Drying buds in a grow tent.

[Smithy1]

How do you exactly do it do you just hang them upside down in the dark? Then obviously zip the tent up with the extractor fan on? Then leave them for a week, Then cure?

Or do you leave the light on and let them dry under the light I've known people to do this.

 

[xtsho]

How do you exactly do it do you just hang them upside down in the dark? Then obviously zip the tent up with the extractor fan on? Then leave them for a week, Then cure?

Or do you leave the light on and let them dry under the light I've known people to do this.

No light.

 

[Lordhooha]

How do you exactly do it do you just hang them upside down in the dark? Then obviously zip the tent up with the extractor fan on? Then leave them for a week, Then cure?

Or do you leave the light on and let them dry under the light I've known people to do this.

Light breaks down thc

 

[Smithy1]

No light.

Thanks for the advice, But do I leave the fan on Or no fan?

 

[PinPin]

Or do you leave the light on and let them dry under the light I've known people to do this.

I did that way exactly with my first grow and still got very potent buds, a fantastic taste and not even a sign of rotting.
In terms of how good they were. The only more potent weed I ever smoked was the one I bought in Switzerland about 20 years ago. It actually knocked me down completelly so I could not even move. Everything I have ever bought from different dealers in different countries over decades was not even close to mine dried under light. I am going to dry my second grow exactly the same way.

 

[PinPin]

BTW, even my sugar leaves that I cut of buds and dried the same way as the buds is a few times more potent than weed I recently bought from a dealer. Not a great taste though so I mix them with that bad one weed to make a taste a bit better.

 

[Antitheist]

I did that way exactly with my first grow and still got very potent buds, a fantastic taste and not even a sign of rotting.
In terms of how good they were. The only more potent weed I ever smoked was the one I bought in Switzerland about 20 years ago. It actually knocked me down completelly so I could not even move. Everything I have ever bought from different dealers in different countries over decades was not even close to mine dried under light. I am going to dry my second grow exactly the same way.

That's probably because you were smoking pencil shavings. Drying buds under a light will not make them more potent. It will make them dry faster of course but you know how the saying goes?... Good things come to those who wait.

 

[Lordhooha]

The irony is that light is also an important part of the growing process, especially when it comes to cultivating high-THC strains. The more UVB light a growing cannabis plant receives, the more potent its buds will be. On the flip side, once cannabis has been harvested, exposure to light will promptly deplete THC content because of the biosynthetic processes that occur at the molecular level in response to that exposure.

https://www.wikileaf.com/thestash/degradation-thc/

https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/factors-influencing-cannabis-degradation

 

[nc208]

Thanks for the advice, But do I leave the fan on Or no fan?

Air movement is very important. Keep extraction and intake fans on. Have a small fan in there moving air around not pointed directly at the buds. You can hang them from a line upside down or look at hanging racks.

I aim to keep the RH 50-55% and temp around 70F, usually after 7 days or so it's good.

 

[PinPin]

That's probably because you were smoking pencil shavings. Drying buds under a light will not make them more potent. It will make them dry faster of course but you know how the saying goes?... Good things come to those who wait.

I did not mean to say it made them more potent. I meant that even after drying them the wrong way it was still great weed. It is hard to believe that over decades I was buying "pencil shavings" from different guys in very different places.
When I did it I did not have many choices. I had a lot of different strains including one autoflower for my first grow. Some plants developed faster than others so I was harvesting them one by one in different days.
I did not really hang them under lights for drying. They were kept on a shelf above lights in the same shed where less mature were finishing flowering. Since my first grow was in summer with outdoor temperature reaching +35C and more plus very high humidity my shed was the only place with the least humid conditions. It took about 3 days to dry each batch completelly this way.

 

[Smithy1]

Air movement is very important. Keep extraction and intake fans on. Have a small fan in there moving air around not pointed directly at the buds. You can hang them from a line upside down or look at hanging racks.

I aim to keep the RH 50-55% and temp around 70F, usually after 7 days or so it's good.

That answers spot on just what i wanted to hear ill keep my exhause fan on connected to my carbon and ill leave a fan that's strapped on the tent just blowing around them but not directly at them, Cheers for your reply.