Harvest Curing Best Way ?

A super easy way is Grove bag. No burping or anything. Been using them for some time.

Dry at 60° + 60%rh I have an odd way but it works. I don't do the dark spel. Dr bugbee proved that 36hr of light would be more beneficial. That creates stress too. Anyway I hang full plant, next day remove large fan leaves, a day or two later you can break up into branches then wait till stem snap and jar and burp as explained. Have a small fan moving air round but don't point it at the plants. Doing this helps with environment being to dry or too wet. Don't take leaves or split down if too dry. Easier to control what's going on. Bud rot can still strike.

Once you’re ready to harvest, turn your lights off for up to 36 hours.the plant will sense that it is at the end of life and This will make the plants produce lots of resin ready for harvest. Cut in branches, remove any large leaves, hand upside down on a string or anything a stalk can hold onto. Check every day and see if they feel dry to the touch, once confirmed, do the stem snap. It should not snap clean off. It should crack and bend. Place the weed in a large jar, not full to the brim, allowing air to exchange easily when burping making sure no trapped and stale air stays inside, place a hygrometer inside the jar and close. Wait 1 hour and check humidity of the hygro. Hopefully you will have reached around 67-70% humidity. Place boveda humidity packs inside the jar 62% or 59% and burp these girls every few hour for the first couple of days, after a week if humidity is close to the pack % leave in jar and burp every so often. (Couple hours - a day between) It’s worth noting that curing can take a little while, some growers cure their weed for up to 6 months and even longer! I hope this helps you and good luck with drying your weed! Peace

There are several methods, some faster or slower. A bit of Research says at harvest, give 24-48 hours darkness before chop. After chop, Slower dry is better. Somewhere between 7-14 days depending on size, how far you broke plant down(wet or dry trim) and atmospheric parameters. Some hang entire plant, some choose to screen dry. Once medium size or so stems snap, cure in glass jars, out of sun light,(cool dark) 56-62% humidity. Burp jars daily or when needed. Moisture can be restored, but terpenes cannot. Hung too long to dry in moist can make mold, and dried too fast lose terpenes. I've also heard of the "paper bag" method. I'm going to try it along with jars, and screen. I've read 30 days is a good cure time to really bring out the best in your hard work. Good luck 👍 hope this helps.

I cure using Grove bags. I like them and have done 2 cures in the bags. I have never used jars tho but from what I've seen and personal use I like the bags. I don't seal them either.

slow dry, don't put them in any container if too wet. if you can't control the environment, it's simply going to dry at the pace that results and nothing to do about it. If you smoke it fast, it won't matter much. longer term storage would see longer-lasting good weed over time. anything less than a year of storage doesn't require much effort to avoid anything noticeably reduced or lost over time. 60s F / 55-62% RH will result in a slow dry. 2-way humidipaks make curing easy, as long as you don't put the buds in with tem while still too wet. when they buds first feel dry on outside, thy still need 12-24 hours longer in most cases -- this is tough to guesstimate in a generalized way becuase density and size of buds impact this greatly. you'll learn through experience and trial/error. when you first jar or place in a box etc with humidipaks or not, check back several hours later. if there was excess moisture inside lagging behind, it'll be extra soft or wet again when you open it. if this is the case, you take it out of the container and let it air dry some more. rinse and repeat until they aren't feeling oddly soft or wet on oustide... how easily it sticks together is also a sign of too much moisture, but good weed does stick to itself under normal conditions too. moisture makes the plant material more maleable, so it feels soft when 'too wet,' even if not overtly damp to the touch. moisture in a sealed environment is danagerous. you will grow fungi/anaerobic bacteria in this context. so it is important to pull it back out if you notice they are too moist, still. A 2-way pack does absorb and release moisture, but it has limits. They are perfect for maintaining constant RH once the buds are already properly dry. supposedly you want the last few % of moisture lost to occur in the jars/container. i don't know if that is true or not, but at home it's virutally impossible to know what % of moisture the buds are at when we don't have expensive lab equipment. we can weight some 'test' buds to guage how much weight they have lost. That lost weight will be similar for all plants - proporitonally speaking. Should lose 75-80% of weight. this can tell you if it is losing or gaining weight after you jar it up. if it is still losign weight, you have to worry about excess moisture. if it is gaining weight, you probably went a tad too long drying it. you can use this to adjust what you do next time. if you buy 2-way humidity packs, their gain and loss of weight will indicate same things in that jar. can just weeight the pack.. if it loses weight, the buds are absorbgin moisture. if it gains weight, the buds are still losing moisture relative to Tempr/RH conditions. Once at equilibrium, the 2-way packs will only slowly, very slowly, lose weight.. more so if you open up jar and less humid air enters -- which is going to happen. you want to burp them occasionally even after fully dried. burp fairly often until they reach an equilibrium weight... then maybe 1/5 days or so? anaerobic bacteria smells funky. you'll know if you waited too long to burp months down the line... it won't happen overnight. the marijana guru guy, forgeting name, uses cardboard boxes with tops and holes that help control humiidity. there are things called Grove bags that seem to work really well for people. you still can't put overly wet buds into eiher of those options, though. trial and error.. you'll be more confident about what you do over time.