The empty jar is a bigger still

You finished most of the eighth and left the last three nugs in the quart. The lid still sealed, and the glass still looked like a jar, but most of that room was air. The jar is a still covered what leaves when you crack the lid. This chapter is the air that is already in there while the lid stays on.

Southern Ohio already has this argument when somebody keeps one size of mason for every eighth. One person downsizes as the flower shrinks. One person lets the quart run mostly empty. Same nugs sit under both lids, and the rooms are not the same size. Match the jar to the flower.

The fridge is a wet box covered the kitchen. Two OGs, same family covered two famous lids. The grind is the last harvest covered when you break the nug. This chapter is the empty volume.

Three nugs sitting in the bottom of a quart jar — The lid is on, and most of the jar is still a room.

How to keep the jar

Move the pinch into a smaller jar. When the eighth becomes three nugs, the quart is the wrong room. Do not invent a fill percent for that move. Just stop storing air you do not need.

If you only keep one jar, keep the small one.

They did not trial your quart

I did not find a paper that put the same flower in a full small jar and an empty big jar and published the nose. The seventy-percent fill line you hear on blogs is not a finding I can hang on this tray. This chapter does not give you a fill percent. It gives you the keep: downsize as the eighth shrinks.

People do study the air around the flower in a sealed package. MacLaughlin and MacDonald canned 3.5 grams in steel, five chemovars, thirty samples, and compared ordinary air to a nitrogen flush at about 4 percent oxygen. Totals for cannabinoids and terpenes did not differ over 18 to 74 days, while individual compounds moved. They said nitrogen was not needed to hold the totals, and they said they had no uncanned control (MacLaughlin and MacDonald, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1186/s42238-024-00253-9).

That is a steel can and an oxygen percent. It is not your mason fill ratio. Use it only for this: the air in the sealed room is a real variable, and changing how much air you keep is not a trial they ran.

A drawn pair: a full small jar, a tall empty jar with the same nugs — Same nugs sit in different rooms, and both lids are on.

Honesty, because the tray will ask

There is no fill-ratio flower paper in hand for this chapter. MacLaughlin 2024 is in hand, and it is cans, not quarts. I am not writing a seventy-percent fill line as science. The weeknight keep is practice sitting on that limit, not a new sample size for empty jars.

A smaller jar holding the same pinch of flower — Match the jar to the flower as the eighth shrinks.

This is 21+ educational writing with no medical claims. It is about how you keep the flower.

Sources

MacLaughlin LL, MacDonald MT. Is nitrogen-modified atmosphere packaging a tool for retention of volatile terpenes and cannabinoids in stored Cannabis sativa inflorescence? Journal of Cannabis Research. 2024;6:42. Steel cans, air versus nitrogen at about 4 percent oxygen; totals for cannabinoids and terpenes did not differ; no uncanned control; not a mason fill-ratio trial. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42238-024-00253-9

Flagged / not used as numbers: any 70–80 percent fill line as science; a fill-ratio flower n (none found); treating MacLaughlin as a mason-jar headspace trial; collapsing this chapter into Chapter 1’s lid-crack still.

Series note

This is chapter 11 of a CincyCannaDash quality library. The still still runs, and the empty jar is a bigger still. Next is not locked.

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