How dark is dark for drying?

[stawawager]

If your RH and temp is good, do you have to dry in pitch black environment or is it OK to dry in a corner of a basement that gets very little light at all? Thx.

 

[Wastei]

Nope.

Many ways to skin a goat but it's not enough to affect anything IMO. My friend dries in open in his basement with some ambient light on during the day.

 

[stawawager]

Nope.

Many ways to skin a goat but it's not enough to affect anything IMO. My friend dries in open in his basement with some ambient light on during the day.

I'd like to harvest the mature buds and let the others keep maturing under the lights. Have you heard of this practice? Maybe it shocks the whole bush and stops the process ?

 

[HydoDan]

Doing a partial harvest and letting the lowers grow is fine..

 

[Fladawg01]

Ambient light will not hurt the dry, now direct light may.

 

[Delps8]

After reading the conventional wisdom of "not exposing buds to the light", or somesuch, I read recently (can't cite the source) that the issue is that UV light might harm trichs which would indicate that the issue is direct sunlight. Dunno. I chop, hang in my garage for a couple of days, and then put it in a Koolatron cooler and forget about it.

This YT video might be of interest:

 

[stawawager]

After reading the conventional wisdom of "not exposing buds to the light", or somesuch, I read recently (can't cite the source) that the issue is that UV light might harm trichs which would indicate that the issue is direct sunlight. Dunno. I chop, hang in my garage for a couple of days, and then put it in a Koolatron cooler and forget about it.

This YT video might be of interest:

Thx, Wow, curing, it's so complicated yet so simple.

I took one bud. Super heavy / super dense so from what this lady says: get the water out but not too fast....

Also, "if you are smelling terpenes, you are losing them".

I think I'll weigh some of them and see how much they lose in how many days.

I'm at 60F but 32 RH. 1.3 VPD. Maybe I should put it in a jar to slow the dry and watch the RH closely?

 

[stawawager]

After reading the conventional wisdom of "not exposing buds to the light", or somesuch, I read recently (can't cite the source) that the issue is that UV light might harm trichs which would indicate that the issue is direct sunlight. Dunno. I chop, hang in my garage for a couple of days, and then put it in a Koolatron cooler and forget about it.

This YT video might be of interest:

Super interesting video. Freeze drying, way over my head.

Koolatron? A RH controlled refrigerator?

 

[stawawager]

Doing a partial harvest and letting the lowers grow is fine..

Have you ever freeze dried?

 

[HydoDan]

Have you ever freeze dried?

Nope never tried it.. I do vacuum pack and freeze for long term storage..

 

[smoke and coke]

Super interesting video. Freeze drying, way over my head.

Koolatron? A RH controlled refrigerator?

Here is the koolatron thread. Well worth the read. I have 2 of them set up. After the dry i use sweet decades bags and store them in the cooler.

Thermoelectric wine cooler drying and curing - DIY

I had read about these for a while before trying, this is not by any means a new idea nor did I come up with the idea. I was tired of over drying and drying too quickly in the winter, then freaking out about mold in the summer. A google search will give lots of other ideas, but I get a lot of...

rollitup.org

 

[stawawager]

Here is the koolatron thread. Well worth the read. I have 2 of them set up. After the dry i use sweet decades bags and store them in the cooler.

Thermoelectric wine cooler drying and curing - DIY

I had read about these for a while before trying, this is not by any means a new idea nor did I come up with the idea. I was tired of over drying and drying too quickly in the winter, then freaking out about mold in the summer. A google search will give lots of other ideas, but I get a lot of...

rollitup.org

Terpene curing bags lol sounds politically correct.

So you dry, cure, bag and store at 32F?

Koolatron for stealthy storage opposed to your refrigerator.

Jars take up a lot more room and heavy vs micro plastics which is probably negligible.

 

[smoke and coke]

Terpene curing bags lol sounds politically correct.

So you dry, cure, bag and store at 32F?

Koolatron for stealthy storage opposed to your refrigerator.

Jars take up a lot more room and heavy vs micro plastics which is probably negligible.

I set it for 60F but some go with 55F.

 

[Delps8]

The Koolatron is great!

I've tried a variety of dry, cure, and store techniques and have had good results. Grove bags work fine. Just a few weeks ago, we finished off a harvest from 2022 and it was still in good shape, for example.

The Koolatron makes like much easier than the "standard" approach + Grove bags + Boveda. One downside is that one Koolatron only holds about a pound (that seems to be the conventional wisdom on the Koolatron thread). A second issue is that there are material costs - the fridge, the dehumidifier, and the controller. But what you get is a very well controlled environment to dry, cure, and store your crop.

Highly recommended!

 

[stawawager]

The Koolatron is great!

I've tried a variety of dry, cure, and store techniques and have had good results. Grove bags work fine. Just a few weeks ago, we finished off a harvest from 2022 and it was still in good shape, for example.

The Koolatron makes like much easier than the "standard" approach + Grove bags + Boveda. One downside is that one Koolatron only holds about a pound (that seems to be the conventional wisdom on the Koolatron thread). A second issue is that there are material costs - the fridge, the dehumidifier, and the controller. But what you get is a very well controlled environment to dry, cure, and store your crop.

Highly recommended!

Would you happen to have a picture of that set up? Thx

Would that be a pound in cure bags or loose?