Help, if i dry the bud too long does it lose weight?

I still don't understand this fear of over drying? I found a branch from a GSC grow that is at least 2 months old in my closet the other day, and guess what? It's still amazing. Now it's in my super private stash...

Less then 7 days seems a bit dubious to me.

mr sunshine said:

Slow down the dry guys.. try 10 days at least...

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^^^ THIS ^^^

We try to slow the drying process also. 10-14 days is our target. We've found that slowing the drying process results in a much better outcome. Here on the west coast our humidity can get ridiculously dry, sometimes in the single digit range. If we dried our buds in these conditions in as little as three days we would have an inferior product.

We utilize large cardboard boxes with coat hangers crossing about 3" below top of the box. At harvest time we cut the branches so that they can be hung on the wires and then we close up the boxes. We make flaps on the sides of the boxes that we can open up and regulate the amount of air circulation. First day/night the flaps are all open to knock the moisture content down below 85% or so but then we close them up and go as slowly as possible. We sort of "burp" the boxes every day or two and check the progress.

Every run is slightly different. So we watch the process carefully and try to go into the 5 gallon airtight buckets at about 65-70%. We also "burp" the buckets and slowly settle into the perfect 60-62%. Works for us.

That is some really amazing, secrets-of-the-trade advice Knott Collective just laid on us. Thanks for that one, I'm going to give it a try.

It's like this: if honestly believe you have all the answers and there is nothing anyone can teach you, then why would you come on this site?