Drying in a fridge

I harvested mid December and two weeks later i placed 2oz in jars and 2oz in a Groove bag.
a month later I rolled a joint of each and brought them over to my fellow grower friend and gave him a blind taste test and he selected the Groove bag joint as the tastier of the two.
 
anyone have a build for the winefridge with dehumidifier?
and would something like this work?
 

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Daylee said:
anyone have a build for the winefridge with dehumidifier?
and would something like this work?
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Yes and yes. Link below

Thermoelectric wine cooler drying and curing - DIY

I had read about these for a while before trying, this is not by any means a new idea nor did I come up with the idea. I was tired of over drying and drying too quickly in the winter, then freaking out about mold in the summer. A google search will give lots of other ideas, but I get a lot of...
www.rollitup.org
 
Hook Daddy said:
Yes and yes. Link below

Thermoelectric wine cooler drying and curing - DIY

I had read about these for a while before trying, this is not by any means a new idea nor did I come up with the idea. I was tired of over drying and drying too quickly in the winter, then freaking out about mold in the summer. A google search will give lots of other ideas, but I get a lot of...
www.rollitup.org
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Just as I got done writing,lol.nice
 
Blue brother said:
Anyone tried this?

I’m going to try it, been reading about it over the past few months and I feel confident it will work, it’s actually pretty well documented practise over at thc farmer and on 420 mag.

I understand the science behind it and have seen it work, and I also understand why so many less knowledgeable people dismiss it as a recipe for disaster. So I don’t really need convincing either way, I know it should work aslong as I don’t fuck up.

I just wanna know if anyone who’s done it has any pointers or wanna share any problems they ran into while using this technique.

how did you deal with the smell?
What size fridge did you use for how much bud?
what kind of fridge? I’m torn between buying a double wide wine cooler or using a spare frost free fridge I have in storage.
I’m looking to dry what would normally weigh 20oz fry

thanks in advance to anyone willing to share
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Thanks for the invite!! :lol:

So this is where my temps are at the moment, holding steady.
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I have a question about drying and refrigeration.
Wouldn't the plants growing conditions determine terpenes flashing off?

You would have to grow the plant at low temp and never let the flower get over to preserve that low temp terpene right? Makes sense logically anyway.

I'll be back when drying time comes around, my second time so I'm looking for a doable simple method. I'm thinking my tent and I can leave my humidifier and fan control set to handle the rh. Temp will be 75ish.
 
Roy O'Bannon said:
I have a question about drying and refrigeration.
Wouldn't the plants growing conditions determine terpenes flashing off?

You would have to grow the plant at low temp and never let the flower get over to preserve that low temp terpene right? Makes sense logically anyway.

I'll be back when drying time comes around, my second time so I'm looking for a doable simple method. I'm thinking my tent and I can leave my humidifier and fan control set to handle the rh. Temp will be 75ish.
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I'm thinking since the plant is alive and always drinking that no, the terpenes will not fly away, but if your smelling that dank...whoo weee.. mixed feelings on that one, to smell the dank or not..lol, jokes aside, its when your drying that preserving the terpenes is important (you chopped the plant and it's no longer self sustaining).
 
So the wet bulb effect applies to the plant so my leaf temp is 80ish. My tent is 85ish. As the plant dries it become closer to the air temp.
I kind of get what your saying. It just seems like heat is heat. I wonder if cooler grown plants have more taste than hotter grown ones?
I kind of want to make some bubble hash, which means I won't be drying much.
 
Roy O'Bannon said:
So the wet bulb effect applies to the plant so my leaf temp is 80ish. My tent is 85ish. As the plant dries it become closer to the air temp.
I kind of get what your saying. It just seems like heat is heat. I wonder if cooler grown plants have more taste than hotter grown ones?
I kind of want to make some bubble hash, which means I won't be drying much.
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Well, I'm no scientist, but... for me, plants grown and finished during the winter have always come out tastier than the ones grown in the summer.
 
Roy O'Bannon said:
Maybe one of those fancy labs with good climate control will test this.
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And probably dependant on strain as well, we have plants growing in very warm climates near the equater (sativa) who thrive in warm and high humid conditions, vs those (indica) in the cold and dry climates of the Hindu and Afghani Mountains.
 
Roy O'Bannon said:
I have a question about drying and refrigeration.
Wouldn't the plants growing conditions determine terpenes flashing off?

You would have to grow the plant at low temp and never let the flower get over to preserve that low temp terpene right? Makes sense logically anyway.

I'll be back when drying time comes around, my second time so I'm looking for a doable simple method. I'm thinking my tent and I can leave my humidifier and fan control set to handle the rh. Temp will be 75ish.
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Good question, the fact is, while the plant is alive it's constantly losing and rebuilding the terpene profile. Once we chop it this stops and we're stuck with what it has at that point, so the goal is to preserve as much as we can that was present when we cut the plant
 
So i did this with my last grow, i winged a lot of what i did but i tried to keep the RH between 65-60RH for as long as i could, the only thing i added to the fridge was the fan as pictured, i plan on moving the fan in the future with things i've learned. I moved to jars with canvas lids to slow the evap, if i had to leave the house for a while i would add a cup of water with cotton inside to help evap the water via the fridge. this fridge is in my garage in CA it gets hot and cycles a lot so i watched it like a hawk, but really didn't need to with the fan i added. I will 100% be doing my next cure like this again with more documentation because my drying area during the summer gets over 100F during the day. I treated the plant as if I was hang curing, once the stems snapped I cut them into 1 oz black mason jars. you will have to regulate the humidity both ways imo to prevent early mold, this was a small auto, I currently have 3 autos at almost harvest. I will watch them next few days pull them in for 20-24 hours of dark, cut, wash, hang in tent until dryish from wash, cut plant up as needed to hang and roll the dice again.
 

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