Hi fellow growers, I recently cut down my thc bomb plants and hung them upside down in my shed to dry. But my shed is anywhere 30-40c (like the rest of Australia!) and with humidity about 60-70% not the best conditions for drying buds. My plants are dry and leaves are crunchy after a few days then I trim them up to put in glass jars. The have been sitting about 60% humidity. But still have some hay smell. Does anyone have any ideas/setups on how to drying buds slower for a better result?
< /blockquote> Your up against the same wall I was here in Southern California.. We get a local wind condition called a Santa Ana that blasts super dry desert air over the basin and out to sea.. The humidity drops into the single numbers and it was turning all my great smelling harvests to grassy smelling shit for the most part.. Even extended time in jars wasn't helping.. It took me a while but I did figure it out and your on the right track.. Slow dry was the key I needed.. I wet trim as it's the best way to get all the crap off with every leaf standing tall.. Even a few minutes wait and they wilt more then I like.. So keep on trimming just seconds off the living plant.. It's the hang you have to shorten to just a day or 2.. I hang till the pop corn stiffens up.. Not the stem the Buds.. Play squeeze the Charmin with it and do NOT let it get to dry.. Think of it like cooking meat.. To done is just that and you can't un-cook that lovely steak.. Can't un-dry that cannabis either.. Below 55 % humidity all curing process stop and won't restart.. It's a one time deal with no do-overs.. My dirty hippy trim as my friend TTS calls it.. I'm old and don't have the hand for endless trimming and I'll hash 90% of it anyhow.. hot dry garage hang only until the small stuff stiffens up.. 1 or 2 days most of the time but it can go longer if the humidity is high.. While it's still on the very wet side I'll either glove and yank strip or snip off all the buds with grape scissors.. It all gets placed in cut down paper shopping bags.. This lets me move it rapidly back and forth between the cans I use to slow the dry and the top of the washer and dryer I use during the day.. The humidity jumped back up and this group spent about a day on the screen to firm up.. After just about 6 hours it went back in the bags and in the can for the night.. I bought a couple of new trash cans for this and I try and size the can to the load.. I have an Ice Chest I use for smaller runs.. I use several humidity gauges as they tend to be wildly off .. 2 or 3 of them and average the read.. I'll either dig in and fluff the buds up by hand or dump them into another bag to keep things stirred up and drying evenly Your target is 65% after about 7 days.. Then I pack in 1/2 gallon mason jars with a 60 gram size.. 62 % humidity.. Boveda pack.. And your done.. It's perfectly dried to the exactly cure range and the Boveda packs insure it stays on the mark.. No need to play the open and burp game with the jars.. Just what I've worked out here on the Brass Pharm.. Your local conditions may need to tweak this as no two zones dry alike.. Shopping bags and Trash cans FTMFW.. Sorry but it did take a while and I plain ruined a ton of smoke figuring it out.. End quote:: I'm lazy and didn't feel like typing this all out again so it's a copy and paste from another thread. BNW
Cool and dark is ideal some deep cellar like wine or as we do in Ru water cure add weed to a bucket of water soak for 4 days then hang to dry like socks it means all the chems have soaked into the water leaving 'weed on a stick' the smell on toking is less noticeable too good luck
So you have tried this method before and it work? I did see on her some one had their weed in glass jars with water but was worried the weed had turned moldy
I do mine mostly the same here in Nevada. The only difference being I don't wet trim and I don't cut the anything off the stems until it's got crispy outside and wet inside. Then I cut off the stems, dry trim and go the same burping route. It seems easier to hold moisture longer with the extra leaf and stem. Sent from my XT1093 using Tapatalk