Curing method poll: jars, grove bags, or what?

Done that side by side actually, same Gelato cut, same dry, split between jars and grove bags about eight months back. Jars won on smell for me, not even close. The grove bag version was good, don't get me wrong, but the jar cure had this deeper, more complex thing going on by week six. Like the gassy top note was there in both but the jar version had this sweet earthy layer underneath that the bag version just didn't develop the same way.

My theory, and take it for what it's worth, is that the CO2 off-gassing in the jar does something to the terpene expression over time that the bags interrupt or short-circuit. Maybe that's just what i want to believe. But it's what i keep coming back to.

The "babysitting" thing is real though. If you're not doing it for the terps specifically, the bags make a lot of sense and you're not going to end up with bad bud. Convenience has real value.

Interesting that the side by side went to jars on terps, because i've heard that enough times now that i'm starting to believe it. But here's the part nobody talks about: timing matters a lot. Grove bags seem to plateau faster. Like the cure kind of stabilizes and then just... holds there. Jars keep developing if you're patient, but they can also go sideways if your dry wasn't dialed in.

I run a perpetual harvest so i'm pulling every few weeks and i've honestly landed on grove bags for anything i'm moving through in under two months, jars for stuff i want to save or really let develop. Splitting the use case like that took a lot of the debate out of it for me.

The side by side you're thinking about doing is worth it. Just be religious about your dry first or the comparison won't tell you much.