Well since there is nothing sterilizing the outside of the packs I still have a problem using them repeatedly over and over. Also, we are not sure that they still perform as they should when this is done. People have noticed that new packs outperform older ones and I think rehydrated packs may also suffer a performance decrease as well as possibly being unsanitary.
Boveda has stopped making the 58's and now recommends the 62's for herbal medicine.
If you think your rehydrated pack looks bad to your eye, what do you think it looks like under a microscope?
You might be remembering a discussion I had with @lwien further back in this thread (see May 11, 2016) about storage methods. I keep one Boveda pack in each mason/preserving jar. The strains are in their own labeled pharmacy-type vials inside the jars to keep them separated. Those vials (from the dispensary) are not air-tight so it works.
You might be remembering a discussion I had with @lwien further back in this thread (see May 11, 2016) about storage methods. I keep one Boveda pack in each mason/preserving jar. The strains are in their own labeled pharmacy-type vials inside the jars to keep them separated. Those vials (from the dispensary) are not air-tight so it works.
Someone posted that I shouldn't use more than one Boveda pack in each preserving jar because the packs would then transfer moisture back and forth between each other and not keep the botanicals as well.
Awhile after May 11, I got jars that hold 8 eighth-sized vials if organized right. One Boveda pack per jar still works fine in those larger sizes with more strains.
Around the same here - 4 or 5 months actually, but same idea.
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And I don't use them anywhere near the initial cure (not to be argumentative with other opinions in any way).
Thanks for bringing that up kelly.
You might be remembering a discussion I had with @lwien further back in this thread (see May 11, 2016) about storage methods. I keep one Boveda pack in each mason/preserving jar. The strains are in their own labeled pharmacy-type vials inside the jars to keep them separated. Those vials (from the dispensary) are not air-tight so it works.
Someone posted that I shouldn't use more than one Boveda pack in each preserving jar because the packs would then transfer moisture back and forth between each other and not keep the botanicals as well.
Awhile after May 11, I got jars that hold 8 eighth-sized vials if organized right. One Boveda pack per jar still works fine in those larger sizes with more strains.
Around the same here - 4 or 5 months actually, but same idea.
And I don't use them anywhere near the initial cure (not to be argumentative with other opinions in any way).
Curing is curing, storage is storage for me.
And I like the 62s better - I don't add boveda packs until the caliber iv falls below 55%rh actually.
(Been watching the discussion for quite a while, just figured I'd throw in my
Peace all!
Thanks for bringing that up kelly.
Curing is curing. Storage is storage.
I don't post much because I get too darn nervous. And not to derail the thread in any way, pm me anyone thinks that I am and I'll report it and pull it down. Here goes.
I can snip buds into a jar that will hit 62rh at 12 hours every day of the week, but as everyone with a hyrgrometer knows, days 3-7 is where some major sweating occurs. Heck I've seen 62-70-64 in a 24 hour period with no cracking of the jars. Like the moisture acts like a solar flare.
Cigars (the original boveda use) are perfectly shaped tubes of tobacco cut the same way, and put inside a wrapper as well. (I always thought of it as wrapping some hand-loosened similar-sized bud with fan leaves - just for a visual)
Our stuff, well...nuff said. Buds in jars.
I have found that how you grade before putting in jars (or not, in my case, except tops) makes a difference - because every cannabis bud already has built-in, short-term bovedas in them. They're called stems.
And that stem isn't pushing moisture out perfectly even, and even at all, every hour of the cure, and there is the outside action of the environment inside the jar causing a pulling action that draws moisture out from the stem into and through the buds. But this occurs in fits and starts.
To find what the true rh is going to be in the jar, the stem has to reach a certain point, and nope I don't know scientifically what that is - for me, it's 55 stable for 2 weeks if cracking every 4-5 days. But I know that interfering with the jars local rh in any other way seems an interruption - great or small - to the cure. It's not done and ready for storage yet.
Some of my most subtle pheno expressions haven't been apparent until well into month 3 of curing.
Sorry for a long post, wanted something we could gauge objectively (hygrometer, I like the caliber iv) since our cannabis research hands tend to be tied.
At first, I just wanted the quickest route and least amount of "jar fussing", just like your friend. I missed a *lot* and just hope to nudge somebody towards really letting their buds come alive.
Peace everyone!
The vials' lids actually say "PUSH DOWN & TURN," but I doubt that's much different from the ones you squeeze and pop open.
Ah perfect, thank you.The vials' lids actually say "PUSH DOWN & TURN," but I doubt that's much different from the ones you squeeze and pop open.
Two jars don't indicate size but hold four 8th vials each, plus about two full plastic/foil envelopes some dispensaries use instead of vials. Will guess they may hold a liter because the smallest of all the 5 jars is imprinted on the bottom as 0.75l and holds only three 8th vials plus one or two of those envelopes. The two biggest jars are are imprinted on the bottom as 2000 ml, which is just over a half gallon according to an on-line converter. Hope that helps.
You're welcome.
Got mine last May from Amazon, too, but in a 10-pack. I can't remember how they were wrapped. Might've been plastic like yours.
I keep the ones that aren't yet in use together in their own tiny preserving jar.
