Humidity way too low to dry properly.... What should I do?

The title says it all... Due to winter temperatures the heater in my house keeps the humidity in my home between 25-35. Obviously this is wayyy to low to get a proper dry. What should I do to combat this problem so that my hard worked for buds can dry properly.

Thank you

Thebirdman

thebirdman17 said:

The title says it all... Due to winter temperatures the heater in my house keeps the humidity in my home between 25-35. Obviously this is wayyy to low to get a proper dry. What should I do to combat this problem so that my hard worked for buds can dry properly.

Thank you

Thebirdman

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Hi;
The humidity here never really gets much above 20%. I just jar early. So I hang mine for a day then jar it and burp it frequently. So far it seems to work ok.

I'm have the same problem for the same reason. I'm not using a fan, and also
someone suggested putting cups of water around the area. Only on day 2 so we'll
see what happens, and like curious said have some jars ready. Good luck.

Same here, I too dry one, two days then jar early and burp 'till I reach my goal of 50 to 55% moisture.

build a partition-

out of panda film, with a zipper door. put a humidifier in there and set it to 70.

Put a garbage bag over them to increase the humidity. Keeps them in the dark too. I've never done it myself, but it's probably easy to overdo if you don't watch it with a hygrometer or by putting your hand in there every couple hours.

Or just jar them early and burp as needed. I live in a dry climate too, it's the easiest way.

You can also leave the fan leaves on for the first few days while drying to slow the dry down if you want to try it. Take them off before crispy to make it easier or leave them on until you're ready to jar. I do that and it adds days to the drying. Good luck.

Get a humidifier

Sorry I'm a newbie having the same problem, my question is specifically how often
should I be burping when drying like this?

I live in CO. 20% rh here. Drying in a wardrobe box with a humidifier inside Nice steady 50% rh. Went from a 2 day dry To a 5 day dry. After 5 days. It's ready for one or two days in the paper bag then jars

Are you in a colder state? All you need to do if you have a perpetual grow or a current grow going while you are drying is to vent the grow room exhaust into the home or apartment assuming you use a carbon filter. In the winter months it will raise your humidity to 50-70%. Being drying doesn't take more then 2 weeks for most of us there will be no damage to the home from the short period of high humidity. I've been doing it for years. Allows me to dry buds a good 7-10 days.

My state is only cold during the winter months so in order to do that I would have to change my setup every year and that would involve crawling my ass up into the attic. Good idea though. I think im going to just get a bunch of hygrometers dry the bud for like a day throuw it in jars and use the hygrometers to measure the humidity in my curing jars.

My RH is low around 20%. I've used a humidifier in a closet set to 45-55% and that works if you have more than a couple of plants to dry. If you only have 1 -2 plants and don't want to use a humidifier try putting the trimmed (or untrimmed) branches in a 1 x 2 x 1 foot cardboard box with string or dental floss strung to keep the weed from lying on the bottem of the boX. Keep the flaps closed leaving a small crack where the lids meet. I just jarred one plant (THC Bomb) after it took 5 days to reach "crispyness". I try to keep the temp around 65-75f. Open the box(s) once day and make sure you see no mold and after 3 days start feeling up your buds for that crispy feeling. This works good for small harvests.

thebirdman17 said:

My state is only cold during the winter months so in order to do that I would have to change my setup every year and that would involve crawling my ass up into the attic. Good idea though. I think im going to just get a bunch of hygrometers dry the bud for like a day throuw it in jars and use the hygrometers to measure the humidity in my curing jars.

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I see. In my case I just exhaust my rooms into a larger room and that larger room has a exhaust of all it's own that sends the humid air straight up and out of the house. So most of the year my large living/tv room in the basement is right at 50%. But when I need higher humidity for dry time I just shut off that exhaust so my grow rooms exhausts just builds up in the larger basement room. I could actually do that year-round and still be able to control the grow rooms humidity's but I would need to bring in more outside air for RH control and to keep Co2 levels acceptable. I guess a simple 40-50 dollar cool mist humidifier with distilled water would work. I use to use one in the actual grow room when I needed higher humidity in early veg.

I've never used hygrometers in jars, but I know many do. A slow dry is so important, I'd figure out something to where you can hang dry for at least 5 days.

It's the same where I am in california but I was able to just hang dry the whole plant to add to the amount of time needed for it to dry. Then I added a humidifier into the room and tried to keep it around 50% RH while keeping the temp in the room below 70. I left them up for 6 days before bottling. When I added a hydrometer my RH was still above 70% so try not to worry to much. Just add a humidifier and keep an eye on it.