Humidifier in the dry tent?

Just curious if anyone elses dry room is on average a 30-40% rh room should I be using a humidifier to boost that to 60% and should I have it in the tent or just in the room the tents in dont want any chance of mold but I want the longest dry and best smoke and input is greatly appreciated

Ngbaak420

Yup I add a humidifier and never had a mold issue 68-74 degrees and 50%-60% humidity

Cali.Grown>408 said:

Yup I add a humidifier and never had a mold issue 68-74 degrees and 50%-60% humidity

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Awesome thanks man got about 2 weeks left till harvest just wanna be prepped

Ngbaak420 said:

Just curious if anyone elses dry room is on average a 30-40% rh room should I be using a humidifier to boost that to 60% and should I have it in the tent or just in the room the tents in dont want any chance of mold but I want the longest dry and best smoke and input is greatly appreciated

Ngbaak420

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god damn it is refreshing to hear somebody not trying to rush this shit. good on you. Yeah you should be fine with that so long as you dont have fluctuation in your rh. keep it filled up.

I would prefer to humidify the room that the tents are in. I don't have a good scientific reason why.

70's natureboy said:

I would prefer to humidify the room that the tents are in. I don't have a good scientific reason why.

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Not much science other than the possible humidity comin off the Huey settling on the buds but other than that just takes more water if you have it outside the tent was kinda thinking of building some kinda deflector so it doesn't mist straight up kinda throws it to the middle of tent

70's natureboy said:

I would prefer to humidify the room that the tents are in. I don't have a good scientific reason why.

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With the huey in the tent every time the fan vents the RH drops and the huey has to boost it back up.

If the huey is kept outside the tent to keep the RH up in the room where the intake air goes in then the air entering the tent is already at the right RH and stays more consistent in the tent. Same with keeping the RH up for the plants.

Don't know how sciency that is but that's how it works.

What OldMedUser said ^^^^. While 30-40% RH will work, it would definitely reduce the length of your drying...

OldMedUser said:

With the huey in the tent every time the fan vents the RH drops and the huey has to boost it back up.

If the huey is kept outside the tent to keep the RH up in the room where the intake air goes in then the air entering the tent is already at the right RH and stays more consistent in the tent. Same with keeping the RH up for the plants.

Don't know how sciency that is but that's how it works.

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Does a dry room/tent *require air exchange. I wondered about this.
Thanks.

2com said:

Does a dry room/tent *require air exchange. I wondered about this.
Thanks.

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Yep or humidity will build up and mold will bloom. If you can control the rh then you can dry slower which will give you a better product when it's done.

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Yep or humidity will build up and mold will bloom. If you can control the rh then you can dry slower which will give you a better product when it's done.

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I meant assuming the rh is controlled (or in check, even if just because it's already so dry that dehumidification isn't needed, and actually humidification is what's needed, haha).
What I'm mean I guess is, does the drying cannabis actually need an air exchange (fresh air or co2) or is it really just about keeping the temp and rh where you want?
Canada winter...dry as fuck.

2com said:

does the drying cannabis actually need an air exchange (fresh air or co2) or is it really just about keeping the temp and rh where you want?

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You will have to exchange some air to remove moisture as the pot dries unless it's managing to keep the rh down thru leakage to the drier air which is basically a passive air exchange.

Here's a post about how I slo-dry my pot I saved for an occasion just like this.

When time to crop I only take enough of the larger ripe colas that I can trim up in an hour then go back for more. After a couple of hours the little bud leaves go all limp and that makes it harder to snip them out as I do my final trim and breakup of the colas fresh off the plants. I'll get all the riper, main colas off then let the lower ones go another week to 10 days before finishing off the plants.

Once I have a big pile of trimmed buds I double up some paper bags like the lunch bags you can by at the grocery store and put them in there folding the tops over and putting a clip on to hold it shut. I keep them down in my cool basement so they dry very slowly. For the first few days I'll dump them out into a big tray and carefully break up any clumps and let them air-dry for 15 min or more then put them back in the bags. After that few days I'll just open the bags and shake them around a bit and wave the bag back and forth a bit to exchange the air in there and let some moisture out. Takes about 3 weeks before they are dry enough to put in jars but still moist so daily burping is needed and some shaking to break up the big clump. Mold is a distinct possibility so you have to keep an eye on things. If you don't have a cool space then you need to open and air-dry more often. It's only 50F down there right now so that's just right for me. Never gets over 65F down there but I consider that warm for curing. Could do it in a fridge too but note that it will stink everything up so the spousal unit may object.

That's it in a nutshell. For the sugar trim and popcorn pile I just use one bag and the same procedure but they are real dry in a week or so then just go into a jar for storage until I get around to dry sifting them for kief and/or making oil from it.

Nice.
It doesn't even mention rh%, haha. 65*F is nice, but at 20%rh... Haha.