herbivore21
Well-Known Member
Boveda packs are important IMO. I am of the view that all nugs after harvest, should be dried for 10-14 days until crisp and then put into airtight containers in a cool dark place with either 58% or 62% boveda packs for curing. It is best to cure in this way for a month or more (I find 3 months is better!) before processing the material - this applies whether you are extracting or you are vaping the flower itself.
I know everyone in the solvent scene is big on live resin (hell there was even that live rosin thing where they squished a live plant lol) from material that hasn't even been dried after harvest. I also found live resin much tastier than non live-resin QWISO/BHO from the same material in my solvent days; but there is a noticeable extra harshness in the vapor too from all of those extra airway-irritating monoterpenes, which are present in much greater quantities because of the live plant extraction preventing their boiling away during drying).
I do not use solvent extractions anymore but having used solventless methods on fresh-frozen material as well as fresh but dried, or dried and cured flowers, I find that dried and cured flowers always end up in the best extract.
On a related note, it is important to highlight that we do not necessarily lose as much total terpene/terpenoid content as we think when we subject monoterpenes to oxidation during the cure - some monoterpenes oxidize into sesquiterpenes!
An added benefit is that some of these sesquiterpenes do not carry known health risks like their precursors 
A cure for your health indeed (although curing can decline into mold if you do not control and monitor conditions properly)!Ok, I digressed a little there. Back to the main question:
I agree when it comes to squishing that denser nugs benefit more from using humidity packs. It also depends on your conditions and the resin content in your material. I find flowers with very little resin content often do not squish anything if they are not first stored with humidity packs. More resinous flowers will squish either way but regardless should be stored with humidity packs for the curing purposes mentioned above - also the fact that if you don't use humidity packs, your material could get too dry and lose terpenes in storage!
If you are going to have a given batch of flowers for more than a week or so (whatever the use), I suggest boveda packs. Please do not jar up flowers that have not been properly dried, with or without boveda packs!
Remember this golden rule for when to put flowers into a jar with boveda packs: If the flowers aren't crisp, you're risking moldy wisps!
I hope this post was eventually helpful lol
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It still smells good, but the taste will make you gag. Some quick googling points to too high of a temp, but I did everything just as i normally do, and this was 4 separate presses. Hell, the straightener only goes to 370 max, which could burn one squish i guess. I just dont see me doing the same thing wrong four times as it would require me to omit half of the four step process i have. Has anyone had any similar experience with rosin?
