I would be interested in seeing people compare using Grove bags vs using Mason jars without burping. All the reviews I've read about Grove bags talk about how much easier it is to use Grove bags compared to using Mason jars and burping to achieve and maintain proper humidity and preservation of terps. I think that's really cool and by the sounds of it people are achieving great results with Grove bags.
I've tried storing in jars and burping vs simply drying to the proper humidity and storing in jars without burping or opening the jars until I'm ready to use it, and the weed that I burped periodically didn't keep as well. From that one time trying burping vs not burping I wasn't impressed, it seems to me that in burping weed you are allowing exposure to oxygen which degrades pot.
I grow outdoor so only one crop per year, which means I'm smoking the same weed for a year. The jars that I open this time of year have been sealed without opening once for a whole year, they smell fresh, have great color, and flavor. I've been storing weed in jars after simply drying all the way before storing in Mason jars and never burping. I've been doing it this way for the past fifteen years, and I don't an issue maintaining proper humidity or preserving terps in storage. It's my opinion that the Boveda packs and the curing process might be unnecessarily complicated and that folks are possibly making things harder for themselves to achieve a result that is not better, when I burped jars the weed went a little stale compared to not burping.
This is my opinion and I'm not bringing it up to be argumentative, I respect other's opinions on the subject, I just wanted to throw my opinion out there as an alternative.
I bring all this up because I have never seen a comparison between storing in Mason jars that have not been burped and using Grove bags. Everybody talks about Grove bags being great because you don't have to burp them. In my opinion, you don't need to burp jars either and that burping jars may allow more degradation compared to fully drying before placing in jars and never opening. It could be that the success folks are having with Grove bags could simply be due to the fact that people aren't opening Grove bags over and over again exposing the buds to oxygen.
I have never used Grove bags so this is all pure conjecture on my part. Whatever method you use the important part is that the terps are being preserved and I think it's cool that there are more tools available to folks to achieve this goal.
Happy growing(and storing LOL)!
