Cure times?

Weaselcracker;3192012 said:

Two weeks is the bare minimum where I can be pretty sure it's stabilized in the jar and I can assume the hygrometer in the jar is trustworthy, it doesn't need to be checked a lot, and isn't going to go mouldy behind my back. You can smoke it, it won't kill you but it's going to be a fairly shitty version of what it could become.

Six weeks is when I find that the smell and flavour is really starting to come out. This is about the minimum cure time before I would give any away to friend without having to apologize profusely for the low quality and harshness.

Three months is kind of a minimum 'good cure'

After ten months I'm noticing smells come out that weren't there before. For example, a blueberry I used to grow smelled amazingly like blueberry during flower, but the smell never came out in the jar -till it was forgotten in the back of the shelf and cured ten months.

A year or longer and the smoke continues to mellow. Smells may start to decline just a little - but better described as a mellowing effect. At this point you're getting into long term storage and might want to consider things like vacuum jars and Boveda packs, if you haven't already.

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