Drying/curing room

I’m planning to up my cure game in the next few weeks I plan to upgrade my drying room.

Currently I have a custom made tent in a room with a timber frame where I hang my buds. It’s vented with neg pressure and I have an AC unit, dehumidifier and a humidifier in the room where the tent recirculates it’s air from. I just trimmed up my last harvest with hanging the buds to dry as a whole plant for 14 days with humidity kept perfectly at 62% and air temp at 60f

I’m thinking to board the timber frame with plywood instead of the tent fabric and caulk/seal every single joint and turn it into a large cabinet with air sealed doors.

When the buds reach 60% humidity I could then turn off the extractor and plug the extract hole and let the buds cure on the stems too.

Does anyone think this would work? The cab would become the “jar” for curing my only thoughts would be the cab would end up being only 50% full by volume when buds have shrunk and dried.

It would be the equivalent of a half full jar for curing would this work?

Cheers

Sounds like how curing has been done for 1000s of years. From what I hear, the type of wood matters and will affect final product.

smokeymcpotterton said:

Sounds like how curing has been done for 1000s of years. From what I hear, the type of wood matters and will affect final product.

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Do you know what kind of wood I would need?

SamWE19 said:

Do you know what kind of wood I would need?

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I'm not learned in these matters but I would suggest quality redwood. I'm sure theres info online about it tho from like tobacco cure rooms and stuff. Cedar would impart flavors I would not use.

smokeymcpotterton said:

I'm not learned in these matters but I would suggest quality redwood. I'm sure theres info online about it tho from like tobacco cure rooms and stuff. Cedar would impart flavors I would not use.

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Been reading about Tabacco curing and getting a bit confused as they describe curing in the sun/ open ended barns. Doesn’t sound like something that would work on cannabis surely they would dry way to quick

I dont know the specifics, but as a historian I can assure you this is nothing new. You are on the right track but simply haven't found the answer yet.

What, regarding cure rooms, have you found so far?

I have heard a tale of a guy who used to "close his door" at the end of every harvest. Similar to what you are saying, but he kept it in a basic drywall room. Folks said he had the best smoke in town...

smokeymcpotterton said:

I dont know the specifics, but as a historian I can assure you this is nothing new. You are on the right track but simply haven't found the answer yet.

What, regarding cure rooms, have you found so far?

I have heard a tale of a guy who used to "close his door" at the end of every harvest. Similar to what you are saying, but he kept it in a basic drywall room. Folks said he had the best smoke in town...

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I’m not finding much information on cure “rooms” so to speak the methods I keep reading about for tobacco are outdoors in the sun, or in open barns.

I wonder if a cigar humidor is more of what I should be looking into?

I'll look in the morning and see what I can dig up as well. I know that google, in their attempt to censor conspiracy facts, have made it extremely, EXTREMELY hard to just search for and find any random normal stuff these days.

I just know you def. don't want cedar, and redwood is exp. as F...

Sorry for my shortness in previous posts, but I do like what you are on to, and will see what I can find out.

Guitar center and tobacco rooms will often use cedar as marketing. The 'good smell' is supposed to entice money spending. But that's not the smell or flavor you want lol...

smokeymcpotterton said:

I'll look in the morning and see what I can dig up as well. I know that google, in their attempt to censor conspiracy facts, have made it extremely, EXTREMELY hard to just search for and find any random normal stuff these days.

I just know you def. don't want cedar, and redwood is exp. as F...

Sorry for my shortness in previous posts, but I do like what you are on to, and will see what I can find out.

Guitar center and tobacco rooms will often use cedar as marketing. The 'good smell' is supposed to entice money spending. But that's not the smell or flavor you want lol...

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I can’t find anything specific about it. Been searching for a good few hours now.

The timber frame is made of pine, and if I get plywood that would most likely be pine too. Everything is pine round here.

I am also trying to find the best humidity and temp to Maintain. I may also add a essential oil distiller in the room to cleanse the air of any mold/fungus spores to guarantee no mold growth on the buds no matter how slow I dry

Supercloset uses cedar and mahogany in their drying cab. I was going to copy theirs.

ChrispyCritter said:

Supercloset uses cedar and mahogany in their drying cab. I was going to copy theirs.

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Just looked at those. Similar to what I’m looking for but not exactly I don’t think.

That looks like it’s just for drying. It’s not air tight so cannot be converted to a cure chamber straight after the dry has finished

But i assume if the cedar/mahogany works for drying it will work for my curing

I’m curious to know what you’ve built? Did you pull the trigger on the cabinet?

Nicl007 said:

I’m curious to know what you’ve built? Did you pull the trigger on the cabinet?

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Built a timber framed cabinet plywood walls caulked and sealed. Circular hole saw intake bottom right, hole saw out take hole top left. doors on the front with a Hinge weather seal around the entire door frame and a latch on the door that presses against the weather strip when closed to seal the room.

Put weather stripping around the circular holes for the intake and out take and when humidity evens out at 62% I plug the holes with the circles I cut out so it doubles as a curing jar

That is an awesome idea and execution. Just wondering if the plywood draws moisture out of the bud during the cure phase? What if the inside was covered and sealed with dark side of panda poly? Taped and sealed? Just wondering. Great job with the replaceable holes.

ChrispyCritter said:

That is an awesome idea and execution. Just wondering if the plywood draws moisture out of the bud during the cure phase? What if the inside was covered and sealed with dark side of panda poly? Taped and sealed? Just wondering. Great job with the replaceable holes.

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The plywood was painted with a paint that absorbs into the wood and seals it somewhat but it doesn’t matter too much as the humidity would always stay at 62% as if it did somehow drop I have humidifiers and dehumidifiers in there. Temp isn’t an issue atm but I’ll add a sealed water line to water cool it if I need too.

SamWE19 said:

Do you know what kind of wood I would need?

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I tend to think marine-grade plywood would serve

smokeymcpotterton said:

I'll look in the morning and see what I can dig up as well. I know that google, in their attempt to censor conspiracy facts, have made it extremely, EXTREMELY hard to just search for and find any random normal stuff these days.

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I feel you.

SamWE19 said:

The plywood was painted with a paint that absorbs into the wood and seals it somewhat but it doesn’t matter too much as the humidity would always stay at 62% as if it did somehow drop I have humidifiers and dehumidifiers in there. Temp isn’t an issue atm but I’ll add a sealed water line to water cool it if I need too.

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Sounds like a nice project, man. I'd love to see a pic or three.
Are you environmental controls in the "room"/cabinet? Or is the cabinet in a room that acts like a "lung" room? How big is the cabinet?

Thanks.

I know this is an old post but Burch plywood is available commercialy and will not give off that pine smell and is a good hardwood