Drying Process Temps?

Just wondering what temps should be while air drying/hanging so the bud dont dry out to fast ? i ask this because my last harvest smelt like hay and i got told it dryed to quik.and should i cut the sugar leafs off while trimming? thanks RIU

its not the temperature, its the humidity...unless we are talking temps over 90-100 or below 40...

You want your humidity around 45-50% for a slow dry...about a week

I have never had a thermometer, but all i can suggest is that if it dried too fast last time, lower the temps a bit from what they were then and see what happens. Trial and error

As to trimming, you don't have to trim at all if you don't want to, but i personally trim every ugar leaf i see, i find most all smoke aggravating to my throat and lungs and sugar leaves just make it that extra bit harsher for me.

thanks for the replys. and the temps are about 50-65F humidity about 35% is that to low temps and the humidity? and should there be any air flow while drying. sorry for newby question guys.

stev0121 said:

thanks for the replys. and the temps are about 50-65F humidity about 35% is that to low temps and the humidity? and should there be any air flow while drying. sorry for newby question guys.

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I'd get the humidity up a little bit...OR instead of hang drying you could dry them in paper bags instead...the temp is fine. Airflow is another matter all together...you don't want air "flowing" through the buds as that will make them dry out quicker...but you want air "exchange" in the area that they are drying in...

ive read 60-70 for temps,and 40-60 for humidity..

im at about 63temp,and 45 humid..somewhere in that range.

How could i raise humidity with out a humiidifier? Big thanks

anywhere from buckets of water,,hanging wet towels,,wet towel/fan combo ive read..maybe put an air stone in there lmao

Dry with air circulation. It dosen't matter at which speed you dry per se. The idea is do remove all the free water in the plant cells, (that's the water inside the plant cells) and then in curing you remove all the bound water, (that is the water between the cell walls).
Just remember that the warmer the temps, the greater capacity for the air to hold water. Relative humidity is just that. The ability of air to hold water relative to a given temperature.
The speed at which you dry your plant material will have an impact only in that some off gassing of chlorophyll, and other compounds will take time to occur, and certain metabolic changes in starches and sugars need time to take place. Of course, the more green, leafy, shit you smoke, the more like hay it's gonna taste.
If you blast your harvest with a fan, you decrease the chance of mold, but you also can falsely read your harvest as, "dry", when in reality only the outer surface is dry, and the inner portion of the plant will still need to wick moisture away to the surface to remove the free water.

bro DRY IT SLOWER.. exactly what massah said.... SLOWER, YOUR NOT GONA GET MOLD UNLESS TYOU SEAL A TUPPERWARE WHILE ITS STILL WET...

heres a link from a RESPECTED MEMBER HERE AT RIU

https://www.rollitup.org/harvesting-curing/28072-harvest-time-tutorial.html

AND HERES MY POST IN THERE... POST # 1745

what kind of jars are best? does it matter? glass or plastic? or what about Paper Bags?......... or zip lock bags? ...

i dried mine in bags for 1 week this time, wrked good kept ALTO OF FLAVOR, AND AROMA
but not as much as hang drying w/out trimming anything
BBS (BROWN BAG SHUFFLE)
step1 trim wet
step2 place in brown bag
step3 into cabinet
step4 open bag 1or2 times a day SHUFFLE then close and put back into cabinet
step5 after 1 week in bag/cabinet ready for the jar, and daily burp

hang dry. (takes alot more space)

step1 cut down
step2 hang up
step3 after dried adequately (nearly2weeks) in my climate, trim and jar