Personal DWC Medical Grow - 600's, Perpetual - Multi-Strain

Humidity is actually 57% currently in my tent, I can set the extraction fan to more power (at 10% right now) I have the plant cut into 2 sections each with 4 main branches hanging up with a fan in there plus the extraction fan, I'll keep checking until it's around 50-55%, there's room between the individual buds/branches though I wanted it to dry as slowly as possible. Will re-asses in a little while and see if I think I need to cut into any more sections, also still have all of the lower branches in uncut and growing still because I'm too lazy to do any more trimming at the moment.

I'll keep a close eye on things until I get it at that sweet spot w/ airflow and humidity.

Some clothes pins go a mile my brother ... each branch gets one on a clothes line (or a few) strung up in your tent. You should be alight around the 50%ish mark, although progessive lowering is your best bet if you can. Finishing the dry with 35-40% RH would be optimal, not too quick, and won`t inhabit sporing. ATB!

KC

Here's a photo of the majority hanging up... lots of lower branches/buds were cut down and quick dried to add to my trim for processing but this stuff has been hanging for 1-2 days now (depending on which piece it is, I cut/trimmed/hung the plant over a 2 day period of time) Humidity is mid 50's for the most part sometimes it creeps closer to 60 which is right on the brink of too Humid but I have a lot of airflow in there enough to see everything visibly moving a little bit. No fan is directly pointed at the buds it's flowing horizontally and in conjunction with the 6" exhaust fan keeps things constantly moving so I think it should be ok. I trimmed a ton of the leaves off but left a few because I'd like this dry to be as slow as possible the last time I dried my buds out too quick 2-3 days and they were never what I wanted.

I also have some other pretty large branches/buds drying on rack elsewhere.

Drying them like that until the stems have a bit of crackle, but do not snap when you bend them, and then transferring to paper bags will help them to dry out slower. I usually like to leave them in the bags for at least a week, just make sure you mix the buds around and leave the bags open to air out a bit a few times a day. Really seems to help them dry evenly.

stoneslacker said:

Drying them like that until the stems have a bit of crackle, but do not snap when you bend them, and then transferring to paper bags will help them to dry out slower. I usually like to leave them in the bags for at least a week, just make sure you mix the buds around and leave the bags open to air out a bit a few times a day. Really seems to help them dry evenly.

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I have read a lot on that method and it sounds solid, lots of people do it I always just thought the shuffling the buds around and stuff would break off trichomes and stuff plus not sure if I can recover any of that crap once it gets stuck to the bags (I know that's funny to worry about considering I'll have all this bud) but still I hate losing ANYTHING lol. I think I'll probably try that method though I usually see that people shred up more bags and create layers too.

I might trim some more of those leaves off too, I got lazy. You can see in the middle-back there's one hanging that was trimmed a lot more closely than all the others but I get sick of trimming really quick when I have other things to do.

I'm surprised how 'acceptable' this stuff tastes as is, I just threw up crappy buds/popcorn/scraggly crap and what not up on a shelf and/or in a small cardboard box with no actual means of drying other than sitting and have smoked some of it (even when it's still damp/oily/difficult to tear apart) and it has a very pleasant taste which pretty much tells me the properly dried / cured buds are going to be AWESOME. If some shitty premature scraggly half dried crap tastes this decent then I feel I have something to really look forward to.

I don't know if this bud has a lot of moisture in it still or what, but I have 6 jars full and the weight was roughly 124 grams so far (4.4 ounces) and I have a TON of scrap buds in my trimming container as well so I would dare say I got almost 5 ounces off this AUTOFLOWER. I'll keep weighing it daily but they had been drying since the 28th of last month and just got into jars past few days so I can't imagine much more weight going away honestly. This plant is not supposed to yield that much, I need to make sure my scale is working properly but with 6 full jars the numbers do make sense. I don't think it makes any sense that I would get anywhere near this much from this plant though so I will go weigh some other objects with known weights and see what my scale says.

I just don't believe it... but certainly am not complaining.

There are a few buds with (small) stems still attached but very very few of them I wouldnt figure there's more than 5 grams of stem matter in there (if that).

It's gotta be moisture content or something, I was expecting around 3 ounces.

It smokes pretty decent though and burns so it can't be too moist.

DrGribble said:

It's gotta be moisture content or something, I was expecting around 3 ounces.

It smokes pretty decent though and burns so it can't be too moist.

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Awesome grow man, that to me looks like a 4 o/z plant but I'm noobish so what do i know, as far as the moisture goes though you better watch that smoke closely, if you really think its that wet it shouldn't be in jars, you did leave a lot of foliage intact and drying like that to me would mean more like a 2 week drying period, but again what do i know lol .

I just harvested my girls and I am trying one those small hygrometers like you can get at cigar shops. I dried mine to around 68%RH and will slowly burp them to around 63% RH. Then I will seal them up for a week at a time until they are cured nicely at around 58-62%RH. This is just what I read recently so I am giving it a try instead of the guesstimating. Like psilo said, that looked to be a nice plant, 4oz is definitely about what I would say. Nice job!

Mine are at exactly 65% in the jars right now (I use Caliber III hygrometers, seem to be the most widely recommended for accuracy and they're tiny) I had one peak at 66% but no higher so I think I am in the perfect curing zone right now, for the most part when I open the jars they smell quite pleasant but I can tell moisture is still working it's way out extremely slowly so that's good. Only been in jars a couple days now, smoke seems to get a little smoother all the time but obviously not wonderful yet.

I was worried about having them in jars too early too but I cut the plant into sections of branches and hung for I believe it was 6-7 days then had them in brown paper bags cut off as just individual buds for 1-2 days with a little shifting around so I think I may have gotten them about perfect. I have read a lot of conflicting info some say the best RH is 55-65% for curing, some say as high as 70% (but I never let it sit like that long, was around that for a few hours one day) I am wondering how long I can expect it to take to drop down to say 60% flat or if that's all dependent on me allowing air exchange.

My manicure job is very lazy though, I have a lot of the very small tight to bud leafs cut/trimmed rather than completely removed so I have tiny stubs of "sugarleaves" curled around on the outside of the buds but like I said they're generally just half leafs so bud is definitely exposed as well. I am just wondering how negatively this will contribute to the overall taste and aroma as I don't feel like handling and trimming them anymore especially now they they're dry and fragile.

Also my AMS plant in flower room ran dry due to neglect and being preoccupied with things (the others got dry too but not nearly as bad, AMS had biggest rootball). All of the leaves shriveled up, got pretty crispy but the buds look pretty great just the plant overall looks horrifying. I'm not even sure I'll take pics of it, that ugly but still seems to be alive and well since I also gave it a flush and filled up with fresh nutes (got it hydrated first for a day though). Cluster Bomb seems to be looking real good and Critical Jack is getting through the stretch and I need to take some clones soon.

Only have 2 Cluster Bombs and 1 AMS in veg (clone status still) as I killed off the other 5 clones because I did not want to deal with them yet (pretty busy with other things).

I actually think I made a goof, these Kerr jars might be 464 grams empty (I was thinking 460 but too lazy to check one as I have none empty) so I might actually be 24 grams under what I said.

That would explain things.

Sounds like you got your curing going good man glad to hear it, as far as manicuring goes I'm assuming you manicure dry? I manicure wet cutting the bud flush all the way around and by the time the leaves dehydrate they get pulled quite a ways up into the bud, you might try it out some time and see what you think of the results.

I manicured 'most of the way' when wet but just not as good as I wish I had

I just had a real problem in my flowering room, one after another the plants are showing signs of stress and I just checked the buckets (hadn't done it in a week) the PPM's were at 3300! Insane! I feed at 1100'ish so I have them all running with Florakleen, I can't imagine it's anything but salt buildup or general gunk from the nutes because that's crazy. I kept topping off and neglected changing my bucket as often as I usually do so I am sure that's all it is but hopefully did not cause too much damage. Anything else that would cause them to triple? crazy.

Wow 3300! That is insane, hopefully it was from just topping off and not fully changing the buckets. I am not sure what else could cause such a huge spike in ppm.

I know considering my nutrient mix is 1200ppm roughly at this stage, I don't even run it crazy high. I lost a ton of fan leaves on AMS and maybe half on Cluster Bomb, Critical Jack looks pretty damn awesome and is beastly by comparison but probably because I wasnt doing much LST so it's taller, took 6 cuttings from it. Not sure if AMS will continue growing or not, lots of leaves I can't easily pull off but they are crazy dry and make that dry leaf rustling sound if plant is moved or shaken. I think others will recover, Cluster Bomb already has fat little buds.

I don't want to take pics of them looking nasty though but I might, was just going to never take another photo of AMS though. hehe

Haven't posted in here for almost a month, here's Critical Jack at Day 44. It's the last plant standing at the moment (in Flower anyway)

Just did a ton of pruning after tying up some branches (lots are dropping down toward the floor from weight, not pictured) I figure this plant has about 15-20 days to go. I can't wait to see how much it fattens up though, I hope I get a pretty large yield off of it but don't know what to expect yet as it's the first time growing it (but hear it's an "insane" yielder) so we shall see. I love this plant though, one of my favorites I have grown yet so I will see how it smokes when harvested but it's definitely got some nice fat buds forming already.