Harvest & Curing Humidity packs yes or no?

[Olderfart]

The rumor that Boveda removes terpenes originated from a single study that Desiccare, literally their only main competitor for what is a very similar product, put out to try to prove their own product is superior (and nothing against Desiccare, but that's a shady, shitty move.) Their main claim is that Boveda packets off-gas acetone gas (again, I don't believe this has been substantiated by anyone other than Desiccare lol...)

I've used both Boveda and Integra packs, never noticed any loss of terpenes, and I push BOTH products to every dispensary I see because they legitimately work. We've started using the large 58% packets at our commercial grow for our storage.

These sort of commercial shenanigans seem all to often to be the source of such rumors. One needs to be careful where one's information comes from...

As for Boveda and other similar packs, I seriously doubt that they do anything detectable other than affect equilibrium RH. Saturated salt solutions cause an identifiable and consistent equilibrium RH in the air they are enclosed with - different salts, different RH. Custom design the mixture of salts, and you can custom design to an intended RH and voila, we can have the magic 62% if that cures your bud for you. Fairly simple stuff other than the package that keeps in the salt slurry and lets vapor penetrate in either direction. Bottom line to me is that there is bugger all in there that is likely to affect terpenes or anything else of import. IMHO, the rubber gasket on the canning lids is more likely to cause an issue if you want to worry about something. Or the smell of brown paper bags used for curing, or plastic jars for storing, etc. etc.

Happy RH adjusting peeps.

 

[hecno]

I started using them a while back , they work great being in the tropics . and as Olderfart said , there is nothing in them to harm .

 

[Mizzo81]

Yup been using them forever. Boveda, integra and just picked up some new ones will always use them after seeing how well they work.

 

[StevOrganic]

Hi guys came across this thread and thought would be best jump in here rather than create new thread.

I dried my bud down to around 53-54% rh I then jarred up and they were very crispy so I put into jar with boveda 62% and now the jars are up to 60-61% one week in jar.

Should I remove boveda and allow to cure now even if the jar humidity falls to 55-58% rh after removing? I have noticed the jars with boveda pack have slightly less smell will this come back when pack is removed does anyone know from experience? It's just one jar has no boveda and smell is noticably stronger from this jar.

This is the unknown for me because with my other cures I burped jar down from around 70 to mid/low 60's then after a month popped in 62% boveda to stabilise. Just looking for advice from people who tend to dry buds down to mid 50's initially what do you guys do?