for this one but dropped the ball.

sounds like to me you should let them dry alittle bit longer

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pop the lids to burp for 10 min once a day for 2 weeks, dumping buds out and putting back in for different placement, then you can start doin it once a week

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nice grow btw, looks dank

novice11 said:

I have a Caliber III for every jar. I do NOT jar the buds if the humidity goes over 70%. If it does I continue to dry them. Once the jar reads under 70% I will then open them for a couple hours every day until they are where I want them, for me around 50-60%.

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I'd suggest shooting for a stable 60-65%, meaning the humidity inside the jar doesn't vary for 5-6 days. If you'd like to store the product long term, more than ~3 months, and the flower mass is fairly dense, then go lower - 55-60%.

mercury187 said:

Are there any chain stores that carry the caliber III hygrometer? If I order one or two online it will probably take too long to get here.. I tried calling a few local cigar shops but they didnt have that one.

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Most folks buy Calibers on Ebay and Amazon. You may be able to find one in a local tobacco shop. Hydroset II/ Xigar hygrometers (same thing, different name) are also very good. They do benefit from calibration, though.

Simon