Drying cannabis without anywhere to put it and can’t have the smell

[RevRico]

You either need a secondary carbon filter, or you need to dry in your tent, if your concerned with the smell.

As far as HOW to setup the carbon filter, it really doesnt matter. As others have said, you dont need to exhaust the carbon filter.. in a closed environment (be it a tent, closet, room, etc), a carbon filter will scrub the air continuously. The key is to just minimize air exchange in/out of the closed environment.

So assuming your not drying in your tent, and you do get a second carbon filter/fan combo... you can use a cardboard box, yes. You could also hang the buds in a closet with the filter/fan combo running, or just about anywhere else that you can minimize air exchange in/out of the room, while also keeping control over light and rH within reason.

So if there was a room in the basement, whose only real air flow was the door, would say a 4"fan and filter in the room with a towel under the door keep the smell from permeating the house?

We're moving, and while I have a good idea on my grow space, I haven't quite figured out drying there yet.

 

[curious2garden]

Get a large box and string and a small fan to take air from the box to the tent where it will then get filtered by your extraction.

This is a winning idea. If your fan is large enough you wouldn't even need another fan just pipe it into your tent.

 

[PopeyeSpinach]

A carbon filter will only work based on how low the humidity is. I live in Southern Illinois where it gets to be 80-100% humidity from early spring to late fall and my carbon scrubbers font do dick then.
Ive found whenever the humidity climbs over 60% my scrubbers effectiveness rapidly declines. I even made a chamber my exhaust blows into, i put odor gel buckets in said chamber. It helped, but not 100%, i cant smell it but non smoker friends can.

The only thing i can do to defeat smell is run an Ozone generator, but you dont want to breathe ozone, and you don't want your plants or drying buds exposed to ozone either.

 

[BluntMoniker]

So if there was a room in the basement, whose only real air flow was the door, would say a 4"fan and filter in the room with a towel under the door keep the smell from permeating the house?

We're moving, and while I have a good idea on my grow space, I haven't quite figured out drying there yet.

I'd say it depends on the size of your basement, as far as the size of your inline fan/filter combo.

Sounds like air exchange outside of the basement wont be an issue, so you just need a combo that will move enough CFM to cycle your room at least hourly.

Most fan/filter combos will state their rated CFM, so it's just a matter of math and measuring your space.

 

[BluntMoniker]

A carbon filter will only work based on how low the humidity is. I live in Southern Illinois where it gets to be 80-100% humidity from early spring to late fall and my carbon scrubbers font do dick then.
Ive found whenever the humidity climbs over 60% my scrubbers effectiveness rapidly declines. I even made a chamber my exhaust blows into, i put odor gel buckets in said chamber. It helped, but not 100%, i cant smell it but non smoker friends can.

The only thing i can do to defeat smell is run an Ozone generator, but you dont want to breathe ozone, and you don't want your plants or drying buds exposed to ozone either.

Why not buy a dehumidifier? Can get a decent one for 150-200$ that should be more than enough for even a decent sized home grow.

They're a pain in the ass to have to drain in a high humidity environment where they fill up quicker, but if your handy, you can plumb them to a floor drain..

OR get a submersible water pump, hook it up to a float switch, and place the rig in some kind of container. As the dehumidifier drains, it fills the container, the switch turns the pump on, and you can pump the water to anywhere you need it, instead of having to rely on gravity.

Could even collect the and use the water for you plants! I'd expect ambient moisture in the air isnt going to have a high ppm, assuming the dehumidifier filter is clean.

 

[Keesje]

I do not know the amount that you want to dry.
But what works: Buy a box or tote that you can hermetically close.
Put a dehumidifier in it.
Make sure that the hole through which the power cable passes is also completely closed.
Weed in the box, and turn on the dehumidifier.

 

[SnidleyBluntash]

Put it in 2 brown paper bags and put it outside far away so no one will smell it. Maybe on the roof, or back alley by the dumpster.

 

[Gorillaglue4u]

I have been in similar situations but i just hang them in my tent even with my lights on i know light degrades thc but i still did it without much difference in quality it dried quicker so i didnt get the slow dry but in a pinch it worked just fine.

 

[PopeyeSpinach]

Why not buy a dehumidifier? Can get a decent one for 150-200$ that should be more than enough for even a decent sized home grow.

They're a pain in the ass to have to drain in a high humidity environment where they fill up quicker, but if your handy, you can plumb them to a floor drain..

OR get a submersible water pump, hook it up to a float switch, and place the rig in some kind of container. As the dehumidifier drains, it fills the container, the switch turns the pump on, and you can pump the water to anywhere you need it, instead of having to rely on gravity.

Could even collect the and use the water for you plants! I'd expect ambient moisture in the air isnt going to have a high ppm, assuming the dehumidifier filter is clean.

Honestly for me its an electricity usage limit for myself, im able to grow indoors starting Late August-May1st and grow enough meds to last me til i start over

But we have digress from the thread, sorry op

 

[sarahJane211]

How's this for any idea, get a Box any box cut a round hole to connect some ducting, then connect that ducting to the box and your intake of your grow tent, that way your grow tent will pull air from the box into the tent then into the scrubber ( can use an old grow tent and connect that to the intake side of the main tent)

.....or you could forget the ducting and just put the cardboard box in the tent (assuming enough room).

 

[warriormom]

Obviously I did mate just asking if anyone has any other ideas I can do it piss like I said use a cardboard box only takes a week by next harvest with have a different way to do it

Just busting your chops. I have obsessed over every ridiculous detail of my setup. I fall asleep at night problem solving and figuring out details and workarounds for every thing I could potentially encounter. It's a little bit obsessive, I will admit, but my seedlings are only two weeks old and I'm already planning out the drying tent setup because I'm a total weed dork.

 

[warriormom]

.....or you could forget the ducting and just put the cardboard box in the tent (assuming enough room).

I actually like this idea. I may try something like this.

 

[Gardenator]

You could use your carbon scrubber outside your tent and hang dry the herb outside the tent no box no barriers... place the scrubber to draw the air above the drying herb (terps are light and will be pulled into your scrubber) also keeping the temps down below 68°F to dry them keeps smells down too because terps dont break down until it gets to be above 70-75 degrees depending on your humidity where they dry, i keep my drying herb in a room at 64°F-54°F and humidty stays below 60% and above 50% and smell doesnt come out of the room and i use a scrubber inline with a uv light filter in the ducting (big tall scrubber like 4ft)... no smell outside my drying room... remember light and high temps degrade and break down terpenes and eliminating those 2 things before any equipment is set up gives you a big leap in the right direction to eliminate the smell. Let them hang till they are dry and then strip the stems of all the bud and put the bud on trays in open trash bags in that same room (dont close the bag over the trays) give it a few more days here like this and once the humidity levels out inside the bag (time varies for amount of flower harvested) then poof you have wonderfully cold cured herb that didnt smell up your neighborhood lol... idk about the fridge idea i saw further back in the thread but cold and slow is the way to dry n cure the herb... bigger scrubber and look into that enviroment generator (uv light filter) you will have very little to no smell and remember to keep rH low low low as well because the higher moisture content in the air saturates and renders useless your carbon scrubber, wet activated carbon doesnt absorb any organic material out of the air if the carbon is already saturated from humidity... also next time have 2 tents lol

 

[Cannabis_king]

You could use your carbon scrubber outside your tent and hang dry the herb outside the tent no box no barriers... place the scrubber to draw the air above the drying herb (terps are light and will be pulled into your scrubber) also keeping the temps down below 68°F to dry them keeps smells down too because terps dont break down until it gets to be above 70-75 degrees depending on your humidity where they dry, i keep my drying herb in a room at 64°F-54°F and humidty stays below 60% and above 50% and smell doesnt come out of the room and i use a scrubber inline with a uv light filter in the ducting (big tall scrubber like 4ft)... no smell outside my drying room... remember light and high temps degrade and break down terpenes and eliminating those 2 things before any equipment is set up gives you a big leap in the right direction to eliminate the smell. Let them hang till they are dry and then strip the stems of all the bud and put the bud on trays in open trash bags in that same room (dont close the bag over the trays) give it a few more days here like this and once the humidity levels out inside the bag (time varies for amount of flower harvested) then poof you have wonderfully cold cured herb that didnt smell up your neighborhood lol... idk about the fridge idea i saw further back in the thread but cold and slow is the way to dry n cure the herb... bigger scrubber and look into that enviroment generator (uv light filter) you will have very little to no smell and remember to keep rH low low low as well because the higher moisture content in the air saturates and renders useless your carbon scrubber, wet activated carbon doesnt absorb any organic material out of the air if the carbon is already saturated from humidity... also next time have 2 tents lol

Everyone keeps saying scrubber I don’t get it I know your referring to a carbon filter but how do I set up my carbon filter to be as you call a scrubber cheers

 

[SnidleyBluntash]

You run a can and a fan inside a closed room. The fan sucks or blows (which ever your preference) air through the filter. The air comes out clean and not as smelly in to the same room. You let the fan run all the time and it cleans the air, making the smell go away.

 

[Powertech]

Some of these ideas basically sound like how I have my ventilation set up anyway lol. I am sucking air from my Veg tent through a carbon filter (I use the filter from flower tent I change after each harvest), that blows into my flower tent, then gets sucked out through another carbon filter blowing into my garage, or soon during summer when I cool my garage, it will be blowing to outside. Natural draft through tent vents supplying garage air to veg tent. This next harvest I will have one more tent for drying with its own smaller fan that i'll have also blowing into the flower tent. Everything is on variable speed controllers so temp/rh control is somewhat good

 

[Gardenator]

Everyone keeps saying scrubber I don’t get it I know your referring to a carbon filter but how do I set up my carbon filter to be as you call a scrubber cheers

Okay so when you set up your carbon filter to exhaust the air from the tent out of the tent that is what is being refferred too (carbon filter is an air scrubber and is be used to draw air though its activated carbon to absorb the organic material in the air creating the smell i.e. terpenes floating through the air acting as your enemy drawing peoples noses to your crop) use a can fan and pull the air from your tent through the carbon filter attached to the can fan with some type of flexible ducting.

 

[Gardenator]

Some of these ideas basically sound like how I have my ventilation set up anyway lol. I am sucking air from my Veg tent through a carbon filter (I use the filter from flower tent I change after each harvest), that blows into my flower tent, then gets sucked out through another carbon filter blowing into my garage, or soon during summer when I cool my garage, it will be blowing to outside. Natural draft through tent vents supplying garage air to veg tent. This next harvest I will have one more tent for drying with its own smaller fan that i'll have also blowing into the flower tent. Everything is on variable speed controllers so temp/rh control is somewhat good

How about setting those tents up to start by exhausting the drying tent into the flower tent then into the veg then out, by the end of that chain and maybe and inline carbon filter between veg and flower as well and shouldnt be much smell left after that... or focus your efforts on the flower and dry tent... you could make a scrubber box that has a carbon filter inside the box connected to ducting, 3 sides of your box is made of the square 4 inch pollen and allergen filters, also you will be wanting to use an 8inch or maybe a 10inch can fan and bigger carbon filter, this only allows for extra filtration and gives you cleaner air... honestly though 3 tents could be exhausted all together unless you control the air leaving your garage it wont matter unless the tents stayed sealed up tight because you opening and closing them allowing unfiltered air to come in and to escape defeats your whole purpose in the first place