DRYING BUDS IN WINE COOLER

finishing up my first run of XXX - 10th planet - big d energ . I got a wine cooler when i set it to 57 it stays around 60/60 does anyone else here have exp with this? I was going to use pizza boxes and was wondering often do i burp the boxes ? or should i just leave it inside ?

any help would be much appreciated

I would just hang like normal then after trim I'd put them in their final container. Are the pizza boxes so you do not have to hang dry?

HydroKid239 said:

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most of those posts are people asking like me lol except that one dude who built a dehumidifier into his wine cooler. would love to hear from someone who actually has done it already

cacamal said:

I would just hang like normal then after trim I'd put them in their final container. Are the pizza boxes so you do not have to hang dry?

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from what info i was able to gather from reddit and here , it seems like putting in pizza boxes is better then just hang drying them but im not really 100% sure tbh i dont have the option of makingmy tent 60f for normal drying

I guess I can see the boxes keeping dust off but also do not allow mild air flow. I also was thinking wine cellar but you have like a 6 bottle mini-fridge unit? Hope you report back after you give it a shot. Best of luck

cacamal said:

I guess I can see the boxes keeping dust off but also do not allow mild air flow. I also was thinking wine cellar but you have like a 6 bottle mini-fridge unit? Hope you report back after you give it a shot. Best of luck

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I think it might also help bring humidity down , I bought a 50 bottle wine cooler on facebook marketplace for 40 bucks lol . Ill def bookmark this page and keep you guys updated should be chopping in the next 2 weeks.

Cool! Look forward to the updates

50 bottle wine fridges are just normal compressor based fridges. Unfortunately it will over dry you stuff quickly unless if you do those brown bag techs.

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TDN take a look at the Cool Cure by Cannatrol - basically a wine cooler that controls temperature, humidity, dew point. I just bought one and Im set to use it in the next couple of weeks when my crop ripens.

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cacamal said:

Cool! Look forward to the updates

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hey growmie getting back to you about the wine cooler dry , it worked out GREAT . The humidity jump ups the first week to around 70% but after talking to 2 other ppl with experience in this they both told me this would happen and not to worry and the humidity will drop after this first week which it did . If i set my wine cooler to 56 it stays around 60/60 pretty accurately. My wine cooler is old af I bought it on offerup for 50 bucks so this was def worth it . NO hay smell and the terps are still loud asf , one plant I wet trimmed and the one I got drying now I did not and im experimenting now to see if it makes a difference with my dry method.

thedarkknight710 said:

most of those posts are people asking like me lol except that one dude who built a dehumidifier into his wine cooler. would love to hear from someone who actually has done it already

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I have a wine cooler with a dehumidifier and Inkbird controller. It works fantastically, but it must be a thermoelectric wine cooler not a compressor based one, otherwise it’s just like drying in a regular fridge, which is why the pizza boxes would be used to keep them from drying too quickly. If you convert a thermoelectric cooler there is no need for pizza boxes, I can leave buds in there for several months if wanted, then move to grove bags when I need to run a new batch. There are a couple of us on here that have converted wine fridges.

Hook Daddy said:

I have a wine cooler with a dehumidifier and Inkbird controller. It works fantastically, but it must be a thermoelectric wine cooler not a compressor based one, otherwise it’s just like drying in a regular fridge, which is why the pizza boxes would be used to keep them from drying too quickly. If you convert a thermoelectric cooler there is no need for pizza boxes, I can leave buds in there for several months if wanted, then move to grove bags when I need to run a new batch. There are a couple of us on here that have converted wine fridges.

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Anywhere to see plans / build of one of these?

Togs said:

Anywhere to see plans / build of one of these?

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Sure, I have a thread here on RIU with how I built mine.

Hook Daddy said:

Sure, I have a thread here on RIU with how I built mine.

Thermoelectric wine cooler drying and curing - DIY

yea then its probably a good idea to connect the fridge to the temp control. i noticed at the start the fridge cant go to its minimum temp but when you hit that dry spot where it start overdrying the fridge is allways at its minimum, mine just has an anoying beep when it gets turned on.

www.rollitup.org

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Thanks! Think we’re going to give this a try.

Hook Daddy said:

Sure, I have a thread here on RIU with how I built mine.

Thermoelectric wine cooler drying and curing - DIY

yea then its probably a good idea to connect the fridge to the temp control. i noticed at the start the fridge cant go to its minimum temp but when you hit that dry spot where it start overdrying the fridge is allways at its minimum, mine just has an anoying beep when it gets turned on.

www.rollitup.org

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Which koolatron did you use?

Togs said:

Thanks! Think we’re going to give this a try.

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Best of luck, it’s really not hard. If you run into any questions let me know.

Hollatchaboy said:

Which koolatron did you use?

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It is the 20 bottle Urban series.