Bruce Banner Marries A Watermelon - SIP Grow

[g-one-three]

I honestly can't say enough about Grove bags for curing. It took the guess work out of it. I bought the Grove bags and cheap hydrometers off the zon.

After I got the plants into the 62-65% range I popped them into the bags and watched for a couple of days to make sure they didn't spike humidity, then into a dark cabinet for 3 weeks and pulled them out. Bud was at 61% no burping needed and the terps were on point. I still have an Ounce of each stored in the bags.

 

[Ke0ncp]

I honestly can't say enough about Grove bags for curing. It took the guess work out of it. I bought the Grove bags and cheap hydrometers off the zon.

After I got the plants into the 62-65% range I popped them into the bags and watched for a couple of days to make sure they didn't spike humidity, then into a dark cabinet for 3 weeks and pulled them out. Bud was at 61% no burping needed and the terps were on point. I still have an Ounce of each stored in the bags.

What size bags? And link maybe?

 

[Ke0ncp]

I did a 10 pack of the 1/2 bags. I figure that should more than cover my current harvest

@g-one-three how full are you filling them?

 

[g-one-three]

What size bags? And link maybe?

I did a 10 pack of the 1/2 bags. I figure that should more than cover my current harvest

@g-one-three how full are you filling them?

Hey sorry I was watering my girls and missed your post. I did the 1/4lb ones, and each one got roughly 3oz, so about 3/4 full. The larf got bagged too because I'll smoke that stuff too lol.

 

[InTheShed]

Thanks for that! So 70% in jars and burp twice a day until 60% and then cure?

70% if there was no budrot, but with rot I would not want to jar them until they were much closer to 62%.

 

[Chuckeye]

70% if there was no budrot, but with rot I would not want to jar them until they were much closer to 62%.

Good Idea @InTheShed !

Fingers crossed but I haven't had to worry about bud rot...

Cheers

 

[Ke0ncp]

And here are how they are looking on the hang

As you can see that banner really did not produce like it looked. She is the back right.

Wedding gelato is up front on the left. Though she was short she was stout and really built some nice colas.

Watermelon is in the back left and she was tall and linky at the start of flower and really packed on the weight!

Now if it was so damn humid here!!! I am going to have to figure out curing during the summer months here. Currently 74° and 61% rh in the tent. 80/60 outside and 76/59 in the grow room. Leaves are getting crunchy and on the banner the buds are starting to get a little crisp on the very outer edge.

They might end up in bags by the middle of the week.

 

[Ke0ncp]

Banner larf testing day:

Pulled this little nugget off some some Sunday afternoon testing. Smell is still diesel, no scent of hay so I think these smaller bugs are past that now.

Testing on the wedding gelato larf was done the past 2 days.

Results are eh… hits strong and fast then 30 mins later I’m just hungry lol. But so long as I can dial in this cure she might actually be better than great looking/smelling schwag… I am hoping it just had to do with rapid drying.

 

[Ke0ncp]

Oooffddahh it’s been a humid one. Between 100% and 68% outside and right around 80°. Was able to keep it 68°/ 63% in the tent.

Poked around in there this afternoon and all looks good. No signs of BR or mold.

Buds have most certainly dropped some water weight visually they are slimmer.

Moister tester has them at 21% currently.

Grove bags arrived today so ready to do some trimming and clean up on them and into the bags they go!

Should be just in time for a week at a lake house at the end of June

 

[Ke0ncp]

Ohh and gave a good squeeze to one of the wedding gelato colas and still steel nickel and “cakey” however, 10 mins later and it’s really skunky!!

 

[Ke0ncp]

Ok som7 days on the hang. All buds are crunchy on the exterior. All stems bend without cracking but still feel dry.

I put the entire banner into a grove bag and will check it at the 2 hour mark. When I put the hydrometer in the bag it was at
47% rh. That was 36 mins ago.

I also put a big cola of the Wedding gelato into a bag and will see where the RH is at the 2 hour mark.

I’m aiming for 68-69% if it turns out it’s too dry I will by some of those nifty humidity control bags. I have a pack of them but it’s for 75% for calibrating my digital hydrometer. I know they sell them for 65-70% or something like that.

Then I can get it to the mark I want and then cure them for the next 3-4 weeks before I crack into them and get a final weight of each plant.

Looking at what’s hanging I am guessing I have about 7-8oz

 

[Ke0ncp]

Ok so I can’t wait 2 hours haha. 1 hour in and the entire banner is at 66% and one cola of WG is at 63%

I am thinking it is time to bag it all up.

Thoughts?
@InTheShed @StoneOtter @Chuckeye @Azimuth

 

[InTheShed]

Couple of things: 2 hours is way too short to get an idea of the RH of the flowers in total. Also, no clue if that is even accurate in a Grove bag. Put them in a sealed jar and wait 12 hours for a more accurate number.

Another thing: no reason to rehydrate them if they're actually reading 66 and 63%

 

[Ke0ncp]

Sounds good! Thanks!

 

[Azimuth]

Right the Grove Bags are more for storing your buds that have already reached curing rh. And the wild fluctuations will slow as the moisture evens out across the bud from inside to out, but as Shed said a couple of hours isn't enough time especially on the first round of sweating.

 

[g-one-three]

This is how I used my Grove bags for my cure. It worked great for me but it also was my first time.

I threw a couple of the larger buds, that were dried and trimmed, in jar with a hydrometer for 24 hours. Mine settled to 61% in the jar, then I put all the trimmed buds into the Grove bags with hydrometers. For the next 3 days I checked periodically to make sure there wasn't a weird humidity spike, all six bags stayed in between the 58-62% the bag was supposed to hold them at. Then into the dark cabinet for at least 3 weeks checking once or twice a week on humidity but not opening the bags. This was the best cure I'd had on any weed I've grown and also the easiest.

 

[Ke0ncp]

Great info! Thanks

 

[Ke0ncp]

I checked this morning and the bags were sitting at 66% and 69%

If they are still good when I get home today I will probably bag everything thing up.

 

[InTheShed]

69% would be too high for my liking, particularly in light of the botrytis. I would burp that down before putting it away.

 

[Papa OG]

Yea a bit high. I definitely like to see 62-64%

While it seems minor, every percent counts. I had a qp sitting in solid black Grove bag in my garage, yesterday I looked at it was like it's been like off and on 80 plus degrees out here I should probably take that inside. When I pulled my gauge out of the bag it was sitting at 72%. I know it was 60 when it went into the bag. So just within a few weeks the humidity had risen in the bag because of the temperature and humidity in the garage.


Normally it all stays in 60f/50h room for storage. Gotta keep it put up.