• Here is a link to the full explanation: https://rollitup.org/t/welcome-back-did-you-try-turning-it-off-and-on-again.1104810/

How dark is dark for drying?

stawawager

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If your RH and temp is good, do you have to dry in pitch black environment or is it OK to dry in a corner of a basement that gets very little light at all? Thx.
 

stawawager

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Nope.

Many ways to skin a goat but it's not enough to affect anything IMO. My friend dries in open in his basement with some ambient light on during the day.
I'd like to harvest the mature buds and let the others keep maturing under the lights. Have you heard of this practice? Maybe it shocks the whole bush and stops the process ?
 

Delps8

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After reading the conventional wisdom of "not exposing buds to the light", or somesuch, I read recently (can't cite the source) that the issue is that UV light might harm trichs which would indicate that the issue is direct sunlight. Dunno. I chop, hang in my garage for a couple of days, and then put it in a Koolatron cooler and forget about it.

This YT video might be of interest:

 

stawawager

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After reading the conventional wisdom of "not exposing buds to the light", or somesuch, I read recently (can't cite the source) that the issue is that UV light might harm trichs which would indicate that the issue is direct sunlight. Dunno. I chop, hang in my garage for a couple of days, and then put it in a Koolatron cooler and forget about it.

This YT video might be of interest:

Thx, Wow, curing, it's so complicated yet so simple.

I took one bud. Super heavy / super dense so from what this lady says: get the water out but not too fast....

Also, "if you are smelling terpenes, you are losing them".

I think I'll weigh some of them and see how much they lose in how many days.

I'm at 60F but 32 RH. 1.3 VPD. Maybe I should put it in a jar to slow the dry and watch the RH closely?
 

stawawager

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After reading the conventional wisdom of "not exposing buds to the light", or somesuch, I read recently (can't cite the source) that the issue is that UV light might harm trichs which would indicate that the issue is direct sunlight. Dunno. I chop, hang in my garage for a couple of days, and then put it in a Koolatron cooler and forget about it.

This YT video might be of interest:

Super interesting video. Freeze drying, way over my head.

Koolatron? A RH controlled refrigerator?
 

smoke and coke

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Super interesting video. Freeze drying, way over my head.

Koolatron? A RH controlled refrigerator?
Here is the koolatron thread. Well worth the read. I have 2 of them set up. After the dry i use sweet decades bags and store them in the cooler.

 

stawawager

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Here is the koolatron thread. Well worth the read. I have 2 of them set up. After the dry i use sweet decades bags and store them in the cooler.

Terpene curing bags lol sounds politically correct.

So you dry, cure, bag and store at 32F?

Koolatron for stealthy storage opposed to your refrigerator.

Jars take up a lot more room and heavy vs micro plastics which is probably negligible.
 

smoke and coke

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Terpene curing bags lol sounds politically correct.

So you dry, cure, bag and store at 32F?

Koolatron for stealthy storage opposed to your refrigerator.

Jars take up a lot more room and heavy vs micro plastics which is probably negligible.
I set it for 60F but some go with 55F.
 

Delps8

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The Koolatron is great!

I've tried a variety of dry, cure, and store techniques and have had good results. Grove bags work fine. Just a few weeks ago, we finished off a harvest from 2022 and it was still in good shape, for example.

The Koolatron makes like much easier than the "standard" approach + Grove bags + Boveda. One downside is that one Koolatron only holds about a pound (that seems to be the conventional wisdom on the Koolatron thread). A second issue is that there are material costs - the fridge, the dehumidifier, and the controller. But what you get is a very well controlled environment to dry, cure, and store your crop.

Highly recommended!
 

stawawager

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The Koolatron is great!

I've tried a variety of dry, cure, and store techniques and have had good results. Grove bags work fine. Just a few weeks ago, we finished off a harvest from 2022 and it was still in good shape, for example.

The Koolatron makes like much easier than the "standard" approach + Grove bags + Boveda. One downside is that one Koolatron only holds about a pound (that seems to be the conventional wisdom on the Koolatron thread). A second issue is that there are material costs - the fridge, the dehumidifier, and the controller. But what you get is a very well controlled environment to dry, cure, and store your crop.

Highly recommended!
Would you happen to have a picture of that set up? Thx

Would that be a pound in cure bags or loose?
 

Delps8

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Just took this photo but check out the thread that @smoke and coke posted (here)

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In the thread on the Koolatron, the topic of capacity is discussed and the consensus seems to be…"about a pound", no surprise.

In the photo above, there's just over 10 ounces of bud. As you can see, the bud on the shelves is pretty "loosely packed". What's not shown is that there's no bud on the bottom shelf.
 

stawawager

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The Koolatron is great!

I've tried a variety of dry, cure, and store techniques and have had good results. Grove bags work fine. Just a few weeks ago, we finished off a harvest from 2022 and it was still in good shape, for example.

The Koolatron makes like much easier than the "standard" approach + Grove bags + Boveda. One downside is that one Koolatron only holds about a pound (that seems to be the conventional wisdom on the Koolatron thread). A second issue is that there are material costs - the fridge, the dehumidifier, and the controller. But what you get is a very well controlled environment to dry, cure, and store your crop.

Highly recommended!
Did you drill 2 holes for humiditycontrol?
 
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Fladawg01

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Here is my converted wine fridge I call it my curearaetor. It is a compressor unit, but holds and maintains an average 58 to 61 degree temp and humidity level of 55%. I added a tray on the very bottom that holds water and a sponge to add moisture and a USB powered fane blowing across the sponge, no direct air on the buds as they hang. Purchased a sock hangar off TEMU and can hang buds on stems up to 16 inches in length, what can't hang gets put into small boxes or bags and put on remaining shelves. Most I have ever had inside is 1.5 plants that yielded 8 oz dry weight afterwards. Not sure what my wet weight was when I stuck it in the unit, would have to find my notes. Total cost of the unit: $40 for the fridge off FB market place, $3 for the USB fan, $6 for the sock hangar, and $5 for the limo tint film on glass door. Drying time from 7 to 10 days depending on amount, to get to 12% moisture on wood meter.
 

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