ljjr, I posted these on your other thread and would appreciate some help if you get the time:
1) When you hang dry then jar cure you have to consider humidity, temp, etc of the environment. Do you care about that with water curing- can you just leave them at about room temp(75-80f)?
2) What about harvesting different strains at the same time- can you use the same cooler for each strain? Would it be possible to submerge different strains in the same cooler but in small baskets or something so they don't get mixed up? Any idea what will work for that?
3) What are recommendations for drying with a fan after it comes out of the water- do you need special temps indoors or a dehumidifier?
4) When you placed the buds on a grill rack did you fix the buds to the rack then stand the rack up and have the fan blowing straight at them? Will this work indoors at 75-80f?
5) Someone mentioned drying in an oven. Would you recommend against that and if not, what temp on the oven and for how long, if you already tried it.
6) Where to get a dehydrator and how much are they? How much bud can you dry at once and how long does it take? Does the dehydrator stink of marijuana when finished?
7) I don't want my small house stinking from hang drying MJ so this interests me a lot. But how much smell comes from hang drying around 2-4oz in a closet where the door is left cracked and a fan is running inside forcing odor into the house for eight days.. is it a lot of odor? I'm asking this question because to help determine how much I would consider hang drying and how much to water cure. I doubt I'll even have 2 oz before drying at harvest but I just want to have an idea how much smell even as much as 4 oz would create when you hang it inside.
Thanks for answering all these questions.
i water cured about a half the last time so i can try to help
1. weither you air or water cure you always want to do it in a cool dark area. heat and light breakdown thc. i water curing mine in a rarely used bathroom
2. keep in mind that water curing takes away almost all taste/smell/looks. so while i would still prob seperate it using some kind of buffer zone. be prepared to have all weed come out and taste/smell/look the same
3. after the 7 days in the water ui just took my buds out and put them on a paper towl and put them in a rack in my closet. close the blinds to prevent sun getting in and i turned on a small fan that didnt even directly blow on the buds, but it put airflow in the closet the buds were in. water cured weed dries FAST(i pulled my buds out when i got home from work one day and when i woke up the next morning they were 100% completely dry). there is really no need to use an outside source for drying.
4. na
5. i would personally never put my buds in an oven. seems like too much heat. i did use the tupperware/paper towl/microwave method a few times while waiting for my water cured shit to finish(next time ill prob just buy 1 last bag of weed, shit was gross)
6. you can get a dehydrator at any major retail store for like $40 tops. again i would never use one of these because you still dont get cured weed and the heat seems like it would be an issue with thc breakdown
7. i water cured mine in a small bathroom that i left cracked open. i could smell 'something' when i walked in. kind of piney. i dunno. it was def a different smell. could easily be covered up with one of those disposable air freshener things you plug in. i also air dried/cured a few ounces on my dining room table. it smelled a lot more obv.
