Apostatize
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no mold. that's literally the point of drying to ~10-12% moisture.
Curing for looks, smell, and taste (assuming potency's already there).
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Apostatize
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Fuck yeah! At ~10% moisture (measured at bud, whole-plant hung-dry), buds are not just frosty, they sparkle and break up perfectly. Still have some internal moisture to burp out, but I'm happy af with the results.
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BrassNwood
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Southern California gets a late fall wind event called a Santa Ana Wind. Stone dry desert desert air is blasted over the Los Angeles Basin for days at a time with humidity in the single numbers. Trust me drying pounds of buds in 9% humidity is no easy trick and I ruined harvest after harvest chasing the fix. It never fails we get this shit the week I've got the garage filled with hanging buds.
Dry to fast it smells like lawn clippings. Dry to deep it will never cure and smoke like swallowing a flaming sword.
777 was the old stoner guide and baseline for a good drying space. 7 days at 70 degrees and 70% humidity. I've got nothing close to that. That brutal low humidity is what is killing me and I know it. I've got to slow that dry way down.
Trim close and only take down what I can clean up before it wilts. 15 minutes is about all i get. A trash can lid is about right. Not real clean but get all the crap off and the Buds looking like buds. I've only got to please myself and my old hands can only do this so long.
Hang until the small popcorn starts to stiffen up. It should glove and pull strip from the branches all but the last 3 or 4 inches. I'll hand snip that last part and get to breaking it down later.
Buds get placed in doubled paper shopping bags about 3 inches tall. I bought a couple of new 30 gallon trash cans and stack the bags in the closed cans over night. Out in the day and sealed up at night. Get your hands in and stir them up to keep the contents of the bags drying evenly and feel how they are doing. As the days progress they need less time exposed during the day to stay on track for drying. I do all by feel now. I know how it should be feeling at X number of days along in the 7-10 days it takes me to get them to the mid 60s RH. To mushy they need to stay out a few more hours. Feeling to stiff it is time to get back in the can. Hang a gauge and check in the morning when can is first opened to see where it stands. 62-65% RH is your ending point after 7-10 days.
They are now done drying and can be placed in jars for long term cure with or without a Boveda pack. They are perfectly dried and don't need the pack. It is more insurance then needed. Don't need burping as they are fully dried. This works flawlessly in my low humidity conditions. Likely get you a bucket of mold is a high humidity zone. My pal in Florida takes a far different approach.
Slowing the dry was the fix and my buds come out flawless every time.
Dry to fast it smells like lawn clippings. Dry to deep it will never cure and smoke like swallowing a flaming sword.
777 was the old stoner guide and baseline for a good drying space. 7 days at 70 degrees and 70% humidity. I've got nothing close to that. That brutal low humidity is what is killing me and I know it. I've got to slow that dry way down.
Trim close and only take down what I can clean up before it wilts. 15 minutes is about all i get. A trash can lid is about right. Not real clean but get all the crap off and the Buds looking like buds. I've only got to please myself and my old hands can only do this so long.
Hang until the small popcorn starts to stiffen up. It should glove and pull strip from the branches all but the last 3 or 4 inches. I'll hand snip that last part and get to breaking it down later.
Buds get placed in doubled paper shopping bags about 3 inches tall. I bought a couple of new 30 gallon trash cans and stack the bags in the closed cans over night. Out in the day and sealed up at night. Get your hands in and stir them up to keep the contents of the bags drying evenly and feel how they are doing. As the days progress they need less time exposed during the day to stay on track for drying. I do all by feel now. I know how it should be feeling at X number of days along in the 7-10 days it takes me to get them to the mid 60s RH. To mushy they need to stay out a few more hours. Feeling to stiff it is time to get back in the can. Hang a gauge and check in the morning when can is first opened to see where it stands. 62-65% RH is your ending point after 7-10 days.
They are now done drying and can be placed in jars for long term cure with or without a Boveda pack. They are perfectly dried and don't need the pack. It is more insurance then needed. Don't need burping as they are fully dried. This works flawlessly in my low humidity conditions. Likely get you a bucket of mold is a high humidity zone. My pal in Florida takes a far different approach.
Slowing the dry was the fix and my buds come out flawless every time.
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Apostatize
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Room RH is usually 55-65%, drying until bud moisture is ~10%. I'm not drying at RH 10%. I don't fix a number of drying days because plant size, shape, bud density, etc. still vary for me quite a bit. So, I just measure the stalk until it gets to around 20% moisture and then start measuring buds until they're ~10% moisture (using a 2-prong moisture meter meant for wood). Whole plant hang-time's probably 14+ days, but that's not the # I care about.
My buds sparkle, I would say that is a successful dry.
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Grow Monster
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Everything is easy once u gd at it. The truely skilled make hard tasks look easy. Trail and error is the only true teacher. No matter how many post u read or advice u've been given experience will weigh in the most.I think u rt on point doing the different test. Different region, homes, environment, etc make it so u have to dial in what works for your situation. So I concur, smoke the bowl and let it grow.
Apostatize
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also, i've seen bud jarred starting at the upper limit recommended online to begin jarring (35% moisture) burp down to ~12-13% moisture ... and it's a big difference from drying straight to ~10-12% moisture. literally sparkles, breaks up perfectly. still a little internal moisture to burp out, but it's the best drying I've done yet. Without a meter, I wouldn't feel comfortable drying as long as I did. Without a meter ... apparently, you can't burp your way to sparkles; you dry to it. And 10-12% moisture is recommended to avoid mold, so it all works together.
I think u rt on point doing the different test. Different region, homes, environment, etc make it so u have to dial in what works for your situation. So I concur, smoke the bowl and let it grow.
Grow Monster
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I've seen both in the same run. Different strains do different thangs. Perfect moisture depends on your plant. Density, size, jar size, room temp jars are in, etc.
agree.. my goodness, I’m no expert but have done quite a bit of reading g and researching from reputable sources, and also thats why I read the B__ks too!
and much I’ve read here is nonsense that Is completely wrong and contradicts everything you’ll read from people who make a living growing, or selling, or writing about cannibus growing etc…
RIU needs like an oversight board or something to simply delete posts that give shitty horrible advice. It’s detrimental to the message board itself imo
I know anyone can go to a dispensary rk buy the latest arrival and it’s harvest date which is printed on it will be AT LEAST 30 days before the day it arrived because, as is written in every reputable grow book that has a publishers support sort of speak is because for optimum results you want a minimum 30 day cure, AT LEAST!
New science has shown that in the proper conditions Terpenes will continue to increase for AT LEAST 4 months (the study length) and in the case of this study l, fml I wish I’d saved it, more than doubled.
This may seem crazy but I saw a regular at various Cannibus say he doesn’t smoke anything that hasn’t cured a Year!!! 
New science has shown that in the proper conditions Terpenes will continue to increase for AT LEAST 4 months (the study length) and in the case of this study l, fml I wish I’d saved it, more than doubled.
This may seem crazy but I saw a regular at various Cannibus say he doesn’t smoke anything that hasn’t cured a Year!!!