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Daddymcdank

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For anyone tired of overly dry plants from hanging, and all the extra work, this is for you!! Been growing and drying for years, 1 year on a commercial scale with 1000’s of plants.
Guide:
Step 1 - Trim all big fan and sugar leaves, and then set each bud in a new and clean cardboard box — the buds can be packed pretty tight without fear of mold, but shouldn’t be stacked.
Step 2 - Seal cardboard box shut by setting a book on top, or some tape to close the top nicely.
Step 3 - You will dry in this box for a total of 5-6 days… for the first 4 days I recommend flipping the buds twice a day and giving them about 2 minutes of natural air(no fans). For the last couple days in the box, the buds will start feeling much drier to the touch but shouldn’t be too dry or powdery when you squeeze, this is when you want to switch to only opening and flipping once a day.
Step 5 - when the stems just begin to go from a slight bend into a snap, they are ready for jars.
Information*** this is the only dry method where my buds stay stinky and sticky, with no hay or grass smell during any of the process. I achieve close results with hang drying, but it takes at least 2-3 weeks of curing to get this smell, flavor, and smoke-readiness into the bud.
These will be ready to smoke, loud, the same day you put them into jars.
 

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Daddymcdank

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I’ll add: for a cure method, try burping the jars once a day instead of twice.
keep an RH meter in your jar or totes ideally, to make sure you’re not going over 62% humidity, but as long as you follow these instructions, they’ll be loud and cured enough to smoke easily by the time they leave the cardboard box.
 
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bk78 said:
Commercial scale with 1000+ plants use cardboard boxes to dry?
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Nah, hang dry and bins. Just trying to say, I’ve hang dried enough plants to make a good comparison on the differences in quality with both dry methods. The cardboard box method is ready to smoke after 5-6 days.
 
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budman111 said:
Seems a lot of hassle when you can just dry them on a dry rack for around five days then into jars with bovida packs for a cure.
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Dry rack works well if your room is perfectly dialed in or if you have a spare grow tent to fit all of the buds in. The reason I like this, is it basically acts as a mini drying room. Much less work IMO, than hang drying. Also no need for bovedas to finish the cure, these are ready to smoke and taste/smell pungent.
 
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budbeauty

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Daddymcdank said:
For anyone tired of overly dry plants from hanging, and all the extra work, this is for you!! Been growing and drying for years, 1 year on a commercial scale with 1000’s of plants.
Guide:
Step 1 - Trim all big fan and sugar leaves, and then set each bud in a new and clean cardboard box — the buds can be packed pretty tight without fear of mold, but shouldn’t be stacked.
Step 2 - Seal cardboard box shut by setting a book on top, or some tape to close the top nicely.
Step 3 - You will dry in this box for a total of 5-6 days… for the first 4 days I recommend flipping the buds twice a day and giving them about 2 minutes of natural air(no fans). For the last couple days in the box, the buds will start feeling much drier to the touch but shouldn’t be too dry or powdery when you squeeze, this is when you want to switch to only opening and flipping once a day.
Step 5 - when the stems just begin to go from a slight bend into a snap, they are ready for jars.
Information*** this is the only dry method where my buds stay stinky and sticky, with no hay or grass smell during any of the process. I achieve close results with hang drying, but it takes at least 2-3 weeks of curing to get this smell, flavor, and smoke-readiness into the bud.
These will be ready to smoke, loud, the same day you put them into jars.
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So I'm going to need hundreds of new cardboard boxes, taping the lids closed multiple times a day, and rotating all the buds? You did this with thousands of plants? That sounds crazy; maybe I need some of that fire you're smoking.
 
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Daddymcdank

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bk78 said:
So you put 20 little budz into a small box for the first time 15 days ago and now it’s the next best thing since sliced bread?
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Why are you always on my D on every post I make?? Nah, running constant batches with 3 grow rooms. Yes, usually did one day hang time while we cut all of the bigger leaves, and then we went to cardboard boxes. I’ve ran over a pound through boxes now and I’ve never had bud this dank. Try it yourself and see or gtfo?!!
 
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Daddymcdank

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Daddymcdank said:
Why are you always on my D on every post I make?? Nah, running constant batches with 3 grow rooms. Yes, usually did one day hang time while we cut all of the bigger leaves, and then we went to cardboard boxes. I’ve ran over a pound through boxes now and I’ve never had bud this dank. Try it yourself and see or gtfo?!!
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We just started going straight to box, I always did the 1 day dry b4 switching to boxes… these 14 day dries you flex really aren’t necessary… if you need to add bovedas, you’re not doing it right
 
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Creature1969 said:
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You name it "The Daddymcdank Method" and start a youtube channel!
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I already did
budbeauty said:
So I'm going to need hundreds of new cardboard boxes, taping the lids closed multiple times a day, and rotating all the buds? You did this with thousands of plants? That sounds crazy; maybe I need some of that fire you're smoking.
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hundreds of boxes? 1 box per plant. I don’t recommend this for commercial applications… I was only stating my experience. Commercial is fast hang dry, goes to bins, and sometimes it takes a month + before it’s all trimmed down and in their final bins.
 
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Daddymcdank

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bk78 said:
Dude just 12 days ago you posted this? https://www.rollitup.org/t/some-more-dank-cut-down.1069841/


But now boveda are very poor to use?

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Boveda are obviously not ideal to use, but you need them when hang drying. Yes, this method dominates any hang dry method I’ve ever smoked. Dried 6 strains so far with this method and counting… I’m just giving an excellent method to get smoke ready bud, that beats the quality of hang dried.
if you don’t like it,gtfo. You hide your profile,lol…. I don’t feel the need to on a completely anonymous site lmfao
 

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Bullmark

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What is the ideal room temp and RH for the box method? I’m about to chop a small grow and have a walk in closet in my basement that stays 58-60F and I can get the RH to 60% but it takes 2 Huey’s.
 
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