I’m going back to basic grow with minimal effort

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Cousinbob

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I grew for 10 plus years with little problems 3 gallon pots 707 roots organic soil and advanced nutrients color tested ph and never used a pm meter and turned out dank every time I would cut down trim and hang in the grow room for 5 days and toss it in gallon bags never had a problem with tast smell potency only I didn’t get real good yield using hps lights and inline fans for air exchange. Now I’m trying to use promix hp RO water and floranova nutes adding cal mag 7 and 10 gallon fabric pots with top of the line roi 680 leds and running co2 with a drying tent with humidifier small fan and air exchange with a 10 day dr and taking time to cure the bud and it’s been shitty I’m ready to go back to my old ways
 
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Cousinbob

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Well I got them to look pretty good but tasted like shit once I take them out of the buckets they’re curing in they dry up all within a day when they were still holding moisture in the buckets and not to icy it’s stressing me out
 
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Cousinbob

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Wizzlebiz said:
#truth

My last batch I dried for 3 weeks temps 50 degrees humidity 55%

Tasted spectacular. In fact too dang good. I've blown through more of that than anything else I have.
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Wow that’s colder than I here your supposed to dry I dried for about 10 days about 68 degrees and 55 humidity and left the leaves on and dry trimmed
 
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Wizzlebiz

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Cousinbob said:
Wow that’s colder than I here your supposed to dry I dried for about 10 days about 68 degrees and 55 humidity and left the leaves on and dry trimmed
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Most people shoot for 2 weeks. I wanted to see if I could push 3 without getting mold. I achieved it.

I dont think I will do it every time. The density of the bud factors a great deal into how long it will take to dry weed.

2 different density nugs will dry at different rates. Less dense long and more dense shorter drying times.
 
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Cousinbob

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Wizzlebiz said:
Most people shoot for 2 weeks. I wanted to see if I could push 3 without getting mold. I achieved it.

I dont think I will do it every time. The density of the bud factors a great deal into how long it will take to dry weed.

2 different density nugs will dry at different rates. Less dense long and more dense shorter drying times.
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For sure
 
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Callz

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Cousinbob said:
Wow that’s colder than I here your supposed to dry I dried for about 10 days about 68 degrees and 55 humidity and left the leaves on and dry trimmed
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I've always dried at 60F and 60% RH for an average of 2 weeks depending on bud density. You can dry at a low temp, it only slows down the break down of chlorophyll. From what I've experienced my best tasting, most potent bud has always been dried at low temps, higher humidity and cured for a few weeks with humidity packs on the last half of cure. My most terpy bud is preserved by that kinda environment. Maybe just me and there will prolly be people disagreeing with it but it never hurts to try, as long as you don't get bud rot or make a mistake.
 
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osowhom

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Wizzlebiz said:
#truth

My last batch I dried for 3 weeks temps 50 degrees humidity 55%

Tasted spectacular. In fact too dang good. I've blown through more of that than anything else I have.
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i am doing the same but for 2 weeks and i just jarred they are still moist like 70% but smell great
 
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Cousinbob

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Callz said:
I've always dried at 60F and 60% RH for an average of 2 weeks depending on bud density. You can dry at a low temp, it only slows down the break down of chlorophyll. From what I've experienced my best tasting, most potent bud has always been dried at low temps, higher humidity and cured for a few weeks with humidity packs on the last half of cure. My most terpy bud is preserved by that kinda environment. Maybe just me and there will prolly be people disagreeing with it but it never hurts to try, as long as you don't get bud rot or make a mistake.
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I used the bovida packs and every container that had bovida packs in it lost all smell
 
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If I were the OP I'd compare how he's curing now to how he cured then, down to the last detail, and read up on curing as much as possible. Low and slow is great. There are a lot of ways people have come up with to slow down the drying/curing process. Honestly, a slow dry then into jars is still a kind of cure. I've used all sorts of organic liquid nutes, Flora Nova, Maxi Bloom, over the years, and the drying/curing process has the biggest impact on taste and smokeability. I do know it's MUCH harder to do it well during the summertime, due to higher temps, you have to jump through all sorts of hoops to slow down the drying process. Maybe test out a few methods and see what makes a difference for you?
 
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Cousinbob

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58% they never got hard everything about my last grow was off I did everything to the T once cut down only thing I can think of is I got bugs toward the end of grow and used some 209 mite spray in the water and sprayed the plant a little as well real late in the grow not sure if that can effect the cure process or not
 
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