Al's adventures

BDOGKush

BDOGKush

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Nice thread Al, you should keep this going. You're one of my favorite growers on here, Bodhi head growing in a small space like me, just way better! Your grow pics are always inspirational.

If I remember right, you live in a dry desert area don't you? I find drying/curing to be a little trickier in the desert.
 
Al Yamoni

Al Yamoni

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BDOGKush said:
Nice thread Al, you should keep this going. You're one of my favorite growers on here, Bodhi head growing in a small space like me, just way better! Your grow pics are always inspirational.

If I remember right, you live in a dry desert area don't you? I find drying/curing to be a little trickier in the desert.
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Fuck yeah! It's hard, the hardest part I'd argue! I'm taking advantage of the rainy weather here for sure, it just so happened to match perfectly with the goji harvest... 65f, 50% rh. I'll take it all week please!

Thanks for the kind words my friend!
 
BDOGKush

BDOGKush

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Al Yamoni said:
Fuck yeah! It's hard, the hardest part I'd argue! I'm taking advantage of the rainy weather here for sure, it just so happened to match perfectly with the goji harvest... 65f, 50% rh. I'll take it all week please!

Thanks for the kind words my friend!
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Yea it can be hard as hell, I'm usually dealing with real low humidity 20% range, 30 if I'm lucky. I'm still trying to perfect it, I'm real bummed about my last harvest, during drying my C99xBlue Dream was crazy offensive. It was actually making some family members mad at how strong the smell was but I completely lost it in the cure. The buds smell and taste pretty generic.

Any tips you've come across that have helped you out? Do you find that letting plants dry until the stem snaps leaves your bud too dry?
 
D_Urbmon

D_Urbmon

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I'm not in the desert but we commonly have 30% rh or lower. It was 19% yesterday. :O

I have to dry my herb in a 6'x9' spare bedroom with the door closed and run a humidifier in there. Otherwise my shit is bone dry in 3 days. The quick dry definitely kills the smell imo. :(
 
BDOGKush

BDOGKush

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D_Urbmon said:
I'm not in the desert but we commonly have 30% rh or lower. It was 19% yesterday. :O

I have to dry my herb in a 6'x9' spare bedroom with the door closed and run a humidifier in there. Otherwise my shit is bone dry in 3 days. The quick dry definitely kills the smell imo. :(
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That's what I'm talking about, 3 days and you're trying to trim dust. My best results were with my Headtrip run, I watered the day before cutting and then dried with all the fans on, I was able to push it out to 6 days of drying. This last harvest was dry in 4 but I experimented with not watering before harvest and only leaving some fans on vs all of them.
 
greencropper

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BDOGKush said:
Nice thread Al, you should keep this going. You're one of my favorite growers on here, Bodhi head growing in a small space like me, just way better! Your grow pics are always inspirational.

If I remember right, you live in a dry desert area don't you? I find drying/curing to be a little trickier in the desert.
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gotta have a cellar in the desert! steady 65f is the best, once its trimmed and bagged straight into the cool cellar for storage before it goes crispy, its a real balancing act when the air is dry, i always have bags of green leaf frozen ready to remoisten the buds when they dry out too much while manicuring...down to 5% humidity here in summer, can grow the fattest buds outdoors with little threat from mould in the flowers with very low humidity
 
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Al Yamoni

Al Yamoni

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BDOGKush said:
Yea it can be hard as hell, I'm usually dealing with real low humidity 20% range, 30 if I'm lucky. I'm still trying to perfect it, I'm real bummed about my last harvest, during drying my C99xBlue Dream was crazy offensive. It was actually making some family members mad at how strong the smell was but I completely lost it in the cure. The buds smell and taste pretty generic.

Any tips you've come across that have helped you out? Do you find that letting plants dry until the stem snaps leaves your bud too dry?
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I built a drying box and made sure it was air tight, out a3 speed PC fan to vent out the top.. The fan only runs if the temp is below 75F. Humidifier in the room set for 60%RH (doesn't get up past 45% , 50% at night.. I open the window at night when it's really cool outside and that helps keep the temps down and the humidity up...

I dry for about five days.. They were chopped on Friday and I'll be trimming then tonight until they're done. They're just about crispy.. I put them in the jars just a hair too wet and then I burp burp burp BURP them for days, Sloooooowly letting that last bit of moisture even out and then off gas.

My runs are improving each time and I finally am looking forward to the nugs as much as the hash!!
 
Al Yamoni

Al Yamoni

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greencropper said:
gotta have a cellar in the desert! steady 65f is the best, once its trimmed and bagged straight into the cool cellar for storage before it goes crispy, its a real balancing act when the air is dry, i always have bags of green leaf frozen ready to remoisten the buds when they dry out too much while manicuring...down to 5% humidity here in summer, can grow the fattest buds outdoors with little threat from mould in the flowers with very low humidity
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Great great info! Thanks for sharing. 65F is the absolute best IMO. Dank basement for the win!
 
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