Optimum cured humidity?

Tobacco is considered just rite when at 65-75% humidity, would mj be the same?

 

No. If you had the caution to have heaters and drying fans perhaps but to be safe cure in the initial stages at under 50% relative humidity to get some drying going. If plants hang on the stems a few days before they are cut up it helps in the cure but letting buds hang packed together in high humidity which gets higher as the temps cool, is the risk. The risk is of mold!

So let them dry but I dont blow fans at them or use heat unless temps drop considerably in the early stage. Normally I let them hang in 45-50% humidity for about 5 days then cut them up and trim by 7 days. The cure isn't over but it's smokable by then. You just seal it up at that point checking occasionally that it wasnt sealed up too wet. Glass is the best storage but oven turkey bags work well for large amounts as they seal the smell very well. BOG

 

Thanx BOG, What I'm inventing is a Dehumdidor-humidor with no moving parts. I found a substance that absorbs humidity, to pull the % down to optimum then switch to humidor to keep at otpimum % till cured. I've all the parts just needed a figure to shoot for. Actually I live in a humidor where the humidity inside rarely drops below 60%.

Since I have your attention, do you know what psi it takes to press dry sifted hash? A growwer was telling me presses are few and far between and therefore expensive, I told him give me lever long enough I'll move the world, and build him a press.

 

The humidity should vary through out the curing process. Depending on time. As busty said you should not use heat as a drying method. It is my opinion that heat will greatly decrease the quality. No mater what the stage of drying it is at. One of the most important this is to exchange the air constantly. Naturalhi you seem like a DIYer like my self. You can easily make a press. Depending on how much you are looking to press you can have one for under 10 bucks at any hardware store. If you are looking to make the nice big cakes it would be a little more. but not difficult at all.

 

Hig, I wasn't clear, didn't mean to imply that there would be any heat above room temp. and thanx for the advice on where to get my parts, could you give an idea of what PSI it takes to press dry sifted trics, I gather it's quite high the way they were talking about it .

I thought of using hydraulic clutch cyl but a leak could be deadly, so the next would be air cyl. or fulcrum n lever.

 

Okay you guys, check this out;

http://www.seedman.com/wkiln.htm
I can't say that I've ever used anything quite like this before. It's for a DIY Tobacco dryer/curer. It can hold about 5 lbs. and takes 3-4 weeks. What do you think? Is this something that would be good for cureing our kind of smoke?

 

/\ Sounds like a heck a idea that might just work for this cool damp area I live.

If the box is too bigor small for your application the plans could be reduced or enlarged somewhat.