It does, thanks. Nice work.![]()
2 questions Al:
1) Does it matter that some of the hanging buds in my dryer are lightly touching each other?
Naturally, your buds will dry from the outside in. The outsides will soonest feel quite stiff to the touch, but the stems may remain soft & flexible due to the remaining water content. At that point, you can put them in a sealed plastic (tupperware type) container and allow the moisture from the stems to wick into the very dry outer parts of the buds. You could also simply shut off the box's fan and wait a day or so until the moisture wicks into the dry bits. If the buds are too soft for your liking when the moisture has wicked, turn the fan back on for another day or two.2) I think Im drying the buds to quickly, could you read the below paragraphs & give your input please.
The buds have been drying for 14 hours & the popcorn buds (at the base of the drying chamber in the pic) already feel dry to the touch & light in weight I think it may be drying to quickly. Though the stems on the hanging buds are still moist & bendy.
Thank you for taking the time Al, you're very kind
i think I'm headed to uncharted water with my sealed room setup
was hoping someone will critic or maybe find errors with my design or something
Look what I found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY_P8kW99lU
Im not sure if I would treat my stock like that though.
However, if you gotta have totally sealed, it can be done. It's just costly and workish.
If your drying box has an exhaust fan and an adequately sized intake port (or an intake fan), it'll be fine. Air motion from the fan will stop any mould, even where a few buds may be touching one another. I would not use a timer on the fan. You are counting upon air motion to stop mould. The buds will be susceptible to mould while they are still damp to touch, so run the fan constantly until they're rather stiff to the touch, with just a bit of flex remaining in the stems.
Naturally, your buds will dry from the outside in. The outsides will soonest feel quite stiff to the touch, but the stems may remain soft & flexible due to the remaining water content. At that point, you can put them in a sealed plastic (tupperware type) container and allow the moisture from the stems to wick into the very dry outer parts of the buds. You could also simply shut off the box's fan and wait a day or so until the moisture wicks into the dry bits. If the buds are too soft for your liking when the moisture has wicked, turn the fan back on for another day or two.
Even if you do overdry your buds (until they are crispy & fragile), it's easy to rehydrate them. Just put a teaspoon of water on a paper towel and nest the towel in with your buds in a sealed container for a day. A couple of just snipped, fresh fan leaves can be substituted for the paper towel. The buds will return to being nice & springy. Don't be tempted to use fruit peels for this job.
The worst thing you can do when drying buds is to expose them to sunlight or temps above 29C, at which point THC begins to decompose into non-psychoactive components. I didn't see any mention of a heater in your dryer box, so that shouldn't be a problem for you. A box with a fan will do fine. It'll take about 4-6 days to dry your buds, depending on the humidity of the air being drawn through the box.
I'm thinking about running duct from the house's HVAC and installing a thermostat to the new sub basement room which currently has no ventillation or AC. Is this the ideal way to vent/cool your room? I imagine I'd have intake through the HVAC but where would I exhaust?
I see, at what temp & humidity do you dry your buds at?
Al how is that you haven't written a book on "All things Cannabis"? I know it sounds like work but you could speak it & have someone else type it (theres a term for that...but I cant remember).
You know it would sell...just a thought (I hope you consider it while your in bed tonight reflecting on the day)![]()
If only I could find a DIY tutorial on trimmers...
Yea I am most definately using a carbon filter, so that scent issue could be taken care of. Just can't be lazy and wait around to replace the carbon regularly.
What kinds of rooms would make an ideal airspace that would be common in your house?
The plan is to stealth the entrance to this grow room with a hidden door or something. I guess I could exhaust into the basement with a common vent and make it look like part of the HVAC...just the part where hot air unusually spills out.
Damned if I can recall the value of the resistors without going out to the op and looking at the dryer, which I'll do later after a lot more coffee.![]()
I do think you're on the right track, SOGgy.
There's a whole thread about my bud dryer(s) here. I'm on v2.0 now but the operating theory is the same as in this diagram describing v1.0:
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Bear in mind that v2.0 uses six resistors, not just two. It also has a thermostat to control temp to 29C max.
As I think of it, I'm probably on v2.5 by now. The above schematic has been revised a bit. Instead of running two sets of three resistors in parallel, there's three sets of two resistors in series. Damned if I can recall the value of the resistors without going out to the op and looking at the dryer, which I'll do later after a lot more coffee.
'Dictation' is the term you're looking for.
Yes, it would sell- but in the modern world with P2P filesharing, I'd sell one copy and a squillion copies would be floating around the net.
Also, were I ever to write a book on the topic, I'd not write one about 'All things cannabis.' I would write a 'cookbook' on how to set up an effective grow op, but I would not explore ALL the different ways it can be done. I'd write only what one needs to do to run an efficient op with minimum set-up cost. I bet I could do it in 10 pages or less.
Keep looking, someone somewhere will have cooked up a DIY trimmer. I just haven't (yet).
do you find any drawback with running a Sealed op vs. the conventional method of venting in and out?
So about that book what title would you give it? Im not going to drag the issue he he he.
How do you quote multiple paragraphs & sentences from different members all in one reply post? That "multi" tab at the bottom of each members post doesnt seem to do anything for me, I know Im not using it right. How do you do it?
Thanks for all the info Al. You truly are the man...er at least the guy that has mastered sticking it to him. You must have some kind of Ph.D. I will definately be keeping the op small, and I don't want to do too much obvious damage to the property in case I want to sell the place. So I figure whatever is the most non-invasive ventillation should suffice.
Probably 'Get A Harvest Every 2 Weeks.' Gets the point across in a nutshell. I use the REPLY WITH QUOTE button to reply said:https://www.rollitup.org/images/editor/quote.gif[/IMG] in the post editor, which wraps the txt in QUOTE tags. I delete stuff that doesn't need to appear again to keep it all short & sweet. Then I poke in my commentary between the QUOTEd blocks.
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