drying and rh.

[caveman117]

Hey there ive got a couple plants hangin in a closet and I was wondering if the rh in the closet is at around 60 will it keepthe pplants at 60 too? Or will the plants continue to dry below 60% in a 60% rh environment?

Also I'm thinking the closet is at around 35-40% without the plants in there (shouldve taken a reading beforehand). So will the rh in the closet drop really lowonce the pplants dry?

Thoughts and opinions appreciated.

 

[tstick]

They will only dry to the point of the RH in the environment. If the environment is 40% and you leave the plants hanging, then they will eventually dry to the match that number.

You must allow for some fresh air movement while drying so as to avoid any mold.

 

[caveman117]

Ok cool so if the rh stays at 60 then I jist have to wait until they stop getting dryer and start curing?

And ya theres a small fan pointing to blow air around without hitting the plants directly.

 

[Gratefulgrowin93]

Ok cool so if the rh stays at 60 then I jist have to wait until they stop getting dryer and start curing?

And ya theres a small fan pointing to blow air around without hitting the plants directly.

I use a closet too and dry untill fans and buds feel dry but fans fall off easy and stems bend over but don't snap

I remove large fans and leave them hanging another day or two untill stems start to snap then I begin trimming and jarring process

once trimmed if trim is truly dry I store it for making bubble hash and I buds are just right the cure begins

I burp the jars daily for about a week sometimes a week and a half
then I check them every few days for smell stickiness etc usually keep them jarred untill at least a month and a half to two months to get rich herb flavors and exploding smells of the strain rather than plant leaf hay grass of nutrient taste /smell. My 2 cents.

 

[Gratefulgrowin93]

dont know the RH of the closet i dry in but usually my temp gauge reads 35% to 45% sometimes a little higher when i plant sprouts root clones etc in this space

just remember oscillating fans and mid 70s to dry

 

[tstick]

Curing STARTS when the plants get to around 65% RH…but, at that point, you need to put them in a jar and restrict them from oxygen so that the anaerobic process can begin.

 

[Gratefulgrowin93]

Curing STARTS when the plants get to around 65% RH…but, at that point, you need to put them in a jar and restrict them from oxygen so that the anaerobic process can begin.

usually after trimming the buds are just right for curing for me but I hang whole plant upside down till stems snap and remove fans to increase airflow once they dry up

trim once buds stems snap outside is decently dry etc

 

[tstick]

I'm not a big fan of the "stems snapping" way to tell the dryness. Until this last harvest, I was drying my plants too dry. I tend to err on the "a little too wet" side of the fence, now. I get them into the jar at around 75-80% RH and then burp the jars a lot. And I also jar up the buds on as much stem as I can fit. I think this is the way to get the buds to dry more slowly and more evenly -so that even the small popcorn bugs at the bottoms of the branches will cure at an even rate. It takes a lot longer and I have to be more cautious about not letting anything sit too wet for too long n the closed jars. But when it gets to about 68%, I let them stay in the jar for several weeks without touching them. I like my buds to be sticky and pliable -not crumbly.

 

[Gratefulgrowin93]

I'm not a big fan of the "stems snapping" way to tell the dryness. Until this last harvest, I was drying my plants too dry. I tend to err on the "a little too wet" side of the fence, now. I get them into the jar at around 75-80% RH and then burp the jars a lot. And I also jar up the buds on as much stem as I can fit. I think this is the way to get the buds to dry more slowly and more evenly -so that even the small popcorn bugs at the bottoms of the branches will cure at an even rate. It takes a lot longer and I have to be more cautious about not letting anything sit too wet for too long n the closed jars. But when it gets to about 68%, I let them stay in the jar for several weeks without touching them. I like my buds to be sticky and pliable -not crumbly.

yeah stems snapping isn't as exact as I'd like to be but it ensured i dudnt mold buds up in early days but this time ill add temp and humidity gauge in the closet where I dry so ill know the RH and temp I dry at and can hopefully get closer to just right

that way I can try to hang dry evenly up to maybe 70% and jar and burp them to lower them a few percents to the golden range and add bovedas to jars for storage to try to keep it at 62%

hows this sound any advice ? I always get close but never perfect dry and cure like I've seen in some better buds ive had all tips very welcomed love you guys here at RIU

 

[gucio19]

When I have got high rh in closet during drying, I turn on small heater and set exhaust fan temterature to 30C. It is helping a lot.