First Grow! Sealed/Closed Room, 2400 watts, CO2, Mini-Split AC, SmartPots, Dehum!

xivex

xivex

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Day 4 of the jock horror drying n a dry net....is 4 days enough for a proper dry? Kept it dark, 45% rH and 70f. What you think? I live in a dry area, i was using a humidifier and it still dried in 4 days to the point the stems were bendy not breaking but the outside of the buds felt slightly crispy, sound right?

Pulled the buds today. Put them in jars. Got a hygrometer in the jars, gonna try simons perfect cure where you open at 70% rH or higher and leave open a bit u til it drops down to about 60% rH and then reseal the jars and let cure another 12 hrs or so. He says 70% rH is too much, but at anything less than 55% rH curing stops and cannot be restarted. Gonna basically be combining gangaluvr's stickied cure thread cure cycles with the hygrometer in jars aspect of simons perfect cure! Getting this all down right before the big crop comes in! :)
 
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HookedOnChronic

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yea, i use brown paper lunch bags or shoeboxes with airholes stabbed in them for another day or two before jarring, as i find the buds always get wet again and lose smell when i jar em after 4 days
 
xivex

xivex

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HookedOnChronic said:
yea, i use brown paper lunch bags or shoeboxes with airholes stabbed in them for another day or two before jarring, as i find the buds always get wet again and lose smell when i jar em after 4 days
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Cool tip, thanks man! Glad to have ya post, welcome and hi! :) Hopefully that won't happen since I'm monitoring the humidity levels with a hygrometer in the jar...this is kind of a good test/trial run for me since its a measly yield off this one plant and the real crop is about to come in, this is kinda like a free practice run! :) I'm thankful to have it!

Thanks,

X :eyesmoke::eyesmoke:
 
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HookedOnChronic

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word, free trial runs would be lovely!!

i suggest that because in my few harvests that extra day hang drying, or day early jarring, usually, fucks the hell outta the buds smell and taste

you have instruments to measure your levels so you have far more help than i do, i just go off what i know or think i know :P

the only 2 strains by barneys farm i want to try are violator kush and LSD so THANK YOU for documenting your information brotha!

peace
 
xivex

xivex

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HookedOnChronic said:
word, free trial runs would be lovely!!

i suggest that because in my few harvests that extra day hang drying, or day early jarring, usually, fucks the hell outta the buds smell and taste

you have instruments to measure your levels so you have far more help than i do, i just go off what i know or think i know :P

the only 2 strains by barneys farm i want to try are violator kush and LSD so THANK YOU for documenting your information brotha!

peace
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You may be entirely right on this cure and i may have to adjust before the lsds come down, well see! Thx for your advice and help bro! Im all about making the needed adjustments, since this is my first real grow, im semi experimenting with various processes and procedures just to see how they work for me in my environment, ya know?

I dont think i can post the cure link here cuz its from icmag, but just google: icmag simons cure and check out the link. Seems like its working great for tons of people. Hope it works for me! :)

Im still siting on 10 more lsds and 20 violator kush beans from last order. Vk is def on my to do list, as is super lemon haze (got 5). Hoping o grow from clone this next cycle tho. We shall see! :)

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HookedOnChronic

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no way you got VK to,!!!!!! i can feel the jealousy flowing through me,
thats awesome though as now i get help deciding which one to pick !!

ill check out that thread to

i just want you to be happy with your buds,
and i kno the time i fucked them i wanted to throw it all out cause it went from beauty to nasty lol
 
xivex

xivex

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Illumination said:
yes you can...i post the icmag cmh link all the time...they dont trip here much at all...part of why I like it so

Namaste':leaf:
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Alright! Cool, wasn't sure...

Here's the ICMAG SIMON'S PERFECT CURE LINK: http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=156237 Check it, its pretty nice mate! :)


HookedOnChronic said:
no way you got VK to,!!!!!! i can feel the jealousy flowing through me,
thats awesome though as now i get help deciding which one to pick !!

ill check out that thread to

i just want you to be happy with your buds,
and i kno the time i fucked them i wanted to throw it all out cause it went from beauty to nasty lol
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Yeah, it will prolly be a minute before I pop those VK's but they are DEFINITELY on my list...I've heard they are fucking dank as all hell, hardcore couchlock knock your dick in the dirt, and a huge yielder too, massive fat colas that you gotta watch out for mold in cuz they are so fucking thick... :) :) :)

Gonna pop them in the summer/fall grow me thinks...next cycle is clone.

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stlmatt

stlmatt

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Hey I see your almost done with the first grow, Nice JOB. I did alot of reading about curing before I cut my LSD down. Some people say dry untill the stem snap some say dont......I think if you dry until they snap, you have overdryed it. I dried in the dark and made sure I had pleanty of air movement, but not a fan blowing on them directly. I trimmed my buds before I dried them too....just try not to touch them to much......unless you like sticky fingers:-) I dried mine untill they were slighly crispy to the touch, but the stems were still bending (Not snapping when bent). Placed in jars and filled jars 75%. Opened jars twice a day....you will notice they will become moist after the first day or so in the jars, I would rotate the buds each time I burped the jars. After about 7-10 days of burping and rotating the buds inside the jars, they seemed to be dry enough to leave in the jars until they are fully cured. All of my buds cured perfect, IMO They smoke smooth, burn just right and taste yummy........as well I have noticed an increase in knockout power now that they have a good 4 week cure. (keep jars stored in cool, dark place)

Good luck and I hope it turns out to be the best you ever had: StlMatt
 
xivex

xivex

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stlmatt said:
Hey I see your almost done with the first grow, Nice JOB. I did alot of reading about curing before I cut my LSD down. Some people say dry untill the stem snap some say dont......I think if you dry until they snap, you have overdryed it. I dried in the dark and made sure I had pleanty of air movement, but not a fan blowing on them directly. I trimmed my buds before I dried them too....just try not to touch them to much......unless you like sticky fingers:-) I dried mine untill they were slighly crispy to the touch, but the stems were still bending (Not snapping when bent). Placed in jars and filled jars 75%. Opened jars twice a day....you will notice they will become moist after the first day or so in the jars, I would rotate the buds each time I burped the jars. After about 7-10 days of burping and rotating the buds inside the jars, they seemed to be dry enough to leave in the jars until they are fully cured. All of my buds cured perfect, IMO They smoke smooth, burn just right and taste yummy........as well I have noticed an increase in knockout power now that they have a good 4 week cure. (keep jars stored in cool, dark place)

Good luck and I hope it turns out to be the best you ever had: StlMatt
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Thx stlmatt!! Heres hopin they turn out perfect bro! :)
 
xivex

xivex

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Yeah bonzi, i ordered up 7 of em from ebay as well. Got it about the same as you per unit. Cant wait, been using the walmart brand with corded probe for now until those arrive. Seems to be going well so far, ill report more in a week...they have lost considerale smell, but i hear thats normal and it will slowly come back? Eh?

X :)

Cigar humidor hygrometers are th emost accurate for the cost...huh? Makes sense if ya think about it!
 
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Icky

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So.. could you just cure in a tent?

Smash it full of buds and use a climate controller to keep the ideal conditions?
 
xivex

xivex

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I dont see why not. As far as i know you just want cool, dark, and sealed inside something to slow oxidation and what not...

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Illumination

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the idea is to keep it at 60-65 % rh as long as possible without molding to allow the fermentation to occur as completely as possible

Namaste'
 
legallyflying

legallyflying

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Well whatever you do, don't cure them under the stairs in a small cramped space. You may end up contorting your body to reach to the other side of the hanging wires and then realize you were kneeling on a gallon bag full of 10" long buds thereby crushing them to a pulp...

Me.. "dude, check out the harvest"
My buddy.. "sweet dude, whats in that bag over there"
me... "more huge buds"
my buddy.. "Dude!! WTF did you trim these with a framing hammer?"

:)
 
xivex

xivex

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No doubt LF!

Lumi, you nailed it bro! :)

I like to have measurements and calculations, what can i say im a techie! :). Makes me feel more secure when taking actual environmental measurements fom instrumental probes....not just saying, "yeah that seems right, i suppose.." :)

Especially since i dont yet have tons of personal experience to draw upon...;)

Gonna get some weight meaurements and jar pics of my jock at end of this week..lsd pics this weekend, early next week...stay tuned everyone! Thaks for following! :)

X
 
flamdrags420

flamdrags420

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wow man
your plants are some of the best Ive seen on here
wouldrep ya again if I could but I got ya earlier on my thread
keep up the great work
Love your techniques and approach to the philosophy of your growing
 
Bonzi Lighthouse

Bonzi Lighthouse

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It seems to me the bigger the "cureing chamber" the easier it would be to keep stable, like a great big humidor, although up to now i have not grown enough to have to worry about long term storage. I hope it's not like money... the more you have the more you spend.
 
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