If he shares with you the process he uses, throw that info my way, if you don't mind. My last dry, my rh was way low, so the buds dried out a bit faster and drier than I was wanting. Nothing too bad, but just not what I planned. I'm guessing the paper bag method will slow things down a bit, so I am wanting to give it a try so I can decide which method works better for me
If you want sucessfull drying and lack of experience, it is very good to buy small RH meter, like Caliber and some big jars at first.
Then you cut all buds and trim them immediatelly, to dry whole branches is better for retaining smell, but harder to control and harder to do nice trim later with dry leaves.
So, I cut buds, trim them, put them on a paper box and spread them around. Then they dry for some days (3-5), depending on air humidity. When I see they start to get crispy on surface, they go into jar first time. I close, put RH meter inside and see where they are. 84%, for example, after four hours. Too much. At this time, they may be closed in jars only for measuring purposes. After some hours in closed area, surfaces are not so crispy any more and they go out again for a day or so, it is very hard to explain these things using days, because RH is different and that matters how long and how intensive they dry.
I use jar for the same purpose as someone else uses paper bag, but in jar, I can control humidity precisely, because it can be sealed. Since there is only one hole in a jar, it must be turned more frequently as paper bag.
When RH reaches 75% they may rest in a jar, about one half fullfilled, opened of course and turned around very frequently. At this time 48 hours is enough to get mold on them if closed. Until they go down under 70RH, one must be very carefull about rotating frequently. If air RH is above 60, then 75% is too early for jar at all, if 45, they will dry much quicker and is not so dangerous. Why this dangerous keeping them in jar? Because they must dry slow. Very simple. Slow, but not too slow.
With measured RH around 70 (the real one is much higher, because water is still in the inner part of bud, comes out with time), if not too humid around, jars may be closed for some more time as before , lets say some hours a day, turned as many times as needed to keep buds separated and not sticked togehther. At 70 RH, mold needs a week or so to develop, if jar is closed.
When RH goes under 68-67, buds are slowly leaving mold dangerous area and jars should be more and more closed.All the time, all the decisions are RH measuring based. I repeat, this is measured RH, not real, because if you leave buds measured at 67% sealed for some time, they might go over 70 in few days.
Then RH must go down to 62%, smokers like 60-64%, if you ask them. In winter, when there is very, very dry in heated appartments, it is better to stop a little bit higher, at 65%, because with every opening of jar, very dry air comes in and one might finish with to dry stuff at the end of using it.
So, buds dry around 5 days or a week, then burp a week and burping slowly turns into curing.For my taste, TD needs exactly two months of curing for the best taste and smell.
Generally, jars need less and less opening when stuff gets drier, but one should measure RH from time to time, because RH gets higher, moist comes from inner part for some time, then it stops and buds are evenly dry. After a month, this RH changes become very minor.
TD never smells too much and drying buds more or less lose their smell after some days, no worry, it will recover with time.
Perfectly cured TD smells divine and the smell is very different from that one when they grow.
Hope it helps.
