How do I know when my bud is done drying?

AlexWarn81

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It's 2023! Hoping this year gonna be a good year for all. I am still thrilled that I got the plant chopped last week! My question is how do I know when my bud is done drying? Thank you.
 

ProPheT 216

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I usually go by when sticks begin making a splintering noise along with the majority of buds just snapping off with a lil encouragement. If you gotta cut the buds off it's to wet still
 

con1ey

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Drying takes 7 - 14 days depending on temp and humidity. The perfect drying schedule is 60 degrees F, 60% humidity for 16 days. The longer you draw out drying the better. Drying is done when the branches snap. There is still moisture in the center of the buds at this point so put them in mason jars to pull out that moisture from the middle to outsides of the buds.
 

BrassNwood

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It's 2023! Hoping this year gonna be a good year for all. I am still thrilled that I got the plant chopped last week! My question is how do I know when my bud is done drying? Thank you.


I grow in hot and stone dry southern California and our brutal conditions ruined more hanging drying bud then i care to think about. When the Santa Ana winds hit Humidity can drop to single numbers and in just a few hours your hanging plants are crumbly dust.

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Trim close seconds off the plant while everything is standing tall and proud. Once they wilt they are 3x harder to trim. Hang only until the smallest popcorn firms back up. Snapping stems is way to dry.

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Glove strip should stall at the end when dried correctly.

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Laying in the shade for an hour or two with some gentle stirring.

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Bagged up.

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Stack bags in a new clean trash can overnight. I suspend a humidity gauge in the top of the can

As the days progress the buds will need less and less time exposed to the dry air.
Wet. limp and soggy = needs more time exposed
Dry crispy feeling = needs more can time.
After 7 to 10 days it should be dried to exactly 65% humidity and can be placed in Jars with no burping needed as it is dried to the correct point to cure.

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Do NOT dry below 55% as below that all biological activity the Cure depends on stops and will NOT restart. It's ruined at that point and will never cure.
I've grown for almost 50 years and dried this way for the last decade.

BNW
 

J2M3S

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It's 2023! Hoping this year gonna be a good year for all. I am still thrilled that I got the plant chopped last week! My question is how do I know when my bud is done drying? Thank you.

Grow journal? Wrong section again. :wall:
 
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BrassNwood

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Grow journal? :wall:
777 is the ideal dry
7 days
70 degrees
70% humidity.

Your target is 65% humidry at the end of 7 to 10 days. At that point it is perfectly dried to the correct internal moisture for curing and can be put in jars with no burping needed. Dry to fast it stinks like lawn clippings. Dry below 55% and it will never cure.

You have a small window and just one chance to get it right with no do-overs possible. I screwed more dries then i care to remember getting this figured out. Hot and very dry here and just a few hours hanging to long and I'm hosed.

BNW
 

J2M3S

Well-Known Member
777 is the ideal dry
7 days
70 degrees
70% humidity.

Your target is 65% humidry at the end of 7 to 10 days. At that point it is perfectly dried to the correct internal moisture for curing and can be put in jars with no burping needed. Dry to fast it stinks like lawn clippings. Dry below 55% and it will never cure.

You have a small window and just one chance to get it right with no do-overs possible. I screwed more dries then i care to remember getting this figured out. Hot and very dry here and just a few hours hanging to long and I'm screwed.

BNW
Reply was for the OP.
 

sh0wtime

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It's experience, I'd say but to have a rule of thumb:

I always check my stems by bending them, you'll get a feeling after a while for how dry they are.
Or just put some in a glass, together with a humidity sensor if the humidity shoots up towards the 70's pretty fast --> back to drying
If it doesn't shoot up, you can leave it in there and open the glasses once or twice every day until they finish.

That's how I do it, roughly.
Cheers.
 

chuckeye

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It's 2023! Hoping this year gonna be a good year for all. I am still thrilled that I got the plant chopped last week! My question is how do I know when my bud is done drying? Thank you.
Spend $20 and get yourself some hygrometers, takes the guess work out...


Cheers
 
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