refriedbeano
Active Member
I finally got my head around what this machine I made actually means for the harvesting workflow.
On the left is the budcure box which uses weight to track the moisture content, and the right is the cannaster. Going to just focus on the cannaster right now.
The lid is motorized and so you just put your buds in the bain marie pot and use the interface to close the lid. It can fit about 400 grams and uses a small vacuum pump to remove moisture from the inside out.
So the workflow is like this: you pull your drying buds off the stems while the stems are still bendy, and load it into the bain marie which has internal dividers to keep everything separate.
The fact that you don't have to wait until the stem snaps will make peoples harvests much more successful. I've been on youtube looking at what people are doing and this is a common failure point.
And then, how i have the machine setup is that it turns on the pump on a timer and it also reads the rh. So what i did was set the timer to once every 1.5 hours at the beginning, and I also set the pump to come on when the rh gets above a certain amount. So what happens is the pump comes on every 15 minutes as the rh rises and then after a day or two as the buds dry out the pump only comes on every 1.5 hours. Usually at this time the buds are dry enough to store.
Ended up that I was able to go straight from the cannaster to the jar without any burping at all.
I wasn't able to fully test it out though due to security threats and then someone robbed my last haul right from under me. Plus, I had no idea that rh is very temperature dependent and it caused a good deal of confusion. I'm confident though that the cannaster would be an ideal tool in a climate controlled environment for getting buds into jars.
The budcure box worked pretty good also, it uses only a small fan on a timer to control humidity and tracks the weight loss due to evaporation. So the workflow I'm imaging is that you would pull the buds out of the budcure box at a set weight and throw them into the cannaster. This way everything is done exactly.
Any thoughts on why this isn't already the way to do things?
On the left is the budcure box which uses weight to track the moisture content, and the right is the cannaster. Going to just focus on the cannaster right now.
The lid is motorized and so you just put your buds in the bain marie pot and use the interface to close the lid. It can fit about 400 grams and uses a small vacuum pump to remove moisture from the inside out.
So the workflow is like this: you pull your drying buds off the stems while the stems are still bendy, and load it into the bain marie which has internal dividers to keep everything separate.
The fact that you don't have to wait until the stem snaps will make peoples harvests much more successful. I've been on youtube looking at what people are doing and this is a common failure point.
And then, how i have the machine setup is that it turns on the pump on a timer and it also reads the rh. So what i did was set the timer to once every 1.5 hours at the beginning, and I also set the pump to come on when the rh gets above a certain amount. So what happens is the pump comes on every 15 minutes as the rh rises and then after a day or two as the buds dry out the pump only comes on every 1.5 hours. Usually at this time the buds are dry enough to store.
Ended up that I was able to go straight from the cannaster to the jar without any burping at all.
I wasn't able to fully test it out though due to security threats and then someone robbed my last haul right from under me. Plus, I had no idea that rh is very temperature dependent and it caused a good deal of confusion. I'm confident though that the cannaster would be an ideal tool in a climate controlled environment for getting buds into jars.
The budcure box worked pretty good also, it uses only a small fan on a timer to control humidity and tracks the weight loss due to evaporation. So the workflow I'm imaging is that you would pull the buds out of the budcure box at a set weight and throw them into the cannaster. This way everything is done exactly.
Any thoughts on why this isn't already the way to do things?
