q3corn
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If you don't want to risk your harvest turning to crap, better play it safe. Moist buds in a container is the absolute #1 way to ruin it all. I think it's a shame that it is recommended. Just hang branches, trim fan leaves, wait 2 weeks, remove the buds from the stems and jar it up. This is where the oldschoolers are right IMO. It might be the safest thing you can do. Especially if you don't have the experience of many harvests. If your ambient RH is normal you can leave them hanging for eternity. When I was too lazy to put all the weed in containers I would just leave branches hanging and take buds off of them as desired. More than once did I have my own stash hanging for 2 months. A closed jar which reaches 55% isn't much different from a room that is always ~55%.
I'm not saying it's the same, or to hang stuff for 2 months. Weed reaches a moisture equilibrium with the environment. If you hang it in 65% it's impossible to overdry. Jars, dessicants, burping, these three words make a good recipe for Hay smelling schwag. Just my opinion of course. I have ruined buds by jarring them wet. Never a problem with a proper hang dry, always happy (if the plant is good).
Also wouldn't worry about anything converting to cbn, cbd etc... that's more theorycrafting. You're not gonna notice a % difference the same way the lab equipment does. Yeah the 1.5 year old weed is not the same as it was 4 wks after harvest, but it's still good to smoke, the essence of the terp profile is still there, and it still gets you high.
Final thought... most of the people who go online to write with absolute certainty that you shouldn't dry buds under lights, and preach doom & gloom about it, have never themselves dried buds under their lights. I mean I wouldn't recommend it either but I'll be damned if that wasn't some grade A bud.
Truth
For a short while I ran a larger grow in a basement and we just hung plants til we sold the bud. RH was probably around 50-60%. Jars were for carrying and longer term storage. I've found small jars of bud from those days 2+ years later and it still smoked fairly well! A little harsh but it wasn't crumbly dry. Mostly the colors just faded and turned to a brown/amber. Purples stayed pretty well throughout that time, too.
Anyway, so long as the initial dry was done right you should be able to keep weed for a long time. Silica packs, boveda packs, all that stuff feels like extra money to spend on what ultimately will only give you a minor quality improvement at best.
I think a lot of the concerns about overdrying come from people who live in areas where that is an actual concern, like Colorado. Those people *need* humidifiers in their drying room to keep it up above the ambient 35%. In Canada, you'll probably not see anything under 45% ever. In a closet, probably never below 50%.
If you let it go as long as possible, those little bud branches will fill in with as many mature calyxes as possible. 
