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are there any good videos/guides for the drying/curing process?

Discussion in 'Harvesting and Processing Marijuana' started by ToKKin, Aug 27, 2022.

  1. i just checked the sticky at the top of the page but the images arent loading.

    my experience so far:

    last year:
    i had 8 outdoor jack herer plants and i did a wet trim and dried them on a drying rack in the basement. they dried in 3 days to a audible snap of the stem but it bent and did not split in half. i jarred them and cured for 3 months burping daily for the first 2 weeks and then probably once every 3 days for a few weeks and then eventually once or twice a week. i dont remember exactly. they ended up being pretty dry on the outside but once ground up pretty moist and a pretty good smell. the smell was NOTHING even close to the nice piney smell i got from an 8th of the same strain i got from a dispensary for comparison.

    this year:
    early season autos:
    i got a vivosun 8x4 tent for drying (im growing outdoors though) and i hung 4 whole autos in there with a small fan blowing on the lowest setting at the bottom of the tent not directly on the plants and a humidifier to keep the humidity around 55% which was recommended in another post i saw on here. the plants dried in 4 days. i trimmed and jarred them. one of the jars was at 70RH so i took those ones out and let them dry for another day and jarred them again. they were all mid to high 60s for a week and slowly came down to 59-60 right now in the 3rd week. i put 62 RH bovida packs in and now theyre sitting at around 61. one jar smells pretty good the others still smell a little grassy and they feel a little dry on the outside but have some squish to them.. not as much as id like though.

    later this year:
    i have a bunch of photoperiods that are looking unbelievably nice and i really want to get it right this time. i would love to get an awesome final product so any advice i could get would be great. im looking for either a long video, video series, or a really in depth article with pictures that most people would generally agree would be a good approach to drying and curing.
     
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  3. Way over dried. To deep and to fast.
    Trim close seconds off the plant.
    Hang until the small popcorn firms up.
    Strip from branches and trim to thumb sized nugs.
    What Factors a Cause an "Earth" Smell
    The perfect dry is 777.
    7 days at 70 degrees and 70% humidity.
    Slow dry is the Key.
    What does curing your bud do?
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    Days out.
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    Nights stacked in a sealed container. A new trashcan in this case.

    Think of drying Cannabis like cooking a fine steak. You want medium rare not well done. Just like that steak you only get one shot at getting this part correct. No do-overs. Dry below 55% and no curing can ever take place. You will have killed all the microbial life the Cure depends on.

    Feels limp and soggy = Needs more dry time.
    Feels to stiff and crunchy = Needs more can time.

    Gradually over 7 to 10 days reduce exposure time to maintain an even dry.
    Your finished target is 65-62% humidity.
    It can be placed in jars at this point with no stupid burping required because it was perfectly dried.

    BNW
     
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  4. triple 7 is the way with the cure see it as reducing the amount of chlorophyll in the toke, this winter I'll continue my trials with the sealed 15 gallon rubber maid and a fish tank air pump to continue, many vids on YT on this many bad ones too

    cheers
     
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  5. ok yeah I think I’m gonna bump the tent up to 70. I recall you mentioning this in one of my previous posts but at the last minute decided against it based on various other articles calling for much lower numbers. From what I can tell it seems like you’ve been around the block.

    so it looks like you do a wet trim? Is that what you’d recommend? Or could I get away with trimming the fan leaves and hanging whole branches?
     
  6. I do wet trim just seconds off the live plant before anything has a chance to wilt. All the leaves are standing tall and easy to chop off. I don't take down more then I can clean up in say 10 minutes. As dry as it usually is come harvest time it doesn't take long for a cut branch to wilt into a pain to clean up.

    BNW
     
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  7. @ToKKin
    Our local weather in Oct is a wind event called a Santa Ana. Hot, stone dry air is pushed off the desert and out to Sea. It can drop my humidity into single numbers and trash a hanging plant in a few hours let alone a day or two.

    After watching grow after grow turn to total shit during the dry I started to search for answers. It all lead to the bags and can routine that is just about infallible. As long as I pay attention and don't try and rush things it always turns out great.

    BNW
     

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