If your moisture meter reads between 10/12 then your good! I used the hydrometers just as a conformation and observation of the process. They are unnecessary, kinda like training wheels on first try with the bags.
For the record they are still reading between 58/62rh in the bags.
Exactly how itās going for me. Iām monitoring this first attempt at using them. One bag I had to put a 62% Boveda into for 5-6 days when it registered 56%ā¦after that itās been holding at 61.1%. Two went up to 68% after a few days in the bag and I had to open them up every day or so to get it down. Now theyāre holding steady at 61.5% and 62%. One was dead on from the final trim day at 62.2%. Iām using the Govee wifi hygrometers that I salt tested to calibrate prior to putting them in the bags. That definitely gave me peace of mind on this maiden voyage.
Okay well thatās a relief to hear.
Just bagged up my first four ounces or soā¦ the rest wasnāt quite ready yet. Maybe by tomorrow or the next day.
Does it matter what the temps are outside the bags? They are up in my room, which gets a little warm, in a dark drawer.
Will check em out in a couple of days!
From what Iāve read and experienced, the cooler the better. I just watched a video on YouTube about a grow facility that does their final cure & storage in a walk-in cooler. I shoot for mid to high 60ās.
Got my first little harvest doneā¦ and bagged up about 5 Oz of bud in my new Grove Bags! WOO-HOO!
Saving one as a ātest bag,ā to check on and sample as time goes by.
Seems to be working out great, so far!!!
Iāll try to find a cooler space to store them in, & thanks for the input, guys. Thinking about getting one of those little A/C tower units to put in my dry space.
But yeahā¦ these rule! Pretty happy with them so far.
8oz of Gold Leaf and 2oz of Gelato ready to cure. A few bags are reading 71% but I hope theyāll come down. I tested a few when they came out of the wedryer and they were reading 9-12%, so Iām hoping it evens out. Should these me out in this open or in a dark enclosed spot? Does it matter?
You have the windows so Iād store them dark.
Sorry for being slightly off topic, but how do you like that wedryer? Iāve seen a lot of mixed feedback on them, but would much prefer that (if the filter works reasonably well) so I can free up my tent faster for the next grow since Iām running single tent at the momentā¦
Looks like a great haul! May be worth āburpingā the high RH bag(s) just to accelerate a bit. Not sure thatās necessary, but Iād probably do that personally just to reduce any risk of molding if letting it happen naturally takes too long.
Too wet, over 70RH is not good and a mold risk if it stays that way for even a few days. Iād open the bags up and take the buds out for a couple hours to bring that RH down, then rebag and see what the RH stabilizes to after 24 hours. I donāt believe the bags can remove moisture quickly enough to seal up buds at that moisture level.
On my recent Banana Kush harvest, I used large cvaults to slow dry the buds (opening for a short time daily to remove a little moisture) and bringing RH down to about 60 and let stabilize there for a few days before putting them into the grove bags.
@CygnusX1 This was my first use of the wedryer and it was great for the most part. Set up was simple and the dry was done in 5 days but I couldāve pulled off another day. The only annoyance was that you can get flattened buds, so I flipped mine every morning. I definitely recommend the XL over the standard size if you grow multiples!
@Hellraiser I have the smaller set of cvaults that I keep for daily use, but I was going to try using them for curing on this new grow I started. My first grow was plastic hangers in paper bags, which was fine.
Would throwing in a 62% pack in the bags be helpful? I believe itās only 2 bags with this issue.
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I believe Hellraiser has the right of it. Most everyone that has run into that situation opens up the bag for a bit.
I believe just putting the Bovida in and closing it up would take too long to reach desired RH.
Thatās just my thinking.
In my opinion no, it would not help fast enough, boveda packs take a long time to do a little change and they can only take up so much moisture until they are āfullā and wonāt take up anymore. Iāve seen friendsā jars of buds go moldy with a boveda pack in it because the buds were sealed up too wet.
@MoBilly @Hellraiser thanks! Iām actually coordinating this all through text to a friend who doesnāt have a clue because Iām in the hospital hahaha (weed and asthma and seasonal allergies donāt mix sometimesā¦WHO KNEW! haha).
I donāt see these bags moving the RH is either direction in the two weeks Iāve had them in there. Whatever the RH is going in is what they seems to stay at.
This hybrid approach is the way to goā¦into the CVault then into the Grove bags. I bypassed the CVaults and struggled the first week to get the humidity to where it should be in the Grove bagsā¦and that was only 2-6 percent too high. I had one that was a few percent low and the bag didnāt adjust it up at all for a weekā¦then I threw a Boveda in there for 4-5 days and that raised it.
Letās hope the off gassing aspect works as they say.
Ok exactly what is āthe c vaultā sounds really secure and maybe even top secret
Weāll never mind I looked it up like a big boy
Yeah I donāt expect the grove bags will allow any moisture in unless maybe kept in an environment with humidity higher than the RH inside the bag, I might test that with a grove bag and a cvault - put a bag with say 58RH into a cvault with a couple of the large 62RH boveda packs and see if it raises the buds RH after a few days.
From the limited use of the grove bags Iāve done, it seems to retain the moisture of the buds as they went in as you said. It wonāt lower it quickly enough to avoid mold if buds are too wet and Iāve not seen it raise humidity at all, but would not expect to in my house with a RH around 35.
These are CVaults, made of food grade stainless steel and lockup airtight. I use them to bring the buds to the perfect RH after dry trimming before putting the buds into mason jars or grove bags.
A CVault full of Blue Dream top colas, I use parchment paper so the bowls donāt all sticky with trichs