twentyeight.threefive
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Grow bigger plants. They'll take longer to dry.
Tricks up your sleeve to further delay drying?
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Herb & Suds
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I am monitoring the smell mostly
If it stays sweet they are ok
If not I strip branches and switch to a brown paper grocery bag to suck out moisture
It is thing you learn after a few hundred times
But unless you have bud rot it works well
Herb & Suds
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Fast drying leads to poor taste and smell
Basically purple heifer dust
PopAndSonGrows
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Reduce your air exchange/exhaust. I kinda hate drying in my tent because i feel like, even on low, the exhaust always being on speeds up the drying more than I'd like.
ntg908
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Allot of people use the technique of snapping the branches that you hang....if the snap with a crunch the buds are dry....if the bend over easily and wrinkle, its a sign that the stem going through your buds is still pretty moist.
PizzaMan5000
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Every day while moist is another day to grow mold or fungus....
I'm just saying!
I was expecting some desert 5% RH problems when I opened the thread.
I used to hang dry in a good-smelling wooden box to slow it down. Made my weed taste amazing. It would be dry and smell like hay in 24hr if I hung it up in my apartment at the time.
Also had the other end of the spectrum where my popcan sized nugs would grow spores after about 5 days. Good times.
I'm just saying!
I was expecting some desert 5% RH problems when I opened the thread.
I used to hang dry in a good-smelling wooden box to slow it down. Made my weed taste amazing. It would be dry and smell like hay in 24hr if I hung it up in my apartment at the time.
Also had the other end of the spectrum where my popcan sized nugs would grow spores after about 5 days. Good times.
downhill21
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Yeah, once upon a time I tried to dry @ 37RH & it was just a low down, dirty shame. I PREFER to trim wet, but decided I needed all the moisture I could muster.
downhill21
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Damn good point! Most recently are smallish autoflowers. TwentyEight.Threefive, I hear & obey: several photo strains in Veg now.
PizzaMan5000
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I do it at that low of humidity, but check on it every few hours.... But only if the room is chilly like 60f or less. I do this for 18-36hr then jar it.
^observed a friend accidentally do it, and the taste was fine. We were blown away when we lit up, and found that the "destroyed" harvest was ok. He had moved the dehumidifier and forgot. The outlet was pointed right at the nugs (below 40% easy), and the room was cold. The key is the room being cold if you're gonna drop the humidity that low, otherwise obviously it will taste like hay.
I have a cold basement and a dehumidifier, and a radon fan. The environment is very dry, and colder than a comfortable room. I just work with it. Better than it being too hot imho.
I don't dry an entire harvest like that, just for when I need to smoke 2 days after chop.
My best cures were done with the good-smelling wood box in a 5-20% 80f apartment. The box would buffer the humidity, and I would "burp" the box when it got too humid. The sweetness of the wood made the bag appeal amazing. The humidity would be sucked back and forth between the nugs and the wood.
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lusidghost
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Leaves the leaves in the drying room. Or sit a bucket of water in there.
twentyeight.threefive
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Very nice! You can grow some huge autoflowers indoors too. This one took a while to dry...
downhill21
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That’s a monster. The stalk looks to be over an inch in diameter! Thanks for pix & feedback!
downhill21
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Can’t thank y’all enough for your attention n contributions. I feel pretty confident that your suggestions will get me where I need to be.
twentyeight.threefive
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downhill21
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I do too when they’re green, but like my spinners when not! Filled up that hole in the matrix disk! How you like those green matrix things, anyway? Do you auto water / feed? Been meaning to try just the green discs, but currently I put some hydroton on top of the soil to minimize dust & medium movement.
twentyeight.threefive
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The FloraFlex matrix discs are fantastic. I grow in coco and have been using coco/perlite. They do a bunch of things. I hand feed. They help evenly distribute your feed. They block light from the top of pots so any perlite on top won't grow algae. And this size matrix disc fits exactly inside my 3 gallon Vivosun cloth pots.
My last plants I ran I finished in 1 gallon cloth pots. Wasn't the plan just happened that way. One was a coco/perlite mix and one was just coco. They both turned out great and won't be using perlite any more. Just no need for it, IMO.
lusidghost
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That's a weird 80 heavy metal looking pot. It also looks like it would be a pain once the roots filled in and the water absorption slows down. Is there any benefit to it, or do you just like the way it looks?
downhill21
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I currently hand water also, in fabric pots. Historically FFOF or Roots Orig, but lately trying Bugbee formula soilless with some plants. I would think that running Bugbee’s soilless would be somewhat close to running coco. If everything is harmonizing right I’ll feed once daily.