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So drying indoors is out of the question.
My goal is to dry and cure everything on site, which happens to be far from anything else. I'm basically limited to what I can haul in and out by kayak.
Out on the river, it tends to get real foggy at night...to the point you can feel it when you breathe in. That's where a lot of my mold issues have come from this year.
I've had about a month to experiment post harvest with mold issues on my earliest flowering girls...tried lots of different drying techniques that don't involve electricity with more failures than successes. (thank god for BHO haha) and now comes the moment of truth, lol..I have a lot more bud than I planned on pulling off this year, like 3-4x, and no place to dry it inside without running a huge risk of someone catching on.
My plan for mold free drying this year:
Put up a tent or a couple of smaller tents. Immediately after harvest and trimming the fan leaves, dip each plant in a solution of Serenade (I've already done this with no noticeable taste or smell whatsoever after a couple of days drying). Have a battery bank running 6-7 tent fans. Cut colas down into smaller buds, place them on drying racks in front of the fans. Run a couple of small propane heaters in the tent to accelerate drying and push moisture outside of the tent. After they're dried, put them into 5 gallon buckets to begin curing.
Wish me luck and any suggestions are welcome!
My goal is to dry and cure everything on site, which happens to be far from anything else. I'm basically limited to what I can haul in and out by kayak.
Out on the river, it tends to get real foggy at night...to the point you can feel it when you breathe in. That's where a lot of my mold issues have come from this year.
I've had about a month to experiment post harvest with mold issues on my earliest flowering girls...tried lots of different drying techniques that don't involve electricity with more failures than successes. (thank god for BHO haha) and now comes the moment of truth, lol..I have a lot more bud than I planned on pulling off this year, like 3-4x, and no place to dry it inside without running a huge risk of someone catching on.
My plan for mold free drying this year:
Put up a tent or a couple of smaller tents. Immediately after harvest and trimming the fan leaves, dip each plant in a solution of Serenade (I've already done this with no noticeable taste or smell whatsoever after a couple of days drying). Have a battery bank running 6-7 tent fans. Cut colas down into smaller buds, place them on drying racks in front of the fans. Run a couple of small propane heaters in the tent to accelerate drying and push moisture outside of the tent. After they're dried, put them into 5 gallon buckets to begin curing.
Wish me luck and any suggestions are welcome!