Here’s my take on the whole thing and this is all just what I’ve learned by doing it and fucking up countless times. The dry is much more important than the cure. I haven’t really noticed much, if any, difference between 2weeks in the jar and 8 weeks. You gotta make sure your shit is dry before it goes in jars or you’re gonna get hay. For a long time I used hygrometers and tried to get them to read around 60% in the jars. That’s way too wet. I read someone earlier say something like 70% and I just laughed. From all of my experience, you want it more dry than people will tell you. I used to have bomb ass weed never using any hygrometers or even thinking about moisture content. I would hang till nugs pop right off, put them in jars and be done with it. Always fire. Then I moved to Colorado, it’s dry as fuck here and I had a hard time drying for the last few years until recently. I was using hygrometers in the jars and always jarring too wet, because the hygrometer said 60% or whatever and against my instincts I was listening to technology instead of my own senses. I was so pissed for so long because it was like I regressed, and went from smoking fire to smoking hay. Well the last few runs I decided to go back to how I was doing it before I moved, when I had good weed, and now I have good weed again. Just out of curiosity I popped a hygrometer in the second to last batch after it had been in the jars for a few days, smelling dank as fuck. 36% in that bitch. and it has the perfect texture, still sticky, super stank ass, dank nugs that make you go “wow”. Same with this latest run. 40%. Stank as fuck. Maybe 60% works for some of these guys and they can magically cure the hay smell away but as far as I’m concerned that’s bullshit. Dry your weed right and you’ll have good weed.
