So I’m at harvest time and the learning curve is steep. Been reading alot about the curing process and would love to hear some of your processes.
In my doing my research I realized I knew alot of the material I was reading, from curing meats and cheeses as a chef. So now the wheels are turning to make a cure chamber. The ones on the market are crazy expensive.
For curing bud making a dark closet or box with airflow and a rh of approximately 50-60% for the first 10 to 14 days is optimal. Once it feels dry to the touch but not quite crispy do a smoke test. If it tokes just right it’s time for jar curing for a few weeks.
If you don’t have a way to make a closet or drying box with humidity and temp control a dark place with lots of air flow will do for the drying until you jar for the actual curing. I use a clothesline in an old closet with a fan on on the ground under the buds but not pointed directly at them.
I live in an old house with a coal chute from the kitchen to the basement so I take and hang my branches on the door to the coal chute and close it with them down in it and the breeze between the 2 floors dries them for about 10-14 days. If I have a big harvest I hang some of the branches up in the closet where the coal shoot is also because they don’t all fit down in the shoot.then I clip the buds off the stem put them in a wide mouth jar and leave the lid off for another 2 or 3 days at least. Then seal the jar and check it every day to make sure the buds are not rehydrating to make sure they don’t get moldy and that’s how I do it.
I constantly shake the jars to keep buds from sticking together burp twice a week and i flip jars also so air gets around the buds
