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myke

myke

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i just hacked down bubba,felt bad but i have to start,my cabinet isnt big enough to fit everything.was day 57 for her.
 
Hydrowannabe

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I'm having a hell of a time keeping the humidity up at night in my drying closet. It dropped from 65% to 40% when I woke up. I'm hoping the wet trim tech will kind of act as a buffer against these imperfect conditions. I want to really bring out that smell and taste to it fullest this time.heres some more pics bc why not
 

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Right on. I hate to solicit advice to someone who didn't ask, but drying and curing has been something I've striven to perfect and something I enjoy talking about.

The key to drying is to aim for a room that's 60% humidity at all times. If possible, aim for 60 degrees too, but that's difficult to do for a lot of people. How I achieve a constant 60% humidity is doing a full plant hang in a separate tent, and hook up an AC Infinity fan/controller to said tent. The controller does all the work by increasing and decreasing the fan speed to keep the tent at 60% (which is what I set it to). This was a game changer really.

After 10-14 days I cut the bud off the stem and begin trimming. But most of the buds go untrimmed into a turkey bag and closed for 24 hours to sweat. This technique pulls the moisture out of the middle of the bud (that's still there after hang). So after 24 hours of being sealed, I open the bag and place it back in my dry tent (opened) for another 24 hours or so. I do this as many times as needed until I can get all that moisture out and spread evenly throughout all the buds.

Once this is done, the bud is as good as it would be to sell to a dispensary (once it's trimmed of course). The additional curing does indeed benefit the smell and flavor of the herb, but if the herb isn't smelling "dank" after the sweat, it probably wont ever.
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Hey, so I'm doing the turkey bag thing, mainly to get the moisture content even in the buds. I may have missed the cure by drying to fast (I had wind activity going to much). But after 5 days, things were pretty dry and I trimmed half the harvest and put it in turkey bags and the other half in a tote (with only the fan leaves trimmed). Kind of doing some experimenting obviously. I'm not seeing much sweating action going on. I have a lot of questions, and in trying to organize them. First,...do you put any boveda in the turkey bags when you put the buds in them. I had my dry closet setup great, but I had the fan turned to high. This was a garbled mess ha. I have a hydrometer in every turkey bag and the tote and the rh is only at like 45-50%. Whay should I do from here lol? I feel like I should open all the bags and tote tomorrow and fluff things up and close things back up for another day. Or am I just screwed since the rh reads on at 50% . Doing things like thing should ar least even out moisture in the buds if nothing else
 

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Hydrowannabe said:
Hey, so I'm doing the turkey bag thing, mainly to get the moisture content even in the buds. I may have missed the cure by drying to fast (I had wind activity going to much). But after 5 days, things were pretty dry and I trimmed half the harvest and put it in turkey bags and the other half in a tote (with only the fan leaves trimmed). Kind of doing some experimenting obviously. I'm not seeing much sweating action going on. I have a lot of questions, and in trying to organize them. First,...do you put any boveda in the turkey bags when you put the buds in them. I had my dry closet setup great, but I had the fan turned to high. This was a garbled mess ha. I have a hydrometer in every turkey bag and the tote and the rh is only at like 45-50%. Whay should I do from here lol? I feel like I should open all the bags and tote tomorrow and fluff things up and close things back up for another day. Or am I just screwed since the rh reads on at 50% . Doing things like thing should ar least even out moisture in the buds if nothing else
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Drop humidity packs in turkeys and tape one to lid of tub.
 
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a mongo frog said:
Drop humidity packs in turkeys and tape one to lid of tub.
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I got a bunch of large sized integra 62% packs. You think I should just drop one of those in each then. I've heard most dont use then till its time for long term storage, but in assuming your suggesting that because of my rh, right?
 
Hydrowannabe

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a mongo frog said:
Yes. If you think they are too dry then for sure.
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I should explain better. I dont really think they are over dried. It feels like I trapped to much water inside from them drying to fast the first few days. I dont know if it's possible to pull the water out. Smell great. But worried about smoke and storage. They need to sweat if possible
 
smokebros

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Hydrowannabe said:
Hey, so I'm doing the turkey bag thing, mainly to get the moisture content even in the buds. I may have missed the cure by drying to fast (I had wind activity going to much). But after 5 days, things were pretty dry and I trimmed half the harvest and put it in turkey bags and the other half in a tote (with only the fan leaves trimmed). Kind of doing some experimenting obviously. I'm not seeing much sweating action going on. I have a lot of questions, and in trying to organize them. First,...do you put any boveda in the turkey bags when you put the buds in them. I had my dry closet setup great, but I had the fan turned to high. This was a garbled mess ha. I have a hydrometer in every turkey bag and the tote and the rh is only at like 45-50%. Whay should I do from here lol? I feel like I should open all the bags and tote tomorrow and fluff things up and close things back up for another day. Or am I just screwed since the rh reads on at 50% . Doing things like thing should ar least even out moisture in the buds if nothing else
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I stopped using hygrometers a long time ago. My approach to drying and curing is the same whether using mason jars or turkey bags. I prefer the turkey bags because volume wise they hold more, with no sacrifice in flavor vs glass jars.

I think you're right, that you missed something during the dry. Five days is just way too soon and I'm not sure the fan in the drying closet was a good idea.

When I dry, I use a separate tent with a humidity controller + fan + carbon filter combination. The RH in that tent rarely fluctuates because the controller does a fantastic job at regulating the RH. Anecdotally speaking, I just chopped down some 99 Cherries that I left dry for 9 days. When I went to cut the buds off the branch I noticed a bit of moisture still present. So I tossed all the buds into turkey bags (untrimmed but the buds were cut off of the main branches) and I left those bags open / uncovered for a day. I came back and closed them off for half a day and checked them, and felt another 12 hours uncovered would do the trick. It's a delicate process, and I feel more comfortable trusting my judgement versus what a hygrometer says.

After the buds are deemed ready for long term storage, I recently began using interga packs to keep that RH balanced, they work great. What I'm primarily looking for is texture yet still getting a "pop" when I break a bud in half.

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Regarding your buds, I wouldn't be too worried, just keep those packs in there. Smoke on the bud and ask yourself how it tastes. Is it harsh? Too dry? Use your intuition that got you those magnificent buds in the first place. Understand that you dried too quick. Anything before 7-8 days is too quicky. Figure out a way to slow that dry down. Aim for 10 days.
 
Hydrowannabe

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smokebros said:
I stopped using hygrometers a long time ago. My approach to drying and curing is the same whether using mason jars or turkey bags. I prefer the turkey bags because volume wise they hold more, with no sacrifice in flavor vs glass jars.

I think you're right, that you missed something during the dry. Five days is just way too soon and I'm not sure the fan in the drying closet was a good idea.

When I dry, I use a separate tent with a humidity controller + fan + carbon filter combination. The RH in that tent rarely fluctuates because the controller does a fantastic job at regulating the RH. Anecdotally speaking, I just chopped down some 99 Cherries that I left dry for 9 days. When I went to cut the buds off the branch I noticed a bit of moisture still present. So I tossed all the buds into turkey bags (untrimmed but the buds were cut off of the main branches) and I left those bags open / uncovered for a day. I came back and closed them off for half a day and checked them, and felt another 12 hours uncovered would do the trick. It's a delicate process, and I feel more comfortable trusting my judgement versus what a hygrometer says.

After the buds are deemed ready for long term storage, I recently began using interga packs to keep that RH balanced, they work great. What I'm primarily looking for is texture yet still getting a "pop" when I break a bud in half.

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Regarding your buds, I wouldn't be too worried, just keep those packs in there. Smoke on the bud and ask yourself how it tastes. Is it harsh? Too dry? Use your intuition that got you those magnificent buds in the first place. Understand that you dried too quick. Anything before 7-8 days is too quicky. Figure out a way to slow that dry down. Aim for 10 days.
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Thanks so much for detailed reply. Yea you're right about the fan in the closet being the thing that screwed things up. I will use a fan very sparingly. I think they dried out too much the first night hanging because ththe humidity had dropped by 20% over night and I had too much wind movement. I think I just trapped some moisture in the buds. But actually they aren't dried out as much as I thought so. They are sweating in the turkey bags and smelling great now. Thanks again for the advice. I'm understanding now the purpose of slow drying and sweating the buds and finally jarring. I'm no longer just doing it because, well that's what I was told. Learning is priceless
 
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Hydrowannabe said:
Thanks so much for detailed reply. Yea you're right about the fan in the closet being the thing that screwed things up. I will use a fan very sparingly. I think they dried out too much the first night hanging because ththe humidity had dropped by 20% over night and I had too much wind movement. I think I just trapped some moisture in the buds. But actually they aren't dried out as much as I thought so. They are sweating in the turkey bags and smelling great now. Thanks again for the advice. I'm understanding now the purpose of slow drying and sweating the buds and finally jarring. I'm no longer just doing it because, well that's what I was told. Learning is priceless
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Yeah man. The hardest part of growing (in my opinion) is nailing the dry and cure. I think it being the last step(s) is what makes it hard to get a hang of. There's no real way to 'practice' it, like you would growing out other plants. Once the dry and cure is upon you, it's live.There's no re-do's or do-overs, and if a mistake is made, it's another 12-16 weeks before you get another crack at it.

But it sounds like you got it now. Even after hanging for 10 days the buds still typically have some moisture, even if the outsides feel super crispy. Just takes a little finesse to extract that moisture out evenly, and that's where that open|close|open|close technique shines.

Keep up the great work man.
 
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